Original Comic Art Tips #279
High results at ComicLink and Catawiki, great art to see at Artcurial.
Original Comic Art Auction Results
eBay: the Wolverine/Deadpool cover by Dave Johnson went for $3k, it was sold on HA in 2019 for $3,6k, the Spider-Man commission by Daniel Warren Johnson for $2k, $1,5k for a Death pinup by Chris Bachalo, the artist usually sells them for half that price.
$2k for the Zatanna jam piece by Jim Lee, $1,5k for a Goon page by Eric Powell, $1,2k for the Flash page by Irv Novick, $1,3k for a “sexy” Betty commission by Dan De Carlo, a Books of Magic illustration by Kaluta for $1,3k.
$1,1k for a Two Face commission by Art Adams, $1k for the Angela page by Greg Capullo, $950 for a Conan page by John Buscema, $900 for the Beta Ray Bill prelim by Walt Simonson, $900 for a nice 1958 Polly And her Pals Sunday by Sterrett.
Heritage Weekly Auction: HA record equaled for Ron Wilson at $26k paid for the Two in One cover, very high prices for the Fury pages by Kirby, $21k and $19k, $9k for a complete set of Glynis Wein X-Men color guides over Byrne art, $8k for the Spidey Uk cover by Milgrom, $4k for the Black Kiss page by Chaykin.
Good prices for the Jimmy Olsen page by Kirby, sold for $3,5k, $2,6k for the Thing page by Starlin, $900 and $800 for two Terry strips by Caniff.
Catawiki: €54k for the Gaston illustration by Franquin, €4,6k for the Bouncer page by Boucq, €3k for the prelims by Gimenez, €3k for the Tintin page by Rodier, €2,6k for the Blake & Mortimer page by Juillard, €750 for the Sybilline page by Macherot.
€1,8k for the Don Lawrence Storm page, €1,3k for the Van Gogh page by Smudja, €1,2k for the Torpedo illustration by Bernet, €700 for the page prelim by Will Eisner, €300 for the Napoleone page by Bacilieri, only €160 for the page by Enrique Breccia.
Good results for the many sketches by Franquin, the higher price was €700 for this Gaston, €1,1k for a Scrooge sketch by Carl Barks, €400 for the 2Face sketch by Riccardo Federici, €300 for the Moebius sketch.
ComicLink premium section: In the first days of January I went to the CL website to mark the date of the next auction (Feb. 9th), like I do every month. What I didn’t realize was that the best pieces would go to auction on Jan 16th inside a “premium section”, so here we are with the results, hope you weren’t searching for one of these pages…
A Star Wars cover by Budiansky went for a low $4,7k, a Galactus page by Byrne for $6,7k, a Phoenix cover by J. Scott Campbell for $6,2k, an early TMNT page for $6k, this JLA splash by Jim Lee went not so high at $15k, an Aquaman splash for $3,6k, Thanos by Ron Lim for $7,6k, a Captain America page by John Romita for $4,6k, some X-Men pages by JRJR, like this DPS sold for $5k, look at this Trimpe page, with Spidey taking pictures of Godzilla, sold for $3,5k.
Heritage Garfield Auction: highest price was $1,9k for a 1980 Sunday, $1,8k for a licensing pinup, $1,7k for a 1983 daily. Plenty of good deals, like $600 for post-2000 Sunday strips, $600 for early licensing pinups, $600 for early dailies.
Three Prince Valiant single panels by Hal Foster were sold for a pretty low $3,5k at Nadeau’s Auctions.
This Week on eBay
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Marvel: Very nice Mary Jane sketch by John Romita, Wolverine page by Alan Davis, Morbius by Redondo, an Ultimates page by Bryan Hitch, look at this Scarlet Spider page by Scott McDaniel, G.I. Joe by Vosburg, Deadpool by Bagley, a Cyclops commission by Bachalo.
