Welcome to #259 of Original Comic Art Tips!!
eBay: a Darkseid cover by Gabriele Dell’Otto was sold for $15k, at the same time a Joker commission in a bad frame went for $4k.
$4k for a Infinity Inc. page by Todd McFarlane, $3,5k for a Dr.Strange page by Tuska, $2k for a Y page by Pia Guerra, $1,5k for a Superman page by Jim Lee.
A Superman strip by Wayne Boring went for $2k, an Elfquest sketch by Wendy Pini for $1,6k, a Scrooge commission by Don Rosa for a $1,1k Best Offer, a very early On Stage daily for $1,2k, look at this very nice Elektra piece by Sienk sold for $850.
The Batman page by Jim Lee is “no longer available”.
Heritage Weekly Auction: the X-Men/Alpha Flight page by Jim Lee was sold for $12k, a Terry daily for $10k, a Superman page with a few Frank Quitely lines for $6,6k, Mage by Matt Wagner for $4,3k, a Thor page by Buscema for $4k, a page from Alias #1 by Gaydos for $4k.
A Conan splash by Kane for $2,4k was not bad, also a Ditko page under $800, look at this great Terry strip sold for only $500.
Catawiki: a Junglemen page by Pratt went for €850, a nice Bernet pinup for €400, the Batman page by Torres for €350.
Heritage Signature Auction: just linking to new record prices as usual, there are more “high prices” than what I can show here… Steve Ditko wins with his new $432k record price, $100k more than his previous record made just last January.
$228k record for Don Heck with another page from the origina of Iron-Man, $228k interior art record for Frank Miller, $216k record for Calvin & Hobbes art by Watterson, the same strip was sold in 2020 for $102k.
Big record for Dave McKean, with the Sandman #5 cover sold for $90k, am I forgetting a Daredevil piece sold elsewhere or this Ninjak cover sold for $66k is the record price for Joe Quesada?
$66k for a Wolverine splash by Adam Kubert, $52k for a Stormwatch cover by Charest, very high $50k jump for a Ghost Rider cover by Texeira, $28k for a Wolverine cover by Bret Blevins, $25k for a Captain Marvel cover by Pat Broderick, $25k for Ron Lim (no time to check the ComicLink prices), $21k for Chuck Patton.
Auction record price for a Spawn cover by Greg Capullo (we all know of that Batman cover sold privately for much more..). $19k for Ernie Chan, $15k for Gary Frank, $14k for Stephen Platt, $14k for a Lynn Varley DKR color guide.
$13k for the Jeff Matsuda cover I bought in 1998 for $250 and traded for more or less $1,200 in 2010, well, it was its price at the time… 😒
There were also many “affordable” prices, let’s start high and then go down. This Batman cover by Jim Lee went for a pretty good $45k, a Johnny Comet Sunday by Frank Frazetta for $15k, I think Batman pages by Neal Adams are still going low at $20k, look at this Spidey page by Byrne sold for $11k, a well designed Hulk page by McFarlane went for $8k, Dr. Strange by Barry Smith for $5k, a Conan splash by Kane for $3,8k, a Thanos splash by Starlin for $2k and a DPS for $1,5k, some detailed monster sketches by Wrightson for less than $1k, many good deals on Garfield strips.
This week on eBay
Ariel Olivetti – Batman Original Comic Art
Marvel: the She-Hulk cover by Dale Keown is still going, Power Pack by Bogdanove, a Nova page by Jim Cheung, Betty Brant by John Byrne.
A Beta Ray Bill sketch by Walt Simonson, a 1985 Conan illustration by James O’Barr, a Spidey sketch by Clayton Crain, Iron-Man by Mark Brooks, a Wolverine commission by Mark Texeira.
DC: a Robin splash by Gene Colan, I like this Wonder Woman page by Jack Abel, Flash pages by LaRocque. A color Batgirl commission by Phil Noto, a Batman pinup by Ariel Olivetti.
A Hellboy page, an illustration and a 2020 charity illustration by Mignola, a Hellboy remarked Artist’s Edition, look at this Frankenstein page by Wrightson, a Cavewoman painting by Budd Root, very nice Jungle Girl illustration by William Stout, a Geiger splash by Gary Frank, a Madman pinup by Mike Allred.
Heritage Weekly Auction
Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez – JLA Style Guide
Marvel: great Thor page by Walt Simonson, Defenders by Sal Buscema, Conan by Gil Kane, Power Man by Zeck.
X-Men by Frank Quitely, look: Wolverine and Elektra by JRJR, X-Men by Cassaday.
DC: a JLA style guide by Garcia-Lopez, Batman by Ernie Chan, Children’s Crusade by Chris Bachalo, a Power Girl splash by Amanda Conner.
Early Luba page by Gilbert.
A great Terry daily by Caniff, a Garfield daily, a Barney Google, a Christmas themed 1945 Gasoline Alley daily, Corrigan by Williamson.
Catawiki Auctions
A Spirit cover sketch by Will Eisner, great Batman and Poison Ivy pages by Alcatena, an Outlaw Nation page by Goran Parlov, a Chamber sketch by Bachalo.
A Necron page by Magnus, a Dylan Dog cover color guide by Stano, a Disney title splash by Valerio Held, two Columbus panels by Manara.
ComicConnect Auction part 2 of 2
A beautiful Elektra fight page by Frank Miller, X-Men and Daredevil pages by JRJR, top Morbius/Blade page by P. Craig Russell, Moon Knight by Sienk, look at this Machine Man page by Barry Smith.
Wolverine by Joe Mad, nice X-Men 2099 cover by Tim Sale, a Superman splash by Curt Swan, a great Wally Wood page.
Septimus Auction
A Bois-Maury cover painted by Hermann, a Blueberry page by Giraud, Valerian by Mezieres, a pinup by Bastien Vives, an illustration by Boucq, a couple Western pages by Serpieri, Clorophylle by Macherot, a pinup by Rosinsky, Ramiro by Vance.
