Welcome to #269 of Original Comic Art Tips! a very long issue, with 9 auctions, many results and a surprise. If you find the email clipped in half, click on the link to read it all..!
eBay: $4,5k for the Batman page by Tim Sale, $4,3k for the Superman cover by Gary Frank, $4k for a Vampirella painting by Enric, $3k for a Fathom cover by Michael Turner, $2k for the Spawn sketch by Todd McFarlane, $1,9k for a Vampirella cover by Celina, $1,7k for a Spider-Man page by Stuart Immonen.
A painted JLA cover by Tim Truman was sold for a very low $1,3k Best Offer, $1,2k for a Harley cover by Dave Johnson, $1,1k for a Ms. Marvel splash by Aaron Lopresti, $1,4k for a Wyatt Earp story by Dick Ayers, $1,1k for a Batman sketch by Jerry Robinson. Sold for $600, this Man-Bat page by Michael Golden was sold again two days later for a $1,2k B.O.
This “production art” Kirby cover sold for $1k was clearly a simple b/w photocopy of the cover on acetate. Poor buyer.
Heritage Weekly Auction: a Spider-Man page by John Byrne went for $5,6k, a Fantastic Four page for $4k, two good prices in 2022… The Tarzan page by Buscema for $4,5k, a Thor page for $3,6k, a Sandman page by Hempel for $3,5k, a Spidey page by Gil Kane was a good deal at $2,6k, a Flash page by Irv Novick for $2,4k, good price also for this Dr. Strange page by Colan, $1,4k. Covered by Alcala inks, but still, an X-Factor page by Simonson was sold for only $1,2k.
Catawiki: €1,4k for a Jugurtha page by Hermann, 1,2k for the Joker pinup by Gabriele Dell’Otto, €900 for a Ken Parker page by Milazzo, €300 for a page prelim by Will Eisner.
The auction of Franka original art by Henk Kuijpers went well, with €2,4k as the highest price paid for illustrations, €1,3k for panel pages and €450 for sketched books.
Heritage Signature Auction: as usual i will not link to all of the high prices (they’re too many) but only to record prices.
The Calvin & Hobbes Sunday strip by Watterson was sold for $480k, more than double the $216k made last September by a daily, but I’d expect a color Sunday to be worth more in comparison…
$144k for a full Alpha Flight issue by John Byrne, almost $4k per page. $132k for a Forever People full issue by Kirby, $6k per page. $114 for a Haunt of Fear cover by Ingels, doubling the former record price, $102k for a Sandman page by Dringenberg, probably also the first Sandman piece to go over $100k.
This Hulk cover by Jim Starlin is a new $102k record for the artist, wait for a top cosmic piece to appear next time. $90k is the top price paid for interior Hulk art by McFarlane (thank Wolverine), record price for Sin City art by Miller, $83k, a Fighting American splash sold for $72k is the highest priced non Marvel/DC piece by Kirby, $69k for a Green Lantern cover by Gil Kane, $66k for a Defenders cover by Al Milgrom.
$63k for a Green Hornet cover by Schomburg, $60k for a Grendel cover by Bisley, $57k for a Daredevil cover by Tim Sale, $55k is a new record for Rick Leonardi, early art, probably due to the Vision/Scarlet Witch characters.
$36k for the Deadpool origins page prelim by Rob Liefeld may be the record for this kind of art. $25k for a Green Lantern cover by Ernie Chan.
Lower than expected prices: $78k for the X-Men (Captain America) DPS by Jim Lee, $43k for the Wolverine DPS by Jim Lee, $31k for the Batman page by Jim Lee, $25k for the Dark Knight cover by Jim Lee, $52k for the triple DC cover by Alex Ross, $66k for a Peanuts Sunday, $27k for a Krazy Kat Sunday, $26k for a Rarebit Fiend Sunday.
No more space to go on, I stopped going down at $25k…
A 1920 Gasoline Alley daily was sold for $1,2k at Russ Chochran Auctions.
The Dredd page by Mick McMahon at Comic Book Auctions went for £3,750
This week on eBay
John Byrne – Spider-Man Original Comic Art
Marvel: some X-Men Elsewhen pages by John Byrne, currently the cheapest option for buying pages (with Marvel heroes) by Byrne. We start with no mutants, but with a page with Spider-Man in all panels, then a Wolverine page, and a Spidey/Nightcrawler splash, if you want cheaper options there are a nice Atom page, a Peter Parker page, and an action Next Men page.
Captain America in action by M.C. Wyman, I remember that this Doc Ock/Aunt May wedding piece by Mike Esposito was already sold on eBay at least a year ago, and it went for a high price. The Hulk page by Sal Buscema is still going.
This seller has a big batch of early Ultimate Spider-Man pages by Mark Bagley for sale, with all the main villains represented. Here’s a link to an origin page from #4, Ultimate Goblin, many action pages, swinging Spidey and more. There’s also a Venom splash and a detailed prelim.
The same seller also has some Miles Morales pages by Marcelo Ferreira, here’s a splash.
A detailed cover prelim by Steve McNiven and a Old Man Logan DPS, a Sabretooth page by David Finch, Silver Surfer by Alan Davis, a Captain America commission by Mike Zeck, a Power Pack page with early inks by Scott Williams, a Man-Thing illustration by Frank Cho.
60 eBay users are watching (and some bidding) this signed Kirby print advertised as original art. Let’s see how much money will be wasted on this one. 😿
DC: Mr. Miracle by Jim Aparo, an Aquaman page by Jim Lee, a Harley sketch by Bruce Timm.
The Infinity Inc. pages by Todd McFarlane (one, two) are still going.
A monsters prelim by Wrightson, a Frankenstein sketch by Mike Mignola and a BPRD cover, a Cavewoman pinup by Budd Root, Michonne Vs. Zombies in this top TWD page by Charlie Adlard.
This seems a strip cut from a L’il Abner Sunday page, a Wizard of ID Sunday, a 1960 B.C. daily.
Heritage Weekly Auction
Marvel: a Conan page by John Buscema, a Conan splash by Nebres, Transformers/Black Spidey by Springer, Namor by Byrne, Alpha Flight by Mignola.
Gene Colan: Namor, Daredevil, Dracula one, Dracula two, Wonder Woman and more.
A 1991 Spidey page by Bagley, Deadpool by Joe Mad, a Weapon X page by Adam Kubert, Young Avengers by Jim Cheung, Avengers by Immonen, a splash by Greg Land.
DC: a Wonder Woman title page by Dillin, Superman by McGuinness, two Batman pages by Gary Frank, Superman original art by Frank Quitely.
A Sandman page by Allred, one by McManus.
A Creepy original page by Corben, Spawn page by Capullo, a Barb Wire cover by Adam Hughes, an EC Extra! cover by Johnny Craig, Rose by Vess, a Zombies prelim by Wrightson.
The usual many Terry strips by Caniff, a Buz Sawyer daily by Crane.
Catawiki Auctions
Enrico Marini – Original Comic Art
A Tintin sketch by Hergé, two Lucien pages by Margerin, a Ric Hochet cover and a Chick Bill page by Tibet, a cover by Dodier, a page by Frederik Peeters, a pinup by Girod, an illustration by Robert Gigi, a sketch by Tardi, one by Franquin.
Look: two sketchbooks full of vintage drawings, many names like Moebius and also a small Batman by Mazzucchelli.
An Uncle Scrooge page by Don Rosa, a Donald Duck cover by Cavazzano, Donald Duck by Silvia Ziche.
A Junglemen page by Hugo Pratt, a Satanik cover by Corteggi, Napoleone by Bacilieri, a page by Micheluzzi, a Dylan Dog cover by Roi, a small illustration by Gipi, Tex by Ticci, a pinup by Enrico Marini, a rare Torpedo illustration in color by Bernet.
an Andy Capp strip, a Junior cover by Peter Bagge, a Ghost Rider page by Javier Saltares, a 100 Bullets title page by Risso, a Batman sketch by Sienkiewicz.
New Blog Post: Chris Samnee Batober prices/images!
I wrote the last post on the blog in June 2021, this newsletter is always updated, but the website was starting to get too much dust…
The opportunity of leaving a record of the Batober sketches by Chris Samnee was too good, so you can go and see a price chart and all 34 illustrations.
By the way, I have two other articles in the works, if time permits I plan to publish them in the next month.
Comic link Featured Auction part 1 of 2
Frank Miller – Daredevil Original Comic Art
Spidey/Daredevil original art by Frank Miller, top Hulk title splash by Marie Severin, Spider-Man by Kane/Romita, historical Thor page by Kirby, Thor by Buscema, a Dazzler cover by Springer, early Avengers by Heck, look at this Daredevil page by Colan.
A vintage Spidey painting by Jusko, a Conan cover by Norem, a Dynamo splash by Wood, a Ghosts cover by Kubert.
A Batman/Azrael cover by Mike Zeck, a Wonder Woman DPS by Jim Lee, some top covers by J. Scott Campbell, a Deadpool cover by Tradd Moore, a Parker page by Darwin Cooke, a Walking Dead cover by Michael Golden, a Y title page by Pia Guerra.
