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Joe Hollon
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Found more information online. The PAWN STARS guys offered him $1000 for it. Ha!
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Paul Greer
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I don't know how much Miller sells his work for. I did, however, see a recent(ish) cover to All Star Batman and Robin sell through an art dealer for over 5K. If he was selling this for Miller I do not know. But it gives a indication of what his modern work will collect.He is an anomaly like Adam Hughes. Anything they do seems to fetch a great deal of money on the after market. Most artists, like Gibbons, only have a few works that are high priced while the rest of their work is affordable.
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Wilson Mui
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I can kind of understand Miller's popularity given his body of work, but why does Adam Hughes get such high prices? He recently auctioned a convention sketch that has not even been drawn yet on eBay for over $4,000.
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Joe Hollon
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Frank Miller's art has two things going for it: he's a huge name in the comic industry with some of the most famous works in the medium over the last 30+ years to his credit and he's one of the few comicbook talents with legitimate crossover appeal into the mainstream.
Adam Hughes I also don't get. I understand people liking his art and I don't question his talent. I question why he's so mega-popular. He has almost no actual comic work to his credit. A few covers here and there. You would think to be as popular as he is he would have to have some actual comic work backing him up.
Person A: "Oh wow, that Adam Hughes is good! What is he famous for?"
Person B: "Well, he drew this really cool half naked picture of Catwoman at a convention one time."
Person A: "............?"
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Steve Ogden
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JB mention earlier $40,000 was paid for Jim Lee's X-Men original art. In the book "Grail Pages" put out by TwoMorrows publishing; there is an interview with the guy who bought the art for that amount. He said the money he paid for the art was a tax write off for him.
"Grail Pages" is a nice book because of the art they show but most of the people (dealer/collectors) in the book really have this elitist mindset about the art they have and the money paid.
Edited by Steve Ogden on 07 May 2011 at 8:50am
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Wilson Mui
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Just for the heck of it, here is a commission by JB where he draws in Miller's style.
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Steve Ogden
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I would much rather have that in my collection.
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Nathan Greno
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I think that Miller page is nice.
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Jeff Siedlik
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I hate to break it to any Dark Knight fans who read the previous posts about DKR pages selling for $3k, but that estimate is out-of-date. 2 other DKR pages were in that same auction.
One of them had Batman and Joker's corpse on it. It sold for $44k.
The other one featured Batman, but he was in disguise as a bag lady, and the page had several panels which were not the versions which actually saw print. It sold for $14k.
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Stephen Churay
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You guys really don't understand the appeal of Adam Hughes art? Do
you have a pulse?
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I think the price on that Miller piece is ridiculous. For $4,400 it would
be reasonable. Considering how famous the page is, I could even see
$8,000. But for half a mil...if I even had that kind of bread to throw
around, I'd only do it for my favorite Frazetta original painting. Even
then, I'd be over paying, I just wouldn't care.
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Robert White
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I've always found the prices on original comic art to be ridiculous. The collector market itself is absurd when you really think about it. I've never been able to wrap my head around the concept of buying something beyond a typical retail item marked up from production costs to make a profit. Even then, I'm often blown away with how much we pay for items that cost manufacturers a fraction of the sale price to create.
If I had the resources to buy the greatest works of high art ever created, I'd pass. What's the point of owning the Mona Lisa if you can observe the painting anytime you like with high quality digital representations in books or online, if not see it in person? The emotional content is what it's all about, not the physical object itself. "I have this and nobody else in the world does! Ha!"
I'm also of the mindset that certain works of art can never belong to one person. For me, owning an original piece of historically significant art is egocentric. What, beyond the flexing of the old financial muscles, does this prove? That you're "The biggest Frank Miller fan in the world!"? That your existence is somehow elevated by right of possession?
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Chris Cottrill
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It's a HOBBY!!
Like Baseball cards used to be.
Like Comics used to be.
Speculators suck!! :(
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