A book full of sketches, a menu with big name sketches, a full figure Lucky Luke sketch by Morris, several Franquin sketches.
Heritage Animation Auction
I went to search between 50 pages of cels for a few comic art pieces… Look: three Marvel Masterpieces illustrations by the Hildebrandt bros, here’s Wolverine. A Galaxy Trio Layout and a Superman storyboard page by Alex Toth, a Peanuts Sunday, Flintstones and Yogi Bear Sunday strips by Hazelton.
A page by Tezuka and a sketch by Mikimoto.
See you next week!!
Welcome to #258 of Original Comic Art Tips! Big auctions are starting (ComicConnect and three European Auctions) and ending (ComicLink, Heritage) again after the summer pause.
Original Comic Art Auction Results:
eBay: a Popeye specialty piece by Segar went for $4,9k, a Sandman (or, Santa Claus…) page by Jack Kirby for a $4,5k Best Offer, a very nice Joe Madureira Excalibur page was quickly sold for $1,7k, I’m very envious of this piece, I clicked on the ebay alert a half hour too late…
A top Spidey Sunday strip by Saviuk/Sinnott went for $1,8k, a Batman commission by George Perez for $1,2k (BO), $1,2k (BO) for a Death commission by Chris Bachalo, a cover quality Manhunter illustration by Paul Smith for $1,2k (BO). A Spidey page by Ryan Ottley was sold for only $350.
Heritage Weekly Auction: if you don’t consider the iconic Batman/Hulk cover ($400k), this Batman cover by Garcia Lopez sold for $43k means a doubled price for “regular” covers. $41k is a very high record for Luke McDonnell, $20k for a Terry strip by Caniff, $6,6k for Spider-Woman by Infantino, $3,8k for a For Better or For Worse Sunday strip.
Good prices for the other Caniff strips, like $900 and $550, a Batman page by Newton for $800 is also good.
Look: a color guide (or published colors?) over a Chris Bachalo cover went for $4,5k.
Catawiki: the Ultimate Spider-Man cover by Stuart Immonen went for €3,5k, pretty low considering the latest prices for Marvel covers, the pages by Alcatena were also affordable, with the highest Batman page going for €800, and a X-Men page for €350, a Ric Hochet sketch went for €650, a nice Bernet pinup for €400, an AXA strip by Romero for €300.
Comiclink: just the highest prices, I’ll look for other interesting results next week… $86k for the Dr. Strange cover by Gene Colan is not far from his record price and the highest paid Strange cover by Colan.
$64k is far from the record by Frank Brunner, Dr. Strange by Ditko went for $60k, very far from yesterday’s $400k record price at HA, $45k for the MTU cover by Kane. Considering the highest prices, $43k is a good price for this New Mutants DPS by Liefeld, $33k for John Buscema, $27k for a Star Wars cover by McLeod, $27k for a Spidey page by McFarlane, $27k for Romita, $22k for Ron Lim, $21k for Campbell.
This week on eBay
Dale Keown – She Hulk Original Cover Art
Marvel: a She-Hulk cover by Dale Keown is the best piece of the week, Alpha Flight by Mike Mignola, Fantastic Four by Jae Lee, Thunder Frog by Simonson, a Namor sketch by Sinnott.
DC: the Infinity Inc. page by McFarlane is still going, Flash by Dave Gibbons, Flash by LaRocque, Flash by Mike Collins, Flash by Butch Guice, Batman by Mike Nasser, Batman by Ed Benes. Have you already seen this Batman page by Jim Lee?
A Prince Valiant panel by Hal Foster, early Love & Rockets title page by Beto, a 1984 sketch by Wendy Pini, a sketch of The Crow by O’Barr, a Beetle Bailey cover by Mort Walker (studio?), a Wizard of ID daily, a B.C. daily, Rip Kirby by Alex Raymond.
Heritage Weekly Auction
Jim Lee – Alpha Flight Original Comic Art
Marvel: Thor by John Buscema, Hulk by Sal, Dracula by Colan, a Conan splash by Kane, a Dr. Strange splash by Alcala, Spider-Woman by Infantino.
First time I see a top Alpha Flight page by Jim Lee for sale, Hulk by McFarlane, a beautiful page by Zaffino, X-Men by Cassaday, Excalibur original art by Alan Davis.
DC: Batman by Aparo, Blackhawk by Chaykin, look at this horror page by E.R. Cruz and this Jonah Hex page by Garcia-Lopez, Warlord by Grell, JLA by Heck, a Batman splash by Colin MacNeil.
A sparse but very desired Superman page by Frank Quitely, a Power Girl splash by Conner, a Batman commission by J.H. Williams, a Preacher page and a page from Ex-Machina #1 by Tony Harris.
Strips: the usual great Terry daily strips, a Garfield daily, a Gasoline Alley specialty piece by King, an early Bringing Up Father, a Corrigan by Williamson.
Catawiki Auctions
Daniel Torres – Batman Original Comic Art
A Junglemen page by Hugo Pratt, some sketches by Dino Battaglia, Tex by Buzzelli, a color page by Silvia Ziche, Disney illustrations by Marco Rota and G.B. Carpi, a Batman page by Daniel Torres and a Wonder Woman sketch by Frank Cho.
ComicConnect Auction part 1 of 2
Tiger Girl by Matt Baker, unused/faded/great 1991 Lobo cover by Bisley and a not-faded page. A Ka-Zar cover and a Black Spidey page by Buckler, Fantastic Four, Thor, Galactus pages by John Buscema, Howard by Colan, Thor by Kirby.
Machine Man pages by Ditko, Excalibur and 2000 A.D. pages by Alan Davis, some pages from the first appearance of the Black Suit Spidey by Frenz and the first appearance of the New Warriors by Frenz, an X-Men pinup by Deodato.
Look at this Wonder Woman cover by Garcia-Lopez, a Spirit cover by Ken Kelly, a Spirit illustration by Eisner.
