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Just another imitation of my art, like dozens we've seen before on the web. I have notified the auction house and asked them to change their listing accordingly. **** I wonder if it's going to take an Act of Congress to stop this sort of thing For any piece of art — ANY piece of art — to[...]

The original artwork for Tintin in America by Belgian artist Hergé sold at auction earlier today for $1.6 million from Paris auction house Artcurial, a world record for comic book art in a public sale Tintin in America was the third title in the series, published in 1932 and featuring a collection of comic strips which[...]

  Heritage Auctions is selling the original art to the cover of Spider-Man #1 by Todd McFarlane, on behalf of its owner Martin Shamus, father of Wizard Magazine's Gareb and Steven Shamus The cover of Wizard #1 was famously based on this cover It's iconic and probably bsums up nineties comics better than any other It[...]

This is one of them. It will be auctioned along with three hundred other Tintin items, including artwork from Tintin In The Land Of The Soviets and the controversial Tintin In The Congo.   The artwork for the front cover of Tintin In America, from the nineteen thirties, will go on sale in Paris next month, with[...]

The check used by Detective Comics, Inc (the company which was to become DC Comics) to buy the rights for Superman from Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster  for $130 on March 1, 1938 has just sold at auction from comics & related collectable auction house Comic Connect for $160,000. One of the most significant comic-related artifacts to ever surface for a[...]

Yesterday, we told you about comics from the Billy Wright pedigree selling for $3,433,342 at Heritage Auctions, today they were onto auctioning original art, among other things, and there's plenty of interesting results to discuss  Headlining the original art portion of the auction was the Bill Waterson Calvin and Hobbes 1989-90 Calendar Cover Watercolor art[...]

The collection contains a number of the most historically important comics ever published — such as Action Comics #1, Detective Comics #27, Batman #1, and Marvel Comics #1 — in grades ranging from respectable to eye-popping. Vintage collectors have been eagerly anticipating this particular auction for weeks (both for this collection and a wealth of other[...]

The conditions vary, from a CGC 3.0 Action Comics, to the CGC 8.5 Batman. Mentioning the comics to a co-worker months later, specifically the cover of Captain America, saw the family rush to a Price Guide, and their heads started reeling. So up for auction today from Heritage, the "Billy Wright" collection, named after its original owner, is expected[...]

All four branches of Atomic Comics of Arizona closed down in August. And now the chain is to be stripped for parts. On Tuesday the 3rd of January, at

Comic Connect's mega-auction event rolls on with its third night of sales coming in, and once again there are quite a few key comics involved Here are the highlights for the ones that have sold so far today. We start our report tonight with Marvel Mystery Comics #6, with a gorgeous copy rated CGC 9.2 selling[...]

 The auction for the 1938 comic book closed just moments ago at the price of $2,161,000. It is the first comic book to break the $2 million barrier. The book was auctioned by high-end comic collectible auction house Comic Connect, which has now sold 4 of the 5 comic books to break the million dollar mark: the previous record[...]

 With 24 hours left in the auction, the infamous Nicolas Cage copy of Action Comics #1, graded 9.0 and the best condition copy graded by CGC, has hit a record $1,552,000  The previous record of $1,500,000 was set in March 2010 by an Action Comics #1 8.5. Bleeding Cool was the first to tell you that[...]

 Bleeding Cool told you just last year about a Dave Gibbons Watchmen page 1 going for $33,460, and the stunning world-record result of $448,125 for a Frank Miller splash page from Dark Knight Returns followed a few months later. And while art from the classic early-1980s X-Men run has long demanded strong prices as well, today's[...]

 Many of these books are being made available in the ComicLink November Feature Auction which starts November 4, with others to be auctioned at a later date. Batman #1-4 and #9 Detective #23, #26, #28-#36, 44, 47, 51, 53, 54, 55, 57-62, 64, 65 and 70 Marvel Mystery #29 All American Comics #8 Batman #1 2.5, #2 2.5, #3 2.5,[...]

