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[comicgrinder]

is there a price guide or historical past sales data on art?

[rsonenthal]

CAF has a nice service, and a free sign up to HA.com gets you access to their past sales.  

Wait, where's Alex Johnson?  We need his helpful guide!!

[BCarter27]

1 hour ago, comicgrinder said:

is there a price guide or historical past sales data on art?

http://comicarttracker.com/en/search

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[alxjhnsn]

I’m here!

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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.

·        Blouin Art Info which tracks sales at major art auctions. It can turn up some Comic OA as well. Look for the “Art Prices” item on the top right of the screen

·        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 In my opinion, it's a good history book and might be useful for comparison work, but it was out of date a year before it was printed.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 the 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.

o   The price information moved to The OA Elite blog. Click on the categories on the top of the page to see the updated list.

o   The discussion moved to Biggest OA Prices: The Blog.

 

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 based on their content. 

·        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 pencilers- 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:

·         Yahoo's comicart-l mailing list

·        The Comic Art Fans website

·        The CGC OA Board

 

The main points of physical contact are probably:

·        San Diego Comic Con

·        New York City Comic Con

·        Comic Art Con

·        Heroes Comic Con

 

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.

 

 

 

[comicgrinder]

k thanks guys

[comicgrinder]

i couldnt help but notice there have been no sales of Spawn hand drawn sketches by whilce portacio.

 

ultra rare i take it?

[Dick O.]

10 hours ago, comicgrinder said:

is there a price guide or historical past sales data on art?

You can also try slogging through my OA market reports 

https://comicbookinvest.com/category/original-art-aficionado/

FYI, CBSI's search function is quite effective!

 

 

[comicgrinder]

1 minute ago, O. said:

You can also try slogging through my OA market reports 

https://comicbookinvest.com/category/original-art-aficionado/

FYI, CBSI's search function is quite effective!

 

 

Thanks.

[comix4fun]

2 hours ago, comicgrinder said:

i couldnt help but notice there have been no sales of Spawn hand drawn sketches by whilce portacio.

 

ultra rare i take it?

Well, the past sales archives are mostly for auction house items. Unpublished items have to be somewhat valuable in the first place to warrant being consigned as an auction lot to one of the auction houses as opposed to eBay. 

Being that Spawn isn't Portacio's baby, I can imagine that's not one a lot of people ask him for during convention appearances. 

As with everything in this hobby, quality is going to control desirability and selling price. Rarity only ups the price when it's something that people are actively seeking. 

[MIL0S]

Also note that rare does not necessarily equal valuable.  You'll get the most money reselling sketches/commissions when it is of a character most associated with the artist (i.e. Bill Sienkiewicz and Elektra, Ditko and Spiderman, etc) because you'll have a larger pool of interested buyers.   if you collect commissions and your theme is some offbeat character or situation don't expect to get big bucks for that 'rare' sketch of Squirrel Girl listening to an ipod just because its the only example that exists by a particular artist.

[comicgrinder]

 

dont have much  but heres a few things u have.  thanks for the info

 

 

[John E.]

That Herb Trimpe Wolverine is a perfect example of what @comix4fun means by the perfect pairing of artist with a character they are associated with. I’ll wager that you can get a fast $300 for it, but if you have the patience, possibly $500+ for it. 

Who’s the artist of that Batman ‘89 piece?

ps - whoops - I think credit for artist/character goes to @MIL0S Though what Chris says is spot on too. 

Edited July 11, 2018 by Jay Olie Espy

[comicgrinder]

1 hour ago, Jay Olie Espy said:

That Herb Trimpe Wolverine is a perfect example of what @comix4fun means by the perfect pairing of artist with a character they are associated with. I’ll wager that you can get a fast $300 for it, but if you have the patience, possibly $500+ for it. 

Who’s the artist of that Batman ‘89 piece?

ps - whoops - I think credit for artist/character goes to @MIL0S Though what Chris says is spot on too. 

the Batman is by Robert Jones. hes an inker. pretty sweet that one is. won it in a raffle at a convention. it was 1st prize.