An X-Men cover by Art Adams, Batman by Capullo, a Spidey cover by Bradshaw.
See you next week!!
Welcome to #257 of Original Comic Art Tips!
Original Comic Art Auction Results:
eBay: the Fantastic Four page by Jack Kirby was sold for $35k (is this the last time?), a Hellboy in Hell page by Mike Mignola was sold for $15k (!), another page for a $4,5k Best Offer, an illustration for a $5k B.O.
A life drawing by Frazetta for $8,4k (B.O.), a She-Hulk page by Byrne for $2k, an Invincible page by Ottley for $1,6k (B.O.), a Scarlet Witch pinup by Adam Kubert for $1,6k, a Spidey splash by Bagley for $1,5k.
A Rocket Raccoon cover by Skottie Young for $1,5k (B.O.), one by Simone Bianchi for $3,2k (B.O.).
Heritage Weekly Auction: a Terry daily by Caniff went for $13,2k, the X-Men page by Silvestri for $6k, the MTU pages by Sal Buscema for $5k, the Excalibur page by Alan Davis for $3,3k.
Catawiki: a Buck Danny cover by Formosa went for €3,5k, a page for €1,7k, the Rocco Vargas page by Torres for €1,5k, the Durango cover by Girod for €1,5k, the color Dany illustration for €1k.
The Torpedo illustration by Bernet for €1,3k, a Trigan page by Don Lawrence for €1,1k, a Ranxerox sketch by Liberatore for €700.
Not so sure that this Manara sketch sold for €1,4k was original…
This week on eBay
Todd McFarlane – Infinity Inc Original Comic Art
DC: A Superman page by Ed McGuinness, nice Infinity Inc. page by McFarlane, a Green Arrow page by Don Heck, six JLA portraits by Ramona Fradon, a Secret Six splash by Calafiore, a Big Barda illustration by Geoff Shaw.
A Sandman wraparound cover by Kaluta, a Lucifer page by Peter Gross, the Dreaming by Scott Hampton.
Marvel: the cover to Captain Marvel #1 by M.D. Bright, a Hulk page by Herb Trimpe, Hulk pages by Joe Bennett, Morbius by Ron Wagner.
A Spider-Man page by Ryan Ottley, a Captain America sketch Card by Jim Cheung, a Spidey 2099 commission by Rick Leonardi, Spidey by Bagley, Spidey by Frenz.
A Hard Boiled pinup by Darrow, a Transformers cover by Casey Collier, a OZ page by Skottie Young, a King City cover by Brandon Graham.
A B.C. daily, a Wizard of ID daily.
Heritage Weekly Auction
DC: some great covers, Batman by Garcia Lopez, Superman by Ross Andru, Captain Atom by Pat Broderick, a Superman splash by Bob McLeod, Batman by Don Newton, Warlord by Grell.
Marvel: an Iron-Man cover by Luke McDonnell, Nova by Sal Buscema, Spider-Woman by Infantino, a Spidey page by Bob McLeod, Shang-Chi by Zeck, X-Men by Silvestri, a Black Widow cover painted by Mark Brooks.
Strips: this seems like a regular Terry strip, but it’s already at $1k.
Catawiki Auctions
Stuart Immonen – Spider-Man Original Cover Art
Very nice Ultimate Spidey cover by Stuart Immonen, some more beautiful Batman pages by Alcatena, like this one and this one, there are also some Conan pages and Avengers pages.
X-Men by Greg Land, an Axa strip by Romero, a funny Andy Capp strip, Dylan Dog pages by Di Gennaro and Nicola Mari.
Heritage Signature Auction part 3: Interior Art
Jack Kirby – Captain America Original Comic Art
A Spidey splash by Ditko and a Batman page by Frank Miller are the Highest priced at the moment, an Iron-Man origin page by Don Heck, a Captain America splash by Kirby.
A Wolverine DPS by John Buscema, many Spidey pages by Ross Andru, X-Men/Spidey by Byrne, Captain America by Zeck, a very rare Werewolf page by Ploog, Avengers by Golden, Thanos by Starlin.
‘90s art: a Wolverine splash by Adam Kubert, New Mutants by Liefeld, Gauntlet by Ron Lim, a Moon Knight splash by Stephen Platt.
A Sandman DPS, a page and many Wolverine pages by Sam Kieth, you don’t often see pieces like these.
The usual big lot of Scrooge pages by Don Rosa, a Jimmy Corrigan page by Chris Ware, Dredd by Bolland, a classic Hellboy page by Mignola, and many, many more.
Comiclink Featured Auction
Ron Lim – Thanos Original Comic Art
Incredible auction, with five pages of top pieces, very hard to choose only a few to link here.
A Dr. Strange cover by Brunner, a Dr. Strange cover by Colan, Dr. Strange by Ditko, a MTU cover by Gil Kane, a New Mutants DPS by Liefeld, a Thanos splash by Ron Lim, a Thanos page by Jim Starlin, a Spidey page by John Romita, one by McFarlane, one by Bagley.
Many top pieces by John Buscema, like this Spidey/Surfer page.
Many pieces by Jack Kirby, some classics like this Captain America page and many of the usual animation drawings.
If you were searching for a perfect J. Scott Campbell cover here it is (and the Stan Lee Sig is well placed too!).
Batman by Breyfogle, top Batman by Infantino, Batman by Don Newton, Batman splash by Finch, a JLA splash by Jim Lee, a Namor title splash by Sal Buscema, Avengers by Byrne.
Classic ‘90s pieces: X-Men by Joe Mad, Wildcats by Jim Lee, a Wolverine splash by Mark Pacella, an Elektra DPS by Deodato, a Prophet DPS by Platt, a Wolverine/Gambit cover by Tim Sale.
X-Men by Silvestri, Perez, Leonardi, Adam Kubert.
See you next week!!
Welcome to #256 of Original Comic Art Tips!!
