auction Archives

If you happened to have recently won a small lottery and are just needing something to do with your extra cash, auctioneer Nate D Sanders Auctions is running an auction that will end on January 26th at 5pm PST Among the hollywood-interest lots is one of the flying Superman hero costumes worn by Christopher Reeve[...]

The National Cartoonist Society, an organization started in 1946 and presenters of the annual Reuben award for Cartoonist of the Year, is holding their annual benefit auction Proceeds from the auction go to the NCS Foundation, the part of the NCS that focuses on raising money to help aspiring cartoonists with education and scholarships and to provide[...]

Profiles in History, an auctioneer of Hollywood memorabilia, is holding an "Animation And Disneyana Auction" that day, featuring dozens of highly sought-after Disney artifacts that almost certainly contain hidden symbology that will reveal a mind-blowing conspiracy in the highest reaches of government operated by an ancient secret society, and only you can solve it[...]

The cover to Weird Fantasy #29 sold for $380,000, while a John Carter/Swords of Mars painting sold for $350,000. On December 11th, Profile In History will be auctioning off the Doc Dave Winiewicz Art Collection, featuring the largest selection of Frank Frazetta paintings and drawings ever offered for sale, eighty pieces all at once That includes three iconic oil[...]

It was estimated at selling between $10-$20,000 at a recent auction at Hake's But this Superman sketch by Frank Frazetta sold for a lot more, $35,420.   The auction also saw another Superman piece, a rare Superman linen-mounted one-sheet for the movie serial released by Columbia in 1948, sell for $16,761. While the Official Green Hornet Working Black Beauty Dashboard boxed Remco set , setimated[...]

But the Sotheny auction of comic book artwork and ephemera saw this double page from Tintin And The Sceptre Of Ottokar by Herge sell for 1,563,000 Euros or $1,706,374 This is a world record price for such a double page spread of comic book artwork.   That's a lot of change, especially considering Tintin is hardly visible in it…[...]

A famed and long-considered missing early Mel Ramos Batman painting, A Sinister Figure Lurks In The Shadows, 1962, has surfaced in southern California and may well bring more than $100,000 when offered at Heritage Auctions in November, It was 1962 and California resident Bill Steinfelt found himself in the area where an undiscovered young painter named[...]

Neal Adams writes to Bleeding Cool, regarding the sale of his most famous comic book cover ever, currently up for auction on behalf of a private collector. The Green Lantern Green Arrow #76 cover (and subsequent series of books) changed the direction of comics when it was first published. That first cover set the tone of that change[...]

A consignment and estate sale company called Everything But the House is having a huge auction with 10,000 comic books, trading cards and other memorablia all starting at a $1 bid The items listed range from early Avengers comics to mint condition Magic: The Gathering cards But the auction only goes until tomorrow, September 3rd.   Here's a[...]

This is a Superman Golden Age Christmas comic book rack topper, measuring 14” x 21-1/8” produced in 1940, At Hake’s Americana & Collectibles, selling

  Heritage Auctions are holding an auction of vintage comics and original comic book artwork in February Original Todd McFarlane Amazing Spider-Man covers, Al Feldstein's cover to Panic #4, original 1918 art from Krazy Kat, a page from Dark Knight, Frank Frazetta's Death Dealer and a CGC 4.5 copy of Batman #1, there is lots to drool[...]

According to the Associated Press, the original Cowardly Lion costume from the Wizard of Oz sold for over $3 million at auction earlier this week We told you previously that the costume was own by James Comisar who planed to use the money to create an exhibit with his other Hollywood memorabilia The costume had[...]

But that is the original artwork to Amazing Spider-Man #1 by Todd McFarlane on the blocks at Heritage Auctions And they esitaimet it could sell for a quarter of a million. Though oddly the auction house states, Todd McFarlane's iconic Spider-Man image, featuring the only cover appearance of the web-slinger sporting the black Venom symbiote suit, offered[...]

By Christopher Helton Monte Cook Games is going to have a charity auction, giving away chances to play in a Numenera game run by Monte Cook or a game of The Strange run by Bruce Cordell at Gen Con 2014. [Monte Cook] Numenera is a science fantasy roleplaying game, set in a far future setting known as The Ninth World[...]

