MRF #12 Original Art Cover (auction)

[jay]

3/2/14 Valiant Art Auction list

Solar 11, Page 20----------$382.99
Harbinger 9, Page 11------$257.00
Harbinger 9, Page 15------$280.00
Harbinger 7, Page 22------$425.00
Magnus 23, Page 1--------$239.49
Magnus 12 , Page 35------$580.99
Magnus 12, Page 13-------$530.56
Magnus 12, Page 8--------$665.00
Magnus 0, Page 18--------$242.50
Magnus 0, Page 4---------$765.00
Rai 0, Page 14------------$322.76
Rai 0, Page 21------------$322.76
Shadowman 6, Page 4----$213.50
X-O 4, Page 11------------$1130.00

Total: $6,357.55

[greg]

It's more iconic than the cover to Harbinger 7, for sure.

Hey

Don't worry... more iconic does not necessarily mean more valuable.

[magnusr]

Magnus, it certainly looks like your Magnus 0, page 18 was the steal of the auction, just in comparison to the other prices paid.

Thanks, yes, your list clearly shows I was lucky. Congrats to nycjadie also.

/Magnus

[Phantom]

Great thread.
Only a few pieces of original art I am interested in.
So glad that a lot ended up with board members.

Glad to see the com unity helping each other identifying the cove art as a repo.

[nycjadie]

Magnus, it certainly looks like your Magnus 0, page 18 was the steal of the auction, just in comparison to the other prices paid.

Thanks, yes, your list clearly shows I was lucky. Congrats to nycjadie also.

/Magnus

Agreed and thank you. We all have some celebrating to do!

[AnthonyF]

Anyone come up with a complete tally list of art and prices paid for each? Reminds me of the Harbinger 1 art auction as to the level of bidding and pre-snipe action. Really seemed to breath some life into the market. Although I miss the days of $9.99 pages.

Thanks for correcting their listings.

Since you mentioned it,
does anybody have the auction results from the Harbinger 1 pages?
Or any of Lapham's covers or interiors that sold on ebay?

I'd love to know what they went for a few years ago.

[greg]

Magnus, it certainly looks like your Magnus 0, page 18 was the steal of the auction, just in comparison to the other prices paid.

Thanks, yes, your list clearly shows I was lucky. Congrats to nycjadie also.

/Magnus

Agreed and thank you. We all have some celebrating to do!

Definitely a celebration!
I was actually willing to go higher on the Magnus 0 splash.
My wallet (and my wife) are very happy that I didn't have to.

[greg]

Since you mentioned it,
does anybody have the auction results from the Harbinger 1 pages?
Or any of Lapham's covers or interiors that sold on ebay?

I'd love to know what they went for a few years ago.

I'm hoping that Sonicdan or Magnus has some records.
I thought that I did, but I'm not seeing them on my harddrives.

[iggy101us]

Feeling left out, I bought this page today: http://www.ebay.com/itm/291089883980" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Harbinger #13 p 6 by Lapham. It doesn't compare to the key pages from yesterday's auctions but it's a Lapham Harbinger page so I am happy.

[iggy101us]

Since you mentioned it,
does anybody have the auction results from the Harbinger 1 pages?
Or any of Lapham's covers or interiors that sold on ebay?

I'd love to know what they went for a few years ago.

I'm hoping that Sonicdan or Magnus has some records.
I thought that I did, but I'm not seeing them on my harddrives.

See page 5

viewtopic.php?f=2&t=21372" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[AnthonyF]

Nice Faith centric page from the DKR issue!

[nycjadie]

I saw that one, too. Nice page, Iggy!

[greg]

Since you mentioned it,
does anybody have the auction results from the Harbinger 1 pages?
Or any of Lapham's covers or interiors that sold on ebay?

I'd love to know what they went for a few years ago.

I'm hoping that Sonicdan or Magnus has some records.
I thought that I did, but I'm not seeing them on my harddrives.

See page 5

viewtopic.php?f=2&t=21372" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Good find!

Harbinger 1

Page 1: $1,920.00
Page 2: $356.51
Page 3: $416.99
Page 4: $280.11
Page 5: $355.99
Page 6: $338.33
Page 7: $188.50
Page 8: $177.77
Page 9: $308.88
Page 10: $297.41
Page 11: $310.65
Page 12: $270.21
Page 13: $208.50
Page 14: $243.50
Page 15: $421.65
Page 16: $366.13
Page 17: $421.65
Page 18: $421.65
Page 19: $482.18
Page 20: $387.00
Page 21: $421.65
Page 22: $377.77
Page 23: $382.77
Page 24: $728.00
Page 25: $436.00
Page 26: $356.00
Page 27: $360.55
Page 28: $452.00
Page 29: $514.00
Page 30: $521.00

[AnthonyF]

