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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[...]

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[...]