Welcome to #249 of Original Comic Art Tips!!
eBay: a couple of very good deals, like a Superman cover by George Perez sold for $3k and a Two in One page by John Byrne for $2,2k.
Bad deals: a Moon Knight cover recreation by Don Perlin for a $2,5k Best Offer, a set of costume designs for a Superman Broadway play for $3k.
A Ragman page by Kubert went for $1,9k, an Uncle Scrooge commission by Don Rosa for $1,6k, a painted Goon pinup by Eric Powell for $1,5k (B.O.), the Harley prelim by Bruce Timm for $1,5k, the Galileus page by Sergio Toppi and the Man-Thing page by Mooney for a little less.
Heritage Weekly Auction: many high prices again. A Terry daily by Caniff went for $18k, the 1950 Valiant page by Foster was a VERY good deal at $13k, the Fly by Steve Ditko for $11k.
A Batgirl page by Don Heck for $8k, $6,3k for the Superman daily by Wayne Boring, $5,7k for the Wolverine splash by Ed McGuinness, high $5,7k for the Superboy page by Brown/Wood, $2,5k for a Goon page by Eric Powell and $1,7 for the TWD page by Adlard.
Catawiki: the Batman page by Alcatena went for €700, the Necron splash by Magnus for €800 was a good deal.
Mandarake: many interesting pieces in the latest auctions, this Totoro sketch by Miyazaki was sold for $106k, this Arale sketch by Toriyama for $12k.
This week on eBay
John Byrne – New Mutants Original Comic Art
A good week! Let’s see…
Marvel: the best piece of the week is this New Mutants page by John Byrne, Moon Knight by Denys Cowan, a Moon Knight splash prelim by Sienkiewicz, Man-Thing by Mooney, Man-Thing Vs. She-Hulk by Vosburg, a Wonder-Man cover prelim by Ed Hannigan, some Guardians pages by Jim Valentino, here’s one.
If you’re searching for a cheaper McFarlane piece you could try with this G.I. Joe page.
A Thor commission by Dale Keown, a nice prelim by Frank Brunner, a Wolverine bust by JRJR.
DC: a Batman DPS by Joe Bennett, a Death pinup by David Mack.
A Star Wars cover by Andrew Robinson, a Kevin Eastman cover prelim, a very nice painted page by Tim Conrad.
A full sketchbook of art, highlights are Perez, Stelfreeze and Art Adams.
Heritage Weekly Auction
Joe Jusko – Batman Original Art
Marvel: Dr. Strange by Colan, New Mutants by Sienk, a Scarlet Spider page by Bagley, Spidey/X-Men by Ken Lashley, a New Avengers DPS by Jim Cheung.
John Carter pages by Sal Buscema, Ernie Chan, Gil Kane.
DC: Batman painting by Joe Jusko, a Green Lantern cover by Broderick, a Batman sketch by Paul Pope.
Lots of vintage sketches, love them: 1950 Superman by Wayne Boring, early Wolverine by Cockrum, 1994 Iron-Man by Don Heck, a 1993 Flash by Joe Kubert, Superman by Shuster, Supergirl by Curt Swan.
TWD by Adlard, the Fly by Ditko, Tarzan inked by Dave Stevens.
Strips: top 1935 and 1945 Terry dailies, a Beyond Mars Sunday by Lee Elias, a Space Cadet Sunday by Ray Bailey, a Yogi Bear Sunday, a late Polly & her Pals Sunday,
Catawiki Auctions
Enrique Alcatena- Incredible Hulk Original Comic Art
I’ve Been rediscovering Alcatena these past weeks, look at this Hulk page.
An X-Factor DPS by Joe Bennett, an AXA pinup by Romero, a sketch by Liberatore, a Leonardo cover by Turk.
See you next week!!
Welcome to #248 of Original Comic Art Tips! Many auctions and many nice pieces, this week. Also the first image I censored in five years (mostly cause I fear the email bots sending this in the spam), hope you like the button I designed..! 😎
eBay: a Batman convention commission by Tim Sale was sold for an incredible $8k. A very detailed and very cool Captain America/Deathlok cover sketch by Mike Zeck was sold for a $2,3k Best Offer, Conan/Red Sonja pages by John Buscema usually go for more than $2,5k.
A Spidey page by Alex Saviuk was sold for $1,9k, the Wolverine cover by Carlos Pacheco for $1,3k, a Batman Beyond cover by Ryan Sook for a $1,3k B.O., a Superman/Spider-Man commission by Portacio for $1k, a Hellboy bust commission by Mike Mignola for $1,1k (with a $500 price tag from 2019 on it).
Not the best Fantastic Four page by Byrne, but good enough for only $500.
Heritage Weekly Auction: ok, this was Jonah Hex first appearance, so it went for $36k. But it was just the cover sketch by Tony De Zuniga…
The Legion page by Dave Cockrum was sold for $14k, the Byrne/Romita Spidey for $13k, a Terry daily by Caniff for $10k, a Death of Superman page (without Superman, Doomsday or death) by Butch Guice went for $8k, the Fly by Ditko for $8k.
She-Hulk by Byrne for $5,5k, the Gen13 page by Campbell for $4k, the SPlatt SPlash page for $3,8k, a Captain America page by Andy Kubert for a pretty high $2,5k, Mary Perkins was sexy enough in this daily to sell for $1,5k, great art on this Terry Sunday, sold for an affordable $4k.
Catawiki: €3,3k for the illustration by Manara, €2k for the pinup by Liberatore, €1,4k for the Blacksad commission by Guarnido, €1,2k for the cover sketch by Gimenez, the Alan Ford cover by Piffarerio went for €800, a Batman page by Alcatena for €800, a Burlesque pinup by Marini for €750.
Disney: €850 for the Topolino cover by Mottura, €400 for the Ziche cover, a Scarpa page for €600. The buyer of this Cavazzano page sold for less than €400 and the cover sketch for €100 got a very good deal.
Millon: €20k for an Alix page by Martin, a Tanguy cover by Thos for €13k, a page by Jijé for €8k, a top Ric Hochet page by Tibet was sold for €9k, Tif et Tondu by Will for €7k.
Good prices for Francq, €6k, Pratt, €4k, Juillard €3k, Manara, €2,5k.
Prop Store: $80k for the unpublished Joker cover prelim by Brian Bolland, $6,5k for a Joker trading card by Norm Breyfogle, $5,5k for the book cover by John Romita, $5k for a Magneto page by Cockrum, Batman cover sketches by Ed Hannigan were sold for $2k, a Hulk page by Mike Zeck for $900.
This week on eBay
Tim Sale – Original Cover Art
Marvel: a 1967 X-Men page by Don Heck, a Power Man page by George Perez, Man-Thing by Mooney, White Tiger by Giffen, a District X cover by Tom Raney, a Nick Fury sketch by Steranko. The Excalibur page by Erik Larsen is still going.
DC: a Green Arrow/Harley cover by Tim Sale, some very nice Batman pages by Scott Hampton, here’s a half splash and the best page, a Batman sketch by Chris Samnee.