A Marvel hardcover with many vintage signatures and doodles.DC: A Who’s Who Wonder Girl pinup and a Wonder Woman page by George Perez, Wonder Woman by Heck, a Batman page by JRJR, a Black Adam commission by Gary Frank, one of those Batman action figures with a Jim Lee sketch, a DC hardcover with many vintage sigs and doodles, a Jonah Hex commission by Dave Johnson, Batman Adventures by Parobeck, New Gods by Starlin.Two Spirit pages by Will Eisner: one, two. sketch by Mirka Andolfo, Mage by Matt Wagner, a Omaha the Cat page is getting a lot of bids, there’s also a pinup, an illustration by Linsner, an Hellraiser page by Miran Kim.A very nice Corrigan daily by Al Williamson, a 1970 Donald Duck daily, a B.C. daily, a big lot of Dennis the Menace comic book pages, a 1942 Alley Oop daily.
Heritage Weekly Auction
Marvel: Tarzan by John Buscema, Defenders by Sal, Hulk Vs. Thing original art by Jim Starlin, a Mr Hyde page by Ditko, great Spidey page by Ed Hannigan, Avengers by Milgrom, Cable by Skroce, a Micronauts DPS by Chaykin.
Look at this great Spider-Man splash by JRJR.
DC: A Superboy page by Papp, Teen Titans by Perez, a Wonder Woman page by Finch, a Superman pinup by Garcia Lopez, a Batman page by Scott Hampton.
A Crime does not Pay page by Tuska, an Addams family sketch by Addams, a very nice Terry daily by Caniff, look at this Rusty Riley daily.
Not original art, but look at this Lyonel Feininger Kin-Der-Kids page.
Catawiki Auctions
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A page from A Life Force by Will Eisner, a Superman page by Kerry Gammill, a Superboy page by Kevin West, a Namor page by Isherwood, a Conan page by Grindberg, Fantastic Five by Paul Ryan, the Thing by Scott Kolins.
A Martin Mystere cover by Claudio Villa, a Tex page by Breccia, a Tex page by Buzzelli, a Ranxerox sketch by Liberatore, La Compagnia della Forca and Kriminal pages by Magnus, a Dylan Dog pinup by Frezzato, a Mater Morbi panel by Carnevale, a Clara pinup by Bernet.
A Disney illustration by Carpi, a Disney page and a Pepito page by Bottaro.
A Tintin cover sketch by Hergé Studio, a pinup by Dany.
Artcurial Auctions
A top selection of many Tintin pieces by Hergé, like a cover with a €2/3M estimation, page prelims and many big and small illustrations.
Big choice of Yslaire pieces, with many Sambre pages and illustrations and some other pieces.
Then an incredible Michel Vaillant page by Graton, a 1991 Asterix page by Uderzo, a Spirou page and a Gaston page by Franquin, some Bilal pages, a beautiful Moebius page, Druillet, Francq, Jijé, Sempé, Tardi, Vance, Ledroit, Marsupilami by Batem.
A Corto Maltese painting a SInbad page and a Jesuit Joe page by Pratt, a page by Manara.
ComicLink Focused Auction part 2 of 2
Batman pages by Don Newton, Defenders by Perlin, an X-Men page by James Sherman, Two in One by Ron Wilson.
Warlock by Tom Raney, some pages by Paul Ryan, an X-Men DPS by Liam Sharp, an X-Factor title splash by Stroman, some Black Panther pages by Sal Velluto.
Invincible by Ryan Ottley, Thor by Pacheco, many Spider-Man pages by Ramos, like some death of Gwen Stacy flashback pages, a Batman commission by Matteo Scalera, a Skywalker commission by Daniel Warren Johnson, a cover by James Stokoe.
See you next week!!
