Spider-Man Comic Page Sells for Record $3.36M Bidding (apnews.com) 18
A single page of artwork from a 1984 Spider-Man comic book sold at auction Thursday for a record $3.36 million. From a report: Mike Zeck's artwork for page 25 from Marvel Comics' "Secret Wars No. 8" brings the first appearance of Spidey's black suit. The symbiote suit would eventually lead to the emergence of the character Venom. The record bidding, which started at $330,000 and soared past $3 million, came on the first day of Heritage Auctions' four-day comic event in Dallas. The previous record for an interior page of a U.S. comic book was $657,250 for art from a 1974 issue of "The Incredible Hulk" that featured a tease for the first appearance of Wolverine.
What sort of person cares about this story? (Score:1)
Even cares enough for an anonymous brain fart?
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There was a guy who hand drew astounding fake money. They admitted it was fake, and would try to convince a restaurant to accept the fake bill as payment. The government had no issues as they weren't trying to pass it off as fake.
Then someone would come in and pay them a ton of money for the fake bill, purchasing the transaction itself, as a sort of performance art, making the waitress or restaurant actually come out on top big time.
This was decades before NFTs.
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What you essentially said was correct except there was a little more to it. For example...
This same artist was able to purchase a motorcycle with his "art bills". His manager would then be the one who'd go to the business and buy back the fake bill. They then would make a display at the gallery showing the motorcycle, the fake bill, and the receipt. Selling all three as one piece of work.
This same artist was on 60 minutes because his art had been confiscated by the FBI. He as never charged and as of that ai
Unclear (Score:1)
So this is simply one page of an original first edition book, of which probably more still exist in good condition?
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>So this is simply one page of an original first edition book, of which probably more still exist in good condition?
More pages? For sure.
It was an original, not a page from a comic (Score:2)
What sold was the original artwork for the page. Not a page from an actual book.
https://comics.ha.com/itm/orig... [ha.com]
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Well, maybe total before sales tax which could be another quarter million or more.
Another Potential Scam (Score:2)
How can anyone trust Heritage after all of the shenanigans they've pulled with the video game market?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
They create and manipulate these markets and create "grading" companies to sell items amongst insiders to inflate the prices.
Maybe this page is worth this much, but I take every price I see coming out of Heritage with a large grain of rock salt.
Re: Another Potential Scam (Score:2)
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it's Heritage Auctions. They already are in cahoots with Wata on grading scams, and already have conducted a number of price pumping scams as well. After all, remember that "record breaking video game auction"? It turns out it was really one guy selling the game to himself.
Given the pedigree of Heritage Auctions, this is almost certainly the case.
it's just like fine art. It
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Mod parent up, they already admitted to pushing up comic book prices, how they're not in prison for price-fixing / fraud IDK.
We fail to learn when there is a fad way to make $ (Score:1)
Comic Books and Beany Babies, back in the 1990's were considered the big way to make quick bucks. Cheaper to get into than the stock market, but people ended up spending a lot of money, only to end up with excess supply. To a point where people no longer want to pay for for them, thus you end up with boxes of near useless products.
Unless it is an Issue 1, or the product is rare and no longer being made, you are just collecting junk, and spending a lot of money for it. If you are lucky can you ride the Fad
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