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Original Comic Art Tips #317 – October, 28 2023

Welcome! Five different Heritage auctions, this week…

Original Comic Art Auction Results

eBay: the top two prices are for two items I personally would never spend so much money on… $5,5k (Best Offer) for a Fantastic Four #1 cover recreation by Dick Ayers, $4,2k (B.O.) for a Captain America commission by Steranko.

Then $2k for the Daredevil page by Bob Brown, $2,1k for a Omaha page by Waller, $1,6k for a Captain Marvel page by Marc Silvestri, a second page for $950, $1,5k for a cover by Ron Lim, $1,5k for the Joker commission by Tim Sale.
I Can’t find the B.O. price for this Dike Ruan Spidey 2099 cover, it started from $2,7k.

$1,3k for the Chun Li commission by Artgerm, $1,3 for a zombie sketch by Wrightson, sold less than a month ago for $850, $1,2k seems a good deal for this Spidey page by Trimpe, $1k (B.O.) for a color Deadman commission by Neal Adams, low $800 (B.O.) for an Avengers cover by Paul Renaud.

Heritage Weekly Auction: $8,5k for the Doonesbury daily, it could be the record price, at least for pieces sold on HA. $5k for a Batmobile toy card art by Infantino, $5k for the Death Dealer splash by Liam Sharp, $2k for the Conan page by Buscema, really high $1,6k for a 1976 Nancy Sunday strip, another high $900 for a regular 1995 Garfield daily, in preparation for the new Garfield auction. Low $650 for a Jungle Girl sketch by Cho, low $500 for a Dennis the Menace Sunday from 1978. (I don’t remember who was the ghost artist in those years).

Catawiki Auctions: €700 for the Fantasio sketch by Franquin, €1,5k for the Loustal illustration, nice €300 deal for an early JLA page by Adam Hughes, €300 for the 1960 Greg page.

Comiclink Auctions: So the “premium session” has ended with no premium prices. The top one was this Silver Surfer cover by Felipe Massafera, sold for almost $9k, almost $8k for a Hulk cover quality commission by Greg Hildebrandt, $7k for a Thor cover by Ron Frenz, $4k and $3k for two trading cards by Simone Bianchi, very high $3,5k for a Supergirl splash by Ian Churchill.
$2k for the early Mage page by Wagner, $2k for a Micronauts cover by J.K. Woodward.

As you can guess most of the prices were very low, like $1,2k for Werewolf poster art by Neal Adams, $1k for a Batman page by Newton, $900 for a Demon page by Byrne, $900 for an Aquaman splash by Heck, $900 for a Captain Marvel cover by Amanda Conner, $800 for a Backlash/Spider-Man page by Brett Booth, $300 for a Wolvie/Cable page by McGuinness, $300 for a Spider-Girl page by Frenz/Buscema.
Sad story: I wanted to bid on this Silver Surfer page by Rick Leonardi but I thought “it will go higher than I’d like to pay, why should I bid?”, instead it went for $650.

This Week on eBay

Marvel: an Avengers Vs. X-Men page by Marc Silvestri, Guardians by Kevin West, a GenX splash by Mark Buckingham, Iron-Man painted trading card art by Simone Bianchi.
An Elektra commission by Craig Hamilton, a Wolverine sketch cover by Dike Ruan, Fantastic Four by Immonen.

DC: I like this Superman page by Steve Epting, JLI by Bart Sears, an Aquaman DPS by Jim Calafiore, a Flash page by Greg LaRocque, a Superman page and a Flash commission by VanSciver, a Superman page by Rick Leonardi, a detailed JLA prelim by Simone Bianchi, a remarked Harley print by Frank Cho.

A Catwoman pinup by Greg Land, a great House of Mystery page by De Zuniga, JLA by Pelletier, a Joker pinup by Joe Giella, a Batman page by Mandrake, a Power Girl illustration by Ed Benes.

A Lord of the Rings illustration by Gary Frank, Sheena cover prelim by Celina, an Aurora model box painting by Cockrum, an Elric page by P. Craig Russell, a Red Sonja cover by Mandrake.
A Juliet Jones daily, a Wizard of ID Sunday.

Heritage Weekly Auction

Marvel: some Conan pages by Buscema, a Star Wars Droids page by Colon/Williamson may be your chance to buy a cheaper SW page by Al. W.C. Avengers by Milgrom.

Many pages by Tom Sutton, I like this one, look at this Spidey page by Saviuk, a Punisher page by Tom Lyle, two Spidey 2099 pages by Leonardi, a Spider-Girl splash by Olliffe/Williamson.

DC: Batman by Novick, Superman by Frenz, a Sandman commission by Allred, look at this complete Greyshirt story by Moore/Veitch.

Some Groo pages by Aragones, a Garfield daily, a nice Spidey Sunday by Dery, a Rusty Riley daily, a cartoon by Billy Ireland.

Catawiki Auctions

A full page and a strip by Manara, a detailed Ranxerox sketch by Liberatore, a woman sketch and a Batman sketch by Frezzato, a Diabolik cover by Zaniboni, a Zagor cover by Ferri, a very nice, no reserve Disney page by Cavazzano.

I can’t tell if this Flash sketch by Gabriele Dell’Otto is original or a print.

A Bilal panel, a top Smudja page, a Tanguy page by Jijé, a book with a color sketch by Tardi, a book full of sketches by Belgian artists, a Spirou page by Schwartz.

Look: a pencil owned by Albert Uderzo.

A Terry Dodson commission, a page by Colin Wilson, a page by Shintaro Kago.

Heritage Signature Auction part 1 – Comic Strips

I would buy all the things I linked to here, it’s not often I get to say that…
A Calvin & Hobbes illustration is the top piece, a few Peanuts, here’s a daily, here’s a Sunday strip. 

A 1923 Gasoline Alley Sunday, Rarebit Fiend by McKay, a detailed Puck page by Opper, a Little Jimmy Sunday by Swinnerton, a Buster Brown Sunday, Family Upstairs with KK by Herriman, a Winnie Winkle Sunday, I just discovered Arthur Sinnott, look at this 1912 Sunday.

A top Bringing Up Father Sunday, a 1932 Mickey Mouse illustration, a Sunday by Knerr, Tarzan by Foster.
I’ve never been a Willard Mullin fan, until I saw this page today. Nice art on this Apple Mary Sunday.

A very early Rip Kirby, a top Hagar Sunday, a Rowland Wilson Playboy panel, a Star Wars Sunday by Manning, look at the same background hand drawn for 8 panels in this Doonesbury Sunday, The usual big lot of Garfield strips.

Heritage Garfield Auction

Holiday themed strips always go for 3/4 times the price of regular strips, so it was about time to do a holiday strips auction.

Not all are related to a festivity, like this funny early daily, then Garfield is wrapping presents, decorates a tree, waiting for Santa… There are a big pile of Sunday strips like this 12-25 one, and this 10-30 one, many full weeks and some illustrations.

Heritage Hanna-Barbera Animation Auction

A few comic art pieces in this auction, there are a Flintstones illustration a 1962 Sunday strip, a 1971 Sunday strip, a daily is going up, a big set of animation designs by Doug Wildey, a Yogi Bear Sunday.

Heritage Charity Auction

A few nice pieces. A Batman illustration by Cliff Chiang, a Hulk Vs. Wolverine commission by Hardman, this Power Rangers cover by John Heebink is going really high, I don’t think I’m ready for Power Rangers nostalgia collectors…

A Snow White commission by Adam Hughes, a Superman page by Jurgens/Sienkiewicz and a painted Superman pinup by Sienk, a Star Wars cover by Aaron Kuder, a top Hellboy cover by Mignola, a Green Lantern cover by Nowlan, a Punisher cover by Shalvey.

See you next week!!

