Manga Sketches are Worth as Much as a House – #293

Original Comic Art Tips #291 – May 12 2023

Yesterday there were many signups, thanks to Jason for the Facebook post.
“Mass” signups only occur when a reader recommends me to their friends/group/forum. When I do self promo it doesn’t work as well and I only get a handful of subs, so I’m mostly dependant on readers to grow!

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Original Comic Art Auction Results

eBay: $8,5k for the Tank Girl splash by Hewlett, $6,3k for the Thor cover by Andrew Robinson, $5,3k for the Star Wars page by Infantino, $4,6k for the Avengers annual page by Ditko/Byrne.

$3k for a sketch by Frank Frazetta, $2,3k for a weird Marvel cover by Carlos Gomez, $2k for the Charlton page by Ditko, $1,4k for the Phantom pages by Don Newton, $2k for a Superman commission by David Mack.
Cannot show you the Best Offer results this week, cause the website is not working.

Heritage Weekly Auction: $5,2k for the Warlord page by Grell, then the revenge of comic strips, who fill most of the top price spots: $4,3k for the Peter Rabbit Sunday, $3,5k for a Bringing Up Father Sunday, $3,1k for a Juliet Jones daily, $2,9k for a Doonesbury daily, $2,5k for a rare Scorchy daily by Sickles.

$2,6k for a Conan page by Buscema, they continue to grow month after month. $2,3k for Batman original art by David Finch, $2,1k for the Aliens page by Mignola, $1,4k for a Mary Jane commission by Tim Sale. These war time cartoons by Gill Fox usually go for $100, but one with a bit of nudity goes for $1,3k. I think $1,3k is a good price in 2023 for a good Batman page by Steve Rude.

Catawiki: €1,5k for a Tintin sketch by Hergé, €550 and €180 for two Ranxerox sketches by Liberatore, €450 for a signed Alberto Breccia page, €300 for a Modesty Blaise cover and €200 for a strip by Romero.

€330 for a Spider-Man page by Claudio Castellini, €300 for a 100 Bullets page by Risso, €300 for a Silver Surfer page by Ron Garney, €280 for a MAD page by Jack Davis, €260 for a Compagnia Della Forca prelim by Magnus, €240 for a Tex page by Claudio Villa.

A full commission spot by Jim Lee was sold for charity for $26k. More or less the regular price for a commission ordered from Moy.

Mandarake: some more incredible results, compared to other original comic art markets, for shikishi sketches. $117k (yes, $117,000,00) for a 1989 Kiki sketch by Hayao Miyazaki, the all time record is still standing though, with $241k paid for a (more detailed) Nausicaa sketch last year.

$69k for a Goku sketch by Akira Toriyama is probably the new record, at least for what is contained in my archives, last December a full figure Arale sketch went for $60k.
“Only” $14k for a full color Princess Knight page by Osamu Tezuka, if I had the money I’d invest in a top Tezuka piece since he’s less valued than modern artists.
$72k for a Doraemon sketch by Fujiko Fujio, probably another record, I saved a similar sketch sold for $54k.

$35k for a Berserk sketch by Kentaro Miura, $31k for an illustration by Hideo Azuma, $10k for a full color Lupin III cover by Monkey Punch and look at this simple Sazae-San sketch, sold for $7k.

A 1982 Lum sketch by Akemi Takada, went for $9k and a with these prices a $3,5k Shinobu sketch by Rumiko Takahashi seems cheap. For fans of contemporary artists a very detailed Prince of Tennis sketch was sold for $2,5k and a Harley Quinn commission by Peach Momoko went for $200, soon on the flippers’ market 🐬.

This Week on eBay

Mark Texeira – Ghost Rider Original Comic Art

Marvel: Last week’s John Byrne pages are ending tonight, Champions one and two, Iron-Fist one, two, three, Chillers, this week there’s a Spidey page without Spidey but featuring Sandman.

There’s a beautiful Daredevil splash by JRJR, the price is very high.
Look at this Ghost Rider DPS by Mark Texeira.

