Rob Larsen

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Want To See a Slideshow of the All Time Record Comic Book Sales?

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All Time Record Comic Book Sales

A Great Story and an Even Better Cause

The David Ortiz jersey buried in the new Yankee Stadium is up for auction on eBay. There are 198 bids and the price is at more than $69,000 (as of this writing), with the proceeds going to The Jimmy Fund. I'll be interested to see where it ends up. It's a fantastic story and this is a great piece of oddball memorabilia related to one of the great rivalries in sports.

Ortiz "Yankees Curse" Jersey to benefit the Jimmy Fund

Rare Book Review- With a Cover Story Written By Yours Truly

As some of you may be aware, I know a thing or two about collectible comic books. Because of that knowledge, last month I was asked to write a large piece about collectible comics for a magazine from the UK called Rare Book Review. Well, apparently it's out now and to my surprise my little article is the cover story:

I'll have the article itself up on my comics site soon and I'll be sure to link to it when it goes live.

Banksy + Kate Moss = Big Bucks

They were going for $20,000 not so long ago. £96,000 is a long way away from $20,000.

Check it out:

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A screenprint of model Kate Moss by artist Banksy fetched three times its estimated price at an auction last night devoted solely to street art.

The work, a pastiche of Andy Warhol's iconic portrait of Marilyn Monroe, sold for £96,000 at Bonhams in London.

The Bristol-based artist's Laugh Now, a stencil image of a monkey wearing a sandwich board which was expected to sell for £150,000-£200,000, went under the hammer at £228,000.

Kate Moss Banksy print fetches £96k

Check the full auction results at Bonhams

Rare Raphael work up for auction (and the estimate better be low.)

Christies has an estimate of around $30 million for the painting and if a Raphael portrait really does sell for that, not even half the recent Rothko and Warhol record sales, then I'm going to be very cross with the art world.

Rare Raphael work up for auction