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Original Comic Art Tips #316 – October, 20 2023

Welcome! a few nice pieces here and there, but no big auctions this week.

For the Italian friends: I’ll be in Lucca Comics from Tuesday to Thursday, and for the first time since the ’90s I’ll stay inside the walls for the night, so if somebody wants to meet for a drink or dinner reply and let me know!

Original Comic Art Auction Results

eBay: $3,5k (Best Offer) for an early Cerebus page, $3,5k for the Green Lantern DPS by Doug Mahnke, $3k for a Hulk page by Sal Buscema, $2,2k for the Power Girl cover by Gary Frank, $2,2k for a Superman cover by Dale Eaglesham, $2,2k for the Flash cover by Ryan Sook.

$2k for a very nice Captain Marvel page by Schaffenberger, $1,6k for a TMNT cover by Federico Mele, $1,5k for a Superman sketch by Jim Lee, $1,5k for an Hellboy page by Fegredo.
$1,3k for a Dark Shadows page by Ken Bald, $1,1k for an Invincible cover by Ottley, $1k for the unfinished Liberty Meadows strip by Frank Cho.

Very good deal for this Pogo Sunday strip, sold for $800, $850 (B.O.) for a Superman page by Swan, only $500 (B.O.) for this very nice Red Sonja cover by Joyce Chin.

Heritage Weekly Auction: $3,5k for the Dracula page by Mignola, $3k for a Flash page by Infantino, $3k for a MAD fold-in by Jaffee, very high $2,3k for a 1956 Dick Tracy daily.

$2k for a Red Sonja page by Thorne, $1,5k for a Punisher splash by Steve Dillon, $1k for a Wash Tubbs daily by Crane.

Catawiki Auctions: €600 for a Luis Rojo pinup, €600 for the Keramidas page, €350 for a Modesty Blaise strip by Romero and many low prices: €450 for the Crisse cover, €300 for the Wolverine page by Chaykin, €200 for the Swamp Thing page by Breccia, less than €200 for the page by Meglia.

This Week on eBay

Marvel: a nice Daredevil page by Bob Brown, Wolverine commission by Herb Trimpe, a Hulk page by Gary Frank, a Punisher page by Tom Lyle, a 1995 trading card by Ramos.
A Bishop page by Stroman, a Spider-Man commission by Romita JR, a slabbed Thor sketch cover by Joe Sinnott, a Daredevil sketch by George Perez, a Daredevil commission by Inhyuk Lee.

DC: a JLA page by John Byrne with a good price, a Batman page by Gary Frank, a Superman splash by Segovia, I like this Aquaman commission by Ramona Fradon, a slabbed Wonder Woman sketch cover by Adam Hughes, a full color Superman sketch by Chris Samnee.

A top Battle Chasers page by Joe Mad for sale, yes the price is high. An Invincible page by Ottley, a Vampirella cover prelim by Celina, a Jam sketch page with some top names like Adam Hughes.
Star Trek by John Byrne, a “swimsuit Veronica” sketch by Dan De Carlo, a Youngblood page by Giffen, an early Cavewoman DPS by Root, a Witchblade cover by Michael Zulli.

A 1966 B.C. daily is still with a very low price, a B.C. Sunday, a Christmas cartoon by Misha Richter.

Heritage Weekly Auction

Marvel: a great Conan page by Buscema, Spidey by Saviuk, X-Man by Leonardi, Moon Knight by Texeira, a modern Ghost Rider splash by Saltares, full teams Avengers Vs. X-Men page by Coipel.

DC: a “Superman” cover by Jurgens, a beautiful Sandman illustration by Colleen Doran.

Look at this great Bernet page and this Torpedo pinup, a Starbuck illustration by Chaykin, Hellboy by Fegredo, very nice Skywalker commission by Daniel Warren Johnson.
A funny Garfield strip, a Homer sketch by Groening, a Jeff MacNelly cartoon, an Andy Capp strip, two On Stage dailies, a 1971 Doonesbury.

Catawiki Auctions

A Cocco Bill page by Jacovitti, a Disney cover by Cavazzano, a sketch by Liberatore, a sketch by Manara, a Tex illustration by Ticci.

A sketch by Franquin, an illustration by Loustal, a page by Greg.
Ending tonight a Clara pinup by Bernet, a sketch by Altuna, a nice Modesty Blaise daily by Colvin.

Comiclink Premium Auction

For the first time in 2023 I arrived in time to review the Premium Session. 
A Werewolf pinup by Neal Adams, a Thanos trading card by Simone Bianchi, two Gen13 trading cards by J. Scott Campbell, a very nice Conan page by Alcala, a Thor cover by Frenz.

A Cyclops cover by Jusko, the usual Thanos pages by Ron Lim, look at this Vampirella title page by Maroto, a Silver Surfer cover by Massafera, a Green Lantern cover by Ivan Reis, an early Mage by Wagner.

There are also a Rip Kirby strip by Raymond and a Superman Sunday by Tuska.

Russ Cochran Auction

Some nice pieces this time, we start with an uncredited Batman page by Gil Kane, an early self portrait by Wood, but I can’t tell from the description if it’s original art or not… A Christmas time 1950 Gasoline Alley daily, a Superman page by Doug Mahnke.

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Original Comic Art Tips #315 – October, 13 2023

Welcome! Some record prices at HA, some nice pieces at HA Animation and on eBay.

Original Comic Art Auction Results

eBay: $4,5k for a Batman page with Bane by Jim Aparo, $3,5k for the Goon Vs. Marvel Zombies illustration by Eric Powell, $2,5k for the Jungle Girl pinup by Frank Cho, $2k for a Spirit page by Will Eisner, $2k for a Spider-Gwen sketch cover by Omar Dogan, $1,7k for a Superman page by Wayne Boring.

$1,6k for a Cerebus page, $1,5k for a Batman illustration by Neal Adams, $1,1k for a Batman sketch cover by Tim Sale, $1,1k for a Guardians page by Kevin West, $1k for a Superman page by Jurgens and a Batman commission by Daniel Warren Johnson.

Heritage Weekly Auction: $8k for an Hellboy page by Mignola, $3k for the Daredevil page by Heck, $1,8k for the Batman page by Novick, $1,7k for a Groo page, $1,5k for the Peter Bagge page, $1,6k for a Carol day strip, $1,5k for the Conan page by Buscema, $1,3k for the Dexter cover by Bill Wray, very high (again) $1k for a Garfield daily, $500 for the Avengers page by Coipel.

Catawiki Auctions: €700 was a good deal for the Tintin sketch by Hergé, €650 for the Captain America commission by Romita (?) and McLeod, €500 for the Sempé sketch, €500 for the Crisse page, €300 was low for this cover by Massimo Carnevale, €200 for the Venom sketch by Dell’Otto.

Comiclink Auctions: $2,6k for a Gil Kane page is the top price, $2,3k and $1,7k for rare Dreadstar pages by Starlin, $2k for a Daredevil commission by Maleev, high $2k for an Iron-Man commission by Bob Layton, $1,8k for the Batman commission by Fabok, $550 for the Batman head, $1k for a Spider-Boy page by Mike Wieringo, growing like all of the Amalgam pages.

Then at least 10 pages of low prices, a few were interesting.
$700 for a Lilandra page by John Bolton, $600 for a Hulk page by Starlin, $600 for a Clone Saga page by Tom Lyle, very good $500 deal for this Excalibur page by Leonardi, I forgot to bid on one of these On Stage dailies: $550, $400, $350.

A nice Wolverine page by Bachalo for less than $500, $400 for a Batman storyboard by Alex Toth, a very nice Spidey daily sold for less than $400 (not the $1,5k they go for on eBay…), $350 for a Superman sketch by Darwyn Cooke.
A Batman head sketch by Bruce Timm for $550, 1/3 of the latest prices.

