Original Comic Art Tips #172 – Leonardi, Quesada, Peanuts!

Welcome to #172 of Original Comic Art Tips! don’t forget that the Heritage Signature Auction started yesterday and will go on for the weekend.

Original Comic Art Auction Results

eBay: the Penguin illustration by Jim Lee was sold for $9k, a classic Fantastic Four page by Art Adams for $4k, a Nightstalkers cover by Ron Garney for $3k, a TMNT cover by Peter Laird for a $2,2k B.O., a Ghost Rider cover by Mark Brooks for $1,750, the Hulk page by Gary Frank and a Pogo Sunday for $1,2k.

All of the John Buscema pinups from last week are still going.

This Batman bust by David Finch was sold for $450 and resurfaced quickly for $500.

Heritage Weekly Auction: all of the top prices of the week made me think “that’s a little too much”. The Alex Ross page went for $5,7k, the UK Spidey cover by Ron Wilson for $4k, the Thor page by John Buscema for $3,8k.

Romance pages were (high quality) entry pieces for Alex Toth‘s original art, now a water-damaged page is selling for $2k. I can’t explain why this lot of 2 On Stage dailies with a John Prentice Rip Kirby was sold for $1,4k instead of $600… This Friday Foster daily went for more than $1k, a nicer strip than those recently sold for $200-400, but the jump seems too high.

The original art for a 1989 convention poster drawn by Robb Phipps and signed by con guest Todd McFarlane was sold for $1k.

’70s Flash Gordon strips by Barry and Fujitani have been in every Weekly auction for the last few years, selling for $200, now this Sunday was sold for $1k.

In other news, a very nice Betty Ross splash by John Romita Jr. went for $600, and a Wonder Woman commission by Garcia Lopez for $300.

This week on eBay

Chris Bachalo – Spider-Man Original Comic Art

No new “60 sketches” original art by Jim Lee, this week, but there are a Mr. Freeze commission, one of those tiny Batman commissions, and two 11×17″ sketches of Wolverine and Catwoman.

Some sketches also by Bruce Timm: a Batman head (with a price lower than the latest “drops”), a Black Cat with a useless slab, a Nightwing, and a nice Death.

Marvel: a very nice Spider-Man half splash by Chris Bachalo, a Sleepwalker illustration by Joe Quesada, an original Cable cover by Rob Liefeld (lower than usual starting price), a cover to an Essential Fantastic Four volume by Alan Davis looks way better than the cropped published version, and the price is high.

A 1975 Avengers page and a Werewolf page by George Tuska, a page from the first issue of The Champions by Don Heck, Kraven by Frank Robbins, another classic Star Wars page by Carmine Infantino.

A Hero Initiative sketch card by Walt Simonson is getting a lot of bids.

Captain America and Scarlet Witch commissions by Jim Cheung.

DC: the Dick Giordano and Jim Aparo Batman covers that went unsold a couple of weeks back, are now getting a lot of bids, and the price is getting near the BIN. A nice Batman pinup by Kevin Nowlan, another Black Cat by Lee Elias, a Blue Beetle DPS by Tom Morgan, a Bane commission by David Finch.

A Ghost page by Adam Hughes, Grendel by Matt Wagner, a great Cracked page by Russ Heath, a Dejah Thoris drawing by Mark Brooks.

Strips: I’m tempted to say that (after 100’s of fake Peanuts sketches) this Snoopy may actually be by Charles Schulz. What do you think?

There’s also a 1944 Johnny Hazard daily.

Heritage Weekly Auction

Rick Leonardi – Spider-Man 2099 Original Art

Marvel: the best piece of the week is this Spider-Man 2099 page by Rick Leonardi, very rare to find a good page lately. Also rare is Gene Colan inked by John Romita, here’s a Dr. Strange page. X-Men #30 by Jack Sparling, Conan original art by Frank Brunner and John Buscema, Red Sonja by Frank Thorne, Dazzler Vs. Galactus by Frank Springer.

DC: a Demon cover by John Byrne, a Teen Titans illustration by Barreto, Deadman by Garcia Lopez, a Green Lantern cover by Tyler Kirkham.

Beautiful Astro City prelim by Alex Ross, an early Hate page by Peter Bagge.

Strips: a Heathcliff panel, a nice B.C. daily, a Flintstones Sunday, and a Johnny Hazard Sunday.

Catawiki Auctions

Look at this beautiful Superman cover by Dustin Nguyen, a page prelim by Will Eisner, a Torpedo illustration by Bernet.

A Druuna coloring page by Serpieri, a page by Micheluzzi. A signed print and a Kriminal page by Magnus, Dylan Dog by Raul Cestaro. A Tex sketch by Galep. A Minnie cover prelim by Mastantuono, Phantom Blot by Asteriti.

Swann Auction

As it usually happens at Swann, a classic illustrators auction with some comic art pieces.

A Peanuts daily with a low starting price (based on previous auctions, low prices don’t last till the end…). Five 1933 Felix the Cat Sunday strips, here’s one, a very nice Bringing Up Father Sunday, not the best of Knerr‘s Katzenjammer Kids Sunday strips but with a low starting price.

A funny cartoon by Addams, a rare strip by Feiffer, a Batman page by Irv Novick.

See you next week!!!