Heritage Auctions June 20-23 Auction is unreal ! 1 1

[cstojano]

On 4/13/2024 at 6:09 PM, batman_fan said:

I think how it works really depends on the company and industry.  Other people at the same levels me have only a marginal idea what their people do.

Also industry specific is the offset in salary. If I was making 2M doing management, well, I would be doing it too. But unfortunately top end is roughly 400k and top end "in the trenches" is roughly half that - soooo not worth it for all the problems you take on. 

[batman_fan]

On 4/14/2024 at 8:40 AM, cstojano said:

Also industry specific is the offset in salary. If I was making 2M doing management, well, I would be doing it too. But unfortunately top end is roughly 400k and top end "in the trenches" is roughly half that - soooo not worth it for all the problems you take on. 

Very true

[KirbyCollector]

On 4/13/2024 at 9:09 PM, batman_fan said:

I think how it works really depends on the company and industry.  Other people at the same levels me have only a marginal idea what their people do.

You are an extremely lucky man to work the way you can at that level

Managing 100 people does go a long way in explaining your Peanuts habit

Edited April 14 by KirbyCollector

[gumbydarnit]

Unfortunately, I didn’t know about Roger Hill until seeing his amazing collection in this auction thread. I dug around and found a couple of nice articles about him and his collecting journey:

https://scoop.previewsworld.com/Home/4/1/73/1019?articleID=41935

https://www.tcj.com/roger-hill-early-comics-fan-historian-and-scholar-dies-at-75/

there is also a nice thread about Roger Hill here on CGC:

Sounds like a he was true gem in our hobby!

Edited April 14 by gumbydarnit

[IngelsFan]

On 4/14/2024 at 9:17 AM, gumbydarnit said:

Unfortunately, I didn’t know much about Roger Hill until this auction thread. Here are a couple of nice articles about him and his collecting journey:

https://scoop.previewsworld.com/Home/4/1/73/1019?articleID=41935

https://www.tcj.com/roger-hill-early-comics-fan-historian-and-scholar-dies-at-75/

there is also a nice thread about Roger Hill here on CGC:

Sounds like a he was true gem in our hobby!

Roger was a great guy-an absolute legend. I talked his ear off when I first got into original art.

[Captain ShipWreck]

On 4/14/2024 at 12:17 PM, gumbydarnit said:

Unfortunately, I didn’t know about Roger Hill until seeing his amazing collection in this auction thread. I dug around and found a couple of nice articles about him and his collecting journey:

https://scoop.previewsworld.com/Home/4/1/73/1019?articleID=41935

https://www.tcj.com/roger-hill-early-comics-fan-historian-and-scholar-dies-at-75/

there is also a nice thread about Roger Hill here on CGC:

Sounds like a he was true gem in our hobby!

I didn't know Roger well but spoke to him a few times in the past four years. He was a great guy, from my experience. I initially asked him about a specific piece of art I was looking for, and he took the time to see if he could locate it. I was a random, and he took a good amount of time to try to help me. Gave me a ton of history on it, which wasn't public knowledge. He knew the original owner of the piece, funny enough. From my short interactions, he was a real gem.

[delekkerste]

On 4/13/2024 at 7:00 PM, Captain ShipWreck said:

I know the card and am familiar with both versions. A lot of the roughs looked different from the finished versions. Here's a better scan of what I posted before. It could be something different but it is marked as card 11 and aliens are killing humans with guns.

It's probably this. It says "Preliminary" and "ink and wash over graphite" with no mention of gouache, watercolor, etc. 

[adamstrange]

On 4/13/2024 at 6:29 PM, batman_fan said:

I am getting close to hitting 60.

I'd keep missing if I were you.  No good will come with actually connecting.

[Kevn]

On 4/14/2024 at 6:32 PM, IngelsFan said:

Roger was a great guy-an absolute legend. I talked his ear off when I first got into original art.

