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What will HA Michael Golden portfolio cover go for?

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alxjhnsn

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or not.

 

This might help if you want to do some research.

 

 

You might want to explore the following resources:

  • The OA auction archive at Heritage Auctions - This archive presents the results from all of their OA auctions.. Once you sign-up and get an id, you can search for pieces by your artist and see what they have sold for.
  • The CAF Market Data - More auction results (more than 1,000,000) are available if you join the Comic Art Fans site, pay for Market Data access, and access eBay and other auction sites as well as Heritage.
  • The Comic Art Database. It contains transaction records entered by the owners of Comic OA.
  • Dealer sites. Dealers, generally, post their art with fixed prices though there are exceptions. There is a list of dealers on CGC OA board and the Dragonberry site has a list as well. The CAF site will search the inventories of several dealers for you.
  • Jerry Weist's Comic Art Price Guide - Heritage published a third edition of it. In my opinion, it's a good history book and might be useful for comparison work, but it was out of date a year before it was printed.
  • A topic on these CGC OA boards, A-level panel page valuations by artist/run - thoughts/additions/changes?, holds a discussion that relates to your question. It provides some "generally agreed upon" ranges for popular runs by popular artists on popular characters.
  • The Biggest OA Prices thread tracked some of the largest sales in the OA space. While that particular thread has stopped; it's probably worth reading for the discussions. Meanwhile , the information is still being updated - just with a different mechanism.

New buyers and sellers often find that OA is too hard to price. I agree. However, I think that there is a valid reason. Each piece is unique. Uniqueness make art sales generally and OA specifically non-linear.

 

For example,

  • Consecutive pages could and do sell for radically different amounts.
  • Take page layout - In general, you might say:
    Covers > 1st Page Splash > Other Splash > 1/2 splash > panel pages
    However, that's not always true either. The right panel page can be much more compelling than a bland splash.
  • Take pencillers- There are "A-list" artists, but not all of their books/characters have the same value. Kirby FF pages generally go for more than JIM/Thor pages which go for more than Cap pages (2nd run) which go for more than ...
  • Take combinations of pencilers/inkers - Kirby/Sinnott FF pages rank above Kirby and anyone else on FF, but a Kirby/X FF page might be more or less than a Kirby/Stone Thor page. Hard to tell.

 

Finally, you should join the comic book OA community. The three main points of Internet contact are:

 

The main points of physical contact are probably:

 

One last comment, if you are looking to buy or sell, spend the time to learn the market. That might take 6 months, but it's worth the time.

 

 

 

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stinkininkin

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No way previous sales wont help determine this one. This is a record breaker by a considerable amount for a Golden piece publicly

 

You might be right Mathew. Where does this stack up against Dr. Strange 55 cover and Xmen Companion cover? Are there other more desirable Golden pieces that I'm not thinking of?

 

Scott

 

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comix4fun

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No way previous sales wont help determine this one. This is a record breaker by a considerable amount for a Golden piece publicly

 

You might be right Mathew. Where does this stack up against Dr. Strange 55 cover and Xmen Companion cover? Are there other more desirable Golden pieces that I'm not thinking of?

 

Scott

 

 

This is THE Golden piece that leaps to mind when I see his name...

 

 

 

 

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NelsonAI

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It's a beautiful piece and should do well. The only thing that may hold back bidding is it's Dr. Strange. Regardless of the upcoming movie, it's not Spidey or X-Men.

 

Having seen the X-Men companion cover in person, (thanks to a fellow boardie who owns it), IMHO it is the best piece Golden has ever produced. It's oversized and the inks are jet black.

 

The Dr. Strange piece might be a top 3 from Golden in my view. It all depends on what you collect.

 

Cheers!

N.

 

 

 

 

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comix4fun

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It's a beautiful piece and should do well. The only thing that may hold back bidding is it's Dr. Strange. Regardless of the upcoming movie, it's not Spidey or X-Men.

 

Having seen the X-Men companion cover in person, (thanks to a fellow boardie who owns it), IMHO it is the best piece Golden has ever produced. It's oversized and the inks are jet black.

 

The Dr. Strange piece might be a top 3 from Golden in my view. It all depends on what you collect.

 

Cheers!

N.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I tend to agree on comic art in general, but specifically Dr. Strange (specifically Dr. Strange #55) is a character that Golden is tied to. That issue was so influential to the artists that followed and so pristine in execution that people may actually pay more for a Dr. Strange by Golden than a Wolverine by Golden or any other single character by Golden.

 

It's still behind the X-men piece, because it's an absolute masterpiece of the medium, but I can see Dr. Strange by Golden actually being worth a premium over the usual suspects of character choice.

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Probably in the minority, but if I could pick one Golden it would probably be the MF1 cover that just auctioned.

 

(nostalgia, nostalgia, nostalgia)

 

I would take Nam 1 cover. Same reasons.

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AKA Rick

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Probably in the minority, but if I could pick one Golden it would probably be the MF1 cover that just auctioned.

 

(nostalgia, nostalgia, nostalgia)

 

I'd agree with you, so we're minorities in tandem.

 

I think the portfolio piece is a lower profile published piece, so in my opinion, a cover to a Doctor Strange comic book should command more $ than this piece.

 

To me, it's sort of how a really great commission might under perform a good or even substandard published piece due to the prestige of traditional and recognized published art.

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Probably in the minority, but if I could pick one Golden it would probably be the MF1 cover that just auctioned.

 

(nostalgia, nostalgia, nostalgia)

 

I would take Nam 1 cover. Same reasons.

 

+1

 

I'd take Zaddick's X-Men piece - it's truly spectacular. After that, though, yeah, I'm on The 'Nam #1 bandwagon as well.

 

Will whoever buys the Doctor Strange piece get an overlay made to fill up all that awkward, lopsided blank space? :jokealert: (sort of)

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Zaddick

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The image size of the X-men is 18 x 23"

 

Zaddick, is the Xmen Companion the piece people ask you for the most in your collection? I bet you've fielded some crazy offers. Best of the best.

 

Scott

 

It is the most asked about but Interestingly enough I've had bigger offers on my Mad #5 cover.

But I can say anyone who has ever contacted me thru CAF about works in my collection have done so with the utmost respect.

 

Personally I think Michael had less then a handful of works with this super fine line, that is outstanding, the X-men and the Dr. Strange cover are examples.

 

The Strange is great in my opinion, and I think it will edge out the MF1 cover in auction, but like Gene said that white space is a bit of a bummer.

 

The MMS poster is pretty great too, a top 3 example of Golden IMO.

 

Zaddick

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jaybuck43

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Probably in the minority, but if I could pick one Golden it would probably be the MF1 cover that just auctioned.

 

(nostalgia, nostalgia, nostalgia)

 

I would take Nam 1 cover. Same reasons.

 

+1

 

I'd take Zaddick's X-Men piece - it's truly spectacular. After that, though, yeah, I'm on The 'Nam #1 bandwagon as well.

 

Will whoever buys the Doctor Strange piece get an overlay made to fill up all that awkward, lopsided blank space? :jokealert: (sort of)

 

Naw my plan is to have Stan Lee sign it at NYCC. Fills up that wasted blank space and probably triples the value.

 

*ducks incoming barrage of missiles*

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