I have plenty of fantasy purchases, but there's only so many that I can find the owners of through CAF. There's a couple of pieces that I missed on CAF and eBay that are just gone now, so who knows what those owners did with those pieces =(
-The original art was sold on CAF, but I missed it. Who knows where this is now-
https://www.comicartfans.com/Gallery...?Piece=1225760
-This is owned by Mari Stein, whose collection and prices are probably out of my league. Still, it would be awesome to own-
https://www.comicartfans.com/Gallery...p?Piece=293235
-Missed this on eBay by mere minutes. The original owner told me his asking price of $5k, and the new/current owner wanted double for it only months later =/ Now the cost is close to triple, and the owner is a pain to talk to-
https://www.comicartfans.com/gallery...p?piece=885948
-Would be a fun piece to own. But knowing Joe Mad prices, it would be too expensive for what it is-
https://www.comicartfans.com/Gallery...?Piece=1388606
-Missed this on ebay. It went for around $3500, and who knows what the cost would be now. It's not a "dream piece" for me, so I wouldn't want to pay much more, which would probably not be enough to get this from the current owner. Still, I can't imagine ever affording anything he did for the Age of Apocalypse run so this would be a great second running piece for me-
https://www.comicartfans.com/Gallery...?Piece=1408092
-I asked Silvestri's store about this piece, and they told me it was in his private collection. By chance, I saw it on CAF being sold by that store a year later, and I missed the purchase by 1 hour before someone else got it =( Now it's lost in that someone's private collection-
https://www.comicartfans.com/Gallery...?Piece=1174308
-The second I saw this piece posted on Joe Mad's instagram, I asked his handler if it was for sale. Joe (I guess) sends what he wants to sell at random, so I've asked about it twice in 3 years and each time I've been told it still isn't for sale. And even still, Joe wants ridiculous prices for his art, so I doubt if this was for sale I'd be willing to pay $8k+ for it-
-My ultimate dream piece. The first comic series I bought as a kid because of the art, and the first graphic design art project I edited when I went back to school to follow a design degree (I even got Silvestri, Batt, and Tucci to all sign a print I made of it!). Anything I could find from this series would be awesome to have, but this is the main grail for me. I even asked Silvestri directly about it, and he said he thinks his lawyer has it framed on his wall. So yea, I'm thinking snowball's chance in hell, lol-
(here's my project piece -
https://i.ibb.co/5B828mw/d276pw6-a19...937cfb56be.jpg)
