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In tonight's Jon Berk auction at Comic Connect, a Flash Comics #1 Ashcan will be going to a new home tonight (sadly, not me) This ashcan is an important one for several reasons For one, Fawcett wound up not using The Flash title due to copyright reasons They also couldn't use the name Capain Thunder,[...]

Session 2 is getting underway as I type this, and as I hear the sound of comic collectors across the land rounding up all the extra nickels and dimes they can find, let's take a look at some of the auction highlights from last night at Comic Connect's Jon Berk Collection Session 1  Session 1 included Original Artwork[...]

Comic Connect's description of the item sheds some great insight into this cover: "PEP COMICS Issue #30 Cover Publisher: MLJ Grade: VF: 8.0 This original Bob Montana cover from Pep Comics #30 might be the most-unique item in the Jon Berk auction The cover features The Shield bashing a Nazi while the Hangman strangles a goon from the[...]

There are usually a few eye-openers during the season-ending major auctions, and this is a big one: A Wonder Woman #1 CGC 9.0 has just sold at Comic Connect for a record $291,100  Graded Very Fine/Near Mint 9.0 by third-party grading service Certified Guaranty Company, it is one of only two copies certified at that[...]

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  —[...]

Remodeler finds comic book worth over $100K in wall at Elbow Lake house is the headline. amid old newspapers used to insulate a wall of a fixer-upper he

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

 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 the best-cgc-graded copy of the world's most sought-after comic was about to come to auction when we laid out the back story of what has probably become the world's most famous[...]

The vintage comics scene has been buzzing for the past several days about word that a very high grade copy of Action Comic #1 — stolen from Nicolas Cage's home in 2000 and recovered by Los Angeles police this April from a San Fernando Valley storage locker — would soon come up for auction from[...]

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[...]