A Galileus page by Sergio Toppi, a Barbarella cover by Celina, a painted Judge Dredd page, a inked Hellboy bust by Mignola, this seller has many sketches by David Mack, a sketch by Vaughn Bodé.
Heritage Weekly Auction
Charlie Adlard – The Walking Dead Original Art
Top auction, this week, I had to leave a lot of things out.
Marvel: Avengers by John Buscema, Dracula and Howard by Colan, Red Sonja by Thorne, look at this X-Men cover by Doug Braithwaite, a Hulk/Wolvie splash by Ed McGuinness.
DC: rare top Superman strip by Wayne Boring, a page by Aragones, Batgirl by Don Heck, a Batman cover by Doug Braithwaite, Batman by Ed Benes, an Azrael cover by Mike Zeck.
Rick and Michonne Vs. Zombies. very rare. buy it. The Fly by Ditko, a Cerebus page, 1949 pages by Dan Barry and Alex Toth, great Western page by Severin/Elder, Creepy by Severin, look at this Bill Draut page.
Strips: a 1950 Prince Valiant page by Hal Foster, Terry by Caniff, very nice Wash Tubbs by Crane, a Pogo Sunday. An Archie daily by Montana is already at $1k, do you have idea why? Reply, thanks!
Catawiki Auctions
Carlos Meglia – Cybersix Original Comic Art
A Necron splash by Magnus, Ken Parker by Milazzo.
Splashes by Garcia Seijas (one, two), rare Cybersix page by Meglia, Modesty Blaise by Romero, very nice X-Men, Avengers and Batman pages by Alcatena.
A page by Franck Biancarelli, a painted page by Durand, a Marsupilami pinup by Batem.
Comic link Focused Auction
A to Z we have a Galactus DPS by Mark Bagley, a Punisher cover by Tim Bradstreet, a Conan page by Buscema, a Phoenix cover by J. Scott Campbell, a 1992 Hulk page by Travis Charest, a Galactus splash by Alan Davis, a Star Wars page by Michael Golden.
Some Y pages by Pia Guerra, early Ant-Man by Don Heck, Daredevil by Infantino, a cover by Daniel Warren Johnson.
Look at this Spidey page by Ron Lim, some Batman pages by Don Newton, Top Batman Adventures page by Ty Templeton.
Kirby animation art: I like Space Samurai and the Toxic Giant.
Commissions: Tim Sale Batman, Bachalo Dr. Strange, Finch Wolverine.
Cambi Aste
Not much to see. many Crepax illustrations, I like this Motorsports one. Already offered a few times, this Pazienza page, a nice Sgt. Kirk page by Pratt, a Jacovitti page.
Tajan Auctions
A color drawing of Lucky Luke by Morris, a painting by Druiilet, then nice pages by Alex Alice, Cassegrain, Hulet, Lafebre, Nesme.
Most of the pages are by Arroyo, here’s a cover project.
See you next week!!
Welcome to Original Comic Art Tips #247!! sorry for the late email… many things to see.
eBay: the TMNT cover by Kevin Eastman was sold for $7,7k, a Peach Momoko Psylocke card for a $5,5k B.O., the Adam Kubert X-Men page for $4,7k, the Red Sonja cover by Celina for $2k, a Death commission by Chris Bachalo for a $2k B.O., the Superman bust by Bruce Timm for $2,1k.
A Thor page by John Buscema for $1,6k, a Wonder Woman painting by Phil Noto for $1,5k, a Teen Titans cover by Ed McGuinness for a $1,5k B.O., the Pitt page by Dale Keown for $1,4k, a Superman sketch by Jim Lee for a $770 B.O.
Heritage Weekly Auction: look at the prices! $13,2k and $10,2k for two terry dailies by Caniff, $10,8k for a Transformers page by Frank Springer, $9,6k for the Spidey cover by Humberto Ramos, $9k for the She-Hulk page by Byrne, $7,2k for the Byrne/Romita Spidey, $7,8 for the Fly by Ditko, $2,9k for the Joker sketch by Bolland.
A production print for the Hulk #181 cover was sold for $9k.
Heritage Signature Auction: after the $2,4M record for Frank Miller we talked about last week, we do a big jump down to $504k, which is a new record for Jim Lee and his triple Hush cover.
(note that I’m only mentioning record prices, for lack of space).
The X-Force (with Spidey) cover by Todd McFarlane went for $408k, then an interior art record for the DPS from the same issue, $204k.
$216k is a record for Don Heck, a page from the same Iron-Man issue went for $168k in April, $288k for the complete Batman issue by Aparo.
$228k is a new record for Mike Mignola, and a big jump up, with this Batman cover (well… Robin), I think the previous record was for a Hellboy cover sold for $52k lat year. Historical piece, but probably a top Batman cover would do a higher record.
$180k for the early Batman cover by Kane/Robinson, this $132k DKR page almost doubled the previous Frank Miller panel page record, this pinup sold for $108k is probably the interior art Star Wars record.
Jim Lee makes another personal record, this Deathblow cover is the first Wildstorm piece to sell for more than $100k, probably also a first for Image comics, if I’m not forgetting a Walking Dead record price…
$84k for a Sandman #1 page by Sam Kieth, $78k for George Perez, $55k for Marc Silvestri, $50k for Mike Ploog, $48k for the Daredevil page by John Romita Jr., $36k for a Cerebus #1 page, $34k Mark Texeira, $32k for Gabriele Dell’Otto, $31k for H.G. Peter (interior), $31k for Dave McKean (interior), $30k and $28k for Tony Moore, $19k for Simone Bianchi, $17k for Norm Breyfogle, $14k for Stephen Platt.
All things considered, some very interesting sales, but in lower quantity compared to previous auctions.
Catawiki: the trading card art by Moebius went for €2k, the Durango page by Girod for €1,8k, the Dany illustration for €2,6k, the Blacksad sketch by Guarnido for €500.
Daniel Maghen Auctions: 1,5 Million Euros paid for this auction, with many pieces doubling/tripling the estimate. A Matteo cover by Gibrat went for an incredible €90k, an illustration for €53k, an interior page for €27k.
Then Bilal, with a 1982 page sold for €70k, the Bruce Hawker cover by Vance went very high at €50k, the Metabarons cover by Jimenez for €33k, Thorgal by Rosinski for €30k, Tardi €24k, Juillard €23k.
The highest price for Pellerin was €22k for this cover, but all the art offered went for high prices, Franquin €19k, the Batem pieces also went high, with €19k paid for this illustration, Giraud €17k, Martin €16k, Manara €13k, €10k for the Indian Summer page, this HP splash for a more affordable €6k.
This week on eBay
John Buscema – Conan Original Comic Art
Marvel: look at this Conan/Red Sonja page by John Buscema, early page by Erik Larsen, Man-Thing by Don Perlin, Fantastic Four by John Byrne, Morbius by Ron Wagner, a Wolverine cover by Carlos Pacheco.
DC: a Wonder Woman page by Don Heck, Flash by Ross Andru, a Shazam page by Manley, a Huntress DPS by Nasser, a Green Arrow splash by Jim Aparo, a Batman page by Tony Daniel.
