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$500,000 Expected For Batman Comic
February 01, 2013The last time the copy of Detective Comics #27 that Heritage is currently offering came up for auction, it sold for $68,500. That was in 1995 at Sotheby’s. Since then this mid-rated 1939 book, which marked the debut of Batman, has soared in value. By the time the bidding ends at the Vintage Comics & Comic Art auction in New York on February 21-23, the Batman comic is expected to sell for at least $500,000.
Read more...A Sale For Calvin & Hobbes Fanatics
November 09, 2012Anyone ever associated with a Calvin & Hobbes fanatic won’t be surprised at the estimated $125,000 price associated with the comic strip to be offered by Heritage next week. An original panel by the artist, Bill Watterson, has never before been sold at auction. It was first published in your local paper on Oct.18, 1986.
Read more...Spider-Man Cover Art Sells For $657,500
July 27, 2012Artist Todd McFarlane’s cover art for Spider-Man #328 sold for $657,250 yesterday at Heritage. While the result didn’t approach the $1.6m realized in Paris earlier this year for a Tintin drawing, the price was nonetheless an auction record for an American example of cover art. At the same auction, McFarlane’s original drawing for the cover of Spider Man#1, sold for $358,500.
Read more...Best Marvel Comics Collection Ever?
July 24, 2012For more than 20 years, Doug Schmell, a well-known comic book dealer, has been assembling a treasury of rare classic comics. Virtually every book, according to Heritage’s Lon Allen, “is the single highest graded” example of its type, or at least “tied for high graded copy.“ When Schmell’s collection, which includes such titles as “X-Men #1,””Avengers#1,” and “Fantastic Four #4,” comes up for auction this week in Los Angeles, it’s expected to sell for more than $3m.
Read more...Tintin Leads Sotheby’s lst Comic Art Sale
July 06, 2012Through the years, Sotheby’s has offered dozens of sales categories, but until quite recently, comic book art wasn’t one of them. In Paris this week that changed, as the auction house offered its first auction of comic strips. An original drawing by Belgian Tintin artist Georges Remi, better known as Herge, for his album “The Shooting Star” led the event with a price of $288,300.
Read more...Record $2.16m For Superman Comic
December 01, 2011In 1938, when Action Comics No. 1 introduced Superman to the world, a copy sold for 10 cents. Yesterday, after 50 bids, a pristine example sold for $2.16m in an online auction, becoming the most valuable comic book ever sold. Its provenance may be as interesting as its record price. Was it the copy that was stolen from actor Nicholas Cage back in 2000?
Read more...Spiderman Comic Book Nets $1.1 Million
March 09, 2011You might want to inform your mother (who threw away all your comic books) that the 1962 debut issue of Spiderman just sold for $1.1 million. The pulp copy is in near perfect condition. It bypassed auction and went directly from private seller to buyer in Philadelphia.
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