Heritage International Auction: $550k for the two DKR pages by Frank Miller, at $275k each they take the highest spot for panel pages by Miller, $115k is the record for interior Watchmen pages by Dave Gibbons, $57k record price for Enrico Marini.
High $23k for this (perfect) Astro Boy shikishi by Tezuka, high $20k for the Iron Fist origin page by Gil Kane, prices went up again for Excalibur art by Alan Davis, this page was sold for $11k.

Not so high prices for the Ditko Spidey page, $100k, the Asterix page, $93k, $19k for the JLA cover by Dell’Otto, $11k for a Jimmy Corrigan page, $6k for a BWS illustration, $5k for a nice Kirby page, $4,5k for a Moon Knight page by Sienk, $3,5k for a Batman page by Sean Murphy.

Not the best Sunday pages in their runs, but prices stayed low for this Flash Gordon page by Raymond, $42k, this Krazy Kat, $20k, This Tarzan by Hogarth, $19k.

This Week on eBay

Marvel: some ’90s Punisher pages by Doug Braitwaite, Dr. Strange by Isherwood, an Elektra sketch by Sienkiewicz, a Hulk sketch by George Perez, a Spidey cover prelim by JRJR, a Venom Vs. Ninja Turtle pinup by Frank Cho, an X-Men page by Ramos, a Venom page by Bagley, last week’s Werewolf page by Perlin is still going.
For once there’s a REAL production piece for a Conan splash by Rich Buckler.

DC: look at this Power Girl cover by Gary Frank, a Power Girl trading card by Phil Noto, a Joker commission by Tim Sale, a Death commission by Terry Dodson, a slabbed Green Lantern blank by Neal Adams, last week’s Green Lantern DPS by Mahnke is still going.

An Invincible page by Ottley, Stan Sakai is selling a couple Usagi pinups one, two.
Very rare, an unfinished Liberty Meadows strip by Frank Cho, a cover prelim by Celina, Mage by Matt Wagner, a Hellboy page by Fegredo, a Chun Li commission by Artgerm.

A B.C. Sunday, a Walking Dead page by Adlard, a Cheech Wizard sketch by Vaughn Bodé, a cartoon by Virgil Partch, a rare cartoon by Russell Patterson, look at this beautiful illustration by Marty Links, a Corrigan daily by Williamson.

Heritage Weekly Auction

Marvel: a Red Sonja splash by Thorne, a Conan page by Kane, a Punisher splash by Dillon, an Inhumans DPS by Pacheco, a Thing splash by Liefeld.

DC: a Wonder Woman page by Perez, nice pages by Barreto.

A Dracula page by Mignola, He-Man by Timm, some Groo trading cards.
A 1934 Wash Tubbs daily and a 1963 Buz Sawyer by Crane, a Pogo daily, an Apartment 3G daily.

Catawiki Auctions

A Spidey sketch by Dell’Otto, Kriminal by Magnus, a Tex page by Villa, Tex by Ticci, a Mickey Mouse title splash by Held, a pinup by Lapone, a detailed sketch by Liberatore, a Western page by Serpieri.

A Lucky Luke sketch by Morris, a cover by Crisse, a page by Keramidas.

Nice Crimson page by Carlos Meglia, a Swamp Thing page by Meglia, a Gundam illustration by Katsura, an Andy Capp strip, a Clara pinup by Bernet, a sketch by Altuna.

A Wolverine page by Chaykin, a Captain America sketch by Buscema, Avengers painted by Thony Silas.

Heritage Animation Auction

After looking at 90 pages of non comic-related art I found a few really nice pieces: 
A 1953 Peanuts daily and many sketched books, a painted Treehouse of Horror cover and a Bartman cover by Bill Morrison, a Yogi Bear Sunday, an Adventure Time illustration by Andy Ristaino, a Spider Woman pinup by John Byrne, an illustration by Hideshi Hino, two illustrations by Tony Wong (one, two).

A Naruto sketch by Kishimoto, a Trigun sketch by Nightow, a Vampire Hunter D sketch by Amano.
Then some Tron concept art lots by Moebius, a Simpsons model sheet and a Milhouse concept drawing by Groening.

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Original Comic Art Tips #314 – October, 6 2023

Welcome! A big eBay section, both in results and new auctions.

Original Comic Art Auction Results

eBay: $4,3k for a Superman cover by Gary Frank, $3,3k for the Living Mummy splash by Val Mayerik, $1,8k for the Flash cover by Howard Porter, $3k for the Fantastic Four page by Buckler, $2,2k for a Hawkshaw the Detective Sunday.

$1,4k for a Usagi pinup by Stan Sakai, $1k for a TWD page by Adlard and a Superman page by Garcia Lopez, $900 for a Spidey title page by Jim Mooney, a Wolverine commission by Adi Granov and a Popeye Sunday by Sagendorf, $800 for a Batman commission by Alex Maleev.
$1,8k (Best Offer) for a sketch cover by Omar Dogan, $1,5k for a commission.

Look: a limited, signed copy of “The Studio” was sold for $8k.
Look2: a redemption trading card that you can use to win a prelim was sold for $1,8k.

Fake town: a Batman painting by “bob kane” was sold for $1k. I remember the name of the “certifier” was the account famous in the early 00’s for selling peanuts sketches made with wax pastels, do you remember them?. Seems an example of a forged piece changing hands many years after the fact.

Another Batman pinup sold for $2k was probably not drawn by Kane, like everything he produced, but the lettering style and signature look real, so at least he signed it.

Our friendly forger sold the awful “byrne” art for a very high $1,7k, the sketchbook full of badly drawn sketches for $800.

Heritage Weekly Auction: $5k for the Nemesis art by Kevin O’Neill, $4k for a Batman cover by Ryan Brown, $3,8k for the cover prelim by Alex Ross, $3,6k for the Superman page by Bogdanove, sold a year ago for $4,8k. $3,6k also for the Superman cover by Gary Frank, $3,2k for the Batman page by Newton, $1,5k was not high for the vintage Spidey page by Bagley, $500 was low for the Gambit page by Lee Weeks.

Catawiki Auctions: €1,9k for a 1993 Garfield daily, one of those regular strips sold every week on HA for $400… nothing more. I just gave you an idea for flipping some orange cats.
€900 for a Juan Jimenez page, €850 for the Corben illo, €750 for a Ranxerox sketch by Liberatore, €700 for a Manara sketch (not 100% sure about its originality), €400 for the Dylan Dog page by Roi, €250 for the nice Axa strip by Romero, only €50 for this Tex page by Carnevale.

This Week on eBay

Marvel: a Werewolf page by Perlin, some nice Guardians pages by Kevin West: one, two, three, a slabbed Thor sketch cover by Simonson, a big Goon Vs. Marvel Zombies commission by Eric Powell.
Look at this Wolverine splash by Joshua Cassara, a Nick Fury page by Sean Philips and Sienk, a vintage Spidey commission by Frenz.

DC: Infinity Inc. by McFarlane, a Flash title page by Butch Guice, a Green Lantern double splash and a Superman page by Doug Mahnke, a Flash cover by Ryan Sook, look at this Rorschach cover by Ken Lashley.

A slabbed Batman sketch cover by Tim Sale, a full figure Robin blank sketch by Frank Miller, a Zatanna prelim by Alex Ross, a Batman commission by Daniel Warren Johnson, a Batman commission by Jae Lee, a Lucifer illustration by Scott Hampton.

A Jungle girl pinup by Frank Cho is going high, Cerebus page, a top Elric page by P. Craig Russell, a Transformers sketch by DWG, a Marv blank cover by Frank Miller, a Strangers in Paradise commission by Terry Moore, a detailed prelim by Adam Hughes, a slabbed Michonne sketch by Ryan Ottley.

A Wizard of ID daily, a B.C. Sunday.