A Hellboy bust by Mignola, Grendel by Wagner, 14 Popeye strips by Bobby London.
Heritage Weekly Auction
Marvel: early Fury by Ayers, Black Panther by Kirby, Conan by Buscema, a Human Torch page, some She-Hulk pages by John Byrne, a Spidey page by Byrne/Romita, a Captain America cover recreation by Neal Adams.
DC: Superboy by Brown/Wood, Superboy by Cockrum, top Sgt. Rock by Heath, a Supergirl splash by Ian Churchill, a 100 Bullets title splash by Risso.
Gen13 by Campbell, Wildcats by Charest, an Image splash by Stephen Platt, 1990s Hellboy sketches one and two, the Fly by Ditko, Black Cat by Kubert.
Strips: many Caniff dailies and a Sunday, Rip Kirby by Raymond, a 1960 On Stage daily.
Catawiki Auctions
Milo Manara Original Illustration
A Starman DPS by Tony Harris, a Batman sketch by Marini, some nice Batman pages by Alcatena, an Axa strip by Romero, a cover prelim by Juan Gimenez, a Blacksad commission by Guarnido, a page by Azpiri.
Illustrations by Manara, Jacovitti, Altan, Micheluzzi, Marini, Liberatore. La Compagnia della Forca by Magnus, Tex by Ticci, a Julia cover by Soldi, Dylan Dog by Di Gennaro, a sketch by Sergio Toppi.
Disney Art: Topolino covers by Mottura, Ziche, Freccero. A cover, a cover sketch, a page by Cavazzano, a strip by Scarpa, a painting by Carpi.
Millon Auction
Big pieces by Jijé, Will, Juillard, Martin, Gibrat. Then Francq, Vance, Pratt, Manara, Hermann, Le Gall, Tabary.
Also many sketched books, like Pratt, Moebius, Leloup.
Heritage Underground Auction
Most of the big names are here, but no top pieces.
Crumb, Shelton, Clay Wilson, Spain, several pieces by Vaughn Bodé, also Will Elder and Gahan Wilson.
Russ Cochran Auction
A nice watercolor by Frazetta, a 1921 Gasoline Alley daily.
See you next week!
Welcome to #246 of Original Comic Art Tips!
Original Comic Art Auction Results:
eBay: the Fantastic Four page by Jack Kirby was sold for $35k, a Kraven’s Last Hunt page (no Spidey) by Mike Zeck for $3k, a Hulk cover by Mark Bagley for a $2k Best Offer, a Captain America cover by Jae Lee for $1,8k, a Red Sonja cover by Linsner for $1,5k.
After yesterday’s sad news, a trading card original art by Tim Sale was sold for $1,5k, a few days before, this Doom commission went for less than $500.
We can already assign the prize for 2022’s biggest waste of money: this Bud Sagendorf sketch (worth at most $300), was instead sold for $9k. Let’s congratulate the buyer for taking advantage of a 10% discount. 💸💸💸
A Groo commission by Aragones was sold for a pretty high $1,2k B.O., the early Batman by Adam Hughes was finally sold for $800, a detailed painted cover prelim by Jim Steranko for $1,3k. The auction for this low priced ($1,6k) Green Goblin prelim by John Romita was quickly closed down…
Heritage Signature Auction: the top+ pieces were sold yesterday, but the auction will go on for the entire weekend, so as usual I will look at all of the results next week. Let’s just say that if you haven’t already read the news, the original art for the Dark Knight returns cover was sold for $2,4 Million, putting Frank Miller art at #5 of the highest prices ever paid.
Some commented that it’s too much, some that it had to go higher and it’s a sign of prices lowering… I was just sure it would go over a million dollars. If you want to tell me what you think just reply to this email!
Heritage Weekly Auction: $8,4 for the Popeye strip by Segar, $6,6 for the nice Spidey page by Jim Mooney, $5k for the Conan page by Buscema/Alcala, $5k for the Brunner Dr. Strange page, $4,8k the Fly by Ditko, $3,6k for a Usagi pinup by Stan Sakai, prices for vintage Usagi art are growing very quickly.
Really rare to find a top X-Men page from Chris Bachalo‘s first run, so this one was paid $3,5k.
Catawiki: of all the Jacques Laudy pages, only 6 were sold, probably a niche too small for Catawiki… The Goon DPS by Eric Powell went for €1,4k, a cover by Aidans for €1,6k, a Colombe pinup by Dany went for only €140.
Huberty Breyne Auction: top price for this Gil Jourdan page sold for €148k, two Tintin preliminary pages by Hergé for €90k, Spirou by Franquin for €70k, a Johan page by Peyo for €60k, a Lucky Luke illustration by Morris for €54k.
A page by Carl Barks for €26k, a page by Manara for 20k, a watercolor with Corto by Pratt for €19k, a detailed Asterix sketch by Uderzo for €14k.
Good deals on Robert Crumb art, with a Mr. Natural page sold for €11k and a half page for €5k. Good deals also for Hal Foster art, with a Tarzan page sold for €10k and a 1960 Valiant sold for a little less.
Coutau-Bégarie: €19k for this Buddy Longway page by Derib,
This week on eBay
Adam Hughes – Mary Jane Commission
Marvel: Man-Thing by Jim Mooney, I like this Moon Knight cover by Steve McNiven, an Avengers cover by Aaron Kuder, a Captain America commission by Alex Maleev, Galactus by Steve Rude, the price was lowered in half on this X-Men page by Adam Kubert, still high but you can make an offer.
Probably worth ¼ of the asking price, but there’s a nice Mary Jane commission by Adam Hughes.
DC: the Superman charity auctions still have 2 days to go, the Bruce Timm drawing is already at $1,5k. JSA by Tony Harris, offered many times in the last year, this Superman pinup by John Byrne is reaching its market value.
Unexpectedly on eBay, there’s a rare The Pitt page by Dale Keown, the price is still low.
Look at this TMNT cover by Kevin Eastman, a Red Sonja cover by Celina, a con sketch by Jaime Hernandez, a pair of eyes by J. Scott Campbell, a Usagi commission by Sakai, a TWD page by Adlard.
Heritage Weekly Auction
Marvel: Defenders by Sal Buscema, She-Hulk by Byrne, Spider-Man by Byrne/Romita (both hard to recognize), Sgt. Fury by George Perez, a Cyclops/Marvel Girl commission by Neal Adams, a Wolverine page by Alan Davis, a nice Spidey/Moon Knight cover by Ramos.
DC: a War page by Sergio Aragones, Sgt. Rock by Russ Heath, a Joker sketch by Bolland, a Y page by Pia Guerra.
A TWD splash by Adlard, the Fly by Ditko, a 1985 2000 A.D. page by Cam Kennedy, a Maakies illustration by Tony Millionaire.
I like a lot this Green Hornet page by Bob Fujitani, two The Shadow pages from 1941.
Strips: look at this Terry by Caniff, look at this Wash Tubbs daily by Crane, a 1949 Dick Tracy, a great 1938 Alley Oop, a 1964 B.C. daily, a Sunday by Knerr.