Original Comic Art Auction Results:
eBay: the Spider-Man sketch by John Romita was sold for $4,5k, a Batman page by Don Newton for $2k, the Walking Dead page by Charlie Adlard for $1,8k, the Captain America sketch by Alex Ross for $1,7k.
The Superman pinup by John Byrne was a good deal at $1,6k, the Spidey sketch for $900, an Avengers page by Bob Hall for $1,2k.
The Neil Gaiman sketch for almost $800, the Invincible page for a $700 B.O. The Herb Trimpe Avengers ($600), the Larry Stroman page ($600) and the Rick Leonardi X-Men piece for $400 were all very good deals.
Heritage Weekly Auction: a Gen13 page by J. Scott Campbell went for $12,6k, a MTU page by Bob McLeod for $6,6k, the X-Men page by Byrne for $4k. Look, a quick Rocketeer sketch by Dave Stevens was sold for $2,3k, then a Batgirl page by Marcos Martin for $2k, a bit surprised by the $1,3k paid for this Deathmate page by Scott Clark.
Heritage Garfield Auction: the auction went well, with almost half of the lots selling for over $1k, but there were some very cheap strips too (the ones with weird gags mostly…). A Christmas illustration was sold for $9k, a Christmas daily for $4k, this early/funny daily for $3k.
$25k paid for the 1982 Snoopy daily at Nate Sanders’.
This week on eBay
Aaron Kuder -Avengers Original Comic Art
Marvel: this Avengers page by Bob Hall was sold last week for $1,2k, it is now for sale again (half the price for now), ROM, Fury and Reagan on this Sal Buscema page, a vintage X-Men prelim by Art Adams (another 1, another 1),
Nice Spidey page by Mark Bagley, nice Captain America bust by George Perez, an Avengers cover by Aaron Kuder, a remarked print by Frank Cho.
DC: nice Wonder Woman page by Don Heck, a Wonder Woman bust by George Perez, a Spectre page by Mandrake, a big lot of Flash pages by Roger Robinson, Robin by Pat Gleason.
A Promethea page with Tom Strong by J.H. Williams.
Remember last week’s fake Kirby sketch? If you had some doubts, this week the seller found a Joe Shuster Superman sketch at a yard sale… (and a Winsor McKay, and a Picasso…).
A new Milk & Cheese illustration by Evan Dorkin. A Steve Roper Sunday.
Heritage Weekly Auction
Marvel: Thor by John Buscema, Hulk and Spidey pages by Sal, 2 in 1 by Bingham, MTU by Chaykin, Red Sonja by Nebres.
X-Men by Marc Silvestri, Excalibur by Alan Davis, a Hobgoblin splash by Greg Land.
DC: a Donna Troy pinup by George Perez, Batman by Irv Novick, Wonder Woman by Delbo.
Wonder Woman by David Finch, JLA by Garney, look at this color guide signed by Wrigthson.
Strips: a Christmas day 1941 Nancy daily, look at the background in this Buz Sawyer daily. For lawyers, here’s a Non Sequitur panel.
Catawiki Auctions
Jordi Bernet – Torpedo Original Comic Art
An illustration by Crepax, El Gaucho by Manara, Ranxerox sketch by Liberatore, a Pif page by Cavazzano, Dylan Dog by Micheluzzi, a nice Nathan Never page by De Angelis.
A pinup by Luis Rojo, look at this Torpedo illustration by Bernet, a Roco Vargas page by Torres.
A Buck Danny cover, a page and an illustration by Formosa, a Durango cover by Girod, a cover and a splash by Keramidas, a Spirou page by Durieux, an illustration by Dany.
Heritage Signature Auction part 2: Comic Strips!
A hand colored Calvin & Hobbes daily is the top piece, then an early Flash Gordon page by Raymond, an early Popeye daily, many Peanuts strips, many Terry strips by Caniff.
A Krazy Kat Sunday, Tarzan and Valiant by Foster, a beautiful Bringing Up Father Sunday, a Dick Tracy Sunday.
A Johnny Comet Sunday by Frazetta, a Batman daily by Kane, a Superman daily by Boring, a rare It’s Only a Game strip by Schulz, some Rip Kirby strips and many Garfield strips.
See you next week!!
Welcome to #255 of Original Comic Art Tips!
Original Comic Art Auction Results:
eBay: a World’s Finest cover by Ernie Chan was sold for $5,2k, the Avengers page by John Byrne for $4,6k, the Gambit sketch by Jim Lee for $2,5k, the Joker commission by Tim Sale for $1,4k, a painting by Mike Kaluta for $2,8k.
A Bruce Timm pinup went for $1,3k, a Flash Gordon Sunday by Mac Raboy for $1,3k, an early piece by Chris Ware for $2,5k (probably a 1/1 print and not original art though).
The fake Kirby sketch went for a very high $2k. Remember this one, maybe the buyer will sell it again in the future…
Heritage Weekly Auction: $15,6k for the Batman Back Cover by Jerry Bingham, $11k for a Terry daily by Caniff, $7,5k for a MTU page by Sal Buscema, Spidey by Milgrom went for $5,5k.
A Wolverine commission by Geoff Shaw for a high $3,8k, an On Stage daily without Mary for $3,1k, the X-Men wraparound cover by Declan Shalvey for less than $3k seems a good deal, this Infinity Abyss splash by Starlin for $2k a very good deal.
Comiclink: a Mary Jane cover by J. Scott Campbell went for $24k, then not much happened, trust me 💀
This week on eBay
John Romita – Spider-Man Sketch
Marvel: the vintage X-men piece by Rick Leonardi and the X-Factor page by Larry Stroman are still going and the price is very low for now.
The best piece is this full figure Spidey sketch drawn by John Romita, since we’re here you can look also at a similar sketch by John Byrne with a pair of ugly hands.