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Welcome to #271 of Original Comic Art Tips!
eBay: a Vampirella painting by Enric went for a $4,5 Best Offer, the Fantastic Four Storyboard by Jack Kirby for $2,8k, fans of the ‘90s will love this Shadowhawk half splash by Jim Valentino sold for $2,3k, a Usagi Yojimbo cover by Alan Quah for $1,8k, a Cerebus Jam page by Sim and friends for $1,7k, a classic “ugly girl” portrait by Basil Wolverton for $1,7k.
A Bront page by Buscema for $1,6k, the Spider-Man illustration by Mike Esposito for $1,6k, an Evil Ernie cover by Steven Hughes for a low $1,6k, a Ghost Rider page by Ron Garney for $1k, a Punisher splash by Tom Lyle for a $1k B.O.,
Charity Auctions: the bidder who won the Spawn sketch by McFarlane for $2k decided not to pay, so it was put for sale again and went for $1k… The blank cover by Todd Nauck was sold for $2,5k.
Six Mignola sketches were sold last week, the top three prices were $1,9k, $1,8k and $1,5k.
The Christmas day 1945 Dick Tracy strip was sold for $2k, it would probably go for more on a specialized auction, a beautiful 1939 Bringing Up Father Sunday for $3k.
The Kirby signed print fooled enough bidders to sell for more than $1k, a set of 50 vintage, but probably drawn by an amateur, Batman portraits were sold for $6k. A set of script and note pages by Sheldon Mayer for a 1947 Wonder Woman story were sold for a $1,5k B.O.
Heritage Weekly Auction: high prices for the two Rose pages by Charles Vess, $9k and $8k. $4k is a very high price for this Daredevil cover by Ariel Olivetti, $1,8k for a Captain America sketch by Travis Charest. Deadman pages were the affordable way to buy a Garcia Lopez piece, less than two years ago they went for $700-$1,3k. Guess what? this one was sold for $2,2k.
Saltares/Texeira Ghost Rider pages were also semi-affordable at $800-$1,5k, this one went for $2,3k.
I also have some good news: a Terry daily by Caniff was sold for $4,4k, but several strips went for very good prices: $900, $700 and look at this one sold for less than $500. A nice Superman page by Gary Frank went for less than $700, the early Blondie strips all went for lower than usual prices, this one for $400.
Catawiki: €900 for a Dan Dare page by Frank Hampson, €800 for a Torpedo illustration by Bernet, €400 for the Columbus panel by Manara, €500 for the Arrowsmith cover prelim by Pacheco, €300 for the Blueberry sketch by Giraud, €400 for the spot illustration by Jacovitti.
Comiclink: high price for a Spidey page by McFarlane, $53k, high also for a Spidey page by Miller, $43k, high prices for all of the many Ron Lim pages, with the Thanos cover sold for $36k, $34k for the Venom splash by Bagley, $33k for a Spidey page by Kane.
“low” prices for all of the Jim Lee pages, $16k for an X-Men page, $5k for a full team JLA page, $3,3k for another JLA page, $2,6k for a Wonder Woman DPS.
$15,5k paid for this Wolverine cover by Stephen Platt may be the new record, $15k may be a record for Frank Springer, probably a higher price due to the trend on Dazzler art, $14k for a Wolverine cover by Bryan Hitch.
Some interesting results at Septimus, but the website is not working. I’ll try again next week.
This week on eBay
John Buscema – Conan Original Comic Art
Marvel: a Conan title splash with breakdowns (and beautiful sketches on the back) by John Buscema, there’s also a nice page. ‘90s Punisher in this Spidey page by Mark Bagley, Guardians of the Galaxy by Kevin West, Shang Chi by Zeck, price lowered on the Fantastic Four page by Pollard/Sinnott, now it’s a good price.
