Many Great Pages on the Bay! – #304

Original Comic Art Tips #304 – July, 28 2023

Welcome! Not bad for an end of July weekend… many great pieces on ebay, some high results, a record price and even a couple of very good deals.

Original Comic Art Auction Results

eBay: $8,2k for the Witchblade page by Michael Turner, $7k for the Harley Quinn cover by Gary Frank, $4k for a Swamp Thing page by Steve Bissette, $2,7k for a Scott Hampton page, $2,4k for a SCUD page by Schrab, $2k for a Blue Beetle cover by Kirkham.

$1,5k for a D&D cover by Tim Levins, $1,3k for the Spider-Girl origin page by Ron Frenz, $1,3k (Best Offer) for a Thor page by Esad Ribic.

Heritage Weekly Auction: $10k for the Wildcats page by Jim Lee, $5k for a Devil Dinosaur page by Trimpe, $4k for a Rex, the Wonder Dog splash by Gil Kane, $4k for the Aragones DC pages, $3k for a Hate page, $2,5k for a 1970 Pogo Sunday, $900 for a Batman commission by Breyfogle.

Hake’s Auction: $52k record price for Howard Chaykin, with a page from Star Wars #1, funny thing I just discovered: $50k is the market price for a 9.8 slabbed copy of the same comic.

$25k for the Green Lantern page by Neal Adams, $19k for the Super Team Family cover by Garcia Lopez, $14k for a slabbed Bart Simpson sketch card by Matt Groening, $10k for a Titans/Legion cover by Dan Jurgens.
$4k for the early Dennis the Menace panel, $2k for the Batman page by Camuncoli/Jim Lee.

Hake’s is strong on color guides, so let’s see the highest prices: $17k for the vintage Amazing Spider-Man #36 complete issue by Stan Goldberg, $4k for the complete set for X-Men #109 by Andy Yanchus, $900 for the cover from Star Wars #52, $800 for the cover from U-X-Men #202.

Nate Sanders Auctions: $19k for a 1956 Peanuts daily, $5,6k and $5,6k for two signed Calvin & Hobbes books, the Bill Watterson signed print that routinely sells on HA for around $20k went unsold at $6k. If you have $6k lying around you know what to do…

This Week on eBay

Simone Bianchi – Cable Original Cover Art

Marvel: a Conan page by John Buscema, Look at this classic Venom page by Tom Lyle, This Cable cover by Simone Bianchi is going high.

A Spidey doodle by Stan Lee, a Black Panther cover prelim by Alan Davis, a color Weapon X sketch cover by Brandon Peterson, a Ghost Rider sketch by Daniel Warren Johnson, a Barbie title splash and a page by Amanda Conner, price lowered for the Spidey page by John Byrne, a Spidey sketch cover by John Romita, a 2023 Art Adams sketchbook with a Hulk sketch.

DC: a beautiful Swamp Thing DPS by Steve Bissette, Wonder Woman pages by Don Heck, a full team JLA splash by Doug Mahnke, a Superman page by Mignola, I don’t know why last week’s Superman page by Bryan Hitch is not getting bids, the Batman pinup by Jason Fabok is still going too.

Nightwing by Scott McDaniel, a Batman commission by Ken Lashley, a cheap Batman pinup by Ryan Sook.

A Bloodshot cover by Sal Velluto, a Scion splash by Jim Cheung, a nice Maggie & Hopey pinup by Jaime, a Vader sketch cover by Whilce Portacio, a Darkness sketch by Mark Silvestri. A Corum page and a Skeleton man painting by Mignola, a Standard page by Alex Toth.

A great week for original comic strips on eBay: top pieces are two early Dennis the Menace panels (one, two), remember the panel that went for $4k just yesterday at Hake’s… Two and two Hagar strips by Dik Browne, a funny Wizard of ID daily, a 1958 Dondi, a 1920 strip by Jimmy Swinnerton, a B.C. Sunday and a Rick O’Shay Sunday.

Heritage Weekly Auction

Marvel: Sgt. Fury by Ayers, Ghost Rider by Trimpe, Defenders by Perlin, some great Spoof pages by Marie Severin, look at this really beautiful Shanna splash by Bret Blevins, some Dr. Strange pages by Isherwood, a G.I. Joe cover by Marshall Rogers.

DC: a Wonder Woman DPS by Tony Daniel.

A Monsters cover by Art Adams, an early TWD page by Adlard, early Hate by Bagge, a Thunda title page by Bob Powell, a nice Zorro page by Tom Yeates.
A Star Wars Sunday by Alcala, a Broom Hilda daily, a 1981 Heatcliff Sunday, a 1954 Pogo Sunday.

Catawiki Auctions

An Alan Ford page and a model sheet by Magnus, look at this page by Alarico Gattia, a page from Ken Parker #1, an early Tex page by Galep, one by Buzzelli, one by Ticci and one by Laura Zuccheri with also a Julia page.
Dylan Dog pages by Micheluzzi and Mari.

A nice Johnny Hazard daily, a Birds of Prey page by Ed Benes, a Jeremiah sketch by Hermann.

Kurtzman/Humbug Heritage Auction

An auction of beautiful original art from Humbug, the top pieces are the many page layouts by Harvey Kurtzman, here’s a full story, hard to choose between the many great Jack Davis pieces, here’s an illustration (faithful with the Kurtzman layout here) and a page, many pieces also by Will Elder, here’s a Christmas illustration.

See you next week!!

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