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Robservations with Rob Liefeld

The Million Dollar Pages!

Robservations with Rob Liefeld

Robservations with Rob Liefeld

Arts, Visual Arts

4.8818 Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2024

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Over the last 5 years, a number of original comic book pages have sold for millions of dollars! What artists hit these benchmark prices and what pages are certain to follow?

Transcript

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0:00.0

Today we are looking at the more collectible aspect of the comic books and the artwork that we love so much original comic book art is booming the sales

0:23.8

are continuing to climb in the last few years alone four pieces have gone for over a million

0:33.0

dollars well in to a million dollars and i don't think we're done yet i think there is more to come

0:38.7

this is our series on million dollar pages and it begins right now today on an all new

0:46.8

episode of robservations hey everybody and welcome to another edition of Rob Observations.

0:58.4

I am your host, Rob Leifeld.

1:01.0

I have been making comics, writing comics, drawing comics, producing comics for just shy of 40 years.

1:07.8

Yes, four decades.

1:09.1

There is nothing more that I love than talking, discussing,

1:14.1

parsing, examining comic books, the world of comic books, the incredible creators of comic books.

1:20.8

So while it doesn't hurt to not be terribly informed of 40 years of comic books. It helps if you have a

1:35.5

passing interest in comic books or superheroes. That's how we feel here at Robservations.

1:41.8

We are superhero comic book crazy. And if you're just starting

1:45.9

to get into comic books and superheroes and are curious about the world of these incredible

1:51.6

comic creators and these characters and the origins behind them and the inspirations of the men

1:57.6

and women who create them, then you've come to the right place because we are

2:01.4

1,000% obsessed since I was a kid, seven years old, pulling comic books off the spinner racks

2:07.7

at the liquor store, the food land, the supermarket, the 7-11, all the mini-marts.

2:14.4

The comic books of my youth comforted me when times were tough, when dad was sick,

2:21.0

when things were going rough for the Lifeeld family. They inspired me. They filled my drawing

2:26.5

pads, my sketches. And as my teachers would be loath to say they sent notes home because little Robbie wasn't supposed

2:38.2

to be drawing on his exams and his tests. Comic books have been just so prominent throughout

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