Catawiki Auctions
Bruno Marchand – Original Comic Art
A trading card illustration and a color study by Moebius, look at this illustration by Marchand, a Yakari page by Derib, a Durango page by Girod, a detailed color illustration by Dany, a Buck Danny illustration by Formosa.
A Blacksad sketch by Guarnido, a lovely Axa illustration by Romero, Distretto 56 by Fernandez, a pinup by Luis Rojo.
Some What If? pages by Alcatena with many caracters, a Death commission by Glenn Fabry.
A Disney page by Romano Scarpa, La Compagnia della Forca by Magnus.
Artcurial Auction
The usual incredible selection: not one but three Asterix pages, here’s the best one, a Gaston page by Franquin, Druillet, Rosinski, Bilal, a top Largo Winch page by Francq, Gibrat, early Vaillant by Graton.
Many pages by Manara, a Ranxerox page, Sammy Sneeze by McCay, a Batman cover by Sienkiewicz.
Daniel Maghen Auction
Patrice Pellerin – L'Epervier Original Art
Big choice of top pieces by Pellerin, Batem, Gibrat, Manara.
Then Giraud, Gimenez, Mezieres, Bilal, Rosinski, Juillard, a cover by Vance.
Lucky Luke by Morris and Bonhomme, Sfar, Benoit.
Septimus Auctions
Top piece is this Valerian illustration, then Jijé, Morris, Roba.
Spirou by Schwartz, Bouncer by Boucq, Juillard, Franquin, Marini.
Propstore Auction
Propstore usually never offers anything interesting, this time there are many pieces, some with low and some with high estimates.
A Molecule Man pinup by Kirby, a detailed Joker cover prelim by Brian Bolland, a Punisher/Deadpool cover by Greg Hildebrandt, a Spider-Man book cover by Mike Zeck, an Overstreet cover prelim by John Romita, a Joker trading card by Norm Breyfogle.
They’re also auctioning many pieces by Ed Hannigan, mostly cover prelims.
An Iron-Man page by Don Heck, a Magneto page by Dave Cockrum, some Cerebus pages, here’s a DPS.
Punisher and Daredevil TV promos by Joe Quesada.
See you next week!!
Welcome to #245 of Original Comic Art Tips!
eBay: the Star Wars cover by Dave Johnson was sold for a high $6,1k Best Offer, the Groo splash by Aragones for $2,5k, the Nick Fury cover by Bryan Hitch for $2k, a rare Kabuki page by David Mack for $2k, the Barbarella cover by Celina for $1,8k.
A JLA cover by Clay Mann went for $1,7k, a Nick Fury title splash by Keith Pollard for $1,7k, the Gary Frank cover for $1,6k, a Spider-Man Sketchagraph by John Romita for $1,6k, a very nice Long Halloween page by Tim Sale was sold for $1,4k, a Crisis page by George Perez for only $1k, the only Ken Kelly painting available was quickly sold for $1,8k.
Sold in April by Mike Mignola for $1,7k, this Spaceman drawing was sold again for $100 more…
Heritage Weekly Auction: the 1950 Batman page went for $24k, the Moon Knight page by Sienk for $4,3k, the Fly by Ditko for $3,3k, the Sandman page by Allred for $3,1k.
$3k was a low price for the detail in this Avengers/X-Men cover by Nick Bradshaw, nice $1,2k for this Red Sonja page by Thorne.
Comiclink Featured Auction: highest price was $289k for the title page to Fantastic Four Annual #1 by Kirby/Ditko.
Estimated at $600k a Stan Lee as Iron-Man painting by Rob Prior was sold for $285k, I’d use my money better… In line with previous sales a Spidey/Kraven page by Ditko went for $145k, an Alpha Flight cover by Jim Lee for $72k, a Vampirella pinup by Frazetta for $48k.
Record $43k for this Wolverine splash by Adam Kubert, $33k for a Spidey cover by J. Scott Campbell, low price for this Swamp Thing page by Wrightson, $33k, $31k for a Fantastic Four page by John Buscema, $29k for a Wolverine cover by John Byrne, $27k for a Batwoman cover by Rafael Grampà.
$15k for a Batman cover by Dave Finch, $10k for a Spidey cover by Mike Deodato, $12k for a 1991 Wolverine splash by JRJR.
Comic Connect: the Fantastic Four cover by John Buscema went for $115k, the Captain America cover by Mike Zeck for $87k, the Marvel Team-Up cover by Byrne for $72k, the splash by Jaime Hernandez for $24k, a first appearance page by Clay Mann for $4,7k, a Spidey 2099 page by Leonardi for $3,8k, a Batman page by Breyfogle for $3,7k, a top Hulk page by McFarlane went for an “affordable” $15k.
There were also many good deals, Kirby pages for $5k are always nice, like a Daredevil page by Colan for less than $2k, an X-Men cover by Simone Bianchi for $2,6k and a Spidey page for $500, a Teen Titans page by Byrne for $2,5k.
A Werewolf transformation page by Perlin for $900, a Bagley JLA DPS for $600, a detailed DPS by Riccardo Federici for $500.
This week on eBay
Bruce Timm – Superman Original Comic Art
Marvel: a Fantastic Four page by John Buscema and a pricey, but very nice, Wizard of OZ page, full team Avengers page by Bob Hall, Kull by Ernie Chan, nice Spidey page by Mark Bagley.
a Dr. Doom commission by Tim Sale, Man-Thing by Jim Cheung, Magneto by Skottie Young.
DC: a Superman page by Alex Maleev, a Harley commission by John Timms.
A big charity auction of Superman pieces, the highlights are this pinup by Dave Johnson, this one by Kilian Plunkett, a bust by Dan Brereton, I really like the idea behind this striking portrait by Bruce Timm.
A 2003 Hellboy by Mike Mignola, Grendel by Wagner, a TMNT Flaming Carrot splash by Jim Lawson, a Spawn trading card by Tom Raney, a Jungle Jim page by Paul Norris, a book sketched by Kim Jung Gi.
Heritage Weekly Auction
Marvel: Dr.Strange by Brunner, a Conan title page by John Buscema, a Captain America prelim by John Romita, a Wolverine page by Chris Bachalo, Galactus by Olivier Coipel, Galactus by Rags Morales.
DC: Sgt. Rock by Russ Heath, a Batman illustration by Bernie Wrightson, a Batman cover prelim by Andy Kubert, a Catwoman commission by Darwyn Cooke.
The Fly by Steve Ditko.
Strips: a Popeye daily by Segar, Scorchy Smith by Sickles, Terry by Caniff, Wash Tubbs by Roy Crane, a 1912 Mutt & Jeff, a Christmas Wizard of ID Sunday, a Rusty Riley Sunday, look at this Tailspin Tommy Sunday.
Catawiki Auctions
Enrico Marini – Original Illustration
I don’t know if things are already slowing down for summer, but lately it’s very hard to find something worth seeing on Catawiki…
A color pinup by Marini, a big thematic auction for Jacques Laudy, here’s the best page.