Look at this all villains Spidey page by Alex Saviuk, a Venom page by Ron Lim, a Morbius cover by Ryan Stegman, a Thor page by Allred, a Ghost Rider painting by Ben Templesmith, a vintage cover stat by Rich Buckler, a Nova page by Cory Smith, some more nice Spidey pages and a very detailed DPS by Marcelo Ferreira, not the greatest Jim Lee Wolverine sketch ever…
DC: drawn in 2020 as charity sketch #14 of 60, this Grifter and Zealot cover quality piece by Jim Lee was sold for $12,1k at the time, at the moment you could buy it for 1/10 of the former price… Three Supergirl pages by Win Mortimer, Teen Titans original art by George Perez, mostly stats on this Batman title splash by Norm Breyfogle, this vintage Hawkman commission by Murphy Anderson looks great and overpriced, a cover quality Batman commission by Scott McDaniel.
Touche Turtle, Metaluna Mutant and Pufnstuf charity sketches by Mike Mignola, there’s also a nice Hellboy pinup. The seller of Golden Age art this week is on Crime stories, a second Cerebus page by Dave Sim. This seller has many cheap sketches by alternative comic artists.
A B.C. Sunday strip, a Johnny Hazard Sunday, a funny Wizard of ID daily.
Heritage Weekly Auction
Marvel: Daredevil by Tuska, Defenders by Heck, Dracula by Colan, three Frank Miller panels, AVX by Brandon Peterson, Avengers by Leinil Yu, Captain America by Immonen, a Dr. Strange cover by Hitch.
Are you looking for a ‘90s style piece? look at this Fantastic Four pinup by Guy Dorian.
DC: a Batman/Punisher page by Barry Kitson.
Black Cat by Lee Elias, a rare Frankenstein page by Dick Briefer, early Love & Rockets by Jaime, a trading card painting by Wrightson, a detailed Faust page by Tim Vigil and a Blondie Sunday page.
Catawiki Auctions
Gabriele Dell’Otto – Hulk Commission
A Hulk commission by Gabriele Dell’Otto, an illustration by Jacovitti, one by Crepax, a page by Sergio Toppi, a Tex title page by Ticci, a nice Diabolik page by Palumbo.
Heritage Signature Auction Part 2
A Spider-Man page by Ditko, Fantastic Four by Kirby, Captain America pages by John Buscema and Sal Buscema, Dr. Strange by Colan, an Iron-Man cover by Marie Severin.
The first Rocketeer page by Dave Stevens (with the Rocketeer in it) I’ve seen since I started this newsletter, a rare Magnus page by Manning, a Thunderbirds page by Bellamy, The Spirit by Eisner, a 1944 Dick Tracy, some Star Trek pages by Giolitti, another beautiful “sexy” page by Mooney and look at the details in this splash by Chuck Winter.
ComicConnect Auction
It was too early when I reviewed the lots in this auction..!
It ends next Tuesday, here’s a link to last month’s issue of the newsletter where you can find the links.
Daniel Maghen Auctions Part 2 of 2
Moebius – L’Incal Original Comic Art
Page #1 from The Son of Asterix by Uderzo, many pages and illustrations by Juillard, a few illustrations and an Incal page by Moebius, some pages by Le Gall.
Bilal, Hermann, Schuiten, Tibet, David B., Mezieres, Tardi.
A Star Wars cover by Lauffray, Sin City by Miller, a Blacksad Illustration by Guarnido, a Druuna cover by Serpieri, some pages by Manara.
Swann Galleries Auction
Cartoons by Charles Addams, Sempé, Booth, Thurber.
A Felix Sunday, a Doonesbury daily and a Hagar daily.
See you next week!!
Welcome to #270 of original Comic Art Tips! Last week the email was clipped in half, because it was judged too long by email softwares (just click the “View online” link above to read it all when it happens). Many readers weren’t able to see the link to the Chris Samnee original art post on the website.
eBay: the faded Wrightson illustration went for $4,9k, $3,5k for a Capullo/McFarlane Spawn page, $2,6k for the Hulk page by Sal Buscema, $2,5k for a Jango Fett page by Tom Fowler, $2,2k for a Young Avengers page by Jim Cheung, $2,2k a vintage Moon Knight sketch by Sienkiewicz.
