Many DC Records at HA and Much More – Original Comic Art Tips #272

eBay: $8,7k Best Offer for a Batman splash by Sean Murphy, $6,7k for a Spider-Man cover by Humberto Ramos, $5,5k for a 1943 Superman strip signed by Joe Shuster, the Grifter/Zealot charity illustration by Jim Lee, sold for $12,1k in 2020, went for $6,8k.

$3k for the Venom splash by Mark Bagley, $3k for the Conan splash by Buscema, $1,7k for the Conan page, $2,4k for the Cerebus page, $1k for a Terry strip by Caniff.

Mike Mignola charity art: $990, $940, $827, $1,025 $880, $670, then a BPRD cover went for $6,7k and the Hellboy pinup for $1,6k.

Heritage Weekly Auction: $5,5k for the trading card by Wrightson, $4,8k for the cover, $4,5k for the Batman/Punisher page by Barry Kitson.

$3,8k is a good deal for this Daredevil Vs. Black Panther page by Tuska, $600 for a Fear Itself page by Immonen, $500 for Spider-Girl by Olliffe/Williamson, $350 for this modern but nice Iron-Man page by Frenz/Buscema, $300 for a 1941 Barney Google Sunday.

Catawiki: the page by Sergio Toppi went for €900, a Torpedo illustration by Bernet for €500, a Daredevil illustration by Claudio Villa for only €150.

Heritage Signature Auction: Record price for George Perez with the cover to #195 of JLA sold for $288k, while the cover to #207 went for $132k.

$240k is the highest paid Spider-Man panel page by Steve Ditko, putting it at 4th place in total. Incredible $168k jump for Mike Grell, with an All-Star cover featuring the first appearance of Power Girl, wait to see how it will affect the regular pieces. Record price for Murphy Anderson at $120k, $57k for a “standard” piece by Jim Aparo, Record for Walt Simonson at $39k, $33k for a hard to find Rocketeer page by Dave Stevens, $31k for Ernie Chan, $20k for Jerry Ordway, another hard to find artist. Plenty also of good deals in the other four pages of this auction… I like this Colan at $1,7k, this Sal Buscema at $1,7k, this Don Newton at $1,6k, this Adkins/Wood at $1,3k and this Buckler/Ordway at $1,2k.

Comic Connect Auction: $147k paid for a 8 page Creepy story by Corben, $45k for the Galactus splash by John Buscema, $32k is a very high price for a Spidey panel page by Ross Andru. Black Suit Spidey kissing the Black Cat takes to $21k this Al Milgrom page. $18k is a very high price for a Star Wars page by Carmine Infantino, sold in 2018 for $7,7k, this Spidey splash by JRJR went for $17k, a Swamp Thing color guide by Wrightson went for $6k, a Hate page by Peter Bagge for $1k.

Good deal, $4,5k on this 1965 Iron-Man page by Heck, $2,8k for this She-Hulk/Fantastic Four page by Byrne, $2,5k for this Avengers page by Ditko, $2,3k and $900 paid also for two Machine Man pages. $1,8k for this very nice Machine Man page by Barry Smith.

Daniel Maghen Auctions: €93k for the illustration by Hergé, €55k for the Bilal page, the page by Gibrat doubles the estimate at €40k, €33k for Rosinski, €31k for Juillard, 3 times the estimation, €31k for the cover by Vance, €26k for the Blueberry page by Giraud, €16k for the Murena cover by Delaby, €11k for Serpieri, €10k for Guarnido, €11k for Manara.

Very high results for all of the Ana Miralles pieces, the higher being the cover to T. #3 sold for €68k. High results also for Fournier, with a Spirou cover sold for €26k.

Marvel: a Conan cover by John Buscema, a rare Conan page by Dick Giordano, Shang-Chi by Pollard, a Transformers page by Delbo, a Ka-Zar page by Gil/Mignola, a Thor page by Mark Bright, a Goliath commission by Gene Colan, a Dr. Strange page by Butch Guice.

