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Ryan Maxwell
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That'd buy a really nice house and furnish it in my town.
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Andrew W. Farago
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I've been hoping for a black-and-white or artist's edition for a while now, ever since I first saw a friend's good-sized collection of original Dark Knight art. With all the different printings of The Dark Knight over the years, you'd think that stripping out the color would be a no-brainer.
What other splash pages could/should go for comparable amounts on the open market? The first page of "This Man, This Monster" from FF #51 comes to mind, the "Spider-Man No More!" page mentioned in the article is on the short list, the "Green Lantern doesn't care about black people" page from Green Lantern/Green Arrow #76... Any other suggestions for that list?
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Mark Haslett
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The mini-series must have hit that guy a lot harder than it hit me-- and I
loved it. I wonder how many bidders there were at the finish line and what the
highest losing bids were. Can there really be more than one person willing to
pay anywhere near that kind of money for that cover? I never would have
guessed.
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Andrew W. Farago
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Immediately after I typed that, I thought of the shot of Spider-Man lifting wreckage off of himself from Amazing Spider-Man #33 and that shot of Wolverine in the sewers declaring "Now it's MY TURN!" from JB's run on X-Men.
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Jodi Moisan
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Anything that makes original comic book art more respected and valuable I support. I feel like it has been under valued for way too long. To me it is the one area where masterpiece type work is being done. We don't have people painting and being supported by noblemen and royalty. I think some of the best artist in comic book work, would be the same guys, back years ago, would have been supported by patrons of the arts.
I have often wondered if work like the Last Supper was once just looked on as a nice wall mural and not a great work of art. Was it the pasts comic book art?
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Jodi Moisan
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I wonder how many bidders there were at the finish line and what the
highest losing bids were. Can there really be more than one person willing to pay anywhere near that kind of money for that cover? I never would have
guessed.
With the final price being that high, bidding most likely went in increments of 1000 dollars, maybe more.
Edited by Jodi Moisan on 06 May 2011 at 12:42pm
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Bill Conway
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Since when is Robin a girl?
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John Byrne
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Half a million dollars for a page with less ink on it than what you'd find in an average Batman coloring book!All together now, "A ____ and his _____ are soon ______."
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John Byrne
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Since when is Robin a girl?•• Since I suggested it to Frank on a flight back from a convention in Atlanta, one year, and a wee while later he used the idea in THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS.
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John Byrne
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…that shot of Wolverine in the sewers declaring "Now it's MY TURN!" from JB's run on X-Men. •• About 25 years ago, I saw that piece in a dealer's booth at MidOhioCon. He was asking $5000 for it, and when I asked why such an absurdly high price tag, he said he didn't really want to sell it. I wonder what it's going for now?
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Jeremiah Avery
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If he didn't want to sell it, he shouldn't have had a price tag attached to it.I wonder if the buyer of this piece will be revealed? There are a few pieces of art I'd really like to have but considering the "cheap" ones often go for more than what I make in a month - pre taxes - they're just going to remain images I look at via my web browser. Art may be feed the soul but my stomach likes actual food on a regular basis!
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John Byrne
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Lately, my art purchases have mostly been of British artists whose work greatly informed my childhood and teens. The prices are high, but for the most part reasonable. The insanity that has infected the American market seems not to have crossed the Pond. Yet.
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