Look: a Blueberry page from the first volume by Giraud.
BD Enchères
Moebius/Giraud: a Blueberry page, a Jim Cutlass page, a color Starwatcher piece and many sketched books, B/W and color Blueberry sketches, a full figure in color, this one is very nice, and some more.
Then a Lucky Luke illustration by Morris, a Thorgal page by Rosinski a Dany illustration and many more big name sketches, like Delaby, Hergé…
Coutau-Bégarie Auction
A self portrait by Bilal, covers by Delval and Derib, pages by Delinx, Dos, Dodier, illustrations by Pedrosa, Tabary, Dautremer, Liberatore.
Dagoty Auctions
The top piece is a Tintin pinup by Hergé, a cover by Will, an illustration by Dany, one by Font, a Sybilline page by Macherot, a page by Delaby, one by Remacle.
Stanley's Auction
Big names for top pieces: Bilal, Gibrat, Tillieux, Chaland, Francq, Greg. Covers by Hermann and Vance, a beautiful Tardi illustration.
Native Bruxelles
A Tintin illustration prelim by Hergé and a Gaston illustration by Franquin.
Art-Rite Auction
A great 1976 piece by Pazienza, a story by Altan, a strip by Manara, a Wolverine page by Gabriele Dell’Otto, a Batman page by Matteo Scalera, a Punisher pinup by Tim Bradstreet.
This was a lot of work, took me 3 days… See you next week!
Welcome to #268 of Original Comic Art Tips! A great week, with many interesting/high results, an incredible eBay section and the best Heritage Weekly and Catawiki listings in a long while!
eBay: the Ripped Spider-Man cover by Gary Frank still went to $3,2k, I like a lot this Batman page by Don Newton, sold for $3k, a Spawn splash by Angel Medina for a $2,3k Best Offer, a 1993 Superman splash by Dan Jurgens for $2k, a Mouse Guard page by Petersen for $1,8k. With a $2,3k asking price, this Batman page by Jock was sold for a $1,3k B.O. a vampire illustration by Art Adams for $1k.
Some good deals: a Sgt. Fury page by Ayers for $1,2k, a Punisher page by Steve Dillon for a $800 B.O. a big Harley cover prelim by Frank Cho for $450.
Unexplainable results: a 2017 Snuffy Smith Sunday page was sold for $2k. If I had them I’d be happy to sell one for $200… Advertised as original art, there’s little doubt that this piece, sold for a $3,8k B.O. is just a print of a Gary Larson cartoon…
Remember last week’s fake Spidey sketch by Romita? It was sold for $1k, less than a comparable real sketch would sell for, but still a big sum. Remember it when it’ll resurface from a real seller…
Heritage Weekly Auction: the Black Spidey suit continues to win auctions, with this Frank Springer page sold for $8,4k. The Classic X-Men page went for $4,3k, the Man-Bat page by Golden for $4k, the Cyclops/Phoenix page by Ian Churchill for $2k, a color guide for a Fantastic Four cover by Byrne for $1,1k. Good deals on a Terry strip by Caniff and a Spider-Girl splash by Olliffe sold for $600.
Catawiki: €2,3k for an illustration by Crepax, €2,2k for a Corto Maltese strip by Hugo Pratt, €900 for a Margot page by Frezzato, €900 for a Satanik cover by Corteggi, La Linea by Cavandoli for €800, a Manara drawing for €750.
€800 for a Young Avengers page by Jim Cheung, €600 for an X-Men page by Simone Bianchi, €450 for a Dylan Dog illustration by Marco Soldi, €400 for a nice Salgarone piece by Jacovitti, €400 for a Disney page by Jippes, €240 for a nice Torpedo pinup by Bernet.
Some very good deals were also done this week: an Invaders page by Frank Robbins was sold for only €750, a very nice Milady cover prelim by Magnus for €600, a Topolino cover prelim by Cavazzano for €370 and 3 Micheluzzi pages sold for €350, €280 and €100.
Hake’s Auction: last week I wrongly believed I had another week to review this auction, it ended on Wednesday… A Superman splash by Al Plastino was sold for $17k, a Sandman page by Eagleson for $7k, an Air Pirates page by Bobby London for $6k, one by Gary Hallgren for a little less, a 1994 Superman cover by Guice for $6k, a Superman cover by Gil Kane for $5k, a Superman splash by Grummett for $3k.
A Daredevil page by Mazzucchelli for $5k, a 1955 Dick Tracy Christmas Sunday for $3k, a vintage sketchbook with top name sketches for only $700.
With classic original art prices going up to values impossible to reach for most collectors, color guides are quickly becoming prized collectibles. Prices are already starting to be unexplainable like it often happens for original art… Color guides for a Masterworks REPRINT of Amazing Spider-Man #1 were sold for $14k.
Comiclink: $7k for a Thanos page by Ron Lim, $6k for the Wonder Woman DPS by Garcia Lopez, $6k for the trading card color art by Paul Mounts over Ron Lim, a JLA/JSA page by Carlos Pacheco went for $2,5k, very good deal on this JLA page by Jim Lee with the full team: $2,5k, another page with Aquaman went for only $1,1k.
DC/Marvel Amalgam: a Darkclaw page by Ty Templeton sold for $2,6k made me think about a growth for all of the Amalgam characters, then I found some very nice Thorion pages by JRJR sold for $500.
Blackmark pages by Gil Kane are growing with a page paid $1,2k.
A Batman splash by Joe Prado inked over Ivan Reis bluelines went for $1,2k.
The production cover to a Captain Marvel issue by Gil Kane went for a high $5k.
Nate Sanders Auctions: the 1966 Hal Foster Prince Valiant page went for $7,5k, the highest price of the many, late, J.C. Murphy pages for $900.
This week on eBay
Chris Samnee – Batman Original Comic Art
Marvel: a Fantastic Four half splash by John Byrne, a Hulk page by Sal Buscema, a horror page by Severin/Trimpe, Shang-Chi by Nebres, uncredited Captain America sketch by Mike Zeck.
An Apocalypse cover painted by Esad Ribic, a Venom cover by JRJR, a Deadpool cover by Dan Panosian, a Fantastic Four cover by Steve McNiven.
A Black Cat sketch by Bruce Timm, a Spidey page by Jorge Molina, an Avengers page by Asrar, a Fastball Special commission by Rick Leonardi, a She-Hulk commission by Alan Davis.
DC: ready to see the second half of Batober/Batman daily sketches by Chris Samnee? (come back next week for a complete price chart). #18 Batman, #19 Freeze, #20 Batman, #21 Bruce/Selina, #22 Batman/Robin, #23 Batman/Deadshot, #24 Bruce/Batman, #25 Batman, #26 Batman/Clayface, #27 Nightwing, #28 Bruce, #29 Batman/Batgirl, #30 Bat Family, #31 Batman, #32 Robin, #33 Batman, #34 Batman/Robin. Never wrote so many times “Batman” in my life.
Look at this Action Comics cover by Gary Frank, two Infinity Inc. pages by McFarlane, this one and this one with a Spawn feel, a Two Face page by Tim Sale, a Fairest cover by Adam Hughes, a horror page and another one by Gil Kane, some more Batober sketches also by Mike Maihack, a Batman/Superman cover prelim by Simone Bianchi.
A charity auction with a rare Spawn sketch by Todd McFarlane, there’s also a nice Bone sketch, another Charity Auction with many newspaper cartoonists, here’s a Cathy illustration.
A Fathom pinup by Michael Turner, a BPRD cover by Mike Mignola, a cover by Matteo Scalera, Vampirella cover by Celina, a funny Wizard of ID Sunday, a B.C. daily.
Heritage Weekly Auction
Marvel: a lot of John Buscema pages, like this very early Conan, Thor, Tarzan and more, Rom by Sal+Sinnott, Spidey, Fantastic Four and Alpha Flight by Byrne, Dr. Strange by Colan, Spidey by Kane, Rogers, a Sunday by Paul Ryan.
Spider-Girl by Frenz/Buscema and Olliffe/Williamson, 3 nice Spidey pages by Scott McDaniel, one by Immonen, X-Factor by Simonson.
DC: Sandman by Hempel, Batman by Novick, Look at this Rima page by Niño, a Darkseid splash by Pablo Marcos.
Dredd by Hairsine, Invincible by Ottley, a Groo pinup by Aragones, Buz Sawyer by Crane, Terry by Caniff, a Bloom County daily.
Catawiki Auctions
Gabriele Dell'Otto – Joker Commission
A top Alan Ford page by Magnus, a Ken Parker page by Milazzo, early Dylan Dog by Dall’Agnol, a very nice Joker commission by Gabriele Dell’Otto, a Ranxerox pinup by Liberatore.
A Namor page and an Avengers page by Esad Ribic, an Iron-Man head sketch by JRJR/Janson, a page prelim by Will Eisner, an Uncle Scrooge cover prelim by Van Horn, a Trigan cover by Don Lawrence.
