eBay: remember last week’s Hellboy sketchbook cover? the one fighting against Cov.19? It went for $40k. I know it was for charity, I’m happy for this, but I’m also thinking at what you could buy with $40k. Look at HA’s latest Mignola sales, a Hulk cover, a Spider-Man poster, several Hellboy illustrations, covers and vintage pages… all sold for much less.

$4,4 paid for a New Mutants page by Sienkiewicz, $3,6k paid for the Avengers page by Sal Buscema, $2,1k for the Thor page by John Buscema, $2k (Best Offer) for a Conan half splash by JB, the JLA page by John Byrne was finally sold for $1,9k, it took years, listing it every week, finally the market reached the asking price.

A 1989 Dilbert daily went for $3,2k, one from 1993 for $1,8k, a Matt Groening sketch for $1,8k (B.O.), the EC page by Graham Ingels for $1,8k.

A Batman/Joker commission by Neal Adams for a good $1,5k, a page from The Boys by Robertson for $1,3k, an X-Men page by John Cassaday for $800 (B.O.), an Ultimatum page by David Finch for $600 (B.O.), a page from Namor #1 by Byrne for $800, the Joker sketch by Bolland for $300.

Two sketchagraphs by John Romita, Kingpin and Rhino, were sold for $1,6k.

Heritage Weekly Auction: $7,8k for a Shang-Chi page by Gulacy, formerly sold in 2019 for $6,6k. $5k for the TWD cover by Charlie Adlard, $1,8k for the early splash. I don’t understand why 1964 Iron-Man pages by Don Heck can still go for less than $5k… Some good prices again for Terry strips by Caniff, look at this one sold for $600. A funny 1993 Garfield daily and a Spider-Man Sunday by Paul Ryan were sold for less than $500.

Catawiki: a quick Spirou sketch by Franquin was sold for €6k, a Gaston sketch for €900, the cover by Hermann for €2,9k, the color pinups by Marini for €2,4k, €1k and €600.

The illustration by Toppi for €1,4k, a page by Fernandez for €1,7k, the Briganti page by Magnus for €800, the sketch by Moebius for €800, €500 for the Cavazzano pinup, the Dylan Dog page by Roi for €450.

A Necron page by Magnus for $550, a Torpedo pinup by Bernet for €500, look at this page by Enrique Breccia sold for only €79…

This Batman bust by Neal Adams went for €2,2k, first time I see an Adams sketch with flat watercolor coloring, not so sure about that.

Bodnar’s Auction: I discovered this auction 20 minutes before it ended (I was able to buy a page too at the last second), many low priced pages. Top price ($575 before BP) was for a lot of 4 Juggernaut pages by hard to find Duncan Rouleau, same price for a complete Weird War story by Duranona with a great splash, $500 for an uncredited Steve Lightle page, many Batman Animated pages, highest price was $400, $275 for an Aquaman page by Dick Giordano, $225 for a nice Moon Knight page by Sal Velluto. Some Batman pages by Breyfogle, this one with a Batman shadow went for $200, this one with a tiny Batman head for $80.

Mandarake: some high results, $55k for a Doraemon sketch, $47k for a drawing by Hideo Azuma, $5,5k for a Devilman sketch, “only” $4,5k for a published Great Mazinger cover by Go Nagai.

Marvel: very nice, early X-Factor page by Butch Guice, I like a lot this Punisher page by Joe Kubert, a Ghost Rider page and a Hulk strip by Kupperberg, Defenders by Herb Trimpe, a Spidey Sunday by Saviuk.

A Thanos page by Ron Lim, a Thanos page by Alan Davis, a Morbius page by Ron Wagner, a nice Kull page by Buscema/Severin, a cover quality piece by Ken Lashley, a Spider-Gwen commission by Greg Land, a Punisher page by Steve Dillon.

DC: very affordable Superman page by John Byrne, Superman by Gary Frank, nice Wonder Woman pinup by Terry Dodson, a Green Lantern page by Pacheco, Batman by Irv Novick.

Sold yesterday for $300, this Superboy splash by Tom Grummett is now on sale at $1,2k. You can try a $250 offer.

A very high price on this great Invincible cover by Ryan Ottley, high price on this Kim Jung Gi sketch page, a detailed Usagi pinup by Stan Sakai, a Hellboy cover by Humberto Ramos, Mage by Wagner, a Dennis the Menace page, an illustration by Walt Kelly, a Garfield daily.

Great week, as it usually happens before the big Signature Auction.

Marvel: big lot of pages for the Buscema Brothers, like this Conan page and this What If Conan page, there’s also a Conan splash prelim. Fantastic Four and Hulk pages for Sal.

Namor by Marie Severin, a Robocop cover by Sullivan, a Spider-Girl splash by Olliffe/Williamson, a Spidey page by Pacheco.

DC: Green Arrow by Papp, Green Lantern by Kane, Jimmy Olsen and Forever People by Kirby, a Flash page by Alex Toth, Nice Superman page by Buckler/Giordano, Batman by Don Newton, rare and very nice Plastic Man pages by Ramona Fradon, some more Russ Heath pages, Batgirl by Heck.

A Flash-splash by Brett Booth, look at this page by Eddy Barrows, an ABC Comics cover by Gene Ha, a Promethea cover by J.H. WIlliams.

A Flash Gordon page by Crandall, Big Numbers by Sienk, a Captain Freedom page by Cazeneuve and a Cave Girl page by Bob Powell. A Frankenstein DPS and an Aliens splash by Wrightson.

Terry strips by Caniff, a Kevin the Bold page, a Christmas day Flintstones Sunday by Hazelton, early Blondie dailies, a beautiful On Stage Sunday.

A Wolverine pinup by Gabriele Dell’Otto, Ranxerox by Liberatore, a Pinocchio illustration by Frezzato, a Disney cover by Cavazzano, Martin Mystere by Palumbo.

Tex by Bernet, a Blacksad commission by Guarnido, a Mordillo sketch (?), a Weirdworld page by Buscema, Guardians by Kevin West, an Iron-Man splash by Sean Chen.

Top pieces: an X-Men page and a Fantastic Four pinup by Byrne, a Wolverine page by Miller is already near $100k, a Daredevil splash (and several pages) by JRJR, the origin of Iron-Man by Heck.

A big selection of Wrightson pieces, here’s a Frankenstein illustration, a very big selection of top Tim Sale pieces, here’s a Batman DPS.

Look at this Thor page by Kirby, a Cable pinup by Liefeld, a Wolverine page by Kieth, Spider-Man original art by McFarlane, X-Men by Andy Kubert, this Venom Vs. Spidey splash by Bagley is getting all of the bids, but I like this page more.

My favorite piece is this Conan title splash by Buscema, I briefly hoped it would stay unseen… a Hulk transformation page by Sal, Thor by Simonson.

Sandman pages by Kieth and Dringenberg, Batman by Adams, a Steel splash by Bogdanove, a Teen Titans splash by Perez, a Wonder Woman splash by Dodson, Batman by Pope.

Metabarons pages by Gimenez, many Scrooge pages by Don Rosa, the High Society title page by Dave Sim.