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Brian Peck
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Who's got that sort of money anyhow? And surely those pieces can only come
down in price in re-sale?
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Remember also, all of these were auction prices so there were at least two
people with this amount of $$$ bidding against each other!
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Incorrect. The DKR #2 cover had a reserve of $400K (with $78K Buyers
Premium) so it was just one person who bid it up that high.
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Brian Peck
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The title of the thread is incorrect. What you have listed are the most
expensive AMERICAN comic art ever.
A cover to 1932′s Tintin in America by Belgian artist Herge sold for $1.6
million dollars ($1.3 million Euro) Paris auction house Artcurial
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Joe Hollon
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Wow, interesting!
Title corrected!
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Steve Gumm
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Makes one wonder what the value of the art from Amazing Fantasy #15 would be in today's market.
For those who are aware, that entire issue's artwork was donated to the Library of Congress several years ago. The donor wanted to remain anonymous. I often wonder who it was, Stan Lee, Steve Ditko or perhaps someone who snuck it out of Marvel's offices, back when a lot of art seemed to disappear when no one was watching.
I'm grateful to whoever it was, what an incredible cool thing to do.
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John Byrne
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For those who are aware, that entire issue's artwork was donated to the Library of Congress several years ago. The donor wanted to remain anonymous. I often wonder who it was, Stan Lee, Steve Ditko or perhaps someone who snuck it out of Marvel's offices, back when a lot of art seemed to disappear when no one was watching.•• I'd vote C -- tho they would more likely have snuck it out of Marvel's warehouse, perhaps thru that legendary hole in the wall.
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Robert LaGuardia
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I was just thinking about the cover to DKR #2, I love it.
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John Byrne
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The bottom line here, by the way, is that something is "worth" whatever an individual is willing to pay for it. Not the price being asked, mind you, but what the buyer feels like paying.I have a few pieces in my collection that fellow accumulators have asked why I would spend X amount of dollars for them, and the answer I give is that they mean something to ME. I can only hope whoever bought these pieces did so for the same reason. If they bought them as investments, tho. . . .
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John Byrne
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…the McFarlane cover though - it just looks incredibly awkward.•• Most of the early Image art, I think, looks how fans who imagine they can draw (but can't) see their own work in their heads. Lots of lines, lots of snap and crackle, but no strength to the under-drawing.
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Steve Gumm
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John, in regards to the Amazing Fantasy art, your guess is better than mine, of course.
I think it's a long shot that it was Stan or Steve, but as important as Spider-Man seems to be to Stan, I kinda thought he may have kept the art as an memento. Also, because of Stan's wealth and age, I could see him making the donation as a way to give back to his current and future fans. I think roughy the same line of thinking could be applied to Ditko as well.
You know, the art's mystery makes it that much cooler.
Edited by Steve Gumm on 03 August 2013 at 3:02pm
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Jean-Francois Joutel
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Figures the most expensive cover sold features the Hulk getting dick punched.
No wonder my "friends" laugh at me for reading comics.
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Brennan Voboril
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Can't believe anyone likes McFarlane that much.
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Joe Hollon
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McFarlane definitely had a huge impact. He's sort of the personification of the whole speculator boom era. In fact his career even coincides directly with it! He came along in the mid-late 80s and was gone by the mid-90s. If you were a person who casually* bought comics in that time frame or were part of the speculator boom McFarlane is huge.
*I think that's the key. I don't know any passionate, long-time comicbook fans who are huge McFarlane fans (at least not anymore). I think his spot in comic history is very much a flash-in-the-pan, style over substance sort of thing. But if you were just "stopping by" during that time McFarlane is the guy in terms of comic artists and especially when it comes to Spider-Man who may have supplanted Batman and Superman as the most popular and well known superhero.
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