It’s time for the yearly auction of beautiful Franka original art by Henk Kuijpers. Many lots, including illustrations, pages, prelims and sketched books. Take a look.
Some nice sketched books by Tibet, De Gieter, Walthery, Lambil, Gos. A Jugurtha page and a Red Dust pinup by Hermann, a Vintage page by Daniel Torres, an Axa strip by Romero.
See you next week with the incredible Heritage Results!!!
Welcome to #267 of Original Comic Art Tips!
eBay: $3,1k for the Silver Surfer page by Ron Lim, $2,5k for the Two in One page by Tuska, $2,3k for the Doomsday Clock page by Gary Frank, $2k for a Wonder Woman page by Daniel Warren Johnson, $2k for a Batman Vs RIddler pinup by Neal Adams, $2k for the Sheena cover by Linsner, $1,8k for the Vampirella cover by Celina.
$1,7k for the Daredevil card art by Peach Momoko, $1,4k for the Hawkman cover painted by Andrew Robinson, $1,1k for a Green Lantern cover by Pat Gleason, $1k for the Spider-Man splash by Bagley.
A full figure, 9.6 Venom sketch cover by Frank Miller went for $1,7k.
Green Berets dailies by Kubert go for $300 at Weiss Auctions, on eBay somebody paid $1,3k for one. $1k seems a lot for 17 pages of Lobo color guides. Our friendly neighborhood forger was lucky, this week, and sold a fake Nightcrawler sketch by Dave Cockrum for $600. At the moment of writing a fake Spidey sketch by John Romita has 100 watchers and 30 clueless bids with two hours to go. This one is well done, if it wasn’t sold by a known forger I would maybe have believed it to be true.
$800 was a good price for the Conan DPS by Kwapisz, $200 a very good price for the Flash page by Paul Ryan.
Heritage Weekly Auction: $8,7k for the Fantastic Four page by John Romita, $6,6k for the Gen13 art by Campbell, $3,6k for the Spider-Girl cover by Olliffe, $3,3k for the Batman page by Golden, a Scrooge pinup by Don Rosa went pretty high at $1,9k, this Avengers page by Heck for $2k was a good deal.
Catawiki: a Tintin sketch by Hergé went for €2,7k, a cover by Keramidas for €1,6k, a Mickey Mouse page for €1,4k, the Manara sketch for €600, a Donald Duck drawn by Neal Adams for €300.
Mandarake: a Doraemon sketch was sold for $46k, a quick Ghost in the Shell sketch by Shirow for $6k. A very rare piece, two prelim pages from Uruseiyatsura by Rumiko Takahashi went for $7k.
This week on eBay
Chris Samnee – Batober Original Comic Art
DC: let’s do something different, this year, for Batober sketches by Chris Samnee. Instead of linking to my favorite ones I will show you them all..
#1 Batman/Villains 🔥, #2 Batman, #3 Catwoman 🔥, #4 Batman, #5 Batman/Ivy, #6 Batman/Robin 🔥, #7 Batman/2Face, #8 Batman/Azrael, #9 Batman/Robin, #10 Batman, #11 Batman/Harley, #12 Batman/Robin, #13 Batgirl, #14 Gordon, #15 Robin, #16 Batman/Robin, #17 Phantasm. Come back next week for these results and the second half of auctions!
Mike Mayhack is also selling his Batober sketches, they’re nice. A Batman/Harley cover prelim by Frank Cho, Flash pages by Greg LaRocque.
Marvel: last week’s Sgt. Fury page by Ayers is ending tomorrow and very low, price lowered yet again on the Conan page by Buscema. Now at $500 or Best Offer its good to buy. Last week I thought the Fantastic Four page by Barry Kitson was very good, but it’s ending tomorrow and still zero bids.
Look: a Spidey Vs Venom cover by Gary Frank with a big rip in the middle, I’d buy it for the right price. Then look at this Pollard/Sinnott Fantastic Four page. Another Conan page by JB, a Juggernaut cover by Michael Ryan.
A Red Sonja cover by Celina, Cavewoman by Budd Root, a Transformers cover by Casey Collier, a Prophet page and a Prophet/Youngblood page by Rob Liefeld, a Mouse Guard page by Petersen, Black Science by Scalera, a B.C. Sunday.
Heritage Weekly Auction
John Bolton – X-Men Original Comic Art
Marvel: the top collectible (not from an artistic point) of the week may be this Transformers page with black suit Spider-Man by Frank Springer. Speaking of toys there are some G.I. Joe pages by Trimpe and Micronauts by LaRocque.
Classic X-Men by Bolton, Iron-Man by Sal Buscema; look at this Iron Fist page by Rudy Nebres, a Spider-Girl splash by Olliffe/Williamson.
A Black Widow cover prelim by Frank Cho, Cyclops and Jean Grey by Ian Churchill.
DC: Man-Bat by Golden, a Trinity splash by Tyler Kirkham.
A Cerebus title splash, great Humorama page by Jim Mooney, Creepy by Infantino & Niño.
Buz Sawyer by Crane, Juliet Jones by Drake, Rip Kirby by Raymond, a 1965 B.C. daily, Yogi Bear by Hazelton, a Pogo daily.
Heritage Signature Auction part 3: Interior Art
Jim Lee – X-Men Original Comic Art
From the most valuable: a Spidey page by Steve Ditko, Hulk Vs. Wolverine by McFarlane, Ronin by Miller.
A Spidey splash by John Romita, but I also really like this page, a Thor splash by Kirby and a Demon DPS, Green Lantern by Neal Adams, Swamp Thing by Wrightson, X-Men by Byrne, a perfect Hulk page by Marie Severin.
A beautiful Spidey 2099 page by Leonardi, Spidey/Hulk DPS by JRJR, Spidey by Larsen, Wolverine Vs Thanos by Ron Lim, X-Force by Capullo.
What comes before the first appearance of Deadpool? The thumbnail for the first appearance of Deadpool.
A Aces High full story by Wood, look at this Iron-Man page by Barry Smith: many characters, signed and with a face redrawn by John Romita.
A big selection of Jim Lee pieces, I can’t choose one between this Captain America DPS, a Wolverine DPS and a Deathblow DPS.
Many Daredevil pages by Tim Sale, here’s a DPS.
Rarities: a Thor page by Walt Simonson, X-Men by Paul Smith, Witchblade original art by Michael Turner, a 1940 Captain Marvel page by C.C. Beck.
Uncle Scrooge pages, one by Carl Barks and many by Don Rosa.
Sandman pages by Dringenberg, Kieth, Jill Thompson.
ComicConnect Auction
A Thor cover by Cockrum, a page by Kirby, Machine Man by Ditko and Barry Smith, a Galactus splash by Buscema, some Byrne pages, a Batman cover by Aparo, a Lois cover by Neal Adams.
Black Spidey pages by Bagley, Milgrom, Buckler, a Spidey page by Andru, a splash by JRJR.
A Captain America splash by Epting, a Batman page by Lee Weeks, a Wolverine splash by McNiven, a Wolverine cover by Adam Kubert, a Silver Surfer cover by Ribic.
A Creepy story by Corben.
Comic Book Auctions Ltd.
A Dredd page by Mick McMahon, some Garth strips by Bellamy, a Dr. Who page by Dave Gibbons.
Nate Sanders' Prince Valiant Auction
A late Valiant page by Foster followed by a hundred J.C. Murphy pages.
See you next week!!
Welcome to #266 of Original Comic Art Tips!
eBay: the New Mutants cover (#30) by Bill Sienkiewicz was sold for $35k. A pretty high price, that places it near the top prices paid at auction for Sienk original art. The Beauty and the Beast #2 cover went for $14k, a Thunder Agents page by Wally Wood for a $3,7k Best Offer, a nice and early Preacher page for $2,2k.
$1,1k for a Green Lantern cover by Pat Gleason, $1k for a Wonder Woman page by Don Heck, $800 for a Green Goblin sketch by John Romita, $1k for the two Image cards by Silvestri, $1,3k (BO) for two sketches of Harley and Catwoman by Bruce Timm, that means $600 and $700 each…
A Doomsday Clock page with Batman by Gary Frank was sold for $880, not bad, an Uncle Scrooge pinup by Don Rosa for a $600 BO.
The Tim Sale Batman page and the TMNT cover by Eastman from last week are still going.
Heritage Weekly Auction: $13k for the Legion page by Grell, $12k for the Fantastic Four page by Kirby, $10k for the Nova splash by Sal Buscema, $8k for a Terry daily by Caniff, $2,9k for the Supergirl painting by Bruce Timm.
Catawiki: a page by Vandersteen went for €12k, very high for Catawiki standards, a Giuseppe Bergman page by Manara for €7,3k, a Borgia page for €3,1k, a page by Don Lawrence went very high at €4k, the Perramus page by Breccia for €3,2k, a Gaston sketch by Franquin for €850, an illustration by Crepax for €1,1k, a sketch by Marini for €600 and a Tex page by Villa for €270.
