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Ferran Delgado
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From now on, I'll try to post the comparatives with one images on the top of
the another.
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Nathan Greno
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FERRAN:
Since I posted before the cover of Marvel Age 2, here's an image of the
original.
It was sold for 12k.
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I own this original AF cover...I wonder what I could get for it? That's crazy!
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Ferran Delgado
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Wow! I'm sure that Tim Townsend would pay a fortune for it! Where was it
published! I wish I would include this image in the TPB compilations in Spain
that I edited.
Do you have CAF gallery? If you have more pieces like this one, I can't wait to
see them!
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Ed Love
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I really cannot see how Marvel can look at their current design of Star-
Lord and see it as an improvement over this.
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Christos Seros
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Here's the X-Men Danger Room scan all cleaned up for those who want it.
http://aycu24.webshots.com/image/47823/2006262161672202009_r s.jpg
Edited by Christos Seros on 09 May 2008 at 10:11am
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John Byrne
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It was sold for 12k.
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Not by me!
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John Byrne
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Thing about selling artwork --- I don't buy art as an investment. I buy stuff
that "speaks" to me, or has some historical significance or, preferably, both!
Over the years, circumstances have occasionally compelled me to part with
pieces -- like after my divorce, when I was strapped for cash -- but the end
result is always the same: the money is spent, and I no longer have the art!
I refer to it as a "hole on the wall".
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Mike O'Brien
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I would trade my wife and kids for all the original art of Alpha Flight #1
Having met both - he must really love the art to AF#1 - his wife and son are really cool people!
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Ferran Delgado
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JB-"Not by me!"
By Albert Moy.
When I buy artwork, it has to be a piece that moves me by artistical
reasons and/or nostalgia. But I also try to buy at a price that I know that I
could get back my money in the case of need. Of course, there are
exceptions where I bought overpriced pieces because of the nostalgia,
although I'm sure that in few years, I could get back the money I paid for
it.
The reason behind to buy pieces with a real market price is because I'm
also a freelance, and hence, I need to know that I have real money
invested in them in the case of desperate need of cash.
Also, it makes my conscience clearer when I spend so much money, and
it also ease the tendence to worry of my girlfriend.
This doesn't mean that I'm ready to sell. I'd be really sad to sell some of
my dearly pieces. It's just a need to know that I have a financial back-up
since I'm a mess with domestic economy.
There's another item, which is that, sometimes, when I buy a piece, I'm
aware that I could sacrifice it if I find a more important piece. Usually,
nostalgia is more powerful than artistical joy in the cases that I have to
choose among them.
I had to sacrifice pieces in the past, so it's important to have a set of
values in your collection. I learnt that sometimes to trade is the only way
to get some pieces, so sometimes, I buy pieces that I'm aware that they'll
become eventually in trade coin. So I enjoy them as much as possible.
I understand the "hole on the wall" feeling, but I'm aware that this is only
a hobby, and when important things happens, the most deared pieces are
secundary, although it'd be a real pain to let them go.
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Steven Cassidy
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I would trade my wife and kids for all the original art of Alpha Flight #1
Having met both - he must really love the art to AF#1 - his wife and son are really cool people!
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Yeah -- but my wife was drunk when you met her -- she is fun then -- catch her sober and you better duck and run for cover.
LOL
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John Byrne
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JB-"Not by me!"
By Albert Moy.
••
Yeah, but there is still enough mythology in the industry -- still so many
fans who really don't know what's going on -- that I feel I have to make
that statement every time some old piece of mine sells for the Gross
National Product of Ecuador.
So many people assume I am the seller or that I get a piece of the sale.
Neither of which is true, 99.9999% of the time. (100% of the time for the
latter.)
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David Henriot
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There's an old question I have about "comics books investments".
How can it be a long time investment ? To sell, there must be buyers.
Buyers are peoples who believe in the interrest (whatever they see, the artistic interrest or the possibility of making 2 K on it) of the piece.
Now, with less and less comics fans, will there still be buyers for a Byrne + Austin piece in a few years ?
Even if an X-men cover will be credited as $ 100 000, will there be someone to actually pay that price ?
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