A Werewolf prelim by Mike Ploog, a painted Black Widow by Mark Beachum, a Jean Grey painted by Thony Silas, a detailed Iron-Man cover prelim by Alex Ross, a Daily Bugle title splash by Alex Saviuk.
Marvel Girls and Avengers commissions by Sienkiewicz.
A color guide for a Jim Lee Punisher page.

DC: A Superman commission by Mike Mignola, a Books of Magic cover by Mike Kaluta, a Batman commission by Sienkiewicz.
A Space 1999 page by Byrne, a B.C. Sunday.

Heritage Weekly Auction

Marvel: A Silver Surfer illustration by John Buscema, then a Thor page and a Conan page. Defenders by Heck, Thor by Frenz, a Wolverine prelim by Todd McFarlane, Spidey by Mooney.
A Moon Knight splash by Sal Velluto, a Quasar cover by Mike Manley, Deadpool by Joe Mad.
A cover by Mahmud Asrar, Strange by Bachalo, Thor by Coipel and Deodato.

DC: Rorshack and Silk Spectre pinups by Tony Harris, Superman by Andy Kubert.
A Peter Rabbit Sunday, a Mel Graff drawn Sunday.

Catawiki Auctions

Mike Deodato Jr. – X-Men Original Comic Art

A Dylan Dog page by Stano, a nice one by Mari, a Tex cover prelim by Ticci, a Ken Parker page by Milazzo, a painted Eura cover by Carnevale, a Nathan Never cover by De Angelis.
An early Manara page, an early Gipi page, a detailed sketch by Bacilieri, a detailed Scorpion prelim by Enrico Marini, a Ekho pinup by Barbucci.

A Demon commission by Giorgio Comolo, a Red Sonja cover by Elias Chatzoudis, an X-Men page by Mike Deodato, one by Greg Land, a Namor page by Breitweiser, an uncredited Gene Colan page.

Comiclink Auction

Nice pieces, considering this is the Focused Auction… but more than half of the lots are cheap sketches.

Many pages by Mark Bagley, most are from the fast growing Ultimate Spidey title, here’s a Doc Ock DPS. Some Byrne pages, here’s electric Superman, some mutant pages by Gene Ha, the usual big batch of animation drawings by Jack Kirby, look at the Turbo Teens, many Spidey pages by Humberto Ramos, I like this one.

Then we have a Darkseid pinup by Bermejo, nice Wonder Woman pages by Bob Brown, Batman pages by Cowan and Von Eeden, a Batman cover by Javier Fernandez, a Flash cover by Rafa Sandoval, Zatanna by Dillin, a DC Universe DPS by Scott McDaniel.
Hey I noticed today for the first time that CL is the most DC-friendly auction house, on HA and eBay I have a difficult time every week to find good DC art.

A Classic X-Men page by Bolton, I like a lot this John Carter splash by Ernie Chan, Defenders by Perlin and Trimpe, Thor Vs. Beta Ray Bill by Bruce Zick, X-Men by Leonardi, a Silver Surfer cover by Paolo Rivera, a Shang-Chi cover by Dike Ruan, an unfinished Daredevil splash by Tim Sale and an X-23 page by Mike Choi.

There’s a Joe Rosas color guide over an X-Men #2 page by Jim Lee.

Urania Auction

Some pages by Dino Battaglia, some by Jacovitti, many by Cavazzano, like this beautiful Asterix homage, many by Magnus, here’s a Milady page.

Then art by Hugo Pratt, a Kriminal cover by Corteggi, Margot by Frezzato, a top cover by Giardino, an illustration by Gipi, a big Pazienza piece, a Tex page by Joe Kubert and a page by Breccia.

Millon Auction

A few pages and many sketches, a Blueberry sketch by Giraud, Lucky Luke by Morris, a rare Barbarella sketch by Forest, XIII by Vance.

There’s a 1960 Peanuts daily at Revere Auctions.

See you next week!!