Heritage Coming Out Auction: $12k for a Batman painting by Jeff C. Jones, $6,6k for a Wonder Woman illustration by Byrne, a Wonder Woman cover by Matt Wagner for $2k, a Green Lantern cover by Ivan Reis for $1,7k, a Psylocke commission by Art Adams for $1,6k, $1,2k for the Catwoman commission by Chris Samnee. Plenty of low priced items too, like this Paul Smith cover quality commission for $1k, a Harley cover by Tim Sale for $3,6k, a nice Wonder Woman page by George Perez for $900, one by Byrne for $750, some great Batwoman pages by Ivan Reis for $300.
Mandarake: not a high price, this time, but a nice piece. A Spider-Man drawing by Ryoichi Ikegami, sold for $1,5k.
This week on eBay
Ron Lim – Silver Surfer Original Comic Art
Marvel: a Silver Surfer page by Ron Lim, Sgt. Fury by Dick Ayers, a Conan DPS by Gary Kwapisz, price lowered on this Conan page by Buscema, Punisher by Tom Lyle, Guardians by Jim Valentino.
a Hulk page by Deodato, a Spidey page by Barry Kitson, a Spidey splash by Bagley, a Shang Chi page by Nebres, a Galactus sketch by Adi Granov, a Wolverine commission by Rick Leonardi.
DC: a Green Lantern page by John Byrne, a top Doomsday Clock page by Gary Frank, look at this Hawkman cover by Andrew Robinson, Flash by Paul Ryan.
A Vampirella cover by Celina, a Sheena cover by Linsner, a Pitt sketch by Keown, a a painted cover by Budd Root, a Dark Crystal cover by Jae Lee, a punk drawn for a cover by Sienk, a Hawkshaw Sunday, a Wizard of ID Sunday strip, a B.C. daily.
Heritage Weekly Auction
Great week as it always happens when there’s a Signature Auction around the corner…
Marvel: Fantastic Four pages by John Romita (one, two), Tarzan by Buscema, Classic X-Men Original Art by John Bolton, Micronauts by Giffen, Avengers by Heck, Daredevil by Infantino/Janson, X-Men by Roth, a great looking Morbius splash by Tom Sutton.
This is big: a MCP page by Rob Liefeld, on the back you can see sketches of FEET! 😳
Look at this Rogue and Gambit page by Ian Churchill, a She-Hulk illustration by Gabriele Dell’Otto, a Spider Girl cover by Olliffe/Williamson, a Scarlet Spider splash by Tom Lyle.
DC: a Batman and a Demon page by Golden, Man-Bat by Rogers, A Horror page by Aragones.
A Gen13 page by Campbell.
A pretty nice piece for American Football fans, a big Opus sketch by Breathed signed by all the then players of the Buccaneers.
Hagar daily by Browne, Terry dailies by Caniff, a Buz Sawyer daily by Crane.
Catawiki Auctions
Keramidas- Mickey Mouse Original Comic Art
A Mickey Mouse page by Keramidas, an illustration by Aouamri, a sketch by Barbucci, a Johnny Hazard strip by Frank Robbins, Modesty Blaise by Romero, a sketch by Manara.
Dylan Dog by Micheluzzi, Martin Mystere by Palumbo.
Heritage Signature Auction part 2: Covers
John Romita – Marvel Saga Original Cover Art
Defenders by Sal Buscema, Fantastic Four by Byrne, Defenders by Kirby, Mary Jane by Romita, vintage Spidey by JRJR, Captain Marvel by Starlin.
Sin City by Miller, Batman by Aparo, Green Lantern by Kane, JSA by Alex Ross, Excalibur by Alan Davis, MCP by Kieth, X-Men Wizard cover by Joe Quesada, Daredevil by Tim Sale, Spidey by Dodson, Batman and Superman by Jim Lee.
Haunt of Fear by Ingels, Spawn by Capullo/McFarlane, American Flagg by Chaykin, some rare Preacher covers by Fabry, Fables by James Jean, Scrooge by Don Rosa…
Comic link Focused Auction
Top piece is probably a Wonder Woman DPS by Garcia Lopez, early New Mutants by Sal Buscema, Team Up by Bingham, Black Suit Spidey by Gammill, rare Starman cover by Tony Harris, Colossus by Leonardi, a Captain Marvel splash by Don Newton, a Wonder Woman splash by Delbo.
Many Gil Kane pieces such as a great Atom splash and a Conan page.
Many Ron Lim pieces: Thanos, Infinity Crusade, Galactus.
Look at how high this painted color piece by Paul Mounts over a Ron Lim (printed) trading card illustration is going.
A beautiful 1987 Iron-Man commission by Bob Layton, sadly inked in 2006… really a bad idea.
The birth of herald Morg by M.C. Wyman is getting bids, a Ghost Rider splash by Ron Garney, a Spidey cover by LaRocque, Iron Fist by Gabriele Dell’Otto, Spidey by Simone Bianchi, an Aquaman page by Jim Lee, early Strangers in Paradise.
Fauve Paris Auction
A collection of high quality drawings done for a Belgian TV personality.
Highlights, starting with an incredible color piece by Franquin, then Hergé, Graton, Peyo, Roba, Tibet, Lambil, some multiple lots with big names (one, two), his daughter’s sketchbook with the same and more names and an Asterix sketch by Uderzo.
See you Next Week!!
Welcome to #265 of Original Comic Art Tips! This comes on Sunday for the second time in a row, next week we’ll be back to Friday as usual.
eBay: a Mister Miracle page by Kirby went for a $4,5k Best Offer, the Atrocitus sketch by Jim Lee for $4k, $300 less than the first round 2 years ago. $3,1k for the Ghost Rider splash by Ploog, $3,3k for a Cyberfrog DPS by Ethan VanSciver, $2,2k for a Preacher page, $2,3k for a Batman page by Tim Sale.
The Ghost Rider title splash by Bret Blevins was sold again, this time for a $2k Best Offer, a Daredevil trading card by Peach Momoko for $1,8k, The vintage Stray Toasters sketches by Sienkiewicz for $1,6k and $1,4k, the Batman sketch by Mignola for $1,6k, a Hellboy for $1,5k, a Jim Lee page with something resembling Batman for $1k, a Wolverine commission by Trimpe for $1,2k, a Kim Jung Gi sketched book for $1,2k, another one for $1k.
Heritage Weekly Auction: first place for a rare Doom Patrol page by Bruno Premiani, sold for $10k, $8k for an Avengers page by Tuska, $7k for the Shadow DPS by Chaykin, $2,9k for the nice Defenders page by Sal Buscema.
Top Ten pages by Gene Ha are rare to find too, this one went for $1k, as expected the Batman head by Bruce Timm went for less than $1,8k… just $600. you could easily double that by flipping it on ebay.
Catawiki: a Conan by Sanjulian went for €1,3k, a Spirit cover prelim by Eisner for €750, Dylan Dog by Micheluzzi for € 350, Dylan Dog by Stano for €300, a Tex by Civitelli for €800, a Martin Mystere cover by Alessandrini for €300.
Heritage Harlan Ellison Auction: very high prices, with total sales nearing a Million dollars. The painted color art for the cover to Spawn #2 by Ken Steacy was sold for an incredible $168k, not comic art but a paperback cover by Richard Corben for the Vic and Blood novel was sold for $88k.
Auction record for Watchmen interior art, with this Dave Gibbons page sold for $84k, $57k for the three Wolverine pages by Frank Miller, auction record for Gene Day with a Batman cover sold for $26k, auction record for Kevin Maguire with a JLA page sold for $24k, $15k for a Spectre cover by Sandy Plunkett, $14k is the highest price paid for Batman original art by Gene Colan on HA.
Sotheby’s Persepolis Auction: the auction went very well, with £600k paid for 44 lots. The first page went for ten times the estimation at £40k, the other pages were sold for a price between £25k and £10k.
Tessier Sarrou Auction: top prices paid for two Tintin books sketched by Hergé, €14k and €12k, then a book sketched by Moebius for €5,6k.
€5k for a Dick Herisson page by Savard, €4,4 for an illustration by Hub, €3,2k for a page by Pellos, €2,1k for Ledroit, €2k for Dany, €1,8k for a Manara strip.
Nate Sanders’ Auction: a 1959 Peanuts sunday strip was sold for $59k, one from 1989 for $30k, a 1965 daily for $65k.
This week on eBay
Bill SIenkiewicz – New Mutants cover art
Marvel: are you ready for two covers by Bill Sienkiewicz? New Mutants #30 and Beauty and the Beast #2. Ending SOON!
A Conan page and another one by Buscema, Hulk by John Byrne, a sketched Michael Golden book, high priced Thor art by Buscema, Thor by Gil Kane, Daredevil page by Colan, and a Daredevil commission.
A Spidey cover by Marcelo Ferreira, a Wolverine DPS by Simone Bianchi.
DC: Wonder Woman and Green Arrow by Don Heck, Flash, Flash again by LaRocque, Hex by DeZuniga, Batman by Tim Sale, Doomsday Clock by Gary Frank.