I thought the name sounded familiar, and just looked at my tattered hand-written spreadsheet of original art purchases and it turns out I bought my first piece of OA from Roger, a George Roussos page from one of the EC sci-fi books. I recall that this was an impulse purchase - what I wanted was a page of Kurtzman Frontline Combat, but those were out of reach, and this was one of the first EC art pages I'd seen being sold individually. The price of the piece was low enough that I went for it, and I remember being put off when it arrived because the blue pencils were some prominent. Haha, what a noob. The good thing about the transaction was it went off flawlessly, and gave me the confidence to buy more art. I quickly started picking up Marvel pages I really liked, and so this piece went to the back of the portfolio and I've never even scanned it. Actually, I'm not even sure I still have it.

Anyway, looking back this it was one more instance where I could have used an OA buying opportunity to actually make a connection in the collector community, but I was too shy. 

[Matches_Malone]

Another great auction with incredible pieces that I didn’t even know were still in existence. It almost feels like “a change of the guard" is happening in front of our eyes.

[KirbyCollector]

On 4/16/2024 at 6:31 AM, Matches_Malone said:

Another great auction with incredible pieces that I didn’t even know were still in existence. It almost feels like “a change of the guard" is happening in front of our eyes.

Changing of the guard = OA owned by an average guy who bought a page for $25 decades ago now being transferred to a guy with an average net worth of $5M

[Bronty]

maybe so and its a changing of the guard in a very real way as well; this is an estate sale after all. 

Edited April 16 by Bronty

[KirbyCollector]

Funny how times change. In 1990 if you wanted to buy a piece of art for $250,000, you got into a suit and tie and traveled to an auction being held in a mansion located in NY, London or Paris where you were served champagne and treated with class. Now you bid online dressed in a t-shirt and shorts while toggling back and forth between cat videos and PornHub while drinking a Mountain Dew you bought at the Shop Rite. We've lost something as a society, I think.

[vodou]

On 4/16/2024 at 12:43 PM, KirbyCollector said:

Funny how times change. In 1990 if you wanted to buy a piece of art for $250,000, you got into a suit and tie and traveled to an auction being held in a mansion located in NY, London or Paris where you were served champagne and treated with class. Now you bid online dressed in a t-shirt and shorts while toggling back and forth between cat videos and PornHub while drinking a Mountain Dew you bought at the Shop Rite. We've lost something as a society, I think.

...and pay a higher BP % for the privilege too.

[batman_fan]

On 4/16/2024 at 10:43 AM, KirbyCollector said:

Funny how times change. In 1990 if you wanted to buy a piece of art for $250,000, you got into a suit and tie and traveled to an auction being held in a mansion located in NY, London or Paris where you were served champagne and treated with class. Now you bid online dressed in a t-shirt and shorts while toggling back and forth between cat videos and PornHub while drinking a Mountain Dew you bought at the Shop Rite. We've lost something as a society, I think.

You spying on me?

[drdroom]

On 4/16/2024 at 9:43 AM, KirbyCollector said:

Funny how times change. In 1990 if you wanted to buy a piece of art for $250,000, you got into a suit and tie and traveled to an auction being held in a mansion located in NY, London or Paris where you were served champagne and treated with class. Now you bid online dressed in a t-shirt and shorts while toggling back and forth between cat videos and PornHub while drinking a Mountain Dew you bought at the Shop Rite. We've lost something as a society, I think.

That right there is a classic post. 

[tth2]

On 4/17/2024 at 12:43 AM, KirbyCollector said:

Funny how times change. In 1990 if you wanted to buy a piece of art for $250,000, you got into a suit and tie and traveled to an auction being held in a mansion located in NY, London or Paris where you were served champagne and treated with class. Now you bid online dressed in a t-shirt and shorts while toggling back and forth between cat videos and PornHub while drinking a Mountain Dew you bought at the Shop Rite. We've lost something as a society, I think.

$250,000 is the new $25.

[Latverian Tourism Board]

On 4/16/2024 at 12:43 PM, KirbyCollector said:

Funny how times change. In 1990 if you wanted to buy a piece of art for $250,000, you got into a suit and tie and traveled to an auction being held in a mansion located in NY, London or Paris where you were served champagne and treated with class. Now you bid online dressed in a t-shirt and shorts while toggling back and forth between cat videos and PornHub while drinking a Mountain Dew you bought at the Shop Rite. We've lost something as a society, I think.

You wear shorts? Well, let’s all look at Mr Fancypants here! Do you put your pinky in the air when you press bid, too? Sheesh.

[batman_fan]

[Silver Surfer]

Great page.