The estimate was only 25,000 - 35,000 Euro, but something got out of hand:
OK, I get it. Jean Giroud is better known under the name Moebius. He was a genius. Alejandro Jodorowsky is no nobody either. And Dune is just popular right now. I was outbid by a factor of over 65… sigh.
The expert that estimated the sale value must have been a bit surprised too.
Now who is the billionaire that has a soft spot for Dune and Jodorowsky and Moebius? And who was the other bidder who drove him to such an excess?
You think that’s weird? This is a New York Times article (no paywall; it’s a gift link) about a signed sports card featuring a current NBA player that sold for $4.6 million. The article is primarily about whether the player himself actually signed the card or his mother did. It seems to ignore the larger question of why anyone would pay $4.6 million for a card of someone who is still alive and still playing ball and could just as easily sign a hundred more cards.
I’ve seen the documentary about Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Dune project, and this is much more than a mere comic. It’s the complete storyboard for the unfinished movie, with every artistic input that went into that project. I also suspect that it’s either unique or else very limited.
Yes, that is why I wanted it. Perhaps they printed 20, perhaps only ten. And as it was a project to finance a movie, and the money was declined, most of the copies will have been thrown away a long time ago.
So bumping my own thread I can now answer who the alleged billionaire was
He was not a billionaire, he was a crypto-scammer. It seems he has some legal problems now (the twitter thread is long and convoluted) and owns a lot of taxes. I wish him hard times.
And where is the book?
30 months later, another copy has been sold at Christie’s:
This copy sold for GBP 277,200. The crypto scammer have set an anchor price, GBP 277,200 is an improvement but still too high. Now that it is called “Bible” the price will not fall much further, I am afraid, even assuming new copies come to market.
I guess I’m learning how much I don’t know about mathematics. I would consider “a factor of 65” to suggest that you were prepared to pay more than 40.000 Euro. If that’s the case, please send me your Ca$hApp handle so I can ask you for some money.
On another, more pertinent note, is this “comic” even funny? I read Dune once, and funny isn’t really something that jumped out at me.
I am not expresing myself correctly, it is not your math: I meant to say the final price was 65 times higher than what Christie’s themelves estimated: 25,000 to 35,000. I took the higher figure, raised it a bit and took this to be a reasonable bid and based my calculation on that. But I am afraid the rules in this board forbid asking for money without consulting the mods first – and I have no clue what a Ca$hApp handle is anyway. Just out of curiosity: How much would you consider asking for?
