After making original comic art auction history just last month with the $5.4 million sale of Frank Frazetta's cover painting for Eerie #23, the famous "Egyptian Queen" painting, Heritage Auctions has one heck of a follow-up on their hands with this week's European Comic Art Signature Auction The headline piece of the auction, Hergé's very[...]
[caption id="attachment_972936" align="aligncenter" width="451"] credit// Heritage Auctions[/caption]Heritage Auctions has hosted their first set of certified and graded collectible video games this past weekend, with the original The Legend of Zelda selling for over $3,000 USD after an intense bidding war The initial set of video game auctions included 25 certified games, most from the 80s and[...]
[caption id="attachment_966677" align="aligncenter" width="458"] credit// Heritage Auctions[/caption]If you've ever wondered whether your vintage video games could be worth something, Heritage Auctions is now accepting "slabbed" video games as part of their collection.https://twitter.com/ben_towle/status/1080859330117808129And yes, there are more games up for bidding than just the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game for the NES/ Famicom system.The games seem[...]
A comic book and comic art auction held by Heritage Auctions which made over $12 million has broken the world record for most valuable sale of its kind, Heritage claimed in a press release Tuesday. Amongst the treasures sold at the action was an original page of Rob Liefeld art from New Mutants #98, the first[...]
Heritage Auctions has one of the most ridiculous collectible book auctions I've ever seen coming up on March 7th 639 books in all will be available in the auction, and the items in this one are jaw-dropping Pretty much every important work of fiction from the early to mid-20th century is here, with works by[...]
Starting on December 9th, Heritage Auctions will have some unique pieces of Disney history up for auction that you might be interested in — especially if you're looking for some new furniture for your home.First up is a Kem Weber animation desk, used by Eric Larson According to Heritage:
"After the success of Snow White and the[...]
Muggles, wizards, witches, giants, shape shifters, and other Harry Potter fans, listen up! Heritage Auctions currently has some original art from the Harry Potter series up for sale."J K Rowling Set of Two Deluxe First Editions with Tipped in Watercolors Includes: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban [London]: Bloomsbury, [1999] First English deluxe edition[...]
This year, Bleeding Cool's Lauren Sisselman set out to see what was on display on the show floor.Heritage Auctions is another source of vintage comics and art that is likely familiar to regular Bleeding Cool readers They've made countless noteworthy sales over the years in both vintage comics and original art At SDCC, Heritage Auctions[...]
On July 1st, if you listen very carefully, you'll hear very distant sobbing. Spoiler: It'll be from me, as I'll be bidding (and probably not winning) a number of items from Disneyland and various Disney movies. Heritage's upcoming signature animation auction has some amazing pieces — animation art of Fantasia, Cinderella, and from the rest […]
Robert Crumb's Fritz the Cat original cover art for the 1969 Ballantine collection of Fritz stories has just hammered at Heritage Auctions tonight for a record $717,000 Tonight's result is the highest price ever publicly paid for a piece of original art from an American comic book, eclipsing blockbuster sales of recent years such as:The[...]
Browne, Ryan Jenkyns Sabine Rich, Sean O'Conner, Sebastian von Buchwald Simon Birks, Solo Endeavour, Sonesh Joshi Comics, Steven D Quirke, Laura Braga, Paolo Pantalena, Tanya Roberts, The Art of Tommy Castle, The Heart of Time, The Rogues Gallery Creation of a Super Villain,The Wildlands and WJC.And the exhibitors will include Bleeding Cool's owners Avatar Press (with publisher William Christensen manning the booth), CGC, Comic Geek Speak, Markosia, Comicana Direct, 2000AD,[...]
Courtesy of Heritage Auctions, an unrestored copy of Action Comics #1 published by DC Comics in 1938, featuring the first appearance of Superman, and graded by CGC in 3.0 condition just sold for $310,700 Part of a $7.17 million auction, it was part of The Prospect Mountain Collection up for sale, which in total topped $1 million[...]
Heritage Auctions has sold a copy of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic #12 in 9.6 CGC condition for $6572.50.Only one copy of this edition was produced, with a cover by Sara Richard, entitled "The 1 Million Edition - Only Copy Produced", to celebrate the millionth printed edition of a My Little Pony comic from IDW[...]
The art from those three days are going to be auctioned off at Heritage Auctions with proceeds going to benefit the Michael J Fox Foundation For Parkinson's Research.
The collaboration between the two artists came at the suggestion of Watterson and was immediately embraced by an overwhelmed Pastis, who, like some many modern cartoonists, was greatly[...]
The original art for the cover of Action Comics #15 has sold at Heritage Auctions today for $286,800 The 1939 piece by Fred Guardineer was just the 5th Superman cover ever created (behind Action Comics #1, 7, 10, and 13), and is the earliest Superman cover known to still exist today.This sale ranks as the[...]
The Don and Maggie Thompson Pedigree collection (originally mentioned here) ended up bringing in $835,384.00 as part of a $5.8 million 100% sell-through comic and comic art event at Heritage Auctions All 1,700 lots sold during the auction held Nov 21-23 in Beverly Hills.The top selling comic of the day was Tales of Suspense #39[...]
The second will be February 2014 in Dallas, TX.It’s being referred to by Heritage Auctions as the $1 Million Don/Maggie Thompson Pedigree Collection and its part of the 1,700 lots of comics they’ll be auctioning off later this month Among the pieces being auction is a copy of The Avengers #1 (CGC NM 9.4) considered one[...]
Heritage Auctions have put up for auction the original artwork from Superman #170, which featured President Kennedy and was published shortly after his assassination fifty years ago The issue stated that the artwork would be donated to his widow, Jackie.The artist Al Plastino posted the following;
Please help if you can The art I donated and[...]
Not the biggest number of the day (see our earlier post on the Dark Knight Returns #2 cover for that) , but certainly the biggest surprise of the just-concluded Heritage comic art session — and likely a record for a Dan Clowes piece by a significant margin — is this sale of the cover of […]
Several other of the recovered comics in question (including an Action Comics #1 CGC 3.0 that just hammered for $388,375) are selling at Heritage Auctions as I type this, with the notation "Auctioned on behalf of Tadano America Corporation".Amazingly, the drama didn't end with Chiofalo's arrest and the recovery of the comics Subsequently, an investigator working[...]