An Avengers page by Herb Trimpe, New Mutants by Buckler, a Spidey cover by Pascal Ferry, an Avengers splash by Simone Bianchi, a Captain America sketch painted by Alex Ross, I’d cut it away from the comic book…
DC: a Batman page by Ryan Benjamin, price really lowered on the Superman pinup by Byrne, I’d buy it for that price. A Darkseid commission by Jim Starlin, Flash pages by Paul Pelletier, Spectre by Tom Mandrake, a Catwoman commission by Lee Weeks,
A Sandman sketch by Neil Gaiman, a Sandman DPS by Gary Amaro, Death sketch by David Mack, very nice Hellblazer page by Steve Dillon, a Mighty Love splash by Chaykin.
I like this early TWD page by Adlard, a nice commission of The Crow by O’Barr, Akira by DWG, an Invincible page by Ryan Ottley.
A Doonesbury daily.
Heritage Weekly Auction
Marvel: some more Pat Broderick Captain Marvel pages, Spidey by Bob McLeod, a modern X-Men page by John Byrne, Punisher/Moon Knight and Ghost Rider by Ron Garney. A Spider-Gwen cover by Iban Coello.
DC: a Superman pinup by Garcia Lopez, a Raven trading card by Sienkiewicz, MAD art by Aragones.
Top Gen13 page by Campbell, a Witchblade page by Silvestri, a Rocketeer sketch by Dave Stevens.
Strips: 1948 Tarzan by Dan Barry, more Terry strips by Caniff, a Buz Sawyer by Roy Crane, a Juliet Jones daily, a Flintstones Sunday.
Catawiki Auctions
Ivo Milazzo – Ken Parker Original Comic Art
A Ken Parker page by Milazzo, an illustration by Jacovitti, Brendon #1 by Rotundo, a page by Magnus.
An early Bernet page, Nekradamus by Lalia, a pinup by Luis Rojo, a Wolverine page by Salvador Larroca.
Heritage Signature Auction part 1: Covers!
Brian Bolland – Wonder Woman Original Cover Art
Top pieces are this Wonder Woman cover by Bolland, Defenders by Gil Kane, a beautiful Avengers cover by Bob Layton, Batman by Jim Lee, Sandman by McKean, Joker by Mignola.
Then Batman by Tim Sale, Warlock by Starlin, Wolverine by Adam Kubert, 2 in 1 by Alex Ross and Jim Cheung, Titans by Perez, Ghost Rider by Texeira.
A perfect Spawn cover by Capullo/McFarlane, Venom by Bagley, a very nice cover by Cassaday, a beautiful Adam Strange cover by Kevin Nowlan.
I bought this X-Factor cover by Jeff Matsuda in 1997 for $250 (a couple years later the dealer even apologized for making me pay that much!) let’s see how big will be my regret for selling it too early…
Heritage Garfield Auction
Another batch of varied Garfield originals, some funny and early daily and Sunday strips, a Christmas Day strip, a New Years’ day Sunday, a few illustrations.
Nate Sanders Auction
A Peanuts daily with Snoopy.
See you next week!
Welcome to #254 of Original Comic Art Tips!!
Original Comic Art Auction Results:
eBay: a House of Secrets splash by Alex Toth with some big condition issues went for a $4,7 Best Offer, a nice illustration prelim by Dave Stevens for an affordable $1,8k, two TWD pages by Adlard were sold for a $1,5k B.O., a Union calendar painting by Sam Kieth for $1,5k, a ‘90s X-men page by John Hebert for $1k.
The uncredited Catwoman pages by Jim Balent for only $250 and $120.
The John Romita remarked Artist’s Edition went for $1k, this copy was an Artist’s Proof and had a rare bust Punisher sketch, so copies with Spidey sketches should go for less. A Hellboy remarked Artist’s Edition went for a $700 B.O., lower than the $1k of a few months ago.
Heritage Weekly Auction: a World of Warcraft cover by Jim Lee went for $6,6k, a not-that-great page by George Perez for the same price, the modern Hulk cover by Dale Keown was not a bad buy at $4k, an early Cloak & Dagger page by Ed Hannigan went for $3,6k.
Catawiki: the Corto Maltese strip by Hugo Pratt was sold for €3.750, the Blacksad commission by Guarnido for almost €700, the Tex page by Bernet for €500, the Disney title pages by Valerio Held for €600 and €550.
Heritage Matt Baker Auction: all pages went for high prices, $5,5k for this one, $3,6k for this one.
This week on eBay
John Byrne – Avengers Original Comic Art
Marvel: a W.C. Avengers page by John Byrne, look at this cool vintage Rick Leonardi X-Men piece and this rare Larry Stroman X-Factor page, Iron Fist pages by Ernie Chan, probably a Hulk sketch by John Buscema (awful photo).
Rare Spidey pages by Giuseppe Camuncoli one and two, a Spidey page by Bagley.
A sketchbook full of Gambit sketches, the Jim Lee one is easily worth the starting price.
I’m watching this fancy fake Kirby sketch to see how high it will go…
DC: very nice Joker commission by Tim Sale, a Darkseid Elite Who’s Who piece by John Byrne, Flash pages by Greg LaRocque and Mike Collins, a Mighty Love page by Chaykin, a Sandman painting by Shawn McManus, Dream & Death by David Mack.
A Marc Silvestri page, a Grendel page by Wagner, a Milk & Cheese illustration by Dorkin, a Flash Gordon Sunday by Mac Raboy, a 1934 Gasoline Alley with a dedication by King.
Heritage Weekly Auction
Declan Shalvey – X-Men Original Cover Art
Marvel: look at this and this MTU page by Sal Buscema, some other Captain Marvel pages by Pat Broderick, a Spidey page by Al Milgrom, a Hulk page by Dale Keown, the Thing and an Infinity Abyss splash by Jim Starlin.
A vintage X-Men sketch by Kerry Gammill, one of Micronauts by Michael Golden. An X-Men cover by Declan Shalvey, an X-Force cover by Gerardo Zaffino.