Heritage Weekly Auction

Marvel: a very nice Conan page by Buscema, look at this Daredevil page by Don Heck, a four page lot of modern X-Men pages by John Byrne, a painted Fantastic Four page by Villagran, Avengers by Coipel, Morbius by Butch Guice, a great Captain America page by Steve Rude.

DC: Batman by Novick, two Shadow pages by Chaykin, a vintage Shadow sketch by Kaluta, a Dexter’s Lab cover by Bill Wray.

A Hellboy page by Mignola, Frankenstein by Neal Adams, some great Groo pages by Aragones, a 1986 Peter Bagge page, a funny Garfield daily, an Archie Sunday by Montana, a nice Carol Day strip.

Catawiki Auctions

Nice pages by Crisse and Seron, sketches by Sempe, Hergé, Morris, a panel by Lauzier.

A cover by Manara, a Necron splash by Magnus, a page by Gattia, a cover by Massimo Carnevale, a pinup by Lapone.

Advertised as a Captain America pinup by John Romita with Bob McLeod inks, I can’t be sure this wasn’t lightboxed…
An Invincible blank sketch by Ottley, a Venom sketch by Gabriele Dell’Otto, an Andy Capp strip and a page by Repetto.

Comic Link Auction part 2 of 2

Mostly commissions and sketches in the second half of the pages. There are a Spider-Boy page by Mike Wieringo and a Werewolf page by Ron Wilson, then a Moon Knight by Dell’Otto, a full body Batman and a Batman bust by Fabok, Batman head sketches also by Timm and Coipel, a Batman sketch by Jock, Swamp Thing by Kyle Hotz, Daredevil by Maleev, Harley and Ivy by Phil Noto, Catwoman by Stelfreeze.

HA Garbage Pail Kids Auction

Three original art pieces in this auction: Doll-Inquent, Buggy Betty, Matt Rat.

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Original Comic Art Tips #313 – September, 29 2023

Welcome! Another week full of different (and big) auctions, it took me a lot to look at everything.

Original Comic Art Auction Results

eBay: $4k for the Ms. Marvel splash by Jim Mooney, $2,5k and $1,6k for two pages from The Silencer #1 by JRJR, at the same time a Spidey sketch by JRSR was sold for $2,5k, $2,2k for the Flash Gordon sketches by Williamson/Frazetta, $2,2k for the Black Panther cover by Paul Renaud, $2,5k for 17 Daniel Warren Johnson pages seems a good deal…

$2,1k for the Superman page by Plastino, $1,8k for a Superman cover by Ken Lashley, $1,5k for a Prince Valiant page by Murphy, $1,5k for a Groo page by Aragones, $1,2k for an Eternal Warrior illustration by Butch Guice, $1,2k (Best Offer) for an X-Factor page by Jeff Matsuda.

$1k for the 2Face commission by Tim Sale, $1k for the early Adam Hughes pinup, $900 for a Conan page by Buscema, pretty low $800 for the Kane/Wood Green Lantern page.

Heritage Weekly Auction: $6k for a Fantastic Four page and a JLA page by George Perez, $5,5k for the Not Brand Ecch page by Kirby, $3,8k for a Spawn splash by Capullo & McFarlane, $2k for a Spider-Man page by Saviuk.

An unexplainably high price: $2k for a 1990 Garfield daily.

$1,5k for an Avengers page by Opena, $1,1k for a nice Superman title page by Immonen, $1,1k for an historic For Better of For Worse daily. The new price for entry level Conan pages by Buscema/Chan is officially over $1k, it was under $500 less than three years ago.

Last week I wrote that this unsigned cartoon, sold for only $700, looked McKay-esque, many think it is actually an early McKay, and looking at it again it probably is.

Catawiki Auctions: €15k for the Alix page by Martin, €3,7k for a Spirou page by Fournier, €1,3k for the color Blueberry sketch by Giraud.

Bodnar’s Kevin Smith Auction: as you can guess the highest price was for the Daredevil page by Frank Miller, I think the price is before the 18% BP, so it is the new record for Daredevil original art by Miller, at almost $80k.

$30k for a Swamp Thing page may be a new record for Steve Bissette, no time to check prices… $27k for the Daredevil cover by Quesada, I’d give it a higher evaluation. $9k for an interior DD vs. Bullseye page. $20k record for the Mage cover by Matt Wagner, $2,8k for an interior page.
$10,5k for the highest priced Preacher page, $9k for the Green Arrow #1 cover by Wagner, again, not high. $6k for a Sandman page by Kristiansen.

Batman original art by Matt Wagner is usually rare to find, and it always goes high. This auction contained many pages, with a mix of high and affordable prices: $5,5k for a Grendel Vs. Batman splash, $3,5k for a Batman splash, $2,8k for this display ready page, $2,6k for this one.

Speaking of Batman, a Hitman page by John McCrea went for $3,2k, pages by Breyfogle for $2k and $1,6k, high $2,5k for a JLA page by Porter.

The highest price for Green Arrow art by Phil Hester was $4k for this set of two pages with Batman and the Demon, then $1k for a title splash and many very affordable pages, with $850 for a DPS, $400 for an action page and more.

We end with some low priced early Preacher pages: $2k, $2k and $1,4k.

Little Nemo Auction: €3k for a Jacovitti page, €1,2k for the Micheluzzi illustration, €1,3k for a 1940’s Dick Tracy daily, good deal for this other strip sold for €1k. €800 for an Alan Ford page, another good deal, €700 for this Conan page by Buscema, €600 for this and other Namor pages by Jae Lee.

Some high prices for Disney pages: €2,5k for De Vita, €2,3k for Bioletto, €1,3k for Bottaro, €1k for Carpi.

This Week on eBay

Marvel: a Fantastic Four page by Buckler/Sinnott, a Living Mummy title splash by Val Mayerik, a Conan page by Rudy Nebres, a Captain America commission by Steve McNiven, a 9.8 Walt Simonson Thor sketch cover, a 9.8 remarked Silver Surfer cover by Tradd Moore, a Thor sketch by Art Adams, a Spidey cover prelim by Alex Ross.

DC: Wonder Woman by Don Heck, a Superman page by Jurgens, a great Witching Hour page, early Harley appearance by Rick Burchett, a Joker sketch by Brian Bolland.

A Superman cover by Gary Frank, a Flash cover by Howard Porter, Adam Hughes sketches: Batgirl, Zatanna, a Hush book remarked by Jim Lee, a Batman commission by Maleev, a cover quality Sandman piece by Kyle Hotz, a Captain Marvel sketch by Chris Samnee (remember that Chris’s Batober is about to begin…).

A Bloodshot cover by Sean Chen, a Bloodshot DPS by Sal Velluto, an Invincible page and a cover by Ryan Ottley, a Wizard of ID Sunday, a B.C. Sunday, a Hi & Lois daily by Dik Browne, last week’s collection of strips is still going, with a few nice ones added recently.

Beware of the forger, this week he’s selling a “Byrne” X-Men piece, and the sketchbook he was shopping around Facebook groups two weeks ago… look at the sketches, some are well done, others are comical, like the “Wrightson” and the “Ron Lim”.

Heritage Weekly Auction

Marvel: Howard the Duck by Colan, Man-Thing by Perlin, a Conan daily by Chan, Spidey by Saviuk, a 1995 Spidey page by Bagley, Gambit by Lee Weeks, a Swamp Thing commission by Art Adams.

DC: Nice Batman page by Don Newton, one by Novick, ’90s Superman pages by Bogdanove, Jurgens, Morgan, a Superman illustration by Gary Frank, Superman by Immonen, a Superman cover prelim by Alex Ross, a Comedian cover by J.G. Jones, look at this Joker cover by Stokoe.