A Ken Parker page by Milazzo, Dylan Dog by Micheluzzi, an illustration by Jacovitti, a Disney page by Asteriti.
A nice The Goon DPS by Eric Powell, a Red Sonja cover by Lucio Parrillo, a Hulk page by JRJR, ‘90s Daredevil by Ron Wagner, Marvel Heroes by Javier Saltares.
Heritage Signature Auction part 3: Interior Art
John Romita JR – Iron-Man Original Comic Art
Early Iron-Man by Don Heck, Daredevil #1 by Everett, many Spidey pages by Romita, a Captain America splash by Colan, Green Goblin by Kane, top Fantastic Four page by Kirby.
A full Thor issue by Jack Kirby with everything: transformations, Asgard, Avengers, a battle with Loki… here’s the splash and a page.
Several BWS pages, like this Conan and this X-Men page.
Look: the complete Beatles Marvel comic by George Perez.
Iconic Daredevil page by Miller/Janson, Elektra: Assassin by Sienk, great Iron-Man splash by JRJR, Captain America Vs. Wolverine by Zeck, Avengers by Byrne.
X-Men DPS original art by Jim Lee, remember the complete Spidey/X-Force issue by McFarlane for sale here? this is the double splash. There’s another Spidey DPS. A Moon Knight splash by Stephen Platt, a Wolverine page by Silvestri, an Avengers DPS by Tim Sale.
A complete Batman issue by Jim Aparo, Green Lantern by Neal Adams, Killing Joke by Bolland, Watchmen by Gibbons, Dead Superman by Grummett, a rare Superman splash by Wayne Boring, Sandman #1 by Sam Kieth, Batman pages by Norm Breyfogle are not rare anymore.
A V. page by David Lloyd, EC complete stories by Davis, Wood, look at this beautiful Al Williamson page, a Spawn splash by Capullo, TWD #1 by Tony Moore, an early Eightball page, a complete story by Don Rosa, a Blueberry page by Giraud.
Coutau Bégarie Auction
Yakari and Buddy Longway by Derib, Marsupilami by Batem, Robin by Turk, Olivier by Dany, Long John by Lauffray, a novel cover by Manara.
See you next week!!
Welcome to #244 of Original Comic Art Tips! Today I’m not feeling really well, you’ll find some sections done quicker than usual…
eBay: the Thor cover by Gary Frank was sold for $4,3k, a Moon Knight cover by Marco Rudy for $1,8k, a 1985 TMNT sketch by Peter Laird for $1,5k, a Spidey page by Jeff Johnson for $2k, an Atom page by Gil Kane for a $4k Best Offer, a Manhunter splash by Eddy Barrows for $1,2k, a Rip Kirby strip by Raymond for $1,5k.
Heritage Weekly Auction: the Eternity pinup by Frank Miller was sold for $13k, the Avengers page by Buscema for $10k, the Spidey illustration by Dell’Otto for $5k, the Conan page by Buscema for a high $1,4k.
Catawiki: the Lucky Luke by Morris went for €9,5k, the Manara page for €6,1k, the Blake & Mortimer page by Juillard for €3,2k, the page by Barbucci for €2,2k, the Will Eisner page for €900.
This week on eBay
Sergio Aragones – Groo Original Comic Art
A Man-Thing page by John Buscema, a Sgt. Fury cover by Bryan Hitch, a rare Groo splash by Sergio Aragones, a Batman illustration by Kevin Nowlan, a Wolverine commission by Ken Lashley, Bat Lash by Nick Cardy.
I like this Batman page by Eddy Newell, a cover by Gary Frank, one by Celina, a Usagi Yojimbo pinup, a Batman page by Sean Phillips.
Heritage Weekly Auction
Marvel: a Conan title splash by John Buscema, Red Sonja by Thorne, Avengers by Hall, Moon Knight by Sienkiewicz, X-Factor by Silvestri, a Avengers/X-Men cover by Nick Bradshaw.
DC: a 1950 Batman page, Flash by Infantino, Sgt. Rock by Russ Heath, a Green Lantern splash by Seth Fisher,
Cannon by Wally Wood, the Fly by Ditko,
Strips: Rip Kirby by Raymond, a Hagar Sunday, a Terry daily by Caniff,
Catawiki Auctions
Crepax, Liberatore, Magnus, a Pinky prelim by Mattioli, Ticci, Bernet.
Heritage Signature Auction part 2: Comic Strips
The number of top quality pieces is lower than usual, but there are a Little Nemo page, a Krazy Kat Sunday, a Tarzan page by Foster, a Jungle Jim topper by Raymond, a Gasoline Alley Sunday from 1922, a beautiful 1934 Mickey Mouse daily by Gottfredson.
Several strips by Frazetta, here’s an Ace McCoy Sunday, many Peanuts strips, Rip Kirby strips, Garfield strips, and Terry strips by Caniff.
Comiconnect Auction
The biggest piece is the John Buscema Fantastic Four cover recreating the 1st issue cover, then a beautiful Captain America cover and a Spidey page by Mike Zeck, a Spidey cover by Rich Buckler, a Spidey cover by Alex Ross, one by David Finch, an Avengers cover by Mark Bagley.
Avengers by Ditko/Byrne, a Creepy title page by Ditko, a Superman page by Byrne, Mister Miracle by Kirby, a Hulk cover by Todd McFarlane.
A Basil Wolverton illustration, the 1st Mechanics page by Jaime Hernandez, a Godzilla cover by Darrow.
Swann illustration auction
Many top name Book/Editorial/Children illustrations and a few comic artist pieces, like the usual early Felix the Cat sunday, many Don Martin MAD pages, 10 pre-Tracy strips by Chester Gould, some nice Dudley Fisher Sunday panels.
A Fester drawing by Addams, a Playboy illustration by Jack Davis.
Welcome to #243 of Original Comic Art Tips!
eBay: the Thor page by Jack Kirby was sold for $19,4k, an Eerie painted cover by Sanjulian for $12k, a Titans cover by Brett Booth for a $5k Best Offer, a Daredevil cover by Alex Maleev for $2,5k, a color Joker commission by Neal Adams for $2k, a nice Superman DPS by Tony Harris went for a low $800 B.O.
The Stat to a Spidey cover by John Romita went for $3,5k.
An Avengers page by George Perez went for a pretty low $800, compare it to this very quick Robin sketch sold for $1,1k.
While I was looking at these pages a sponsored auction for a Spider-Man shaped potato chip was “suggested” to me… 😒
Heritage Weekly Auction: the Captain Marvel page by Milgrom went for a pretty high $15k, the cover prelim by Adam Hughes for $5k, a Flash page by Infantino for $3,1k, $2,9k and $2,2k for Ron Lim pages, $2k for a Barney Google daily.
Catawiki: the Catwoman sketch by Mazzucchelli went for €1k, Lo Sconosciuto by Magnus for €4,4k, the strip by Jacovitti for €900, a page by Micheluzzi for €400 and a Green Lantern DPS by Ed Benes for €700.
