OA Collectors - thoughts on this please9647

Originally Posted by Siggy
MR-SigS here (My original acct is in limbo because of submission snafu- Working on it).
I think this would appeal more to the casual art collector. If all my art were in top loaders, they'd take up a lot more space, and might be a pain to access. Having them in portfolios makes it so easy to enjoy. I don't think I'd be as motivated to plop a heavy[er] stack of loaders on my lap.

Originally Posted by Nuffsaid111
I collect OA but would not use this service. Just being straightforward.
If one is buying a page of OA and one doesn't know who pencilled/inked or what issue the page is from then I'm not sure what one is doing in the OA hobby.

The only tiny remaining piece of the value of a service such as this would be for displaying purposes. And a portfolio suffices for me and I'd venture to guess most OA collectors. If it's a special splash page or comic cover, then framing with special sun prevention glass is ideal for displaying.

Originally Posted by Jesse_O

Originally Posted by Jesse_O
@SpiderTim I appreciate the feedback!! I agree that an artist probably would not sign a page that they did not do, but what about forgeries? I'd be surprised if every McFarlane signature is real. For example, I would think that a signed page from Spawn #1 would fetch more than that same page unsigned. So, in this example, the need to verify a signature because of monetary value is there.

Originally Posted by Jesse_O
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Originally Posted by SpiderTim
Maybe for low priced pages but who in there right mind would forge a signature on a piece of Original Art from McFarlane? lol

Well, that's kind of the point. Forgers do what they do because they know people think that way. I'm convinced that forgers are NOT in their right mind!!! Something in their head is off to begin with.

But again, good points!!! I totally get that the cost involved would be a major factor in this. But I was more interested in what people thought of this. It appears that the more serious, more established collectors do not see a need for it.

Which brings us back to the "casual" collector. Now I'm curious if OA has seen an uptick in sales these past 5-10 years. Has the movies effected that part of our hobby yet? I'd place money on it having effected commissioned art, but what about published? It'd be interesting to hear from OA dealers like Anthony Snyder to see if they have noticed an increase of casual collectors.

Originally Posted by IronMan
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Originally Posted by Jesse_O
@Bronte I actually have a couple comic skins. I use them to display some "themed" comics that aren't monetarily worth slabbing but are cool covers IMO. They work great for that!! But they are only comic book sized.

But OA art does come in various sizes. For instance I have a blue line page of a Simpsons comic that is about 9" x 12", if I remember correctly. The largest that I've seen, if I remember correctly, was like 16" x 22". The most common seem to fall between 11"x 17" to 13" x 19" approximately. In the Golden and Silver ages, the sizes varied wildly. I believe Marvel and DC have standard sizes for their artists, but I don't know what they are. And I'm thinking that has changed over the years as well. I have some Captain America pages from the early 80's that have Marvel printed on them. But the Falcon page that I used in my example is not marked Marvel and slightly larger all the way around. So size would be a factor to consider if one was looking to do this.

This is the true issue. Most OA from the past 30 years or so is 11x17. Older OA is often times 13x19. Sometimes even larger. And these dimensions are not exact. It's not unusual for the physical art board to be a little larger than "normal". So then you have the issue of are you going to trim half an inch off an edge (of white board, not the art obviously) to fit.

These are going to be huge slabs. The market is not large and the cost of sourcing the slabs is going to be way to high.

Frame your art and make your own label. I have a couple of framed pieces where I went to a trophy shop and had a bronze plate engraved that I then attached to the artwork's frame. Book, page, date, artist.