A Captain Marvel painting by C.C. Beck, a Barney Google Sunday, Some Archie Sunday strips by Montana, a 1990 Phantom Lady by Adam Hughes, a Dredd page by Cam Kennedy, a Nemesis illustration by Kevin O’Neil.

Catawiki Auctions

Two Alan Ford pages by Magnus, a Miki cover and a Tex page by Mastantuono, a Tex page by Carnevale, a Dylan Dog page by Roi, a Mister No cover by Diso, a Ranxerox sketch by Liberatore.

A nice page by Altuna, a top AXA strip by Romero.
A Batman page by Tom Mandrake, a Garfield daily, an Andy Capp daily,

A page by Pierre Seron, a page by Shintaro Kago.

Heritage International Auction

Let’s put together the top pieces: a Spidey page by Ditko, an Asterix page, two Dark Knight pages by Miller, X-Men by Byrne, a top Tezuka page, a Flash Gordon Sunday by Raymond, a Spidey page by Romita, a BWS illustration, a Tintin illustration, a Watchmen page, Modeste et Pompon by Franquin.

Really many pieces by Moebius, look at this page.
A page by Gibrat, many Metabarons pages, an Undertaker page by Meyer.

A Scorpion cover by Marini, a page by Crepax, a JLA cover by Dell’Otto.

A Dredd page by Bolland, many pages by Ezquerra, a Tank Girl cover by Hewlett.

Fantastic Four by Kirby, Captain America by Colan, top Excalibur pages, Hulk by Keown, great Avengers piece by Alex Ross, Daredevil by Mazzucchelli, Batman by Murphy.
A Jimmy Corrigan page, a Strangers in Paradise cover, many Don Rosa pages.

Great Bringing Up Father Sunday, a Felix the Cat Sunday, a Tarzan Sunday by Hogarth, a Krazy Kat Sunday, a 1933 Blondie Sunday.

Comic Link Auction part 1 of 2

Early Madman by Allred, Wolverine by Bachalo, Batman pages by Balent, Breyfogle, Finch, Doom by Simone Bianchi, look at this Medusa page by Blevins/Williamson, Lilandra by Bolton, Spidey by Sal Buscema, X-Men by Cassaday, Cable by Churchill. 

A Superman blank by Darwyn Cooke, a Deathlok splash by Cowan, a beautiful Gil Kane page, Excalibur by Leonardi, some rare Dreadstar pages by Starlin.

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Original Comic Art Tips #312 – September, 22 2023

Welcome! A really busy week: many records at HA, a long eBay section, the great Kevin Smith collection and something for all tastes.

Original Comic Art Auction Results

eBay: $19k for the 1972 Peanuts daily, it will probably be the highest price of 2023.
$2,6k for the Witchblade page by Michael Turner, $2k for a Wrightson illustration, $2k for a cover quality Hulk Vs. Spidey commission by Bagley, $2k for Superman and Batman head sketches by Kevin Nowlan (aren’t his commission prices much lower?), $2k for a Dracula title page by Colan.

$1,8k for the Spidey sketchagraph by John Romita, $1,8k for a cover layout by Kevin Eastman, $1,6k for a Thunder Agents page by Wally Wood, $1,6k for a Bloodshot cover by Vosburg, $1,5k and $1k for the Man-Thing pages by Starlin, $1,3k for the Pogo Sunday strip.

Good deals on the Bronze Age Marvel pages: $700 for Ghost Rider by Perlin, $600 for Morbius by Redondo, $550 for Avengers by Milgrom, $350 for The Thing by Ron Wilson.

The fake Yellow Kid sketch was sold for $5,5k (after selling for $5,2k last week) is it the record price for forged original comic art?

Heritage Weekly Auction: $5k for the Batman cover by Maleev, same price for the James Stokoe Batman illustration and the Daredevil costume design by Wood. $3,5k for a Wolverine cover by Asrar, $2,7 for an Avengers page by Pacheco.

Heritage Signature Auction: not a world record, but an Heritage record with $312k for a Flash Gordon page by Alex Raymond (the first Flash Gordon strip was sold for $480k in 2020). Many high prices for Golden Age original art, an early and rare Batman cover sold for $270k represents a record for both Fred Ray and Jerry Robinson, $180k for a Captain Marvel cover is a new record for Jim Starlin, and Al Milgrom, and the first Starlin cosmic piece to go over $100k.

$150k record for Mort Meskin with a Golden Age DC cover, $114k for a cover by Dave Stevens, Star Wars covers always make record prices for artists who drew them, this time Rick Hoberg enters the 100k club with this cover sold for $102k. $102k also for the cover to X-Men #200 by JRJR, $102k is instead a little low for a Conan cover by Barry Smith, sold in 2019 for $90k+.

$78k is a record for Keith Pollard, with the cover to Thor #300, record price for Ryan Stegman with $28k for the cover to Carnage #1, $18k record price for Claudio Castellini and a Marvel Vs. DC cover.

You probably remember that I always found weird that the highest prices for Archie comic art, a children comic, were for “swimsuit” Betty & Veronica pinups. This time a Veronica cover by De Carlo went for $16k.
Is $12k a record for Olivier Coipel? It seems low but I don’t remember. Record for Chris Samnee at $8,5k.

There were also many low prices, as it happened in the last few months, with the hope to go down near 2019 price levels, but this newsletter is already too long…

Comiclink Auction: I can’t seem to not miss the “premium session”… but this time it wasn’t really premium, just a few nice pieces. Top price was $5,3k for a page from Strangers in Paradise #1, some more Thanos Quest pages by Ron Lim, $3,5k for this one. $2,8k for a Moon Knight page by Sienkiewicz, $2k for a Vampirella splash by Pepe Gonzales, $1,6k for a Cosmic Odyssey page by Mignola.

$2,1k for this Spidey page by Chris Bachalo, I own the page next to this one and valued it $800 until yesterday…

Some good deals, like $850 for this Spider-Man sketch by John Romita, $700 for a Conan page by Buscema, $700 for a Namor page by Colan, $400 for a Batman page by Nolan.

This Week on eBay

Marvel: Conan by Buscema, look at this Ms. Marvel title splash by Jim Mooney (with De Zuniga not Sinnott), a very nice Nick Fury commission by Joe Sinnott, ’90s style Ghost Rider page by Giarrano, a Magneto page by Kelley Jones, a Spidey page by Todd Nauck, a Cyclops commission by Bachalo.

DC: 1-2-3… run to buy this really low priced Kane/Wood Green Lantern page.
a Canary/Arrow page by Dan Spiegle, a 1955 Superman page by Plastino, one by Boring, Superman by Swan, Superman by Saviuk.
A Flash cover by Howard Porter, I like this Two Face commission by Tim Sale (bidders are liking it too), a Swamp Thing illustration by Frank Cho, Demon Vs. Lobo page by Semeiks, a Supergirl splash and a very nice Batgirl page by Greg Land.

A Set of CGC 9.8 Watchmen sketch covers by Gibbons: Comedian, Smiley, Rorshach, Dr. Manhattan.

A nice 1989 commission by Adam Hughes, a page of Williamson/Frazetta Flash Gordon studies, a Jabba page by Gulacy, some big lots of free ’90s sketches, this set has a Michael Turner and other big names, this set has Amanda Conner, Deodato and Joshua Middleton, this set has a detailed Daredevil commission by Leonardi, a Jungle Girl pinup by Gary Frank, Mage by Wagner, a ZOT page, a 1950 Western cover by Bolle.

A big collection of strips for sale: multiple Hagar, Judge Rummy, Shoe dailies, multiple daily and Sunday Beetle Bailey strips, a Popeye by Zaboly, a Smokey Stover Sunday a Gaar Williams panel and more.

Heritage Weekly Auction

Marvel: Conan by Buscema, Not Brand Ecch by Kirby, more Daredevil prelims by Wood, Spidey by Saviuk, a nice Daredevil commission by Allred, Avengers by Opena.