$2,7k and $2,2k for the Infinity Inc. pages by McFarlane, Spidey splashes by Marcelo Ferreira for $1,8k and $1,4k.
It seems it’s time for another Marvel alternate universe/storyline getting hot, after being considered without value for years.. first it was Spider-Man 2099, then the Clone Saga, lately it was the turn of the Age of Apocalypse and even Amalgam… the last time Ultimate Spider-Man pages by Mark Bagley were for sale they went for $200, now last week’s batch went for surprising prices (yes they featured first appearances of many Ultimate versions of villains, so regular pages will still go for much less).
A page with Kingpin was the priciest, at $3,3k, Goblin 3,2k, Goblin $2,8k, an early page for $2,8k, an origin page for $2,6k, Elektro $1,6k, Goblin $1,5k, then this one for $1,6k.
Heritage Weekly Auction: quick growth for Richard Corben original art in the last two years, this page was sold for $30k. $10k for a Superman page by Frank Quitely, $8k for the Black Spidey page by Springer, $6,6k for Sandman art by McManus, $3k for the page by Allred, $3,3k for the Weapon X page by Adam Kubert.
Sold by Gary Frank on eBay at the beginning of the year, the two Batman pages gained almost $1k just for being offered again. A page from the Boys by Russ Braun went for $1,7k.
Catawiki: an original Tintin album with a vintage Hergé sketch was sold for €16k, the page by Frederick Peeters for €3,2k, the Ric Hochet cover by Tibet for €1,8k, the Chick Bill page for €1,3k, the Gaston sketch by Franquin for €800, the album with 30 sketches (two by Moebius) for only €1,2k.
The pinup by Enrico Marini went pretty high at €600, the Torpedo by Bernet for €700, the 100 Bullets page by Risso for €400, the Junglemen page by Pratt for €1k, the Disney cover by Cavazzano for €600, the Satanik cover by Corteggi for €700 and the Dylan Dog cover by Roi for €650.
This week on eBay
Tim Sale – Superman Original Comic Art
Charity Auctions: three pencil pinups by Mike Mignola, one, two, three. A full team Young Justice sketch cover by Todd Nauck with proceeds to Peter David, a Mary Jane pinup by Alex Saviuk.
Marvel: a Fantastic Four storyboard by Jack Kirby, a Conan page by John Buscema, a Ghost Rider page by Ron Garney, a Spidey/Punisher page by Scott McDaniel, an Elektra page by Mike Deodato, Dr. Strange one and two by Isherwood, Iron Fist by Ernie Chan, a classic Spider-Man cover prelim by John Romita.
A Spider-Man page by Gabriele Dell’Otto, X-Men by Tom Grummett, a Phoenix commission by Brandon Peterson, a Ghost Rider page by Paolo Rivera, price reduced for the Venom splash by Bagley.
DC: a Superman page by Tim Sale, a Batman commission by Neal Adams, a Batgirl commission by Phil Noto, four Ivan Reis pages, a cover quality Superman commission by Tom Grummett, a Watchmen commission by Jim Calafiore.
This seller has many complete Golden Age stories. A Cavewoman pinup by Budd Root, a funny B.C. Sunday strip, a pinup by Linsner.
Heritage Weekly Auction
Marvel: a Conan page by Buscema, She-Hulk by Byrne, Howard the Duck and Dracula by Colan, a Spider-Girl cover by Frenz.
A Daredevil cover by Kyle Hotz, a Satana pinup by Bruce Timm.
DC: look at this G.A. Green Lantern page by Infantino, a Flash cover by Greg LaRocque, Wonder Woman by Heck, Superman by Gary Frank, a Batman cover by Matt Broome, Vertigo POP by Fisher.
A Flagg page by Chaykin, Rose by Vess, early Madman by Allred.
An early Blondie, Terry by Caniff, Buz Sawyer by Crane, Ben Casey by Adams.