Page 1: $1,920.00
Page 2: $356.51
Page 3: $416.99
Page 4: $280.11
Page 5: $355.99
Page 6: $338.33
Page 7: $188.50
Page 8: $177.77
Page 9: $308.88
Page 10: $297.41
Page 11: $310.65
Page 12: $270.21
Page 13: $208.50
Page 14: $243.50
Page 15: $421.65
Page 16: $366.13
Page 17: $421.65
Page 18: $421.65
Page 19: $482.18
Page 20: $387.00
Page 21: $421.65
Page 22: $377.77
Page 23: $382.77
Page 24: $728.00
Page 25: $436.00
Page 26: $356.00
Page 27: $360.55
Page 28: $452.00
Page 29: $514.00
Page 30: $521.00

Cool

I found this thread too, where Dave was looking for 12K for the complete book in 2006. Looks like the individual pages sold for about $12,700 in 2008. Wow!

viewtopic.php?p=215265

Was 2006 the first time he sold any of his Harbinger pages?

[jay]

Yes, around that time, maybe a little before, he sold the majority of them. Prior to that only a few had leaked out. Most were sold in private transactions through Renee, his art broker. I believe I probably covered a down payment on his house or put a kid through a year or two of college. What was left over from the picked over art list came out on ebay afterwards. The harbinger 1 pages were maintained as a set and he wouldn't break them up until they didn't sell and eventually were divided out on ebay.

That post and list in the link was some time after much had been purchased from him in private.

Jay

[AnthonyF]

Thanks Jay!

[sonicdan]

Feeling left out, I bought this page today: http://www.ebay.com/itm/291089883980" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Harbinger #13 p 6 by Lapham. It doesn't compare to the key pages from yesterday's auctions but it's a Lapham Harbinger page so I am happy.

Nice pick up Iggy!
I have the colors if you are ever interested:


DAN

[iggy101us]

Oh Dan . . .

[nycjadie]

Cool match, guys!

[eternalwarrior]

I ended up with about 25 or so pages from #2-#10 before he started doing the auctions and was pretty broke (at least for art money) when he did sold the #1 pages. Looking back, i probably would have moved whatever i had to to get every one of those.

Page 1: $1,920.00
Page 2: $356.51
Page 3: $416.99
Page 4: $280.11
Page 5: $355.99
Page 6: $338.33
Page 7: $188.50
Page 8: $177.77
Page 9: $308.88
Page 10: $297.41
Page 11: $310.65
Page 12: $270.21
Page 13: $208.50
Page 14: $243.50
Page 15: $421.65
Page 16: $366.13
Page 17: $421.65
Page 18: $421.65
Page 19: $482.18
Page 20: $387.00
Page 21: $421.65
Page 22: $377.77
Page 23: $382.77
Page 24: $728.00
Page 25: $436.00
Page 26: $356.00
Page 27: $360.55
Page 28: $452.00
Page 29: $514.00
Page 30: $521.00

Cool

I found this thread too, where Dave was looking for 12K for the complete book in 2006. Looks like the individual pages sold for about $12,700 in 2008. Wow!

viewtopic.php?p=215265

Was 2006 the first time he sold any of his Harbinger pages?

[solarmanofawesome]

So this is just a feeler for those of you out there that have contacted Sparkle City about the Magnus 12 covers. After they were taken down I e-mailed them about what they planned to do with the covers. I received an e-mail saying to call the store manager Ross this past Tuesday, which I did. I called and Ross explained to me that there were several people asking about the covers and there were some high offers. He told me the top offer and asked if I would offer more. I offered around my high limit and Ross explained to me that he would call me back after he spoke with the owner of Sparkle City. Ross assured me that he wanted these to go to a collector and that he was not shopping prices....I have a hard time trusting people I can't look in the eye. This all took place yesterday and today I received a call from Ross, that I missed. So I was just wondering if other members here were getting this same run around and Sparkle city was trying to create some kind of competition between us all to get top $$. From his message, I assume he is going to tell me someone went over my price and is looking for a counter offer. There is some competition for us all to get cool valiant stuff, I realize that. I just don't want to have Sparkle city, or any other dealer to have us fighting against each other to get this stuff and in turn inflating the prices.

[nycjadie]

Not me. Didn't reach out. I assume they're just recreation covers, which I have only a curious interest in.

[solarmanofawesome]

Well apparently, from what Sparkle City tells me, Gonzalo is sending them COA's that they are actual covers that were done for Valiant during the period but not the final production covers. Which goes along with what was told to Dholden when he e-mailed him Not the production covers but prelims?

[nycjadie]

Interesting. The one was extremely close to the original. If they are prelims, that would make them more valuable.

[DirtbagSailor]

Well apparently, from what Sparkle City tells me, Gonzalo is sending them COA's that they are actual covers that were done for Valiant during the period but not the final production covers. Which goes along with what was told to Dholden when he e-mailed him Not the production covers but prelims?

Although prelims don't exactly fall into this category, and are pretty damn cool.

DBS