DC: Superman by Kane, JLA by Perez, a Superman splash by Ordway, a Superman splash by Immonen, there’s also a nice page. Incredible Batman illustration by Shawn McManus, a Dr. Manhattan cover by P. Craig Russell.

A Spawn splash by Capullo, a Concrete illustration, look at this beautiful McKay-esque cartoon, three Green Berets strips by Kubert, a top Juliet Jones Sunday, a Ben Casey daily, a funny Garfield, a Heatcliff panel by Gately.

Catawiki Auctions

A Corto Maltese strip and a very nice page by Hugo Pratt, western page by Sergio Toppi, Petra Cherie page by Micheluzzi, a Ken Parker page by Milazzo, Dylan Dog by Roi, a Kriminal page by Magnus, a small illustration by Gipi.

A Corto Maltese sketch by Bastien Vives, the Blueberry sketch by Giraud is ending tomorrow.

I like this manga cover illustration, there are also two Gundam pages,

A Batman commission by Khoi Pham, a Captain America commission by Michael Golden, a Catwoman commission by Jorge Jimenez, a full team Futurama sketch by Bill Morrison.

BD Encheres Auction

Top pieces by Giraud, Weinberg, Jidehem, Malik, Moebius, Batem, Hermann, Mourier, Delaby, Zep.
Then Macherot, Swolfs, Dany, Guarnido.

Bodnar’s Kevin Smith Auction

The personal collection of Kevin Smith, he’s auctioning some top (mostly DC) pieces and some of the best art from comics he’s written.
There are multiple pages from the same comics, so you can hope to get one for a lower price.

Many Preacher pages, never seen so many, here’s a page from #3 and one from #10, many by John McCrea, here’s Hitman and Batman, many from Matt Wagner, look at this Batman splash, early Mage, a painted Mage cover. A couple Batman pages and a DPS by Tim Sale and a couple by Breyfogle.

Some Sandman pages here’s Mark Hempel, a Starman cover by Tony Harris.
Marvel pieces are a Daredevil cover and a page by Joe Quesada and a Daredevil page by Frank Miller.
If you were a fan of Kevin Smith’s Green Arrow this is the right time to buy original art, there are most of the Matt Wagner painted covers, here’s #1, and dozens of great Phil Hester pages.

Little Nemo Auction

A beautiful illustration by Micheluzzi, many Jacovitti pages, a full Kriminal issue by Magnus and many (mostly high priced) strips like this 1940 Dick Tracy.

Then a big selection of classic Disney pages: Scarpa, Bioletto, Bottaro, Carpi, De Vita.

A Peanuts Sunday at a random auction house is still low.

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Original Comic Art Tips #311 – September, 15 2023

Welcome! Many top results and some nice bronze age Marvel pages on eBay.

Original Comic Art Auction Results

eBay: $14k (Best Offer) for a beautiful Preacher cover for Wizard by Glenn Fabry, $3,5k and $2k for two Wonder Woman pages by George Perez, $3,5k for a cover by David Mack, $3k for a ROM splash by Sal Buscema, $3k for the Superman DPS by Ed McGuinness, a bit high for Clark having a bath…

$2k for a Thor sketch cover for charity by Walt Simonson, $1,8k (B.O.) for a Captain America advertising pinup by John Romita, $1,6k (B.O.) for a girl pinup by Bruce Timm, $1,5k is a bit low for this 1996 Hellboy commission by Mike Mignola, $1,5k for the Soulfire page by Michael Turner, $1,5k for a rare Charlie Chan daily by Andriola.

$1k for a commission of The Boys by Russ Braun, $1k for a Thunderbolts cover by Mark Bagley. The Namor page by John Byrne stayed low at $700, maybe because as I suspected it is one of those pages photocopied on DuoTone paper to add greytones? Low $750 for a Hagar Sunday by Dik Browne.

A reader made me notice that the Dale Keown cover was really a print listed as original art, it went low at $2,5k, but a dealer at the same time has the original for sale at $6k.

Usually fake sketches end below what the real original art would go for, this time the 100% fake Yellow kid sketch went for $5,2k, but don’t worry, it is for sale again.

Speaking of fake sketches, the Charlie Brown sold last week for $1,8k and quickly put for sale again is ending tonight and it seems to stay lower… Meanwhile, the forger is ready for the next auctions: yesterday he posted on a Facebook group purposely blurry pictures of Batman sketches freshly drawn (by him), probably with the intent of legitimizing them.

Heritage Weekly Auction: $11k for a Legion page by Giffen, $7k for Blade Runner by Williamson, very high $6k for the Hulk page by Trimpe, $5k for the page by Alex Toth, $4,5k for the JLA page by Jim Lee. High prices for Golden Age pages, this one went for $3,8k, $3k for a Spidey page by Sal Buscema, $3k for the Batman prelim by Alex Ross, $2k for the Spidey splash by Saviuk.

Catawiki: €850 for a Chic Bill page by Tibet, €500 for an Axa page by Romero.

Septimus Auction: €9k for the Blueberry page, €4k for a cover prelim by Vance, €3k for a top page by Ledroit, €1,9k for the Liberatore page, €1,7k for a Marsupilami sketch by Franquin.

Hero Initiative Charity Auction: Incredible $20k for the Thor piece by Walt Simonson, $6k for the Hela cover by J. Scott Campbell, a little less for the Bloom County daily, $3,2k for the Batman pinup by Kelley Jones, a commission of this quality would go for less than half this price,  $3k for Conan by Mark Schultz, $2,8k for a Superman sketch by Frank Quitely, $2,6k for a cover quality X-Men piece by Nick Bradshaw, $2k for a Swamp Thing illustration by Rick Veitch, $1,6k for Don Rosa, his commissions always go for two times the price he would ask you.
Good deals: $600 for a Robin piece by Gene Ha, $800 for a Darth Vader by Greg Hildebrandt, $1,8k for a Green Lantern cover by Kevin Nowlan.

This Week on eBay

The 1972 Peanuts daily is ending tonight and still low at $10k.

Marvel: very nice Ghost Rider page by Perlin, Conan by Buscema, Man Thing pages one and two by Jim Starlin, Werewolf Vs. Morbius by Redondo, an Avengers page by Milgrom/Sinnott, a Thing page by Ron Wilson, a War of the Worlds title splash by Yong Montano. A Spider-Man Sketchagraph by John Romita.

I like this 1994 Spidey page by Scott Kolins, a cover quality Galactus commission by Ron Frenz, a Moonstar commission by Art Adams, a Black Panther cover by Paul Renaud, a Wolverine sketch card by Adam Kubert, a Doom sketch by Jim Lee.

DC: very nice Zatanna page by Don Heck, a Batman page by Matt Wagner, a Superman/Wonder Woman pinup and a Batman pinup by Ed Benes, a Batman page by Risso, a Deadman prelim and a Wonder Woman prelim by Garcia Lopez, a 1987 Batman/Catwoman commission by Butch Guice.

A Fables page and a nice Death pinup by Mark Buckingham, Death by Brereton, Doom Patrol page by Richard Case.

Look at this top Witchblade page by Michael Turner, a Gen 13 sketch cover by J. Scott Campbell, Wolfman by Gary Frank, a Zot page by Scott McCloud, Aliens by Lan Medina, a Crow commission by James O’Barr,
A Pogo Sunday and some dailies, a funny B.C. Sunday.

Heritage Weekly Auction

Marvel: a Daredevil costume sketch by Wally Wood, a Spidey page and a splash by Saviuk, a Spidey page by Alan Davis, an Avengers page by Pacheco, a Wolverine cover by Mahmud Asrar, an X-Men page by Simone Bianchi, a Thor page by Coipel.