Millon: I somewhat discovered about this Batman themed auction only after the fact, and seems like I was not the only one, top Batman pieces went for incredibly low prices…
The highest priced piece (but still lower than its market price) was this Batman/Aliens painted cover by Bernie Wrightson, sold for €12k, a Swamp Thing page was sold for €9,5k (and this one seems more or less the right price), a LOTDK cover by Scott Hampton for €5,8k, a rare piece is this Batman sketch by Brian Bolland sold for €500.
And now I’ll start stabbing your heart: a Batman cover by Garcia Lopez was sold for €3k, a Batman action page by John Byrne for €2k, a beautiful, detailed (and faded) Batman DPS by Gil Kane for €1,5k, a vintage Batman illustration by Marshall Rogers for €900, and the two I’d really wanted to own were this Batgirl splash by Don Heck sold for €1,1k and this Batman and Robin pinup by Don Newton for €290 (!).
Then also a Wizard cover prelim by Alex Ross for €1,2k, a Batman splash painted by John Bolton for €1,1k, a page by Keith Giffen for €850, a JLA page by Dick Dillin for €450, and we end with Brian Bolland, a Batman cover prelim sold for €900 and a full figure sketch for €350.
Heritage Garfield Auction: $4,5k the highest price for a Sunday, $2,4k for a daily, several ‘80s dailies sold for under $500.
A Peanuts daily at Nate Sanders Auctions went for $35k.
This week on eBay
Simone Bianchi – Wolverine Illustration
Marvel: nice Morbius page by Ron Wagner, a Spidey commission by Jim Starlin, Guardians by Jim Valentino, a Phoenix pinup by Paul Smith.
A Wolverine illustration by Simone Bianchi, Thor cover by Gary Frank, an X-Men cover and a Wolverine page by Pasqual Ferry, a Star Wars cover by Dave Johnson, Fantastic Four by Mike Wieringo, this seller has many bust commissions by Humberto Ramos for less than $400. I always like the colorful, detailed commissions by Thony Silas.
DC: Wonder Woman by Don Heck, a 1989 Batman commission by Adam Hughes, a Batman page by Scott McDaniel, a Batman commission by Neal Adams, early JLA DPS by Greg Land.
A Hellboy bust by Mignola, a Grendel page by Matt Wagner, a Darth Vader sketch by Jeffrey Brown for Hero Initiative, a Rip Kirby strip by Alex Raymond.
Heritage Weekly Auction
Gabriele Dell'Otto – Spider-Man Original Comic Art
DC: Batman pages by Dick Giordano, Guillem March, John Van Fleet, and a commission by Tony Daniel.
Superman by Jack Kirby, a Superman title page by Curt Swan.
Marvel: Avengers, Red Sonja, Conan by John Buscema, an Eternity pinup by Frank Miller, Red Sonja by Frank Thorne.
Spidey/Green Goblin and Ghost Rider by Gabriele Dell’Otto, Wolverine by Paul Pope, a color guide for a Daredevil title page by Miller.
Wrestlers by Jaime Hernandez, Golden Age Captain Marvel by Tuska.
Strips: Caniff, Sickles, Raymond, Williamson, Walker, Sy Barry, Forrest.
Catawiki Auctions
Milo Manara – Original Comic Art
A Lucky Luke pinup by Morris, Jerry Spring by Jijé, Blake & Mortimer by Juillard, a Barelli cover by Bob De Moor, Blueberry by Blanc-Dumont, a color illustration by Dany.
Two top pages by Manara (one, two), Lo Sconosciuto by Magnus, Junglemen by Hugo Pratt, a very nice Echo page by Barbucci, a color pinup by Enrico Marini.
A Sergio Toppi sketch, La Linea by Cavandoli, a cover by Galep, a page painted by Azpiri, a Dropsie Avenue splash by Will Eisner and an X-Men page by Greg Land.
Heritage Signature auction part 1: Covers
Jim Lee – Batman Original Cover Art
Ok, you all probably know that the cover to TDKR #1 by Frank Miller is here to break a record.
if that’s not enough Batman we have a triple fold cover by Jim Lee, a Cockrum/Adams cover, a 1942 cover, a Robin cover by Mike Mignola, one (of many) by George Perez, one by Breyfogle.
Many covers by Gil Kane, I chose this Captain America, Spidey by Cockrum, Thor by Kirby, Wolverine by John Buscema, Spidey by Sal, She-Hulk by Byrne, Hulk by Keown, Conan/Rune painted by BWS, Spidey/Carnage by Dell’Otto.
The full issue of Spider-Man #16 by Todd McFarlane is for sale, here’s the cover.
A Deathblow cover by Jim Lee, American Flagg by Chaykin, a Judge Dredd cover by Brian Bolland, a 1983 PROG by Mike McMahon, a Spirit cover by Eisner, Black Orchid by Dave McKean, Cerebus #3.
More great covers than I can show you, so…
See You Next Week!!
Welcome to #242 of Original Comic Art Tips!
eBay: a Jim Lee splash from Uncanny X-Men #275 was sold for a $17k Best Offer, a Spawn cover by Clayton Crain for a $14,5k B.O.
An American Vampire cover by Sean Murphy for $6,8k, a beautiful DPS for $4,2k, an Hellboy pinup by Mike Mignola for a $3,6k B.O., the Conan page by John Buscema for $2,8k, the Transformers page by Don Perlin for $2,7k, a Spider-Man splash by Alan Davis for $2,5k, a Conan tryout page by Barry Smith for $2,4k, a Transmetropolitan page by Darick Robertson for $2,2k.
The Catwoman commission by David Mazzucchelli for $1,8k, a small Wolverine commission by Skottie Young for $1,8k, a very nice JLA DPS by Doug Mahnke for $1,4k.
The vintage Punisher sketch by Mike Zeck I found overpriced was instead sold for $1,4k… a Spider-Man full figure commission by Romita Jr. went for $950, the original price it was sold for in December. Two Neal Adams head sketch commissions for a $1k B.O.
Heritage Weekly Auction: more than $7k paid for this 2019 Metal Men cover by George Perez, the iconic Phantom strip by Sy Barry for $5,5k, a Shang-Chi page by Jim Starlin for $5k, $4,3k was the highest price for the Terry strips by Caniff, $1,3k for a Y page by Pia Guerra, $1,2k for a 1997 Garfield daily.
Catawiki: the Necron splash by Magnus went for €1k, the Uncle Scrooge splash by Cavazzano for €950, the illustration by Jacovitti for €500, the Nick Carter strip by Bonvi for €450, the sketch by Sergio Toppi for €350.
Comiclink: highest price for the animation illustration by Jack Kirby, sold for $6,666 (really), another (published) piece for $6,2k. A Punisher cover by Tim Bradstreet for $5,8k, a Phoenix cover by J. Scott Campbell for $5k.
Spidey pages by Sal Buscema for $2,3k and $2,2k, an X-Men page by Terry Dodson for $2,1k, a rare X-Factor page by Larry Stroman for $2k, a Gen Next page by Chris Bachalo for $1,9k.
A small Batman commission by Neal Adams went for $1,5k, another 2022 commission by Art Adams went for $415 more than what was paid two months ago.