A Thanos commission and the Thing by Ron Lim, a Guardians page by Kevin West, a Spidey/Punisher page by Scott McDaniel, a 1994 Wolverine trading card prelim by Kent Williams, an X-Men HC with many doodles and signatures by top artists, two X-Statix pages, a page of X-Men prelims by J. Scott Campbell.

DC: a lot of three Swamp Thing pages by Nestor Redondo, a Swamp Thing commission by Bruce Timm, a Creeper transformation page by Dillin, a Superman page by Jim Lee, a Green Lantern cover by Ethan VanSciver. A Book of Magic title splash by Peter Gross.

New charity art from Mike Mignola: Vampires one, two, three and new high end illustrations a Hellboy cover, a sketchbook cover and the art for a print.

A Cannon page by Wally Wood, a commission by James O’Barr.

Look at this 1956 Pogo daily, a Garfield daily, this is a first: somebody took a print of a Garfield strip and added some pencil marks to make it look original art…

Marvel: Namor by Marie Severin, Spider-Man by Andru, Captain Marvel by Wayne Boring, rare Ghost RIder page by Budiansky, Defenders by Heck.

Look at this Daredevil page by Lee Weeks, look at the great cover to Ravage 2099 #1 by Paul Ryan, Silver Surfer and Thanos pages by Jim Starlin, some great Spider-Girl pieces by Frenz/Buscema, like this cover and this splash, Spider-Man by Coipel.

DC: Wonder Woman by Delbo, DC Vs. Marvel by Jurgens, a Deathstroke splash by Cowan/Sienkiewicz, a Dark Knight cover by Tony Harris.

I’m not a fan of Tony De Zuniga as an inker, but he was great as a complete artist, look at this Weird War complete story and this page.

A Freak Show page by Wrightson, many Terry strips by Caniff, a Garfield daily.

I don’t know if you noticed the Understanding Comics pages offered on HA lately. I’m not linking to them because they’re all water damaged (you can look at the archives, almost all of them have blue stains). But the one offered this week is so stained that it looks like an abstract painting and I quite like it.

A color illustration by Sergio Toppi, very nice Ranxerox sketch by Liberatore, a small illustration by Manara, an Alan Ford page and a self portrait by Magnus, a Dylan Dog cover by Roi.

Beautiful Disney title splash by Valerio Held, a Topolino cover by Ambrogio Vergani.

A Batman commission by Gabriele Dell’Otto, a Batman page by Gary Frank, a Thor head sketch by Romita Jr./Janson, a Tor book with a Joe Kubert sketch.

Top piece is this beautiful Sam Pezzo cover by Giardino, a Druuna page by Serpieri, Cocco Bill by Jacovitti. Disney pages by Cavazzano, Bottaro, Carpi, Mastantuono, a cover by Mottura.

A Billy the Mouse strip by Gottfredson, a Spirit illustration by Wenzel/Eisner, a Terry strip by Caniff, Rip Kirby by Raymond, the Newlyweds by McManus.

An illustration by Tabary, a Dr. Who page by Gibbons, a great Blueberry sketch by Giraud, a detailed sketch by Will and an Asterix sketch by Uderzo.

The number of new auctions is growing constantly, I have reviewed up to 10 different auctions in a single week, and considering that I browse each one twice (preview and results), I need more than 8 hours now to compile each newsletter. I don’t have that much spare time but, being a freelancer, I’m able to use some of my working hours, so much so that Friday afternoons are spent to finish these emails.

This premise was to announce that months ago I started experimenting with eBay affiliate links, to (partially) pay myself for the lost hours of work. If you find what I do useful, you can now make me a gift without spending a cent: if you intend to buy anything from eBay, open one of these newsletters, click on a link to eBay and then navigate and buy whatever you need. eBay takes from sellers 10% of the final price and (if you came through my link) will give me a small part of that. Think of me when you buy a Kirby cover or a Rolex watch!