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Originally Posted by risingstar
Sadly, I think the Silver and Bronze age artwork will be the last to get hit because those pages have actual meaning. However, most artwork in general (especially the commissions) will fall dramatically. Unfortunately, most of the commissions I have seen simply to not exude the same amount of passion or effort one generally sees or expects from a published product. I think the future does not bold well for commissions in general.
Like yourself, I would love a Romita or Kirby -- but not just any page, you know? I guess I'll just have to wait for the heirs of this artwork to unload it so they could buy new tires. I would imagine it would pretty much come to that type of scenario.
My mother is a huge tea pot collector. She has about 1000 of them, many of which are limited, signed, and hard to find. Should I inherit these teapots (which I should), I really have no intention of keeping them. They will likely be sold to pay for new tires. However, I absolutely love her display cabinets... lol. ...I would imagine that my kids will feel the same way about my comic book memoribilia.
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Good point about ther legacy of a collection. While my daughters are both big comic fans at this point (yes, I'm raising them right!
), I'm not sure they'll want all of the stuff I've accumulated.
And I should specify my earlier comments--I was talking about original published pages, not so much commissions, though I think there will be a market for those, too. What sort of market, I have no idea. We'll see.
I hear you on the Romita/Kirby thing--not just any page. Especially with Kirby, who did so much stuff. If I get a Romita, I want a Romita Spidey. If I want a Buscema (and I do), I want Conan. If I want Kirby, I want Cap, or Avengers, or...well, almost any of his Marvel stuff, really.
Course I did this yesterday...
