Post by comickings on Jun 15, 2008 21:25:26 GMT -5
Jun 15, 2008 21:14:10 GMT -5 @cfs said:
Me and Azbatx made the trip to Richmond today for the quarterly comic show. I was kind of worried if it was gonna be worth the trip this time. With gas the way it is,it's a $50 round trip and I've been up there a few times and only spent $50-$100 and it made for a wasted trip. Today was definitely worth the trip. Az worked the room on the .50/$1 boxes...a few notables for him..these were .50 cents...Rai #1,4....30 days of night #2,3 (2 copies)...a Magnus Robot Fighter #12 for $1...and a Magnus/Predator TPB for $4!! I bought about 90 books out of a guys .50 boxes...alot of Sailor Moon comics issues #2,3 (about 10 copies each)...that'll bring atleast $10 each on Ebay were the highlights of that buy...other than that I spent $5 on another guy and that was it for me and comics. I was too busy worrying about some original art a guy had. I talked with this guy at the last show and he told me he had a doublepage splash from Hulk:Future Imperfect by George Perez. He didn't know if he wanted to sell it,but was thinking about it.I tried to call him a few weeks ago to see if he would atleast bring it to the show so I could check it out,and I only got his answering machine.So I left a message with him,but never heard anyhting back so I was hoping he would bring it. Well he brought it.I never read the story,but I think it was from issue #1 with the Hulk walking into this room where there is all this superhero memorabilia (like a museum)...Magnetos helmet,Novas helmet,among a bunch of other stuff,including Supermans outfit! (This was drawn outside edge of the piece and was cropped out from the actual comic,but it was cool to see it originally drawn in there!)...The guy said he already had an offer of $1000 on it from another dealer in the room,first thing this morning. I don't know if it was true or not,but he then pulled out an original Jack Kirby page from Thor #173. He said he didn't want to sell it but would listen to offers,and mentioned $1000 for it. I called a buddy of mine that knows original art way more than I do,and he said $1000 was deal for it.So I tried to play it off like I was only kind of interested in it and offered the guy $800 for it. He said well if it doesn't sell today then maybe. We were getting ready to leave and I knew I would regret leaving without it,so I offered $900.I knew that was almost all the money I had so I was hoping he'd go for it. No such luck,so I said,would you sell it for $1000? He said yes. I had $1004 in my pocket. Az was tapped out and I didn't want to have to borrow money from the dealers that I knew in the room,so it just did work out! Here's a 2-piece image...
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a 6 panel page with Thor in 5 of them,and a decent looking Kirby chic in the other! It's got some good dialogue going on,with Thor showing how much of a noble character he is in the Marvel Universe.And as a bonus,it's inked by Bill Everett! Which I didn't know til I got home and looked up the issue in Overstreet.I sent a pic to my buddy in Charlotte and he says it's probably a $2500-$3000 piece. That'd be great if he's right! So the trip was definitely worth it today! A good way to start off heading into Charlotte this coming weekend!
I thought $3000 sounded high, but Kirby's art may be getting more than when I last looked. Knowing it's inked by Everett is big selling point as far as I'm concerned. I was thinking Sinnott was doing the inking around then. I'd much rather have something Everett touched.
cfs
I thought it was high too,and it may be.But he said the Kirby market has really gotten hot again in the last year. I really like Sinnott's inking on Kirby but he did so much of inking on Kirby so there's alot out there.I was surprised to see it was Everett.He's an Icon hisself,and he did an awesome job on Kirby here!