The 2 Million Cover + Other HIGH Results – #281

Original Comic Art Tips #281 – Feb. 17 2023

Very high results everywhere, with the bonus of $2M+ paid for the Tintin cover.
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Original Comic Art Auction Results

eBay: $2,6k for a Rune page by Barry Smith, $2,8k for a Dr. Strange cover by Declan Shalvey, $6k for a Vampirella illustration by Enric, $4,5k (Best Offer) for a great Teen Titans page by Garcia Lopez, $1,9k for a Poison Ivy commission by Tim Sale, $1,6k for the Venom splash by Bryan Hitch.

$800 (B.O.) for a Witchblade sketch by Michael Turner, $1,2k (B.O.) for the strip by Feiffer, $700 (B.O.) for the Animal Man DPS by Jason Fabok, $1k for the Gwen Stacy sketch by John Romita, $900 for a Wolverine action page by Alan Davis.
The blueline inks to a Spider-Man cover by Mark Bagley were sold for $3k, the book sketched by Matt Groening for $700, a Dick Tracy daily went for $600.

Heritage Weekly Auction: $19k for this Batman study by Jeff Jones, it was sold last October for $13k. $9k for the Groo double splash by Aragones, almost $8k for a Terry daily by Caniff, $3,3k for a Bartman cover by Bill Morrison, $2,6k for a Rusty Riley daily, $2,6k for a Batman card by Wally Wood.

Pretty high $2,6k for this Conan page by John Buscema, $2,6k for a Preacher page, $1,1k for the Joker sketch by Bolland, $850 for a Roy Rogers strip NOT drawn by Alex Toth, always low prices for great Tarzan art by the Buscemas, $850 for John, $400 for Sal.

Catawiki: €7,5k for the Alan Ford cover by Magnus, €1k for the two Lo Sconosciuto pages, €550 for a nice title page prelim by Will Eisner, €500 for the Altai & Johnson page by Cavazzano, €1k for a 1983 pinup by Dany, €500 for a Tintin illustration by Hergé studio, €250 for a Lex Luthor splash by Castellini.

€300 for a rare and detailed Lupo Alberto sketch by Silver, €300 for the Giraud sketch, €400 for the Lucky Luke sketch by Morris, €300 for the Druuna sketch by Serpieri.

Artcurial Auction: it’s old news by now that the cover to Tintin in America by Hergé was sold for €2,1 Millions. It enters the top ten of highest prices paid for original comic art, this top ten contains six pieces by Hergé now and they’re seven if you’re like me and don’t consider the Frazetta Warren cover as comic art.
Many other Tintin pieces went for impressive prices, like a page prelim sold for €216k and a color guide for €34k.
€105k for the Asterix page by Uderzo, €100k for the Blueberry cover (tome 16) by Giraud, making it possibly the highest priced Blueberry piece ever sold.
€58k for the Corto Maltese watercolor by Pratt, €35k for the Michel Vaillant page by Graton.

Sold for €11k in Nov. 2021 at Urania, the Pinocchio & Asterix pinup by Uderzo went for €18k for a pretty easy profit, a 1985 Garfield Sunday for almost €4k (I really don’t feel like spending an hour in the HA archives to see the original price).

This Week on eBay

Gene Ha – Jubilee Original Comic Art

Marvel: a vintage New Mutants page by Bret Blevins ending now, a G.I. Joe page by Trimpe, a Conan page by Buscema, there’s also a low priced page with no Conan but with a lot of beautiful women.
Full team Avengers page and a 1991 Spidey commission by Bagley, pricey but rare Wolverine quick sketch by Byrne, look at this 1996 Marvel Universe illustration by Dave Johnson, Iron-Man by Dave Ross, a color Jubilee illustration by Gene Ha.

DC: some Batman Adventures pages, some Flash pages by Pelletier, the Teen Titans page by Erik Larsen is finally with no reserve, a Batman commission by J.P. Leon, a Wonder Woman commission by Bagley, a Joker figure with a remark by Jim Lee, a Batman commission by Tony Daniel.

I like this Scout page by Tim Truman, Spirit pages one and two by Eisner, an Elric illustration by P. Craig Russell, a page by Charles Vess, a Shadow page by Kaluta, many Simpsons illustrations by Bill Morrison, a Black Kiss page by Chaykin, a panel by Jim Rugg, Ultimate Warrior by Daniel Warren Johnson.

A B.C. Sunday and a 1971 daily, a Wizard of ID daily, a single Johnny Hazard panel, another lot of Dennis the Menace comic book pages.

Heritage Weekly Auction

Marvel: Top piece is this X-Factor page by Walt Simonson, a Silver Surfer page and a Thanos splash by Jim Starlin, a She-Hulk page by Vosburg, a Spider-Man page by Hannigan, a Marvel UK Hulk cover by Milgrom, a Conan page and two nice Tarzan pages by John Buscema (one, two), one by Sal, Starbrand by Byrne.

DC: A Superman trading card by Wally Wood, a Superman DPS by Ian Churchill, an Harley Quinn pinup by Bruce Timm, a Batman title splash by Levins, a Superman commission by Lee Bermejo, an Invisibles cover prelim by Bolland, a Sandman sketch by Neil Gaiman.

A Ninjak cover by Joe Quesada, 1988 Love & Rockets by Jaime, a Goon page, a Wildcats DPS color guide by Joe Chiodo, look at this Vampirella page by Pepe Gonzalez.

Two very rare 1934 Little Orphan Annie dailies, a Rusty Riley daily, a 1939 Alley Oop daily, many Terry dailies by Caniff.

Catawiki Auctions

Milo Manara – Original Illustration

Top page and top illustration by Manara, there are also some early (cheaper) pages like this Genius. A 110 Pillole illustration by Magnus, a Druuna page and a coloring page by Serpieri, a painted pinup by Dany, an illustration by Mattioli, an Axa strip by Romero.

Nice Spider-Man page by Sal Buscema, a page prelim by Will Eisner, a Salgarone illustration by Jacovitti, a Zagor cover by Piccinelli, a Tex page by Breccia, an early Tex page by Ticci, Storia Del West #2 by Polese, Ken Parker by Vannini, a Lone Ranger cover by Franco Bruna.

Russ Cochran Auctions

A Pogo comic book page by Walt Kelly.

See you next week!!