A Invincible sketch by Ryan Ottley, low priced Basil Wolverton art, a TMNT cover by Eastman, two Top Cow trading cards by Marc Silvestri, Mage by Matt Wagner, Johnny Hazard daily by Robbins.
Heritage Weekly Auction
Marvel: a Nova/Spidey splash by Sal Buscema, Fantastic Four by Kirby.
DC: a Legion page by Grell, a Supergirl pinup by Bruce Timm.
A EC page by Severin, nice Fakk2 page by Bisley, Spawn by Capullo.
Strips: Buz Sawyer by Crane, a Garfield daily, a Rusty Riley Sunday, B.C., a Dennis panel by Ketcham, Archie by Montana, a Beetle Bailey Sunday, Corrigan by Williamson, look at this Tarzan Sunday by Yeates, a Hagar, many Terry strips,
Catawiki Auctions
Milo Manara – Original Comic Art
Look at this beautiful Giuseppe Bergman page by Manara, a Columbus panel, also a Borgia page, Necron by Magnus, a pinup by Marini, an illustration by Crepax, Ken Parker by Milazzo, a Tex page by Claudio Villa, a sketch by Liberatore.
A Disney panel by Silvia Ziche, a title page by Valerio Held, a Spidey sketch by Gabriele Dell’Otto.
Great Perramus page by Breccia, a page by Mandrafina, a Crimson page by Meglia, one by Torres, Storm by Don Lawrence, a Bilal storyboard, a Rosinski sketch.
A Yakari page and an illustration by Derib, a Franquin study and a Gaston sketch, a Comanche page.
Heritage Signature Auction part 1: Strips!
Seems like no Signature Auction can start until there’s a Calvin & Hobbes strip in the catalogue…
A top Peanuts Sunday and a very early daily, a Flash Gordon and some Rip Kirby strips by Raymond, a Prince Valiant, a Rarebit Fiend.
Many Johnny Comet strips by Frazetta, a rare Spirit strip by Jack Cole, a nice Dick Tracy Sunday, a rare 1945 Little Orphan Annie.
Many Garfield strips, many Terry strips, many Corrigan strips, many 1931 Blondie strips.
See you next week!
Welcome to #264 of Original Comic Art Tips! This is a second send, software assistance told me they had a server outage on Friday so nobody received it…
eBay: a Batman page by Neal Adams was sold for a $11k Best Offer, I wonder if it would have gone higher at Heritage.
The Star Wars page by Infantino for $5,4k, a Cavewoman cover by Budd Root for $4,2k (BO), a Cyberfrog cover by Ethan VanSciver for $2,5k, a painted cover by Scott Hampton for $2,5k, a Batman bust by Jason Fabok for $2k (I remember one sold no more than a month ago for less than $500, but I can’t find the link now).
A JLA page by Paul Pelletier claiming to feature the first appearance of Batwoman who Laughs went for $2,5k, while a Wonder Woman splash by Nicola Scott containing the first appearance of Star Sapphire went for $2k. (I never was an expert of the classic DC Universe, now I don’t really have a clue about what I just typed…)
$1,6k (BO) for a Spidey page by Alex Saviuk, $1,6k for a Black Cat page by Lee Elias, $1,5k for a Tarzan page by Manning, $1,5k for a Thor page by Ron Frenz, $1,3k for the Juliet Jones Sunday by Stan Drake.
Good deals for the Werewolf page by Redondo, sold for $1k, $800 for a Daredevil page by Bob Brown, $150 for a Flash page by Greg LaRocque.
Heritage Weekly Auction: $7,8k for a Pearls Before Swine Sunday, $7,2k for the color guides for X-Men #131.
$7,2k for a Spidey page by Byrne, $6,3k for a Forever People page by Kirby, $5,3k for a Sgt. Rock page by Kubert, $4,3k for a Legion page by Shooter, $4,2k for Dreadstar by Starlin, $2,6k for an Invincible page by Ryan Ottley.
Catawiki: the Margot page by Frezzato went for €1,2k, a Dupuy&Berberian painting for €900, the Colombo strip by Manara for €300, the Wonder Woman sketch cover by Frank Cho for €400.
Heritage Ed Asner Charity Auction: the Hellboy illustration by Mignola went for $7,2k, the cover by Adam Hughes for $6k, the Thor pinup by Walt Simonson for $5,5k, two Ghost Rider covers by Aaron Kuder for $900 seems a very good deal, a Jurgens/Nowlan Batman page for less than $800, the Hellblazer cover by Declan Shalvey for $600.
Weiss Auctions: a Peanuts Sunday went for $43k, a daily for $27k, the illustration by Frazetta for $30k, the Batman splash by Moldoff for $18k.
Kubert: the Ragman cover was the highest result at $17k, $9k was the highest price for DC War Comics covers.
The Orlando/Wood page went for $11k, the Wood cover for $10k.
A Spidey page by Bagley went for $4k, one by Sal Buscema was a good deal at $1,2k.
This week on eBay
Mark Bagley – Original Comic Art
DC: an Atrocitus sketch by Jim Lee, which was #26 of the 60 sketches done for charity in 2020. At the time it was sold for $4,3k, and now that I think of it I believed I’d see many of them for sale again, instead this is the second/third time it happens in two years…
A Batman page by Tim Sale, Transmetropolitan by Darick Robertson, I like this Batgirl pinup by Jae Lee, lowered price on the Batman sketch by Mignola, Ambush Bug by Giffen, some more Flash pages by Greg LaRocque. A Batman commission by Tony Daniel.
Marvel: Ghost Rider by Ploog, Kung Fu by Paul Gulacy and Kung Fu by Rudy Nebres. Vintage Wolverine Vs Captain America page by Mark Bagley, a Punisher page by Rod Wigham.
Hulk Vs. Cyclops by Ed McGuinness, Hulk Vs. Galactus by Daniel Warren Johnson, an Elektra commission by Sienkiewicz, 1987 Dr Strange by Mignola.
I don’t usually link to sketch covers but this CGC 9.8 remarked cover by John Romita seems a pretty good investment in 2022.
Look at these (one, two) Stray Toasters commissions from 1988 by Sienk.
A Cyberfrog DPS by Ethan VanSciver, a Elvira title splash by Dave Cockrum, a Cavewoman painting by Budd Root, a Geiger splash by Gary Frank, a Dawn pinup by Linsner, Mage by Matt Wagner, nice Witchblade page by Tony Daniel, a splash from The Boys by John McCrea.
Books with simple sketches by Kim Jung Gi are getting offers at $1k.
A Wizard of ID Sunday, a B.C. daily, an Archie daily by Dan De Carlo, a Dick Tracy daily,
Heritage Weekly Auction
Marvel: lots of Sal Buscema pages, look at this Defenders, then Nova, Two in One, Captain America, Hulk. Fantastic 4 by Byrne, top Iron-Man by Tuska, a detailed splash by Giffen.
A Captain America page by Immonen, a 1984 Thor sketch by Simonson, an Iron-Man page by JRJR (modern).
DC: Superman by Boring, Wonder Woman by Delbo, Sandman by Kirby, a Shadow DPS by Chaykin, a Supergirl DPS by Ian Churchill, another Batman head sketch by Bruce Timm.
A Top Ten page by Gene Ha, a Hellboy sketch by Bermejo, a Ditko page, a Dredd page by Gibson, a pinup by Adam Hughes.
Strips: a very funny Thanksgiving themed Winnie Winkle Sunday, Buz Sawyer by Crane, look at the art on this Rusty Riley daily, a panel by Jim Borgman, I like this Flash Gordon daily by Dan Barry.
Catawiki Auctions
Gabriele Dell'Otto – Batman Original Comic Art
The big piece is a Marvels page by Alex Ross, a World Around Us page by Jack Kirby, a Spirit cover sketch by Will Eisner.
A Batman pinup by Gabriele Dell’Otto, nice 101 Dalmatians illustration, a early illustration by Sergio Toppi, a pinup by Enrico Marini, Columbus by Manara, a Disney commission by Mottura.
Dylan Dog by Micheluzzi and a page by Stano, a Martin Mystere cover by Alessandrini, a Tex illustration by Civitelli.
Batman pages by Alcatena, a Superman cover by Pasqual Ferry, an Avengers cover prelim by Carlos Pacheco, pages by Daniel Torres, Luis Bermejo and Jose Gonzalez.
Sotheby's Persepolis Auction
Sotheby’s is auctioning 40+ pages from the Persepolis novel by Marjane Satrapi. Prices are high (£4k starting price), but considering that Persepolis is one of the most read graphic novels since Maus it may become a very good deal in the long run.
Tessier-Sarrou Auction
Pages by Tibet, Ledroit, Munuera, Sorel, Smudja, Manara and Griffo.
Also a very big section of sketched books, some highlights are Moebius, Mezieres, Francq.
See you next week!!
