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The incredible jaw-dropping auction results thread
Poztron:
--- Quote from: misappear on June 03, 2010, 03:21:01 PM ---I used to own Marvel Team-up #50. All interior story pages and a cover by Gil Kane. I bought it complete for $65.00 in 1979. I got bored with it and sold it in 1980 for $85.00. 31% profit. Am I not a financial whiz?
Fooey. That's my "one that got away." What's yours?
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I used to own X-Men #1, but sold it for $5 back c. 73-74 when I was hard-up for cash. Sold off a bunch of other early Marvels at similar (Price Guide "good") prices. But I have to be philosophical about it. It helped pay the rent back then.
John C:
--- Quote from: Drusilla lives! on June 03, 2010, 08:20:17 PM ---Once you break into that kind of price range you could just as easily buy a piece of fine art.
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Heck, with that kind of money, forget about the art, you can buy an artist! Not "commission a work," but get a multi-year contract for him/her to show up at your house every day and make stuff for you...
I suppose I don't really understand the collector mindset, though, and don't really feel Miller contributed much except importing the manga aesthetic to American comics...and that's not necessarily something that's praiseworthy...
But hey, it sells. What do I know?
Yoc:
"Frank Miller - here's a cheque for $10,000. For the next, oh month I own you!
Now go paint a mural on my wall and make it Freaking Good!"
... yeah, sounds smarter than 'I own some so-so coverart I really overpaid for.'
Drusilla lives!:
Now this one I can believe... Frazetta cover to WSF breaks record.
This guy Halperin got it on the cheap IMO. :)
What I can't understand is why it wasn't bought up by the Smithsonian... I think they have a few pieces of Ditko Spider-Man art... why not the art to arguably one of the most famous comic covers in history?
GeneYas:
--- Quote from: OtherEric on June 03, 2010, 05:57:25 PM ---I could almost understand some of Miller's DD covers from that era going for 6 figures. 158, 168, 179, 182, and 181 in particular are all fairly famous images. But #188? Yep, that's a cover, all right. Just not a particularly impressive one, in my opinion.
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I agree. Plenty of nicer pieces out there.
Art prices at the San Diego comic con started spiking after the economy collapsed. Don't expect prices to start dropping. Once these people spend that kind of money, it's unlikely they are going to let the piece go for less.
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