Four Original Steve Ditko pages (and Signed Comics) on eBay! – #294

Original Comic Art Tips #294 – May 19 2023

Welcome! A big eBay section, with possibly the biggest non Marvel/DC section ever!

Original Comic Art Auction Results

eBay: $3,1k for the Champions page by John Byrne, the other one went for $2,7k, the Iron-Fist pages for $2,7k, $2,5k and $2,4k. The website disclosing Best Offers is not working anymore, so I can’t tell you the final price for this $5k vintage Spider-Man page by Mark Bagley. If you find a new working website please let me know.

A Frankenstein sketch by Mike Mignola went for less than $2,5k, a page with Batman kissing Wonder Woman by Matt Wagner went for $1k, same price for a Books of Magic cover by Kaluta, $1,5k for a Batman cover remarked by J. Scott Campbell, a Wolverine sketch cover by Jim Lee for less than $2k.
Less than $4k for this Charles Addams cartoon.

Heritage Weekly Auction: $23k for the Silver Surfer cover by John Buscema, the Thor page at $2k and the Conan Annual page at $800 were good deals, a Quasar cover by Mike Manley for $8k, a Wolverine pinup by McFarlane for $6k, a Sentry page by Jae Lee for a very high $5,5k, Deadpool by Joe Mad for $3,8k.

Catawiki: An uncredited top Weapon X page by Adam Kubert was sold for €2,2k. The “expert” wasn’t able to recognize the artist by himself, so he gave it a value of €200…

€650 for a commission by Barbucci, €600 for the Ken Parker page by Milazzo, €550 for the X-Men page by Mike Deodato, €400 for the Silver Surfer page by Ron Lim, €400 for the Red Sonja cover by Elias Chatzoudis, €350 for a Batman page prelim by Sean Murphy, €300 for a Dylan Dog page by Stano.

Comiclink Auction: top spot for an unpublished Black Suit Spidey cover by Richard Howell, sold for $3,7k. With such a low highest price I was already down to $500 at page 3 of 17… so plenty of good deals but not much to see.

Turbo Teens animation drawing by Kirby, sold for $3,4k, $3,1k for a Gen13 trading card by Bruce Timm, $3,1k for a Silver Surfer cover by Paolo Rivera, then down to $1,6k for an X-Men page by Rick Leonardi.

Down to $850 with an Avengers splash by JRJR, a good deal, $750 for a Thor page by Frenz, not bad, I liked this Von Eeden Batman page, sold for $500, $550 for a Spider-Man page by Simone Bianchi, $500 for a Kitty Pryde page by John Bolton, $470 for a Wonder Woman page by Byrne, $400 for a great Ghost Rider page by Ron Wagner.

This Week on eBay

Gary Frank – Incredible Hulk Original Comic Art

Marvel: top piece of the week is this Incredible Hulk page by Gary Frank, believe me when I say that they never come to auction…
Many Ditko pages, a Rom page and an Indiana Jones page (more below), a Rawhide Kid page by Jack Davis, an uncredited Morbius page by Redondo, a Conan page by Chaykin.

A Spidey daily signed (and inked?) by Fred Kida, a Spidey page by Ross Andru.

An Iron Fist commission by Jae Lee, price lowered again on the Longshot page by Art Adams, a Deadpool commission by Rob Liefeld, a Deadpool page by Declan Shalvey.

DC: A Tomahawk page by Frank Thorne, a Supergirl page by Infantino, a Black Canary half splash and a page by Trevor Von Eeden, 1969 Batman page by Bob Brown, The Ray by Howard Porter.

A Skyman page and a The Face page by Ditko. This is something I’ve never seen, but it seems legit. Two comics signed by Ditko to his brother.

Look at this fantasy page by Maroto. Some Charlton pages, The Phantom and Korg by Pat Boyette, Monster Hunters and Scary Tales by Tom Sutton.

Dell’s Ben Hur by Russ Manning, five uncredited Chaykin pages from Warp Special #1.
A 1965 Dondi daily, a B.C. daily, half of a Blondie Sunday, a 1952 Mandrake daily.

Heritage Weekly Auction

Marvel: Conan by Buscema, a Groo illustration by Aragones, ’90s X-Men by Eric Battle and Ian Churchill, a Wolverine DPS by Mike Deodato, a cover prelim by Quesada.

DC: JLA by Buckler, Swamp Thing by Veitch, a Titans cover by Garcia Lopez and one by Bryan Hitch, a Green Lantern splash by Seth Fisher, a Nightwing splash by Tony Daniel.
Hellblazer by Matias Bergara, Invisibles by Jill Thompson.

An American Flagg page by Chaykin.

Catawiki Auctions

A Druuna study page by Serpieri, a Milady page and a model sheet by Magnus, a Pinocchio sketch by Frezzato, a little illustration by Gipi, a page of Dylan Dog prelims by Stano a Tex illustration by Brindisi.

Many Lucky Luke page by Janvier, a Morris homage illustrated by Dany, a Lucky Luke sketch by Morris, a Blueberry sketch by Giraud.

A Spider-Girl page by Frenz/Buscema, a nice page by Enrique Breccia.

Vermot & Associés Auction

Not much to see, many more pages and sketches from the collection of François Corteggiani without proper credit.
Pages by Pichard, Bercovici, Cavazzano, Greg, a Tex page by Colin Wilson and more.

Russ Cochran Auction

A nice Right Around Home page, a full MAD story by Angelo Torres, a Gene Autry illustration by Jesse Marsh, a page of Frazetta sketches with the Death Dealer.

See you next week!!