Welcome to #263 of Original Comic Art Tips!
eBay: $6,5k for the Spider-Man page by Mark Bagley, $3,4k for the Sgt. Rock DPS by Russ Heath, $3,3k for the early Mage page by Wagner, $3,5k for the Fantastic Four page by Buscema, $2,8k for the Spidey page by Ross Andru, $2,5k for a TMNT movie adaptation page.
$3,7k (Best Offer) for a 1960 DC page by Sekowsky, a Tank Girl page by Jaime Hewlett sold last week for $2k (which was a good deal) now for sale again for $9k (which is too much).
$1,8k for a nice Conan page by John Buscema, $2,5k for a Cyberfrog splash by VanSciver, $2,5k for a title page by Grandenetti/Wood, a sketched Kim Jung Gi book for $1k (BO).
Somebody paid $4k for a Sandman page prelim by Kristiansen, I wonder if they thought they were buying the published page.
Somebody is buying all of the (usually very cheap) Sonic pages available for high prices, this one for $1k.
After last week’s newsletter I received a lot of messages (thanks!) informing me that the Carlos Pacheco cover was probably a copy, as revealed by the original inker. Zooming in it’s not very clear, I don’t see pencil marks or whiteout, so it probably is a vintage copy that was sold for $2,7k. I hope the buyer is able to recognize an original piece from a copy with the paper in hand.
Heritage Weekly Auction: $23k for the Love & Rockets page by Jaime Hernandez, $9k for the Hulk page and $3k for the Captain America page by Sal Buscema, $6,6k for the Hulk page by Keown, $5,5k for the Spidey page by Byrne, $3,8k for a Crow cover by Alex Maleev.
$3,3k for the X-Men #130 color guides, $1,5k for the Amazing Spidey #88 cover color guide, a little less for the production print for the Hulk #180 cover.
Catawiki: a Corto strip by Hugo Pratt went for €2,5k, a pinup by Rojo for €600, a Asso di Picche page by Gimenez for €500.
Comiclink Auction: $10k for the Daredevil page by JRJR, $7,5k for the X-Men page by Andy Kubert, $6,5k for the Phoenix cover by J. Scott Campbell, $6,5k is not a bad deal on an X-Factor page by Simonson.
Last week I told you to keep an eye on the Bruce Timm pieces, the last Batman headsketches posted on Moy’s website had a $1,8k price tag, well this one instead went for $800, the Harley sketch for $750, instead of $1,250, while a full figure Batman went for $2,6k.
Exactly the opposite happens for Art Adams commissions, they were at $1,5k last week, this Magneto went for $2k and this Poison Ivy for $1,9k.
Some unexplainably high prices, like this Al Rio pinup sold for $2,5k, a Cyberforce page by David Finch for $2k, a Gen13 page by Gary Frank for $2k. I don’t want to believe these went high for the half naked superheroines… maybe second tier Image pages are growing?
Time for the thousand low priced pieces, the most interesting were a Hulk transformation page by Ron Wilson for $800, a DC Trinity pinup by Ivan Reis for $750, an Avengers DPS by Leinil Yu for $700, Y pages by Pia Guerra for $700 and $500, a DC cover by Riley Rossmo for $500, the Demon by Byrne for $500, Spidey by Simone Bianchi for $500.
Two Teen Titans pages by George Perez sold at MyComicShop, $2,3k and $1,7k.
A Gaston page by Franquin for €38k and an Asterix sketch by Uderzo for €3,5k at Fauve.
This week on eBay
Ron Frenz – Thor Original Comic Art
Marvel: a Star Wars page by Infantino, Thor by Frenz/Sinnott, Fantastic Four by Pollard/Sinnott, a Werewolf page by Virgilio Redondo.
A Wolverine page (inks over bluelines or not?) by Alan Davis, a Fantastic Four cover by Pasqual Ferry.
DC: a Flash page by Greg LaRocque, some Batman sketches by Neal Adams, a Harley page by Risso, cheap Hellblazer page by Steve Dillon.
Some girl sketches by Bruce Timm, a Black Cat page by Lee Elias, a Red Sonja cover by Celina, a 200AD page by Ezquerra, a Dawn commission by Linsner, a Yoda commission by Daniel Warren Johnson.
Top Juliet Jones Sunday page by Stan Drake, a Terry Sunday by Wunder, a 1944 Bringing Up Father daily, a panel by Opper, a B.C. daily.
Heritage Weekly Auction
David Mazzucchelli – Batman Original Comic Art
Marvel: Spider-Man original art by John Byrne, Hulk, Hulk 2, Captain America and Two in One by Sal Buscema, Iron-Man by Tuska.
Nice Apes page by Ploog, Captain Marvel by Pat Broderick, Team Up by Bob Hall, Invaders by Robbins, nice Hulk page by Trimpe, a Wolverine commission by Neal Adams.
DC: a war splash by Joe Kubert, Superman by Boring, JLA by Dillin, Forever People and Jimmy Olsen by Kirby, Flash by LaRocque, a Batman splash by Scott McDaniel, a Batman sketch by Mazzucchelli.
A 1978 Dredd page by Gibson, a rare Dreadstar page by Starlin, some MAD marginals by Aragones, Tomb Raider by Jusko.
Some great Terry dailies, this week, a funny Pearls Sunday by Pastis.
Catawiki Auctions
Patrizio Evangelisti – Original Painting
A Donald Duck painting prelim and his nephews by Barks, a Margot page by Frezzato, look at this illustration by Evangelisti, Colombo by Manara, Bob 84 by Bacilieri, a page by Breccia, Dupuy&Berberian, a Wonder Woman sketch by Frank Cho.
Heritage Ed Asner Charity Auction
The usual mix of published pieces and illustrations done for this auction.
An X-Men cover by Adam Hughes, a new Hellboy illustration by Mignola and a Thor pinup by Walt Simonson, a Two in One cover by Philip Tan, a Hellblazer cover by Declan Shalvey, Gabriel Hardman, Ryan Sook, Lee Weeks.
Heritage Coming Out in Comics Auction
Many nice pieces to see here, a Wonder Woman cover by John Byrne, a Green Arrow cover by Tim Sale, some Jungle Jim pages by Jeff Jones, a Catwoman illustration by Chris Samnee, some Love & Rockets pages by Jaime.
A Wonder Woman splash by Nicola Scott, a Psylocke commission by Art Adams, some nice Batman/Batwoman pages by Ivan Reis, a rare 1991 sketch by Joe Mad.
Heritage Harlan Ellison Collection
I wasn’t expecting so much comic art in this auction, Harlan was a real collector, there are less covers and pages for Ellison written books and comics than classic DC/Marvel pieces. Maybe some pieces will go lower than market value for being buried inside a science fiction auction.
We start with three Watchmen pages, look at this one. Some very rare to find JLI pages and a cover by Kevin Maguire, look at this Swamp Thing page by Wrightson, a Doom Patrol cover by Byrne, a great Fantastic Four page by Kirby, three Wolverine pages by Frank Miller, a Dr. Strange cover by Sam Kieth, and really MANY more.
Urania Aste part 2 of 2
A page from Dylan Dog #1 by Stano, a Nathan Never title page by Nicola Mari, a Julia cover by Laura Zuccheri, Valentina by Crepax, Ken Parker by Milazzo, a page by Manara, I really like this Clara illustration by Bernet.
Altai & Johnson, Silas Finn, Mickey Mouse by Cavazzano.
A Batman page by Tim Sale, Hulk by Sal Buscema, Superfriends by Ramona Fradon. A Prince Valiant panel by Foster, an X-9 daily by Raymond, a 1936 Blondie Sunday, a Terry daily.
Weiss Auctions
A Peanuts Sunday and a daily. A John Carter illustration by Frazetta, a Batman splash by Moldoff. Vintage Spidey pages by Bagley and Buscema, a Warren page by Wood.
Many lots from the Joe Kubert estate, with covers and strips, I like this cover, this one and this one.
See you next week!!
Welcome to #262 of Original Comic Art Tips!
eBay: I swear that the Spider-Man 2099 DPS by Rick Leonardi was still at $1,2k when I sent the last newsletter, it ended at $12k 😳.
$6,4k for the Captain America page by John Byrne, $2,9k for a Harbinger page by David Lapham, $1,7k (B.O.) for a Savage Dragon/Destroyer Duck vintage cover inked by Larsen over Marrinan pencils, the illustration by Mignola for $1,6k, $1,6k for the Cavewoman cover by Budd Root, a Dracula page by Gene Colan for $900 (B.O.), $1,1k for the Hulk cover by Juan Ferreira.
A few hours after the sad news, a book sketched by Kim Jung Gi was sold for $1,5k.
$1,3k for a Batman cover by Ed Benes was a good deal, $800 for a nice Wonder Woman page by Don Heck and for the Batman Villains sketch by Tim Sale.
Heritage Weekly Auction: $6,6k for the Spidey page by John Byrne, not that high considering 2022 prices, same price for a rare NAM page by Michael Golden, 5,3k for the Rose page by Vess, $5k for a 1948 Li’l Abner daily, what happened here? $4,2k for a Star Wars page by Vosburg, $3,6k for a Mr. Punch page by McKean. Month after month Warlord pages by Grell are growing, this one went for $3,6k.
