$20k for a Walt Simonson Commission! – #311
Original Comic Art Tips #311 – September, 15 2023
Welcome! Many top results and some nice bronze age Marvel pages on eBay.
Original Comic Art Auction Results
eBay: $14k (Best Offer) for a beautiful Preacher cover for Wizard by Glenn Fabry, $3,5k and $2k for two Wonder Woman pages by George Perez, $3,5k for a cover by David Mack, $3k for a ROM splash by Sal Buscema, $3k for the Superman DPS by Ed McGuinness, a bit high for Clark having a bath…
$2k for a Thor sketch cover for charity by Walt Simonson, $1,8k (B.O.) for a Captain America advertising pinup by John Romita, $1,6k (B.O.) for a girl pinup by Bruce Timm, $1,5k is a bit low for this 1996 Hellboy commission by Mike Mignola, $1,5k for the Soulfire page by Michael Turner, $1,5k for a rare Charlie Chan daily by Andriola.
$1k for a commission of The Boys by Russ Braun, $1k for a Thunderbolts cover by Mark Bagley. The Namor page by John Byrne stayed low at $700, maybe because as I suspected it is one of those pages photocopied on DuoTone paper to add greytones? Low $750 for a Hagar Sunday by Dik Browne.
A reader made me notice that the Dale Keown cover was really a print listed as original art, it went low at $2,5k, but a dealer at the same time has the original for sale at $6k.
Usually fake sketches end below what the real original art would go for, this time the 100% fake Yellow kid sketch went for $5,2k, but don’t worry, it is for sale again.
Speaking of fake sketches, the Charlie Brown sold last week for $1,8k and quickly put for sale again is ending tonight and it seems to stay lower… Meanwhile, the forger is ready for the next auctions: yesterday he posted on a Facebook group purposely blurry pictures of Batman sketches freshly drawn (by him), probably with the intent of legitimizing them.
Heritage Weekly Auction: $11k for a Legion page by Giffen, $7k for Blade Runner by Williamson, very high $6k for the Hulk page by Trimpe, $5k for the page by Alex Toth, $4,5k for the JLA page by Jim Lee. High prices for Golden Age pages, this one went for $3,8k, $3k for a Spidey page by Sal Buscema, $3k for the Batman prelim by Alex Ross, $2k for the Spidey splash by Saviuk.
Catawiki: €850 for a Chic Bill page by Tibet, €500 for an Axa page by Romero.
Septimus Auction: €9k for the Blueberry page, €4k for a cover prelim by Vance, €3k for a top page by Ledroit, €1,9k for the Liberatore page, €1,7k for a Marsupilami sketch by Franquin.
Hero Initiative Charity Auction: Incredible $20k for the Thor piece by Walt Simonson, $6k for the Hela cover by J. Scott Campbell, a little less for the Bloom County daily, $3,2k for the Batman pinup by Kelley Jones, a commission of this quality would go for less than half this price, $3k for Conan by Mark Schultz, $2,8k for a Superman sketch by Frank Quitely, $2,6k for a cover quality X-Men piece by Nick Bradshaw, $2k for a Swamp Thing illustration by Rick Veitch, $1,6k for Don Rosa, his commissions always go for two times the price he would ask you.
Good deals: $600 for a Robin piece by Gene Ha, $800 for a Darth Vader by Greg Hildebrandt, $1,8k for a Green Lantern cover by Kevin Nowlan.
This Week on eBay
The 1972 Peanuts daily is ending tonight and still low at $10k.
Marvel: very nice Ghost Rider page by Perlin, Conan by Buscema, Man Thing pages one and two by Jim Starlin, Werewolf Vs. Morbius by Redondo, an Avengers page by Milgrom/Sinnott, a Thing page by Ron Wilson, a War of the Worlds title splash by Yong Montano. A Spider-Man Sketchagraph by John Romita.
I like this 1994 Spidey page by Scott Kolins, a cover quality Galactus commission by Ron Frenz, a Moonstar commission by Art Adams, a Black Panther cover by Paul Renaud, a Wolverine sketch card by Adam Kubert, a Doom sketch by Jim Lee.
DC: very nice Zatanna page by Don Heck, a Batman page by Matt Wagner, a Superman/Wonder Woman pinup and a Batman pinup by Ed Benes, a Batman page by Risso, a Deadman prelim and a Wonder Woman prelim by Garcia Lopez, a 1987 Batman/Catwoman commission by Butch Guice.
A Fables page and a nice Death pinup by Mark Buckingham, Death by Brereton, Doom Patrol page by Richard Case.
Look at this top Witchblade page by Michael Turner, a Gen 13 sketch cover by J. Scott Campbell, Wolfman by Gary Frank, a Zot page by Scott McCloud, Aliens by Lan Medina, a Crow commission by James O’Barr,
A Pogo Sunday and some dailies, a funny B.C. Sunday.
Heritage Weekly Auction
Marvel: a Daredevil costume sketch by Wally Wood, a Spidey page and a splash by Saviuk, a Spidey page by Alan Davis, an Avengers page by Pacheco, a Wolverine cover by Mahmud Asrar, an X-Men page by Simone Bianchi, a Thor page by Coipel.
DC: JLA by Sekowsky, JLA by Dillin, a Superman daily by Delbo, Wonder Woman by Estrada, a Batman commission by Art Adams, a Batman illustration by Gabriele Dell’Otto, a Batman bust by Fabok, a Batman cover by Maleev, a Batman/Spawn cover prelim by Sean Murphy, a Batman pinup by Stokoe.
A Tarzan illustration by Neal Adams, a pinup panel by Dan De Carlo and a Betty & Veronica illustration, a 1989 TMNT page, an Invincible page by Ottley, a 1940 Blondie daily.
Catawiki Auctions
Top pages: a painted Blueberry sketch by Giraud, a page painted by Juan Gimenez, a Yakari cover, a Spirou page by Fournier, an Alix page by Martin, a Papyrus page, a Ric Hochet illustration by Tibet.
Sketched books by Delaby, Giraud, Mezieres, Francq.
A Druuna page by Serpieri, Jack Kirby portrait by Lapone, Lo Sconosciuto by Magnus, Tex by Ticci one and two, a Paperinik page by Freccero.
A Will Eisner drawing, a page by E. Breccia, a page by Don Lawrence.
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