DC: A Superman page by Buckler, a Batman splash by Bingham.
A Black Cat title page by Lee Elias, an early TWD splash by Adlard.
Strips: a Phantom Sunday by Sy Barry, a nice Roy Crane daily, a Barney Google daily, a Juliet Jones, Rusty Riley.
Catawiki Auctions
A Spirit cover sketch by Will Eisner, Dylan Dog by Micheluzzi, Dylan Dog by Nicola Mari, a title page by Alcatena, a Wolverine page by Salvador Larroca.
Heritage Cathy Auction
If you miss the lockdown, here’s the sale of an entire book of themed gags from the Cathy comic strip, I’ll link to the cover.
See you next week!!
Welcome to #253 of Original Comic Art Tips!
Original Comic Art Auction Results:
eBay: a Batman commission by Sean Murphy was sold for $3k, a Dennis the Menace page by Al Wiseman for $2,9k.
A Spider-Man page by Bob Layton for $3,5k, $2,1k (Best Offer) for a page by Lee Weeks, a vintage page by Bagley for $800.
$1k for the Silver Surfer page by Ron Lim, a Conan page by John Buscema, a very nice Moon Knight commission by Alex Maleev, a GenX commission by Chris Bachalo and another Death pinup by David Mack.
Heritage Weekly Auction: $9k for the Thor pinup by Jack Kirby, $6,3k for the Infinity War page by Ron Lim, a Star Trek page by Giolitti for $2,6k, the Romita Spidey sketch for $2,2k.
A pretty quick sketch by Dave Stevens went for $1,8k, $840 was a very good deal for this nice Terry strip by Caniff.
Catawiki: a Trigan cover by Don Lawrence went for €4,8k, a Colombo panel by Milo Manara for €650, a page by Micheluzzi for €600, a Scorpion pinup by Marini for €1,8k, the Valerian panel by Mezieres for €1k.
This week on eBay
Jim Balent – Catwoman Original Art
DC: a Wonder Woman record cover credited to and signed by Neal Adams Wonder Woman by Don Heck, a Spectre cover by George Perez, Metal Men by Sekowsky, a Challengers cover by Buckler, more Flash pages by Paul Pelletier.
Uncredited and advertised as production art, there are a Catwoman page and a Catwoman/Batman page by Jim Balent (they’re at $100 for now, let’s see), Batman page by Becky Cloonan, Batman Animated pages one, two and three.
Another round of Death pinups (one, two) by David Mack, a DPS with Batman and Robin by Brett Booth, a Mr. Freeze sketch by Sean Murphy, a Harley head sketch by Bruce Timm.
Marvel: price lowered and BO accepted for last week’s Human Torch page by Kirby, a Punisher splash by Tom Lyle, rare Punisher sketch on this John Romita Artist’s Edition, a Dr. Strange page by Mark Buckingham, a Wolverine cover by Giuseppe Camuncoli.
A Western page by Al Feldstein, a Grendel page by Matt Wagner.
Heritage Weekly Auction
Marvel: A Captain Marvel page by Pat Broderick, a Morbius page by Don Heck, an Avengers cover by Dale Keown, Carnage by JRJR, very nice Hulk splash by Bagley.
DC: a full figure Batman commission by Neal Adams, great art on this Atari Force page by Garcia Lopez, a Kamandi DPS by Ayers/Alcala.
A Tim Hunter splash by Peter Gross, nice Shade page by Chris Bachalo,
Early Hate page by Bagge, nice early Terry daily by Caniff, a Wash Tubbs daily by Crane, a Dennis panel by Ketcham.
Catawiki Auctions
Juanjo Guarnido – Blacksad Commission
A Corto Maltese strip by Hugo Pratt, a Blacksad commission by Guarnido, a rare Tex page by Bernet, Swamp Thing by Breccia, a Briganti strip by Magnus, a Disney cover by Cavazzano, a Disney title splash by Held.
Comic link Focused Auction part 2 of 2
A Lilith illustration by Bruce Timm, a Spidey page by Alex Saviuk, a Flash page by Paul Ryan, a poster rough by John Buscema, a Wolverine prelim by Quesada.
A Batman illustration by Risso, Wolverine by Jorge Molina, Batman by Adam Kubert.
Heritage Matt Baker Auction
Seven pieces of original art in this themed auction, here’s the best one.
See you next week!!
Welcome to #252 of Original Comic Art Tips!
Original Comic Art Auction Results:
eBay: the Batman cover by Bo Hampton went for $3,5k, an X-Men page by Frank Quitely for $3k, the X-Men page by JRJR was not a bad deal at $1,7k, a war page by Russ Heath went for $3k, a Hawkman DPS by Al Milgrom for a $1,8k Best Offer.
The Bruce Timm pinup went for a good $1,2k, the Captain America page by Sal Buscema for $1,3k, the Art Adams page for $1k, a Harley Vs. Ivy commission by Mike Deodato for $900.
Heritage Weekly Auction: $6,6k for the Defenders page by Jim Starlin, $5,7 for the Rocket Raccoon page by Mignola, Vampirella art by Jose Gonzalez is always on demand, with this pinup sold for more than $5k.
Havok by Joe Mad for $4,3k, the Dilbert strip for $3,6k, the X-Men page by Whilce Portacio for $3,3k, the Nightcrawler commission by Cockrum and the Spidey by Romita both went for $2k, the TWD page by Adlard for $1k.
The rise of production prints… a proof and print acetates for a Hulk cover went for $1,2k. Imagine the nice original pieces you could buy with the money (even within the same weekly auction…). At least these are real, not the home made prints you see on ebay.
Catawiki: a Corto Maltese strip by Hugo Pratt was sold for €2,5k, a big commission by Kevin Eastman for €250.
Hakes Auction: record prices for Al Williamson Star Wars strips, $46k was the highest price, with $174k paid for all strips.
