Question to the folks that were astonished at the $64K closing price - what do you think it should have closed at?

I was surprised by a few other results:

-Kirby JIM 106p17 = $15K
-Colan TOS 94p8 = $5.7K
-Sekowsky WW 179 page for $2.7K (yeah, change in direction, but still, no costume)
-Land Wolverine 55 page = 4.5K

The $64k blows away the public sale price of any Ditko panel page I have seen.

Even on the private sales I have been privy too that's beyond anything short of a half splash or top 5 key page or 1st appearance pages.

The Doug Mahnke Man Who Laughs cover was at one time sold on CLINK for over $6000 and now $4211. Quite a hit .

Could modern artists be and the down while order more established artist are on they way up?

Congrats on the nice sale


I was surprised by the Land. I had offered it on the site for 3K before. I even bought it from the Donnellys and did not take a loss on it but a slight gain. A large reason why I went a head and put it in the auction was I noticed the Yu Wolverine cover in the last big Clink auction sold for 4K which I thought it was pretty strong.

The Doug Mahnke Man Who Laughs cover was at one time sold on CLINK for over $6000 and now $4211. Quite a hit .

Could modern artists be and the down while order more established artist are on they way up?

I can understand that, however the Ditko ASM 30 page, a less desirable page, sold for $36K in the same auction.

I personally think a lot of Modern OA is grossly overpriced especially when coming direct from an artist or their rep. of course if you ever really want a piece then you are often stuck paying to get an artist to part with it. Even modern artist I think are great like Finch I just have trouble seeing being a great investment with initial prices being so high. I don't know that much DC an marvel stuff the past 10-15 year is going to pull at nostalgic heart strings the way Lee and Todd M are doing.
It is always difficult when forecasting anything like this. I have an Indiana Jones piece I bought from a gallery. I really love the piece but had thought myself there is no way I will ever get close to what I paid should I ever sell. I've had the piece 3 or 4 years and was talking to the artist on Facebook a few months ago and he mentions. By the way if you need to let that painting go I have someone who has been hounding me about it since it was sold. So you never know what anyone person will be willing to pay.

But the $36k page had spidey in costume on 6 of the seven panels. It went within the range of several recent sales...maybe 10% above. Not a sale that moves the data trend to any material amount by any means.

I personally believe that the "overpricing" of modern OA is also related to how much they have appreciated in the last few years. Artists and their reps have seen prices go up to double or triple what they sold it a few years ago, so I can't blame them for pricing it high to make sure they don't leave money on the table again.

In the grand scheme of things, this should all balance. I've been personally believing it for the past few years, things can't keep on going up and up forever (and I've been wrong the past few years)

Finally, its a cliche, but when you are buying OA, while it's always good to get a good deal, you shouldn't buy it only because it will appreciate in the future.

Malvin