A nearly complete set of color guides over an X-Men issue by Byrne went for $3,3k.
Catawiki: the page by Sean Murphy went for €600, a sketch by Liberatore for €400, the Columbus strip by Manara for €400, the Diabolik cover by Zaniboni for €330, the Will Eisner panel for €400.
Heritage International Auction: top price paid is $137k for the Batman cover by Jim Lee (already sold in 2016 for $35k), $93k for the Memories cover by Otomo, a Kubla Kahn illustration by Frazetta for $75k.
Very high prices for Watchmen pages, this one went for $58k. $47k is the highest price paid for an Elektra page by Frank Miller, $45k for a page by Bilal, $30k for a cover by Jimenez, high prices for Batman pages by Risso, Super Mario Shikishi sketches went for $300 on Catawiki months ago, this one for $1,6k.
This triple cover inked by Oclair Albert over Ivan Reis is probably the record price for an inks over printed bluelines piece.
The catalogue was very deep, so there were also good deals to make: $47k is not a high price for this page by Jack Kirby starring both the Fantastic Four and the X-Men, $30k for a Deathbird splash and $19k for this Catwoman page, both by Jim Lee, “low” prices for Winsor McKay art: $68k for a Little Nemo page and $13k for a Rarebit Fiend page, a Blueberry page by Giraud for $12k, $10k is very good for a Crumb page, $9k for a Conan page by Barry Smith, $7k for a Marshal Law cover by O’Neil, a Hulk splash by Byrne for $5,5k, a full team Avengers page by Sal Buscema for $2,1k.
Sold in 2020 for $17k, this Batman page by Enrico Marini was sold again for $11k.
A late but very nice Conan page by John Buscema went for only for $750, a Strontium Dog title page by Ezquerra for $600, a Disney cover by Cavazzano for $600
This week on eBay
Carlos Pacheco – Iron Fist Original Cover Art
Marvel: the vintage Spidey/Hulk page by Mark Bagley is still going at $2,7k. Remember the Spidey sketch by John Byrne sold in august for $900? it’s back on eBay. A Spidey page by Ross Andru, I like this Dr. Strange page by Dan Lawlis, there’s also a Cloack & Dagger page, a nice Hawkeye page by Ron Lim, a ROM page by Butch Guice.
A nice Iron Fist cover by Carlos Pacheco, Cable commission by Ryan Ottley, a Thor page by Nic Klein.
DC: a Sgt. Rock DPS by Russ Heath, there’s also a single page, Batman by Rich Buckler, Batman by Ric Estrada, an early Impulse page by Humberto Ramos, a Flash page by Paul Ryan, Superman by Pasqual Ferry.
An early Mage page and a modern Mage page by Matt Wagner, many TWD pages by Charlie Adlard, Savage Dragon pages 1 and 2 by Marrinan/Larsen.
Heritage Weekly Auction
Marvel: two nice Spidey pages one by John Byrne and one by Ross Andru, Hulk, Defenders and Captain America by Sal Buscema, Captain Marvel by Pat Broderick, nice Apes page by Mike Ploog, Iron-Man by Tuska.
Hulk original art by Dale Keown, a ‘90s Thor cover by Mike Deodato, a Thor cover by Laura Braga, X-Men by Finch, Hulk by Immonen.
DC: the Atom by Kane, Warlord by Grell, ’90s Superman by Tom Morgan.
A JLA DPS by Bagley, JLA by Ed Benes, nice Green Arrow page by Phil Hester, a Green Arrow splash by Scott McDaniel, Batman by Parobeck, The Authority by Quitely.
A very early and top Love & Rockets page by Jaime, a Martha Washington cover by Gibbons, a Terry daily by Caniff.
Catawiki Auctions
A Topolino cover by Freccero, some Disney panels by Silvia Ziche, an illustration by Manara, a Ranxerox sketch by Liberatore.
A pinup by Dany, an Andy Capp strip.
Comic link Focused Auction
John Romita Jr. – Daredevil Original Comic Art
No doubt that the top two pieces of the auction are this original Daredevil page by John Romita Jr. and this X-Men page by Andy Kubert, then X-Factor by Walt Simonson, rare Captain America art by John Buscema and only one Marvel cover by J. Scott Campbell this time.
Remember years ago when I was telling you that Spidey pages by Alex Saviuk were going up? They were selling for $800 on ebay at the time…
A Batman half splash by David Finch, a Batman cover by Joelle Jones is going up, a Batman pinup by Bruce Timm and some Batman headsketches, last week Moy put a few for sale at $1,8k each, so you can try and win them for less… Captain America by Ron Lim, Iron-Man by McDonnell, nice Spidey women cover prelim by Mike Mayhew.
An Avengers DPS by Leinil Yu, an X-Men DPS by Chris Bachalo, Earth X by J.P. Leon, the Question by Cowan, Wonder Woman by Delbo, JLA by Dillin, a Batman commission by Chris Samnee.
Transmetropolitan by Darick Robertson, 100 Bullets by Risso, Y by Pia Guerra.
Urania Aste part 1 of 2
Magnus – Le Femmine Incantate Original Art
A section on Magnus with a beautiful page from Le Femmine Incantate, a self portrait, Milady nel 3000, the entire #19 of Alan Ford and many more.
A section on Andrea Pazienza: Zanardi Medievale, Pentothal and more.
Some illustrations by Sergio Toppi, here’s my favorite one. Dino Battaglia, look at the Black Arrow and Ivanhoe pages.
Then Pratt, Micheluzzi, Tacconi, a great piece by Cavandoli, Crepax, a top Jacovitti piece and a Sam Pezzo cover by Giardino.
Dago by Salinas, Robin by Breccia, Garcia Duran, Juan Gimenez, a Mafalda pinup by Quino, look at this page by Dose.
See you next week!!
Welcome to #261 of Original Comic Art Tips! You should really look at the extensive eBay section this week, plenty of great lots.
Original Comic Art Auction Results
eBay: a Frankenstein page by Bernie Wrightson was sold for $11,2k (Best Offer), a Sandman page by Teddy Kristiansen for $2,2k, a Quimby strip by Chris Ware for $2,5k, a Batman Adventures cover by Ty Templeton for $2,2k (BO), a Man-Thing page by Sal Buscema for $1,9k (BO).
Somebody got a very good deal on a page from Avengers #18 by Don Heck that went for only $2,5k. Two pages from the same issue were sold in the last months: one for $5,2k and one for $10,2k, this one was not as good, with two static Captain America shots, so you could give it a market value of $4-5k.
Then an Invincible commission by Ryan Ottley went for $1,7k (BO), a splash from The Ray by Joe Quesada for $1,6k (BO), a Cavewoman cover by Budd Root for $1,7k, a Felix illustration by Pat Sullivan for $1k (BO) and a Daredevil commission by Chris Samnee for $600 (BO).
Heritage Weekly Auction: different names for highest prices this week, the Terry Sunday by Caniff was sold for $10k, Mage by Matt Wagner for $8k, $6,6k for the Superman Sunday by Boring, a page from Azrael #1 by Joe Quesada for $4,3k, these were cheap a couple years ago.
$1,6k for the illustration by Bruce Timm, just $300 more than what a quick Batman head sketch sells for, a rare New Yorker panel by Eldon Dedini for $1,8k, a Legionnaires page by Chris Sprouse for a pretty high $1,4k, $700 was a good deal for this X-men page by John Cassaday.
Cheap Terry dailies: $800, $800, $600.
Look: a copy of the DC Style Guide book by Jose Luis Garcia Lopez went for $3,3k, time for a b/w reprint?
Catawiki Auctions: the Tintin panel by Hergé was sold for €3,8k, the prelim for €1,5k, the Trigan cover by Don Lawrence for €4k, the El Gaucho page by Manara for €1,6k, the Spirou page by Schwartz for €2,4k
The Bilal sketch for €1,6k, a pinup by Shane Glines and Bruce Timm for €650, one by Enrico Marini for €500, a page by Micheluzzi for €400.
Heritage Animation Auction: the highest price had nothing to do with animation, a Peanuts Sunday sold for $72k, the Hildebrandt Wolverine for $33k, the Gambit for $26k, the page by Tezuka went for $13k, the sketch by Mikimoto for $2k, the Galaxy Trio by Alex Toth for $1,8k.
Russ Cochran Auctions: a Tarzan Sunday by Foster was sold for $24k, a Man of War page by Chaykin for $1,4k, an American Flagg page was a good deal at $360.
This week on eBay
Rick Leonardi – Spider-Man 2099 Original Comic Art
Marvel: a Captain America page by John Byrne, look at this Spider-Man 2099 DPS by Rick Leonardi, still very low with only a day left! Then look at this vintage Spidey page by Mark Bagley, a top Two in One page by Tuska, a Fantastic Four page and an X-Factor page by John Buscema, Captain America by Kieron Dwyer.