DC: JLA by Sekowsky, JLA by Dillin, a Superman daily by Delbo, Wonder Woman by Estrada, a Batman commission by Art Adams, a Batman illustration by Gabriele Dell’Otto, a Batman bust by Fabok, a Batman cover by Maleev, a Batman/Spawn cover prelim by Sean Murphy, a Batman pinup by Stokoe.

A Tarzan illustration by Neal Adams, a pinup panel by Dan De Carlo and a Betty & Veronica illustration, a 1989 TMNT page, an Invincible page by Ottley, a 1940 Blondie daily.

Catawiki Auctions

Top pages: a painted Blueberry sketch by Giraud, a page painted by Juan Gimenez, a Yakari cover, a Spirou page by Fournier, an Alix page by Martin, a Papyrus page, a Ric Hochet illustration by Tibet.

Sketched books by Delaby, Giraud, Mezieres, Francq.

A Druuna page by Serpieri, Jack Kirby portrait by Lapone, Lo Sconosciuto by Magnus, Tex by Ticci one and two, a Paperinik page by Freccero.

A Will Eisner drawing, a page by E. Breccia, a page by Don Lawrence.

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Original Comic Art Tips #310 – September, 09 2023

Welcome! a day late this week, look at the high results and the many top pieces at eBay.

Original Comic Art Auction Results

eBay: $3,6k for a G.I. Joe page by Marshall Rogers, $2,2k (Best Offer) for an Aliens cover by Geof Darrow, $2,5k for a TMNT cover by Santolouco, $1,5k for a Red Sonja commission by Marc Silvestri.

Somebody sold several Rob Liefeld pieces last week. $1,8k for a Wolverine/Cable pinup, $1,2k for a Snake Eyes cover, $1,3k for a Deadpool sketch cover.

$1,3k for a vintage Batman sketch by Todd McFarlane, $1,3k for a Spidey cover by Mark Bagley, $1,1k for a 1939 Terry daily by Caniff.
A reader listened to my advice and purchased the Spider-Man page by John Byrne for $1,1k. It’s a great deal for a modern page, even better considering the price for vintage Spidey pieces. I know it was bought by one of you because I received a $30 commission from eBay… thanks!

$1k for a Harley pinup by Marini, $1k for a Wonder Woman page by Delbo, $900 for the Punisher page by John Buscema.

The FAKE Peanuts piece was sadly sold for $1,7k, much less than an original one would go, but still a lot of money to waste. By the way it’s for sale again, so I hope the buyer recognized it was fake once received and sent it back. Write down the seller name and remember not to buy from him.

Heritage Weekly Auction: $4k for the Boys’ Ranch page by Kirby, $3,5k for the Sal Velluto Black Panther DPS, $3k for the Thanos cover by Geoff Shaw, $2,5k for a Spawn DPS by Jason Alexander. only $500 for a Batman page by Colan.
Usually Casey Ruggles strips go pretty low, but an exceptional piece makes $2,6k.

Catawiki: €550 for the Ranxerox sketch by Liberatore.

Comiclink Featured Auction: $220k for the Spider-Man cover by Romita, sold in 2020 for $96k, this Daredevil splash by Wood remains the highest price for Wood interior art at $110k. $70k for a Conan cover by Barry Smith, would you believe that the highest price paid for a Batman panel page by Neal Adams is only $25k?
$18k for a page from TWD #1 by Tony Moore.

There were also many low or relatively low prices, like the $50k paid for a top Spidey page by McFarlane, $27k for a Batman/Superman cover by Jim Lee, low prices for Lee continue with $11k for an X-Men page and $2k for a Punisher.

I really can’t understand why this Thor cover by Kane/Romita went for only $25k, $23k for a Captain America DPS by Kirby, $18k for the title splash to Avengers #12 by Heck, Fantastic Four title splashes by Buscema and Perez went for $15k and $11k, $12k for an early Deadpool page by Liefeld.

$10k for a Peanuts daily, $4k for a Moon Knight page by Sienk, $4k for a Witchblade page.

Mandarake Auction: $15k for a Totoro sketch by Miyazaki in very bad conditions, then some very rare pieces by Leiji Matsumoto: some published Captain Harlock original pages like this one, sold for $15k, and a Galaxy Express 999 splash, sold for only $2,8k.

This Week on eBay

Marvel: an Iron-Man page by Luke McDonnell, an X-Men cover by Dale Keown, a Cable commission by Daniel Warren Johnson, a Daredevil sketch by Paolo Rivera, the blueline inks to a Fantastic Four cover by JRJR, a Thor page by JRJR, Captain America by Tom Mandrake.

A Namor page by John Byrne. I don’t know if it’s pen and ink or is from one of those issues where he copied the line art on duo shade board for the grey tones, you should do your research before bidding…

DC: Lois Lane by Werner Roth, nice and cheap Aquaman page by Don Newton, a rare Wonder Woman page by George Perez, look at this 1984 Batgirl pinup by Totleben, a Superman DPS by Ed McGuinness, a Batman page prelim by Sean Murphy, a Harley sketch cover by Amanda Conner, a slabbed Rorshach sketch by Gibbons.

A 1996 Hellboy sketch by Mike Mignola, a Soulfire page by Michael Turner, a very nice pinup sold by Budd Root, a Spawn splash by Fernandez, an illustration by Tim Truman, Tarzan by Gary Frank.

Star Trek by Byrne, a Goon page by Eric Powell, a SCUD page by Schrab, a Bloodshot cover by Sal Velluto, Mage by Matt Wagner.

Two top strips: a 1972 Peanuts strip and a Hagar Sunday by Dik Browne, a B.C. daily. Pretty easy to see that this Yellow Kid drawing is fake, but it’s going up in price.

Heritage Weekly Auction

Marvel: Conan by Buscema, Hulk and a top Spidey by Sal, Planet of the Apes by Ploog, Hulk by Trimpe, a Blade Runner page by Williamson, Fantastic Four by Byrne, a vintage Spidey page by Bagley, What The? by Liefeld, a Spidey splash by Saviuk, a Prowler splash by Reinhold.

DC: a Superman strip by Delbo, House of Mystery by Alex Toth, some great romance pages by Bob Oksner, a Superman DPS by Butch Guice, a Superman page by Jurgens, a Death Metal DPS by Tony Daniel, a Superman page by Gary Frank, a full team JLA page by Jim Lee, a Batman cover by Scott McDaniel, a Batman cover prelim by Alex Ross.

A Groo page by Aragones, an illustration by Peter Bagge, a 1994 L&R page by Jaime Hernandez, beautiful gag cartoons by Henry Boltinoff and Mort Walker, a 1948 Dick Tracy daily and a 1976 Heathcliff Sunday.

Catawiki Auctions

Pages by Remacle, Tibet, a sketch by Sempé, a cover by Wasterlain, a sketched book by Will.

A Satanik title splash and an Alan Ford page by Magnus, very nice Jacovitti illustration, a Bonvi sketch, a pinup by Manara, pages by Micheluzzi, Tacconi, Asteriti, an illustration by Di Gennaro.

A sketch by Gabriele Dell’Otto, a cover prelim by Esad Ribic, a Lex Luthor page by Castellini, a Joker sketch by Sean Murphy, a Wonder Woman page by David Finch. Pages by Breccia and Romero.

Heritage Signature Auction part 2: Pages and illustrations!

Heck and Wood made a great team on Avengers, Fantastic Four (and a LOT of other pages like this Black Panther splash) by Kirby, Great Avengers original art by Neal Adams, a Mary Jane page by Romita, Silver Surfer by Buscema, Elektra by Miller, Black Spidey by Frenz, a Groo splash, a Spidey splash by Larsen, X-Men by Jim Lee, X-Force by Liefeld.