Yesterday, we ran a Swipe File piece based on Cartoon Brew's fine observational skills regarding the Jeff Koons stainless steel Popeye statue that sold

The rough pencils of a page of Tintin in Tibet by Herge, has been auctioned by Christie's for €289,500  ($400,000) almost double its estimated price while a self portrait sold for €91,500 ($125,000) and a Tintin postcard design for €85,500 ($117,000). While a cover of Asterix and the Soothsayer by Albert Uderzo has sold for at €193,500 ($265,000) a third over its estimated price, while a page from Asterix[...]

It showed up in a Manhattan auction last week where Humanoids bought it back. It's not known what the purchase price was or how it ended up at the auction… we can hope that more details to this story will become available. Update – Thanks to EurocomicsUSA for letting us know the sale price was $6,572.50 for the logo.   [...]

Christie's Auction House in Paris is having its first sale of comic book material in April And there are going to be some seriously large wallets to be carried to this display of European comic book art. The cover of Asterix And The Soothsayer (Le Devin in the original) by Uderzo will be the highest valued[...]

Indeed, it's possible he was the first person to do so. "I've talked to a lot of my friends, and we think Steve is the first guy to every use backer boards and bags to protect his comic book collection," said Gary Colabuono, who once owned a chain of comic book stores and has helped Landman[...]

The impact was devastating. The comics community began to respond immediately on the 13th, trying to set up platforms for donation, and creator Matt Miner (Liberator, a fellow member of Black Mask Studios with Niles) actually set out to collect original art and donations for auction at the con itself Miner had experienced a home flooding[...]

The motorcycle scene from Batman: Year 100 #4 went up for auction this week Page twenty of the book was drawn by Paul Pope and was auctioned at ComicLink.com on August 29th and closed after 26 bids for $3,600.00 Pope drew the art on 19" X 24" board and used every inch as the art is[...]

There's been a lot of talk among collectors over the past week about the strong selection in the just-opened Comiclink focused auction — and bidding has been heated on a number of books right out of the gate — but it's a rather interesting lot that has captured my attention on the opening evening of[...]

The two pieces of Jack Kirby art that were crucial in the CIA's plan to save the hostages from Tehran as depicted in the movie Argo, went under the gavel

The art he created though played a much bigger role in the final escape. In 1993, Jim Lee was still new to the comic industry but he was a big fan of Kirby's work and purchased two pieces of Kirby art from Sotherby's Auction House The pieces were described at the time as being from an[...]

Heritage Auctions are to put up for auction the original Frank Miller inked artwork for the cover to second issue of The Dark Knight Returns A previous splash page from the series went for just shy of half a million dollars two years ago. It's expected to go for over half a million dollars in August[...]

No way we could let the week of release of Man of Steel pass without a story of the sale of an Action Comics #1, could we?  You all remember this one from a few weeks back — a copy of Action Comics #1 had been found in the wall of an old house  —[...]

To put that in comic-book context, a 9.0-grade Action 1 fetched more than $2 million recently. "That was a $75,000 tear," said Stephen Fishler, co-owner of ComicConnect, a New York City online auction house that is selling Gonzalez's treasure He says the comic book would have graded out at 3.0 without the rip. Though it appears, that[...]

These things are forever open to debate, but I'm having a hard time coming up with too many cover images from the history of American comics that I'd definitively call more iconic, more memorable, more instantly evocative of what makes comics what they are, than the cover of Watchmen #1 by Dave Gibbons, which kicked[...]

As reported on Friday by the Hollywood Reporter, an original Metropolis 3-Sheet — one of 4 known copies of this particular poster for the ground-breaking Fritz Lang film,  and considered one of the most desirable and important movie posters in the world — just sold along with a group of other vintage movie memorabilia for $1.2 Million[...]

The highest CGC-graded copy of Whiz Comics #2 (#1) CGC 9.0 has just sold for $281,001 at high-end comics & collectables auction house Comic Connect  The February 1940 cover-dated comic book from publisher Fawcett includes a 13 page story by writer Bill Parker and artist C.C Beck which contains the first appearance and origin of[...]