Catawiki Auctions
Jordi Bernet – Torpedo Original Comic Art
A Columbus panel and a sketch by Manara, Vendetta Macumba by Magnus, a Rogue commission by Emanuela Lupacchino, a cover prelim by Carlos Pacheco, a Star Wars cover by Pasqual Ferry, a page by Goran Parlov, a lot of 11 Batman pages by Alcatena.
A Blueberry sketch by Giraud, an illustration by Dany, a Torpedo illustration by Bernet, a Disney cover.
Comic link Featured Auction Part 2: '80s-'90s!
Last week, while browsing this auction I noticed there was a prominence of art from the ‘90s, with some older -in theme- artwork.
X-Men pages by Jim Lee, Silvestri, JRJR, Art Adams, Wolverine by Adam Kubert, Excalibur by Alan Davis and a Wolverine cover by Bryan Hitch.
A Spider-Man page by Todd McFarlane, a Venom splash by Mark Bagley, a Thanos cover by Ron Lim, a Dracula page by Mignola, a Batman page by Tim Sale and a Uncle Scrooge page by Don Rosa.
A Darkness cover by Silvestri and a Witchblade splash by Michael Turner.
Heritage Signature Auction Part 1: DC Special!
Yes, after just three weeks it’s time for another Signature Auction… it’s mostly DC centric, with the biggest Dr. Fate collection ever seen, and also many Spectre, JSA and JLA pages.
Dr. Fate pieces by Denys Cowan, Giffen/Wood, Kevin Maguire, Walt Simonson, Steve Bissette.
A Spectre cover, a page and a World’s Finest cover by Neal Adams, Spectre covers by Murphy Anderson and Jim Aparo.
JLA by Dillin, Garcia Lopez, a cover by Perez, one by Ross Andru, one by Ernie Chan and many pages by Sekowsky.
All Star by Estrada/Wood, Infantino, a cover by Ernie Chan.
Then a Flash cover by Infantino, Hawkman by Kubert, a nice Batman page by Moldoff and if you’re searching for a page by Russ Heath this may be the right time, with dozens of war pages offered.
Tessier-Sarrou Auction
Juanjo Guarnido – Blacksad Original Comic Art
Probably one of the best auctions of 2022, with amazing original art from all the biggest names.
A Tintin page and an illustration by Hergé, an Asterix page and a painted cover, a Gaston page by Franquin, an Achille Talon cover by Greg, a Gil Jourdan page, a cover and a color page by Will.
Look at this Blacksad illustration, a color illustration by Moebius, one by Mezieres, Francq, Jijé, a cover by Schuiten, Tardi, Vance, Juillard, Gibrat, Loisel, Yslaire.
A Corto Maltese page by Pratt, Tulum by Manara, a Spirit page and if you want to make me a present I’d like to have this Mort Cinder page by Breccia…
Septimus Auction
A Valérian page, a splash by Schuiten, Spirou by Schwartz, Juillard, Hermann, Jijé, Manara, Gibrat, Conrad, De Gieter, Lucky Luke by Bonhomme, a rare page by Barbucci and some Tintin sketches by Hergé.
Laval Auctions
I don’t remember reviewing another auction from this house before.
Several XIII pages by Vance with low estimations, some pages by Delaby, a page and many prelims by Pellerin.
Daniel Maghen Auction part 1 of 2
Big auction of Spirou original art by Fournier, with vintage and modern Journal Spirou covers, many pages, many color illustrations.
Big auction of Djinn original art by Miralles, with covers, pages and illustrations.
Then a Tintin illustration and a panel by Hergé, some pieces by Juillard, some Blueberry pages and drawings by Giraud, some by Vance, like this beautiful Ramiro cover and a XIII cover, a page and an illustration by Gibrat, some by Delaby, Murena covers, pages and more, Rosinski, Jijé, Pellerin.
See you next week!!