We've mentioned high-end comic book auction house Comic Connect a number of times on BC, primarily because there have been four comic books in the world to break the million-dollar barrier, and they've sold three of them (and have an excellent candidate for the first comic to break the 2 million dollar barrier in this[...]

 We've discussed Robinson's incredible collection of original comics art here before, most recently with word of the upcoming auction of his cover to Detective Comics #67  This Adventure Comics #73 cover is going on the block in the same auction — Heritage's November 15-17 Signature Auction. We talk about a lot of original art here at BC,[...]

AuctionWatch: The "name the lead supervillain" in Mark Millar, Dave Gibbons and Matthew Vaughn's comic/movie The Secret Service charity auction has reached $1825… FatWatch: Men's Fitness shames week-looking male cosplayers at New York Comic Con. HalloWatch: The Just 1 Page comics charity presents 'Horrific', a three day exhibition and art sale starting today at Orbital[...]

 We've talked about Jerry Robinson's stunning collection of vintage comic book art here in the past, notably when he put the iconic cover of Superman #14 and the cover of Detective Comics #69 up for auction last year  Those covers didn't meet reserves, but Robinson is putting other covers on the block in November at[...]

His estate is putting the piece up for sale in a ComicLink auction that begins November 4. The creation of Kirby and writer Dave Wood, Space Busters was a newspaper strip concept developed during the science fiction boom in pulps, comics, books, and films of the mid-1950s  While they were unable to sell that strip to[...]

sold for $167,300 at Heritage Auctions this afternoon. The cover is from early in Romita's influential run on the title (he took over from Steve Ditko with #39 in 1966), written by Stan Lee. The piece is noteworthy both for its visual and for the particulars of its era By my rough count, Romita Sr[...]

A copy of Captain America Comics #1 CGC 9.2 sold at auction last night at comicconnect.com for a record $343,000 — the highest price ever paid for a copy of this comic  The iconic comic book by creators Jack Kirby and Joe Simon was released on the newsstands in December 1941 — showing Captain America punching[...]

Vintage comic collectors have had this week circled on their calendars ever since it was learned that the golden age collection of an 85 year old original owner from Atlantic City, NJ recently surfaced with Comic Connect Auctions  The man had bought his comics off the newsstand in the 30s and 40s, and had decided[...]

In 2009, Batman collector and multimillionaire Ben Novack Jr, was tortured and murdered three months after his mother was killed. And now his copy of Detective Comics #27 and much more may be put up for auction with Heritage Auction Galleries, to liquidate the collection, valued up to $800,000.  But now there are moves by[...]

The iconic splash page of Batman and Robin from  The Dark Knight Returns #3 , penciled by Frank Miller and inked by Klaus Janson, sold at Heritage Auctions just moments ago for a record $448,125. That's the largest amount ever paid at public auction for any piece of original artwork from an American comic book  The[...]

If you are interested in the items below, e-mail him on cliffmeth@aol.com with  "Colan Auction Bid" in the subject Here's the current list, with a few noted bids, the up to date list can be found here. BOOKS 1 Altered Carbon by Richard K Morgan (hardcover, limited edition from Subterranean Press) signed by Morgan; only[...]

It was one of the funnier scenes (among many) in Four Lions, the jihadist comedy from last year. New recruits training in Pakistan, firing a rocket

A CGC 9.6 copy of Avengers #4, the first Silver Age appearance of Captain America, went for $91,500 at ComicLink auction last night — a new record for this issue by a wide margin Considered one of the most important Marvel comics ever published, this book by Jack Kirby and Stan Lee introduced Cap[...]

Exhibit A for that rule today is the Heritage Auctions announcement that 4 pages of 1939 production proofs from Detective Comics #27 just surfaced, having been in the possession of a man living in an apartment building where Bob Kane once lived, who rescued it from the curbside trash some 45 years ago. Silver Age production[...]

There's no way it's going to go for just that. The page is being sold as part of the 2010 November Dallas Signature Comics & Comic Art Auction. Anyone fancy a heist? I have touched this page. Up for sale, right now is Watchmen Page One, Issue One, with Rorschach's monologue and the move from smily face button[...]