Good deals: $3k for a Spidey 2099 page by Rick Leonardi and $1,4k for a X-Men page by Andy Kubert are good prices in 2022… $900 for a Thor page by Pollard, $900 for a Lady Death DPS by Steven Hughes, $500 for a Flash page by Brett Booth, $450 a Spidey page by Bachalo, $200 for a Superman page by Immonen.
Look: the original letters page from X-Men #5 went for $1,3k.
Little Nemo Auction: a page from Dylan Dog #1 went for €9,8k, a four-page Joe Galaxy story by Mattioli for €5,4k, a Valentina page by Crepax for €3,9k, the Pippo page by Pazienza went for a very low $850.
Jim Lee: a Batman commission spot was sold for charity at $18,5k.
This week on eBay
Jack Kirby – Thor Original Comic Art
Marvel: look at this Thor page by Jack Kirby, She-Hulk by Mike Vosburg, an early page and an Avengers page by George Perez.
This Romita cover stat is getting a lot of bids…
X-Men by Adam Kubert, X-Men by Jason Pearson, a Spider-Man DPS by Terry Dodson, last week’s Venom splash by Herrera is now without reserve.
Commissions: Dr. Strange by Brunner, Mr. Fantastic by Sinnott, Spidey 2099 by Leonardi, Thanos by Jim Cheung.
DC: Wonder Woman by David Finch, Sword of Sorcery by Chaykin/Adams, a Superman commission by Starlin, a Batman commission by Giordano.
A TMNT Movie adaptation page, a Barbarella cover by Celina, a 1944 Bringing Up Father daily.
Heritage Weekly Auction
Adam Hughes – Catwoman Cover Prelim
Marvel: Sgt. Fury by Ayers, Shang-Chi by Gulacy, Captain Marvel by Milgrom, top Venom and Infinity War pages by Ron Lim.
DC: look at this Catwoman cover prelim by Adam Hughes, a Flash page by Infantino, Shade by Chris Bachalo.
A MAD page by Aragones, a beautiful illustration by Tony Millionaire,
A Rusty Riley daily, a 1964 B.C. daily, a Donald Duck daily by Taliaferro, a 1969 Beetle Bailey daily, look at this and this Terry daily by Caniff,
Catawiki Auctions
Magnus – Lo Sconosciuto Original Art
A splash from Lo Sconosciuto by Magnus, colors for a Druuna page by Serpieri, a Giuseppe strip by Jacovitti, Rosso Stenton by Micheluzzi, Tex by Buzzelli.
Uncle Scrooge by Silvia Ziche, a Lupo Alberto sketch by Silver, a Torpedo sketch by Bernet.
A full figure Catwoman sketch by David Mazzucchelli, an early page by Peter Bagge, a color sketch by Blutch, two nice jams by french artists, one, two.
Heritage Garfield Auction
Seems like the Garfield archives are nearing the end, this is a smaller auction than we’re used to.
Several, funny, early dailies, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1986… some early Sunday strips, some more recent full weeks of dailies.
There are also some early illustrations and paintings.
See you next week!!
Welcome to #241 of Original Comic Art Tips!
eBay: the Preacher page went for $5k, the Vampirella cover by Celina for $3,6k, somebody REALLY paid $2k for Wolverine eating a sausage drawn by John Byrne, the nine Popeye strips by Bobby London for $1,7k, a Captain America page by Ed McGuinness for $1,5k, a Batman page by Bob Brown for $1,5k, the Hulk page by Steve Rude for $1,3k, a Death pinup by Chris Bachalo for $850.
A She-Hulk commission by Budd Root went for a $1,4 B.O., a Leia painting by Dave Dorman for a $1,9 B.O., a nice Ghost Rider page by Ron Garney for a $650 B.O.
This Wolverine by Bruce Timm at $400 was a good deal compared to the $1,2k Batmen sold lately, $300 for the Catwoman page by Jim Balent.
Neal Adams: a Superman movie/Marlon Brando piece was sold for $5k but the link is broken… a painted Joker portrait for a $3k B.O., a Green Lantern bust for $1,2k.
George Perez: there are a lot of quick bust/head sketches and less full commissions around (compared to Adams) by Perez, so the results reflect this. Many sketches were sold for $900 each, a full figure Jocasta for $900, a nice Daredevil bust for $750, the highest price was $2,2k for a very quick Hulk head sketch cover.
Heritage Weekly Auction: another very high price for a Terry daily by Caniff, $10,8k, $5,7k for a Spidey page by Milgrom, $5,5 for a Fantastic Four pinup.
Catawiki: a page by Hermann went for €8,2k, a rare full figure Ken Parker sketch by Milazzo went for €300, a sketch by Toppi for €300, the drawing by Barbucci for €400, the AXA illustration by Romero for €450.
Urania Aste: a good €370k of artwork sold, with the Corto Maltese illustration by Hugo Pratt as the highest price, €15k.
€8,4k for the Valentina illustration by Crepax, €1,9k for the Scrooge illustration by Cavazzano, the complete story went for a total price of €11k, with the title page sold for €1,7k and a few unsold pages, some were pretty affordable, at €400.
Then €5,5k for Gottfredson, €4,8k and €4k for Magnus, I imagined more than €4,5k for the Giardino cover, €3,9k for Serpieri, Manara and the Silver Surfer page by Buscema, €1,8k for the Spidey page by Sal Buscema.
Mandarake: just two prices… $65k for an Arale sketch by Akira Toriyama, while $7k for an Astro Boy sketch by Tezuka seems still affordable.
This week on eBay
John Buscema – Conan Original Comic Art
Marvel: the best piece is this Conan half-splash by John Buscema. High priced (you can try a B.O…), but a great piece is this Fantastic Four page with Spider-Man by Jack Kirby, I love vintage sketches, this Punisher by Mike Zeck is priced too high. a lot of four pages, the highlight is a signed Fantastic Four 2099 page by John Buscema, a Falcon page by Sal.
Look at this Spider-Man splash by Alan Davis, the price seems right, I liked Steve Skroce‘s X-Man as a kid, another vintage sketch, Wolverine by Rick Leonardi, Transformers by Don Perlin, a Venom splash by Francisco Herrera.
DC: a Teen Titans page a nice Green Lantern commission by George Perez, Catwoman pages by Jim Balent, Supergirl by Schaffenberger, I like a lot this 1988 Blackhawk page by Howard Chaykin, an Aquaman splash by Ramona Fradon.
A rare front facing Superman sketch by Jim Lee and Scott Williams, why is the slab reversed?
A lot of varied quality vintage DC commissions, the highlights are Brian Stelfreeze, Steve Lightle, Gene Colan and Adam Hughes.
After last week’s $5k Preacher page there are a few more, here’s the best one. A Promethea DPS by J.H. Williams.
An Archie splash by De Carlo, Grendel by Wagner, a good Starhawks by Gil Kane.
Heritage Weekly Auction
Marvel: Sgt. Rock by Ayers, Shang-Chi by Starlin, Thor by Pollard.
