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New Action #1 CGC 8.0 and New Detective Comics #27 CGC 8.5 in the Census
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On 10/7/2021 at 11:44 AM, rob_react said:

You can walk around a show like that and play "trash or treasure" trying to guess if a work is a pile of trash, or a sculpture 

a bronze trash bag

Any idea how much that "trash bag" sculpture in the middle is worth?  lol

Thinking of going up and down my ally in the back and hoping to gather up tens of millions of dollars worth of these sculptures on garbage day.  Hopefully, they worth a lot more if they have the authentic garbage smell to them and the ususal bugs and worms crawling out of them.  :flipbait:

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On 10/7/2021 at 3:59 PM, Dark Knight said:

Yep it's the Pay Copy which got an upgrade from a 9.0 to now a 9.2. 

The pay copy  The coolest MC 1 there is IMO.  Hammer guesses ?

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On 10/8/2021 at 4:59 AM, Dark Knight said:
On 10/8/2021 at 3:53 AM, Gotham Kid said:

Metro has a Marvel Comics 1 9.2 at NYCC

Yep it's the Pay Copy which got an upgrade from a 9.0 to now a 9.2. 

You posted before I got a chance to ask which copy was it upgraded from?

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On 10/8/2021 at 5:36 AM, rob_react said:
On 10/8/2021 at 4:59 AM, Dark Knight said:

Yep it's the Pay Copy which got an upgrade from a 9.0 to now a 9.2. 

Ah, the famous hot potato pay copy. 

Not just the Pay Copy.  It seemed like all high grade copies of MC 1 were tossed around like hot potatoes on Heritage for a few years. 

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On 10/7/2021 at 8:32 PM, tth2 said:

Not just the Pay Copy.  It seemed like all high grade copies of MC 1 were tossed around like hot potatoes on Heritage for a few years. 

Yeah, it was a mess there for a while.

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On 10/7/2021 at 2:50 PM, Chicago Boy said:

The pay copy  The coolest NOVEMBER COPY MC 1 there is IMO.  Hammer guesses ?

Fixed.  But, it is pretty close to an Oct. copy. with that really inadequate version of the black out stamp.  One of the first to come off the press of the Nov. run I'd bet.

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How rough of a ride did MC 1 have in the oughts?

Pay copy

  1. $40,000.00 at Private Sale in 1993
  2. $350,000.00 at Private Sale in 2003
  3. $201,250.00 at Heritage on 2006/01/19
  4. $204,999.99 at Heritage on 2007/08/03
  5. $227,050.00 at Heritage on 2010/02/25

Larson (8.0)

 

  1. $41,400.00 at Sotheby's in 1997
  2. $48,000.00 at Unknown in 1998
  3. $101,575.00 at Heritage on 2006/11/17
  4. $89,625.00 at Heritage on 2007/11/15
  5. $89,625.00 at Heritage on 2009/11/19
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On 10/7/2021 at 7:43 PM, sfcityduck said:

Fixed.  But, it is pretty close to an Oct. copy. with that really inadequate version of the black out stamp.  One of the first to come off the press of the Nov. run I'd bet.

I would assume so.  I think Id rather have the pay copy over an yOctober copy

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On 10/7/2021 at 6:23 AM, rob_react said:

For what it's worth, paintings by Rothko are 10000% meant to be experienced in person. A jpg isn't a fair representation of his work at all. They're large and are designed to envelop the viewer. I'm not the biggest fan, to be honest, but they're paintings that are designed to be experienced in person. 

I've seen Rothkos in person and found them even more annoying than in pictures.  Because in person it's even more clear there is nothing special about them at all and they are usually accompanied by a museum plaque describing them with word-salad nonsense that conjures the image of a con artist attempting to justify their valuations for stupid rich people. 

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On 10/8/2021 at 1:17 PM, BLUECHIPCOLLECTIBLES said:

I've seen Rothkos in person and found them even more annoying than in pictures.  Because in person it's even more clear there is nothing special about them at all and they are usually accompanied by a museum plaque describing them with word-salad nonsense that conjures the image of a con artist attempting to justify their valuations for stupid rich people. 

This is true of all modern art.  It is about creating a perspective that there is something special about the artwork.  There is an artist that has a “unique” technic with how he produces artwork.  In addition he uses a special trowel because his work is produced by painting hundreds of layers of paint and then scraping them with this special trowel he has been using for almost two decades.  The art gallery implies he may stop producing art when the trowel can no longer be used and that means his work will skyrocket.

The technique he uses is used by many other artist.  Some scrap, some sand, some grind, some sandblast.  It is all marketing spin.  With Rothko, getting the brand “can’t be restored becuase his technique is so special and unique” is pure brilliance.

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