A Flash title page by Infantino, Swamp Thing by Bissette, and Wrightson, look also at this Bernie illustration. Batman by Bolland, Batman by Sale.

an Early TMNT page, a Tank Girl page, a rare Lou Fine page, Fritz the Cat by Crumb, a pinup by Frazetta.

Septimus Auction

A nice page by Gibrat, a Blueberry page by Gir, several pages by Vance, and hundreds of sketches, here’s a Franquin and a Manara.

There’s a Tintin page by Hergé at Arthema. 

See you next week!!

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Original Comic Art Tips #309 – September, 01 2023

Welcome! a very long end-of-summer issue, with the new Heritage Signature Auction and an incredible Comiclink Featured auction!

Original Comic Art Auction Results

eBay: $2,3k (Best Offer) for two Purgatori pages by Steven Hughes, $1,9k for the Shade page by Chris Bachalo, $1,8k for a Black Canary pinup by Neal Adams, $1,8k for a Batman commission by Marc Silvestri, $1,7k for a Vault of Evil cover by Larry Lieber, $1,6k for the Thor/Thanos commission by Jim Starlin, $1,1k (B.O.) for a Rawhide Kid page credited to Jack Kirby.

This Spider-Man illustration by John Romita was sold for a $11k B.O., but it’s for sale again at $16k…

A 1970 Nancy daily was sold for $2k (7-8 times its actual value), maybe due to the auction title that attracted views..?

$500 paid for the Daredevil page by John Buscema, the Spider-Man commission by JRJR and the Dennis the Menace panel by Hank Ketcham.

Heritage Weekly Auction: almost $20k for the Two in One page by Frank Miller, $11k for the Conan title splash by Buscema, $7k for the Thor page by Starlin, $3k for the Superman page by Byrne, pretty high $2,6k for a sketch cover by Artgerm, not bad $1k for a Spidey 2099 page by Leonardi.

Catawiki: €350 for the Tex page by Carnevale, €300 for the Briganti strip by Magnus.

Nate Sanders Auction: a new auction of Blondie strips, highest prices were $4k for a 1930 Sunday and $3k for a 1932 daily.

This Week on eBay

Marvel: a Punisher Western page and a Conan page by John Buscema, Werewolf Vs. Morbius by Redondo, a Power Man title page by M.D. Bright, a Silver Surfer page by Ron Lim.

Punisher by Tom Lyle, a Sachs commission by George Perez, Captain America Action Figure card art by Ed McGuinness, a Doom sketch and a detailed Daredevil by Jim Lee, a high priced full Spider-Man sketch by John Romita.

The Spider-Man page by John Byrne started at $1,5k BIN and now is down to $1,1k or Best Offer, I’m surprised it’s still there.

DC: I like a lot this Wonder Woman page by Jose Delbo, a Supergirl pinup by Neal Adams, a Superman page by Frank Quitely, a Wonder Woman splash by Doug Mahnke.
A Harley page by Eduardo Risso, a Jimmy Olsen cover remake by Fred Hembeck, a Green Lantern page by Scott McDaniel.

A very rare 1991 Concrete watercolor by Paul Chadwick, a fantasy piece by Gary Frank, great art on this Golden Age Tom Mix page, a Sock Monkey page by Tony Millionaire, a Tim Truman illustration, an Elric page by Russell.

Beware, the forger has returned, this Peanuts piece may seem legit if you don’t zoom in.

Heritage Weekly Auction

Marvel: Spidey by Saviuk, a nice Ghost Rider page by Larroca, I remember seeing this Black Panther DPS by Velluto in another auction not long ago, a Thanos cover by Geoff Shaw.

DC: a Batman page by Colan, a War page by Kubert, Batman by Stelfreeze, a Batman page by Brent Anderson, a Superman page by Byrne.

A Captain Marvel page by Beck, Bull’s Eye by Kirby, He-Man by Timm.
A Juliet Jones Sunday, a 1937 Dick Tracy, a 1950 Archie Sunday, look at this Casey Ruggles daily and this Corrigan daily by Williamson.

Catawiki Auctions

Tex pages by Ticci one and two, a Tex page by Carnevale, Kriminal by Magnus, a nice Ranxerox sketch by Liberatore, the bible by Serpieri, a Blek cover by Mastantuono.

A small painting by Corben, a Batman page by Tom Mandrake, Conan by Grindberg, an X-Men page by Ferry, X-Files by Adlard, a page by Delaby.

Heritage Signature Auction part 1: covers and strips!

Covers:
A Conan cover by Buscema, Hulk by Sal/Byrne, Dr. Strange by Brunner, Captain Marvel by Starlin, many Groo pieces by Aragones, Ghost Rider by Kieth, look at this Mignola/Nowlan cover, Captain America by Zeck, Marvel Vs. DC by Castellini, Avengers by Perez.

Captain America by Samnee, The Marvels by Ross, Venom by Bradshaw, a nice one by Cassaday, X-Men by Coipel.

Some vintage Neal Adams covers, here’s a JLA, Sgt. Rock by Kubert, Wonder Woman by Adam Hughes, Joker by Bermejo, look at this JLA by Mahnke, five connecting Batman covers by Albuquerque, Death Metal by Simone Bianchi.
I’m not usually a fan of very early-pre Image Travis Charest, but I like this cover. Some Preacher covers by Fabry, look at this one.

Flagg by Chaykin, Spawn by Capullo/McF., Spirit by Eisner, an Elric cover.

Strips:
Not the greatest selection ever, but there are a few great pieces, like this Flash Gordon page by Raymond and there are also some top Rip Kirbys, Rarebit Fiend by McKay (no Little Nemos after the bad recent results), not many Peanuts strips, Burma in this Terry daily, a Valiant panel by Foster, a 1921 Gasoline Alley, the best Sky Masters offered in the last 10 years, a Star Wars Sunday by Manning and the usual big batch of Garfield strips.

Comiclink Featured Auction

I arrived in time for the next CL auction… But there’s so much great comic art that I should have started last week and done a two part review. You should really go and browse the entire auction yourself.
The earlier top piece is this 1941 Captain Marvel page by C.C. Beck, then a pre-hero Marvel page by Ditko, a Namor title splash by Colan, a Namor page by Everett. The top Don Heck piece is this Avengers title splash, but I couldn’t leave off this Iron-Man page. Same with Kirby, many top pieces with a Captain America DPS, but my favorite is this Namor page. Early Sgt. Rock page by Kubert, a Spider-Man cover by Romita.

A Batman page by Neal Adams, many John Buscema pages, here’s a Fantastic Four title splash, and here’s one by Perez, many pages by Sal, here’s a classic Nova, a complete Haunted Tank story by Heath, a Thor cover by Kane, a rare Thor page by Simonson.

An X-Men page by Art Adams, but look also at this cover prelim, a nice Fantastic Four page by Byrne, a beautiful Sandman DPS by Kieth, Cloak&Dagger by Leonardi, some McLeod pages from the 1st appearance of the New Mutants, a Batman splash by Newton, Moon Knight by Sienk.

Three top Spidey trading card illustrations by Bagley, an Avengers illustration by Frenz, X-Men by Andy Kubert, X-Force by Liefeld, Thanos by Lim, Spider-Man original art by Todd McFarlane, a Witchblade page by Turner, a Batman page by Tim Sale.

Look: finally a great X-Men page by Joe Mad.

A Storm splash by Bachalo, an X-Men cover by Bradshaw, an Elektra cover by Campbell, a DPS by Greg Land, a TWD #1 page by Tony Moore, an Invincible cover by Ottley, a Batman/Superman cover by Jim Lee.

A good selection of strips, for once: a Peanuts daily, a 1950 Superman Sunday by Boring, a 1989 Opus, a 1972 Prince Valiant page, a Star Wars daily by Manning, a Bringing Up Father Sunday.

See you next week!!

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