A pinup for the Spider-Man DVD and a Ultimate War page by Chris Bachalo, Captain America by Mark Bagley, Spider-Man by Mike Deodato.
DC: Wonder Woman by Delbo, a Superman page by Tom Grummett, a nice Starman page by Tony Harris, a Metal Men cover by George Perez.
A Y page by Pia Guerra, a Tower Chronicles cover by Bisley.
Strips: a top Phantom strip by Sy Barry, another big pile of Terry strips by Caniff, a first year Li’l Abner daily, a Rusty Riley.
Catawiki Auctions
Giorgio Cavazzano – Uncle Scrooge Original Comic Art
A Necron splash and a model sheet by Magnus, a Nick Carter strip by Bonvi, an illustration by Jacovitti, La Linea by Cavandoli, a sketch by Sergio Toppi, very nice aviation page by Micheluzzi, an early page by Gipi.
A Tex illustration by Ticci, a cover by Alessandrini, a Dylan Dog page by Massimo Carnevale, an Uncle Scrooge splash by Cavazzano, a Donald Duck page by Bottaro.
A color pinup by Luis Rojo, a Modesty Blaise strip by Romero, a Hulk page by Mitch Breitweiser, a Spidey cover prelim by Chris Bachalo, a lot of sketches with a nice Silver Surfer by Alan Davis, a slabbed Wolverine Vs. Iron Fist blank by Neal Adams.
I’m not an expert, can’t tell you if this Leiji Matsumoto shikishi is real.
Cornette de Saint Cyr Auctions
Covers by Derib, Yoann, De Gieter, Binet.
Interior pages by Gibrat, Sfar, David B., Edika, Blutch.
Some nice sketches and sketched books, Rosinski, Franquin, Pratt, Serpieri, Moebius, Bilal, Uderzo.
Two Dingbats pages by Kirby (one, two).
See you next week!!
Welcome to #240 of Original Comic Art Tips!
eBay: a Flash cover by Ross Andru was sold for a $15k Best Offer, a Namor cover by Alex Sanchez for a $5,2k B.O., a Moon Girl cover recreation by Moldoff for $3,1k, a William Stout illustration for $2,5k. $2k (B.O.) wasted on a Starlin Batman production cover.
$1,7k for a Venom/She-Hulk page by Tom Morgan, $1,6k for the X-Men page by Michael Collins, $1,5k for the Spider-Woman by Leialoha, $1,5k for a Spider-Man cover by Tony Fleecs, $1,4k for a Batman page by Gene Colan and a Thor page by Esad Ribic. $1,7k (B.O.) for a remarked Spidey comic by John Romita.
Mignola: a very nice 1994 Hellboy sketch was sold for a $1,8k Best Offer, very good deal compared to another HB sketch sold for $1,7k.
Neal Adams: you probably know that eBay has been flooded with Neal Adams original art and sketches, many are rushing to buy one at unimaginable prices (until a month ago). The only published piece was this Werewolf poster, sold for $16k, this Batman pinup was actually a good deal at $2k, a very nice Green Lantern tonal piece for $1,8k, a quicker GL bust for $900 (B.O.), a Catwoman for $1,450 (B.O.), a good $780 for this Wonder Woman, a nice tonal Wolvie for $750.
Slabbed profile sketches are the worst deals (they went for $200 not long ago) like $900 paid for a Batman, or $900 for a Green Lantern.
Heritage Weekly Auction: the Sgt. Fury splash by Dick Ayers went for $5,5k, the Superman title page by Curt Swan for $4,2k, the Dark Shadows daily by Ken Bald for $3,1k, a Y page by Pia Guerra for $1,5k.
Remember last year, when modern Thanos pages by Jim Starlin were still “cheap”, selling for $700-900? Not anymore as you can guess, this one went for $1,4k.
Catawiki: the Corto Maltese strip by Hugo Pratt went for €2,5k, a panel for La Linea by Cavandoli for €800, an Axa strip by Romero went for €500, a Martin Mystere cover by Alessandrini for €500, the Dylan Dog page by Stano for €400, the Micheluzzi page for €350.
The Peanuts strip at Weiss Auctions went for $72k.
Not bad, a Blueberry sketch by Giraud, sold at Millon for €350.
This week on eBay
John Byrne – Wolverine Original Comic Art
Marvel: Fury/Iron-Man by Keith Pollard, nice Silver Surfer/Galactus page by M.C. Wyman, look at this Conan page by Gil Kane, a Conan page by Rudy Nebres, have I already linked to this Nova page by John Buscema? High priced Secret Wars page by Mike Zeck, a Wolverine page by John Byrne.
A Wolverine sketch by Bruce Timm, a Wolverine DPS by Simone Bianchi, great Hulk page by Steve Rude, a Dr. Doom commission by Bob Layton, a sketched Wolverine HC by Neal Adams,
DC: New Titans by George Perez, Catwoman original art by Jim Balent,
I really like this Jam piece, with signatures and quick doodles by everybody, from Golden to Modern Age, including Frazetta, Groening, and a painting by Ray Lago. A Vampirella cover by Celina, a TMNT pinup by Freddie Williams,
A 1937 Tim Tyler daily, a Dateline Danger Sunday, a lot of 9 Popeye strips by Bobby London.
Heritage Weekly Auction
Marvel: Sgt. Fury by Dick Ayers, Tarzan by John Buscema, Iron-Man by Sal, a Spidey page by Milgrom, a Colossus pinup by Brandon Peterson and a detailed cover prelim by Steve McNiven.
Batman pages by Steve Lightle, a Green Arrow cover by Marcos Martin.
Black Cat by Lee Elias, a B.C. daily.
Catawiki Auctions
Alessandro Barbucci – Echo Original Art
A Ken Parker page by Milazzo, a 1977 illustration by Mattotti, a title page from Il Maestro by Di Gennaro, a sketched print by Sergio Toppi.
Top Bernard Prince page by Hermann, an Echo sketch by Barbucci, a pinup by Dany, an illustration by Romero, a Nekradamus page by Lalia, a western page by Luis Bermejo.
An X-Men page by Greg Land, a Hellblazer cover prelim by Bisley.
Comic link Focused Auction part 2
Thor pages by Pollard and Trimpe, a Captain America page and some Shang-Chi pages by Mike Zeck, a Guardians splash by Valentino, X-Factor by Stroman, nice Guardians cover by Tom Raney, an X-Men cover by Skottie Young.
A cover quality Batman painting by Alex Maleev, a Batman page by Matt Wagner, a Hulk pinup by Tim Sale, a Fathom page by Michael Turner.
Little Nemo Auction
A Valentina illustration by Crepax, Petra Cherie by Micheluzzi, Custer by Bernet, a page from Tormenta by Andrea Pazienza and a Pippo page I’ve never seen, a full Joe Galaxy story by Mattioli and an Alter cover.
A Tex cover by Villa, the best piece of the auction is this page from Dylan Dog #1, a nice Scrooge cover by Cavazzano and a Goofy cover by Carpi, a page by Scarpa.
An early strip by Winsor McKay and a low priced Terry daily by Caniff.
See you next week!!