The Star Wars page by Howard Chaykin went for $23k, $20k for the Iron Fist origin page by Gil Kane, $15k for the Superman splash by Al Plastino, $14k for Mike Sekowsky JLA art.
Do you think that the bidder that paid $15k for the REPRINT color guides for Amazing Fantasy #15, realized that he was buying guides for REPRINTS?
At least the color guides for X-Men #108, sold for $3,7k, were all from the original printing BUT the cover…. The Neal Adams Batman issue color guides were all original and went for $5,7k.
Some affordable pieces too, $5k for She-Hulk by Byrne, $2,1k for the Infinity Inc. with JSA page by McFarlane, $800 for a New Year’s day Garfield Sunday, $800 for a Conan Vs. Red Sonja daily by Ernie Chan.
Nate Sanders: A Peanuts AD illustration went for $12,5k.
This week on eBay
Jack Kirby – Human Torch Original Comic Art
Marvel: very early Human Torch page by Jack Kirby, a Conan page by John Buscema, a Silver Surfer page by Ron Lim, Iron-Man by Tom Morgan, a nice Scarlet Witch commission by Adam Hughes.
A full figure Captain America commission by George Perez, price lowered again on the Cap bust, now the price is good, a Thanos sketch by Ron Lim.
DC: a Batman page by Scott Hampton, a Huntress splash by Joe Staton, a Green Arrow sketch by Mike Grell, a Big Barda commission by James Harren, Death by David Mack.
Mike Mignola: nice Corum page, Hellboy pinup, Hellboy bust, Skeleton bust.
A Quimby strip by Chris Ware, a Star Wars cover by Tony Fleecs.
Heritage Weekly Auction
Marvel: Dr. Strange page by Alcala, Thor pages by Sal Buscema and Ron Frenz, nice Spidey page by Hannigan, a Thor pinup by Jack Kirby.
A Spider-Man splash by Mike Deodato, Infinity War by Ron Lim, Freddy Krueger by De Zuniga, Thor by Jim Starlin.
DC: a Batman cover prelim by Bruce Timm, Flash by Infantino, Batman & Robin sketch by Jerry Robinson.
TWD page by Charlie Adlard.
Catawiki Auctions
Mezieres – Valerian Original Comic Art
An illustration and a panel by Milo Manara, a Scorpion illustration by Marini, a published pinup by Barbucci, one by Liberatore, a nice Micheluzzi page and a Ken Parker page by Milazzo, a panel by Jacovitti.
A Clara pinup by Bernet, a color drawing by Rojo, a page by Azpiri.
A painted cover by Don Lawrence, a cover by Berthet, a big sketch by Rosinski, a Valerian panel by Mezieres.
An Odd Fact panel by Will Eisner, a big TMNT commission by Kevin Eastman.
Comic link Focused Auction part 1 of 2
Mary Jane by J. Scott Campbell, a Captain America cover by Neal Adams, a great Wolverine page and a Cyclops trading card by Andy Kubert, a Wolverine cover by Ramos, a very detailed Daredevil cover prelim by Quesada.
Top Avengers DPS by Kieron Dwyer, a Captain America cover by Ron Garney, one by Dave Johnson, Avengers by George Perez.
Full team JLA and Batman pages by Dick Dillin, a JLA illustration by Bryan Hitch, Batman original art by David Finch, Y by Pia Guerra.
See you next week!!
Welcome to #251 of Original Comic Art Tips!
eBay: the Batman cover by Sean Murphy was sold for $11,3k, the New Mutants page by John Byrne for $5,1k. Would you pay $3,1k (Best Offer) for a bust commission by Peach Momoko?
A Captain America cover recreation by Sal Buscema went for $2k, a page for $1,3k, a She-Hulk page by Mike Vosburg for $1,9k, a Paper Girls page by Cliff Chiang for $1,2k.
Heritage Weekly Auction: a cover with Flash Gordon by Al Williamson went for $13k, an X-Men page by Joe Mad for $10k, even if the Milgrom inks make the page look different than usual.
Werewolf pages by Don Perlin went for a very high $7k and $6,6k, a Pogo daily for $2,2k. Some low priced Terry strips by Caniff: $1k, $1k, $900.
Catawiki: the Sergio Toppi illustration was sold for €5k, the unfinished Andrea Pazienza page for €500, the pinup by Luis Rojo for €600, the 100Bullets page for €400, an Andy Capp strip for only €75.
This week on eBay
Bruce Timm – Nick Fury Original Comic Art
Great week, with many nice pieces.
Marvel: look at this X-Men page by John Romita Jr., Captain America by Sal Buscema, a Wolverine pinup by Dave Cockrum (remember that a very similar one went for less last week), old Scarlet Witch sketch by George Perez, lowered price on this nice Captain America bust.
A Nick Fury pinup by Bruce Timm, an Incredible Hulk page by Todd McFarlane, an Ultimate X page by Art Adams, New Warriors #1 by Mark Bagley, a Nick Fury commission by Steranko, 1986 Silver Surfer sketch by Sinnott.
DC: beautiful Batman cover by Bo Hampton, with its painted color guide. Another cover, painted this time, and a Batman page, painted by Scott Hampton.
A Green Arrow title splash by Tom Mandrake, many Flash lots by Paul Pelletier here, a Robin page by Pat Gleason, a Harley sketch by Frank Cho, Death by David Mack.
Grendel by Wagner, some Cap Stubbs strip lots, a funny 1985 Garfield daily for a good price, a Doonesbury daily.
Heritage Weekly Auction
Ron Lim – Infinity War Original Comic Art
Marvel: Dr. Strange by Colan, Defenders by Starlin, Red Sonja by Thorne, Rocket Raccoon by Mignola, a Conan bust by Neal Adams.
X-Men by Portacio, Cable by Thibert, Infinity War by Ron Lim, ‘90s Spidey by Deodato.
Vintage sketches: Nightcrawler by Cockrum and a Spidey by Romita.
