Two Top Breyfogle Original Batman Pages – #305

Original Comic Art Tips #305 – August, 04 2023

Welcome! Look at the Breyfogle and Byrne pages on eBay and the Asterix page and Don Rosa Scrooge page on Catawiki!

Original Comic Art Auction Results

eBay: $2,5k for a page from Promethea #1 by J.H. Williams, $2k (Best Offer) for a Spider-Man sketch cover by John Romita, $2k for the Namor page by Ross Andru, $1,6k was not a high price for the top Venom page by Tom Lyle, $1,5k for a JLA cover by Tyler Kirkham, $1,4k for the Conan page by Buscema, $1,5k (B.O.) for a Soulfire cover by Ryan Kincaid, $1,2k for a Mandy pinup by Dean Yeagle.

The Cable cover by Simone Bianchi was 1) sold for $5,1k, 2) the next day sold for a $5,1k Best Offer, 3) the third day put for sale again. Let’s stay to $5k as an evaluation.

The early Dennis the Menace panels were sold for $7,7k and $7,7k. The last one is for sale again with a $6,5k starting price.

$1k for the Spidey sketch by Stan Lee, $1k for an Archie cover credited to DeCarlo, $1k for the Bloodshot cover by Sal Velluto, low $900 for the JLA splash by Doug Mahnke, $900 for a Garfield strip with a funny gag.
Seems like somebody got a great deal of $99 on this Superman splash by Mike Wieringo, listed as production art but signed, so I guess it was original art.

Heritage Weekly Auction: $8k for an original X-Men page by Marc Silvestri, $7k for a Question cover by Cowan, $6,6k for an Iron-Man page by Johnny Craig, $5,5k for a cover quality Spidey illustration by Jae Lee, $5k for a beautiful Rip Kirby strip, $5k for a Venom cover by Kyle Hotz, $4k for a Transformers page by Springer, only $3k for the beautiful Shanna splash by Bret Blevins, only $1k for a top Ghost Rider splash by Larroca.

Catawiki: low prices for the Bonelli pages, €350 for the Tex page by Galep, €250 for Buzzelli, €250 for Ticci, €250 for Zuccheri and €200 for Gattia.

Comiclink Auctions: another premium section I arrived late for, but this time the art was not so premium… Probably due to the lower summer traffic, they kept the best pieces for another time. The website has been down for the last few days so we’ll see the results next week.

This Week on eBay

Norm Breyfogle – Batman Original Comic Art

Marvel: an Alpha Flight page by John Byrne, a Conan page by a young Marc Silvestri, an Excalibur page by a young Mike Wieringo, a Spidey strip by Larry Lieber, a Nightcrawler commission by Alan Davis.

DC: readers following this newsletter since the beginning know that until a couple years ago Batman pages by Norm Breyfogle were impossible to find, then they slowly started to appear again but they always had at most, tiny Batman figures. This time we have two very nice pages, (almost) top quality. heres the first and the second page.

Then Batman pages one and two by Dale Eaglesham, a nice one by Pete Woods, a Bruce Wayne model sheet by Sean Murphy, a Batman & Wonder Woman page by JG Jones, a JLA page by Bart Sears, one by Howard Porter, a Green Lantern page by Philip Tan, it’s sad to see this water damaged Green Lantern commission by Gil Kane.

Look at this Bloodshot DPS by Sal Velluto, great art on this Golden Age page, a cover recreation by Steve Rude, Mage by Matt Wagner, a Rusty Riley daily.

Heritage Weekly Auction

Marvel: Ghost Rider by Perlin,  Dr. Strange by Isherwood, look at this Spidey DPS by Alex Saviuk, a Conan splash by Zaffino, a Venom cover by Kyle Hotz, a Ghost Rider half splash by Larroca, a Stray Toasters page by Sienk.

DC: a Batman page by Nick Cardy, a Tarzan commission by Neal Adams, a Superman cover by Bryan Hitch, look at this Wonder Woman commission by Adam Hughes, a Batman commission by Bermejo, a Batman commission by Jae Lee.
An unfinished but nice Shade page by Chris Bachalo, a Y page by Pia Guerra, a Tom Strong page by Chris Sprouse.

A Dredd page by Ranson, a 1957 On Stage daily, a remarked Simpsons print by Groening.

Catawiki Auctions

Albert Uderzo – Asterix Original Comic Art

An Uncle Scrooge page by Don Rosa, a Disney page by Cavazzano, an Alan Ford page by  Magnus, a Hulk page by Matteo Scalera, Tex by Ticci, a Blek cover by Mastantuono, a Jacovitti illustration.

Look: there’s an Asterix page, bids are nearing the reserve price.
Top pages and illustrations by Pellerin, Cheret, Vance, Delaby, Juillard, Dany, Andreas, a sketch by Sempé.

X-Files by Charlie Adlard, a very nice Torpedo illustration by Bernet.

Heritage Garfield Auction

It’s time for a new auction of original Garfield strips, with early dailies, early Sunday strips and a few illustrations.
This daily is already going high, maybe an early Nermal appearance?

Bruneau & co. Auctions

A few nice pieces: the title page from Invaders #1 by Frank Robbins and a page, an Avengers page by Tuska, a Conan page by Buscema and a couple Golden Age pages credited to Gil Kane.

See you next week!!

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