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OA Collecting Goals for 2023
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Brian Peck

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On 4/5/2023 at 5:41 PM, batman_fan said:

 

My goals for 2023

1.  Romita Spiderman page

2.  Jack Davis piece

3.  Frame my gosh darn Marmadukes 

4.  Maybe add another Schulz Peanuts piece to the collection 

5.  Add a Wizard of Id or BC strip to the collection

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Cool, What year?

 

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On 4/5/2023 at 8:41 PM, batman_fan said:

 

My goals for 2023

1.  Romita Spiderman page

2.  Jack Davis piece

3.  Frame my gosh darn Marmadukes 

4.  Maybe add another Schulz Peanuts piece to the collection 

5.  Add a Wizard of Id or BC strip to the collection

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That's a nice buy. I picked up the AMS 189 Byrne/Mooney page

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I'm working down my list which dates back several years - some success so far. :) 

 

Alex’ Comic Art Wish List

Comic Book Art:

In the reasonably possible:

  • Aparo B&B page (art and letters by Jim)

In the Serious Stretch Goals category, we have:

  • Ditko Creeper
  • Everett Sub-Mariner page
  • Kirby Thor or New Gods page
  • Mayer Scribbly page (if there are any) [Got an unused cover plus a recreation/revision of it from Harlan E's estate.]
  • Rogers Detective (Batman) page from his wonderful run with Steve Englehart and Terry Austin
  • Shuster Superman [Got a comic strip]
  • Sprang Batman [Got a preliminary to one of his commissions]
  • Swan/Klein Superman or LSH page

Special cases:

  • The splash to JLA 29 (1st series) or the cover, but I'd prefer the splash. (The splash sold by auction at Heritage. Maggie Thompson told me it and two other pages had been stuck in a drawer since she and Don were given it by Julius Schwartz.)
  • Cover to The Official Legion of Super-Heroes Index #1. The cover to #2 would work, but it's in David Mandel's collection and I doubt that I could pry it loose. 

Comic Strips:

  • Peanuts by Charles Schulz
  • Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson
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On 5/2/2023 at 12:50 PM, alxjhnsn said:

I'm working down my list which dates back several years - some success so far. :) 

 

Alex’ Comic Art Wish List

Comic Book Art:

In the reasonably possible:

  • Aparo B&B page (art and letters by Jim)

In the Serious Stretch Goals category, we have:

  • Ditko Creeper
  • Everett Sub-Mariner page
  • Kirby Thor or New Gods page
  • Mayer Scribbly page (if there are any)
  • Rogers Detective (Batman) page from his wonderful run with Steve Englehart and Terry Austin
  • Shuster Superman
  • Sprang Batman
  • Swan/Klein Superman or LSH page

Special cases:

  • The splash to JLA 29 (1st series) or the cover, but I'd prefer the splash. (The splash sold by auction at Heritage. Maggie Thompson told me it and two other pages had been stuck in a drawer since she and Don were given it by Julius Schwartz.)
  • Cover to The Official Legion of Super-Heroes Index #1. The cover to #2 would work, but it's in David Mandel's collection and I doubt that I could pry it loose. 

Comic Strips:

  • Peanuts by Charles Schulz
  • Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson

A man with the utmost taste.

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On 5/2/2023 at 3:56 PM, batman_fan said:

A man with the utmost taste.

Without the matching budget. :)

I just realized that my copy and paste of the list dropped the strikethroughs from the ones that I have acquired; I fixed that. :) 

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On 5/2/2023 at 9:30 PM, batman_fan said:

That's quite a bit of progress

 

I almost scratched the Cul de Sac off the list. The bid got down to the last second and someone pulled the switch. We bid against each other a few times, but I ran out of money that I was willing to spend. 

It was a classic - Petey reading a comic book about his hero Little Neuro who does nothing and explaining it to Alice his little sister. An odd strip, but terrific! That would have been a huge win if I'd succeeded. Oh, well... The winner paid dearly. :) Click the image to see it on Heritage.

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batman_fan

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On 12/7/2022 at 8:42 AM, batman_fan said:

My goals for 2023

1.  Romita Spiderman page

2.  Jack Davis piece

3.  Frame my gosh darn Marmadukes 

4.  Maybe add another Schulz Peanuts piece to the collection hm

5.  Add a Wizard of Id or BC strip to the collection

I think I am done for the year for the most part.

1.  Failed again :cry:

2.  Failed again. :pullhair:

3.  I am such a loser :sorry:

4.  I actually landed two :whee:

5.  Success on both :cheers:

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On 12/9/2022 at 8:50 PM, delekkerste said:

After a positively monk-like 2020 (6 buys vs. 15 sales) and 2021 (5 buys vs. 1 sale), the pendulum definitely swung the other way for me in 2022 (94 buys and still rising vs. 2 sales this year).

In 2023, I definitely need/plan to be more focused. I don't regret buying all the pieces I did in 2022, as I had probably sold/traded too many pieces over the past 5 years and definitely enjoyed/appreciated being able to re-expand the breadth of my collection this year. And, while I'm not going to stop buying smaller, fun pieces, I will definitely buy less of them in 2023 and save my dry powder for the roughly dozen or so bigger and more meaningful things on my list that I would like to opportunistically add (should any of them become available next year at a price I can live with). 

2022: 98 buys, 2 sales (final tally) :ohnoez: 

2023: 96 buys, 1 sale (year-to-date) :whatthe: 

My plan to eschew smaller, fun pieces to focus on larger pieces did not work out at all this year. But, that's fine - it's been way more fun this way. :cloud9: 

 

On 10/30/2023 at 9:26 PM, batman_fan said:

5.  Success on both :cheers:

(thumbsu

I actually picked up 2 B.C. strips and one Wizard of Id myself this year. :cloud9: 

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