DC: Very nice Hawk and Dove page by Kane/Wood, a Batman commission by Jerry Robinson.
A TWD page with Zombies, the Fly by Ditko, I like this Shock Gibson Golden Age page.
Strips: rare Dilbert daily, nice Mickey Mouse daily by Gottfredson, a Flintstones Sunday.
Catawiki Auctions
I hope that the death of Catawiki is only for the summer vacations, and some nice art will come back in September… here’s what I found:
An illustration by Bilal, a Barbara page by Zanotto, a Jacovitti page, a Martin Mystere cover by Alessandrini, a pinup by Barbucci.
Hake's Auction
Al Williamson – Star Wars Original Comic Art
A week of unpublished Al Williamson Star Wars strips, here’s one, a Star Wars page by Chaykin.
Iron Fist origin by Gil Kane, She-Hulk by Byrne, Moon Knight by Sienk, very nice Daredevil page by Sal Buscema and Janson, Captain America by Robbins, a top Conan page by Kane and a Conan Vs. Sonja strip by Chan.
Top JLA page by Sekowsky, rare Superman splash by Plastino, a Marvel Family page by Don Newton and an Infinity Inc. page by McFarlane with the JSA.
Usually strong on comic strips, there’s not so much… New Year and Christmas Garfield, a Donald Duck Sunday by Taliaferro.
Russ Cochran Auctions
A sketched print by Frazetta, a Superman page by Jim Starlin, a couple nice What The? pages by Keith Wilson, only a talking heads Superman page, but with good art by Stuart Immonen.
See you next week!!
Welcome to #250 of Original Comic Art Tips! So, almost five years ago (or 250 weeks ago) I sent the first issue of this newsletter to an audience of 3. I never thought I’d last this much, I hope I can continue for at least another 5 years. Every time I reach a milestone I think of many things I could do, but the reality is that I already have a hard time finding the 6 hours I need every week to write this email, so you won’t get anything different/more than last week… Hope you enjoy this newsletter enough by itself, and you’re not tired of it. 🚀📬
Original Comic Art Auction Results:
eBay: not the best Fantastic Four page by John Buscema, it still went for $2k, a Hellboy bust by Mike Mignola for $1,7k, a Moon Knight page by Denys Cowan for $1,3k, a Hawkeye cover prelim by Tim Sale for $700, a 1966 Pogo daily for $850, a Thing sketch by John Byrne inside a limited IDW book for a $800 B.O.
The G.I. Joe page by Todd McFarlane for $1,8k, we discovered last week on Facebook that the pages from this comic were lightboxed by the inker from copies of the pencils, so these were never touched by Todd.
This seller has been trying for years to pass a Spidey back cover STAT by Win Mortimer for Romita original art, this time it was sold for a $3k B.O. let’s see if the buyer will recognize it as a print.
Heritage Weekly Auction: $10k for the growing weekly prices to Ditko’s The Fly art, the New Mutants page by Sienkiewicz was sold for $9k, $8,4k for the Batman by Jusko, the 1995 Scarlet Spider page by Bagley was a good deal at $1,1k.
Comiclink Auction: Top price for the Star Wars page by Michael Golden, paid $7,9k, $7,5k for the Galactus splash by Alan Davis, $6k for the second appearance of Jason Todd by Don Newton, $4,4 for the Phoenix cover by J. Scott Campbell, $4,4 for the Ant-Man page by Don Heck.
$3,6k for a Punisher cover by Tim Bradstreet, $2,7k for the “first appearance of animated Catwoman” by Ty Templeton, $2,6k for a Black Spidey page by Isherwood.
$5,5k was the highest price for the animation illustrations by Kirby, elongated Nick Fury by Rob Liefeld went for $1,5k. Early DC art by Stuart Immonen is growing.
This week on eBay
Sean Murphy – Batman Cover Art
DC: the best piece of the week is this Batman HC cover by Sean Murphy, a Joker prelim by Garcia Lopez, a cover by Jay Anacleto, a Green Arrow splash by Jim Aparo, Flash pages by Paul Pelletier, a remarked Wonder Woman print by Frank Cho. Last week’s Death commission by David Mack went for $800, here’s a second one.
Marvel: the New Mutants page by John Byrne and the She-Hulk page by Mike Vosburg from last week are still going.
Remember Conan at the Oktoberfest by John Buscema sold a couple months ago? Now you can make a pair with Conan at the billiard table. Defenders by Perlin, a Dr. Strange splash by Geof Isherwood, Conan by Marc Silvestri, a remarked She-Hulk print by Frank Cho, a Carnage page by Mike Perkins.
A Tank Girl page by Jaime Hewlett, a Vampirella cover by Celina, a Mouse Guard illustration by David Petersen, Grendel by Wagner.
Heritage Weekly Auction
Marvel: Avengers and Dr. Strange pages by Gene Colan, Daredevil by Kupperberg, a nice Dr. Strange splash by Milgrom/Nebres, a Nomad splash by Robbins.
Impossible to find for years lately some X-Factor pages by Larry Stroman are reappearing, the same happened a little earlier to Joe Mad X-Men original art.
DC: Flash by Infantino and Novick, a page by Aragones.
Look at this Creepy page by Alcazar, The Fly by Ditko, Spawn by Capullo, Love & Rockets by Jaime.
Strips: a Phantom Sunday by Sy Barry, a nice Bringing Up Father, a Rip Kirby by Alex Raymond, 1936 Alley Oop, a 1964 B.C., a Dennis panel by Ketcham.
Catawiki Auctions
Sergio Toppi – Original Illustration
A page by Milo Manara, a Necron splash by Magnus, a Rosso Stenton page by Micheluzzi, a beautiful painted illustration by Sergio Toppi.
A page by Mandrafina, a nice 100 Bullets page by Risso, a pinup by Luis Rojo, a Rogue Trooper page by Jose Ortiz, an Andy Capp strip, and a Yakari page by Derib.
See you next week!!