Two Avengers covers by Ed McGuinness, Spidey Vs. Goblin by Bob McLeod, Spidey sketch by Bruce Timm, a Spidey page by Adam Kubert, a Captain America page by Steve Epting, a Hulk cover by Juan Ferreira, an Avengers splash by JRJR, a Conan cover stat by Silvestri, a Thor pinup by Adam Hughes.
DC: nice Superman daily by Tuska, unpublished Vertigo painted cover by Kaluta, a Superman cover by Tyler Kirkham, a Harley pinup by Ebas, a Batman villains sketch by Tim Sale, Flash by LaRocque.
A big lot of cover quality DC commissions: Superman/Lois and White/Black Queen by Tom Grummett, Batman/Harley by Ryan Benjamin, Green Lantern by John Timms, Kolins, Semeiks, Dwyer, Truog, Isherwood, McLeod, Calafiore.
A great Fathom piece by Michael Turner and a cover layout, an Invincible splash by Ottley, a G.I. Joe commission by Tony Daniel, the Hellboy piece by Mike Mignola is still going, a Cavewoman cover by Budd Root, a rare Trashman page by Spain, a Dawn pinup by Linsner, a Youngblood poster by Chris Sprouse.
A Wizard of ID daily, a B.C. daily.
Heritage Weekly Auction
Marvel: a Spidey page by Byrne, Captain America and Hulk pages by Sal Buscema, Iron-Man by Tuska, vintage Captain America by Kevin Maguire, great Conan page by Castellini, a Spidey commission by Bachalo.
DC: Warlord by Grell, a Robin splash by Grummett, a Jack B. Quick commission by Kevin Nowlan.
Rose by Vess, a pinup by Vaughn Bodé, a Judge Dredd strip by Ian Gibson, rare Magnus page by Russ Manning, Bettie Page by Dan Panosian.
A Winnie Winkle Sunday, a Terry daily by Caniff, a B.C. Sunday, an On Stage Sunday, a Beetle Bailey daily.
Catawiki Auctions
Sean Murphy Original Comic Art
A Dylan Dog illustration by Angelo Stano, a Diabolik cover by Sergio Zaniboni, Dylan Dog by Mari, nice sketch by Liberatore, a Disney page by Asteriti, a Columbus strip by Manara.
A nice page from The Plot Holes by Sean Murphy, an Odd Fact panel by Eisner, a sketched Jim Starlin art book.
A page by Mandrafina, two by Garcia Seijas, one and two pages by Breccia, a pinup by Rojo, Axa by Romero.
Vermot & Associés Auction
Pages by Blain, Pichard, Mallie, Wasterlain, Jijé, Gos.
Fauve Paris Auction
A Gaston page by Franquin, a big Asterix sketch by Uderzo, Valerian by Mezieres.
See You Next Week!!
Welcome to #260 of Original Comic Art Tips!
eBay: $11k paid for the She-Hulk cover by Dale Keown, the Hellboy page by Mignola was sold last week for a $6k Best Offer, then 5 days later for $5k…
A Sandman page by Colleen Doran for $6k, a Spider-Man page by Win Mortimer for $1,7k, $4k for a Cavewoman cover by Budd Root, $1,8k for a pinup, $2,1k (B.O.) was a good deal for a Captain Marvel title page by Pat Broderick.
$1,6k for a very faded Elfquest sketch by Wendy Pini, $1,3k for a sketched Batman book by “Bob Kane”, $1,1k (B.O.) for a Scrooge commission by Don Rosa, $1,1k for a Batman commission by David Finch, $1k for the Robin page by Gene Colan.
After a couple $1k copies sold months ago, this remarked Hellboy Artist’s Edition was sold for less than $500.
Heritage Weekly Auction: many surprises this week, the highest paid piece was this 1950 Mickey Mouse daily by Gottfredson that went for $15k, a good deal on this rare Thor page by Simonson, sold for 3,8k, a Batman page by Ernie Chan for $3,4k, a Hitler appearance adds a zero to the price paid for this Barney Baxter Sunday, sold for $3,2k, a James Bond strip by Horak for $2,6k, an On Stage daily for $1,8k, an X-Men half splash by Chris Bachalo for $1,7k.
Catawiki: the Spirit cover sketch by Will Eisner was sold for €1,6k, the Batman title page by Alcatena went for €550, a Batman page for €500, a page by Bretecher for €550.
ComicConnect Auction: many items from the “Tom De Falco collection” went for very high prices, the higher, from the first Black Suit Spidey issue went for $80k, the first cover appearance of the New Warriors for $57k, a page from the first appearance of Spider-Girl for $10k, all three drawn by Ron Frenz.
Then comes the Elektra page by Frank Miller, sold for $38k, the Spidey illustration by Kirby for $33k, a 1988 Galactus splash by John Buscema for a high $30k, a nice Thor page by Kirby for $15k, X-Men by JRJR for $14k, an X-Men cover by Art Adams for $10k, a Wolverine splash by Joe Mad for $7k.
Many lower prices: a Batman page by Capullo for $5k, Mr. Miracle by Kirby for $5k, a Ditko page with Hulk for $2,4k is a very good deal, a Thor page by Buscema for $2,3k, a Machine Man page by Barry Smith for $1,9k.
For eBay flippers the best pieces were this full figure Hellboy sold for $500, a Spidey Sunday by Saviuk for $500, a Thanos commission by Starlin for $450 and also a Hulk commission for $300.
This week on eBay
Gene Colan – Incredible Hulk Original Comic Art
Marvel: a Hulk transformation page by Gene Colan, a Spider-Man DPS by Terry Dodson, nice Man-Wolf page by Tuska, Beast by Sutton, Morbius by Wagner.
DC: Flash by Greg LaRocque, Infinity Inc. by McFarlane, a Sandman wraparound cover by Kaluta, a Lobo illustration by Dave Johnson, a Batman sketch by Jim Lee.
A Cavewoman illustration and a Lioness illustration by Budd Root, TMNT by Noah Van Sciver, a Grendel page by Tim Sale, a Faust page and a vintage commission by Tim Vigil.
Strips: Star Wars by Alcala, a Wizard of ID Sunday, a Dick Tracy daily, a B.C. daily.
Heritage Weekly Auction
Marvel: X-Men by Werner Roth, Tarzan by Sal Buscema, top Iron Fist and Power Man pages by Mike Zeck, X-Men by John Cassaday.
DC: a Superman Sunday by Wayne Boring, a Flash style guide by Garcia-Lopez, Warlord by Grell, Flash by Infantino.
Two Giunta/Wood Dynamo pages, Hellblazer by Dillon, early Love & Rockets by Gilbert, a Hellboy page by Mignola, an illustration by Mark Schultz, a painted illustration by Bruce Timm, early Mage by Matt Wagner.
A Terry Sunday by Caniff, a Pogo Sunday, look at this Rip Kirby by Raymond.
Catawiki Auctions
Claudio Villa – Tex Original Cover Art
A 1933 Tintin panel by Hergé and a prelim, a Buddy Longway page by Derib, Spirou by Schwartz, a Bilal sketch with a lot of bids, a pinup by Dany, a page by Laudy.
A Tex cover by Claudio Villa, an illustration by Civitelli, El Gaucho by Manara, a page by Micheluzzi, a Julia cover by Soldi, a Ranxerox pinup by Liberatore.
Look at this Trigan cover by Don Lawrence, a Franka page by Kuijpers, a nice E. Breccia page, a pinup by Marini.
A thematic René Follet auction.
Heritage International Auction
Jim Lee – Batman Original Cover Art
A Memories cover by Otomo, a Pokemon page, a Shigeru Mizuki illustration, an Astro Boy Shikishi by Tezuka.
Many Kirby pages and a Kamandi cover, many John Buscema pages like Spider-Man, Silver Surfer and Conan, Conan by Barry Smith, Elektra by Miller, a Scarlet Witch splash by Byrne, an Excalibur splash by Alan Davis.
Batman by Aparo, a Hush cover by Jim Lee, some nice Batman pages by Risso, a Batman DPS by Sean Murphy, a Batwoman DPS by J.H. Williams.
A Spirit cover by Eisner, a Crumb page, many Scrooge pages and a cover by Don Rosa, a page from Cerebus #1.
Many pages by Manara, Fanfulla by Pratt, a color splash by Pazienza, Druuna by Serpieri, a Mickey Mouse cover by Cavazzano, a Batman half splash by Marini.
Mezieres, Bilal, Gimenez, many Moebius pieces, Martin.
A Strontium Dog title page by Ezquerra, a Eagle cover by Hampson, a V for Vendetta page, a Marshal Law cover by O’Neill.
Not many strips, but some top pieces, look at this Winsor McKay Christmas illustration, there’s also a Little Nemo page, a Krazy Kat Sunday, a perfect Pogo Sunday.
BD Encheres
A Bob Morane page by Vance, a Corto strip by Pratt, a Papyrus cover, a cover prelim by Dany, one by Keramidas, a Batman prelim by Marini.
Sketches by Guarnido, Barbucci, Delaby, Mezieres, Graton, Leloup, Hergé.
See you next week!!
