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Original concept art, production cels, and more animation art of Fantasia, Cinderella, and more Disney is up For auction At Heritage.

    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 original[...]

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

 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[...]

The cover of Amazing Spider-Man #121 has just sold at Heritage Auctions for $286,800. This 1973 issue by Gerry Conway and Gil Kane, with cover by John Romita Sr. is considered one of the most important comic books of the Bronze Age As the Heritage Auctions blurb says, "'This was the end of innocence for comics… it remains[...]

The original cover art for Watchmen issues #1-3 by Dave Gibbons have just sold for a total of $216,892.50 at Heritage Auctions. The cover of issue #1 sold for $155,350, the #2 cover sold for $38.837.50, and the #3 cover hammered at $22,705.00. The Watchmen 12-issue series by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons from 1986 is considered[...]

Coming to Heritage Auctions — a copy of the first appearance of Batman, Detective Comics #27 in 6.5 CGC condition Could get half a million, slated to be auctioned off on February 21st, it already has a bid close to a quarter of a million… Also on the block is John Romita Sr's Amazing Spider-Man #121[...]

 I think these Watchmen covers also fit the bill. The Watchmen covers are from a comic art collection that Heritage Auctions has dubbed the Shamus Modern Masterworks collection, a rather stellar group of original art from the 1980s and 1990s being sold by Martin Shamus, the father of Wizard Magazine founder Gareb Shamus The collection has[...]

It's been a good couple of years for original art sales, but the sale of the cover of Amazing Spider-Man #121 is big even by the lofty standards of the

A couple days ago we told you about the Steve Ditko Amazing Spider-Man #12 splash which sold for $137,425, now here's some of the other results from this

The opening title splash page from Amazing Spider-Man #12 (1964) drawn by Steve Ditko has just sold at Heritage Auctions for $137,425 While it is sometimes difficult to discern record prices in the original art market, where closely-held private transactions are common, this is one of the top 5 prices ever paid for a line-art[...]

 Just when everyone thought the Spider-Man #1 cover might grab the record, the 1990 Amazing Spider-Man #328 by Todd McFarlane cover beats it by a long shot — and becomes the new record holder for a piece of American comic book art, closing just moments ago at Heritage Auctions for $657,250. The new record was set[...]

With the world's best collection of Silver Age Marvels up for grabs, a great group of Golden Age books from the Empire Comics Collection also available,

That allowed him the chance to get a nice collection established in the 40 years or more that he collected and traveled to conventions to find them. In stepped Heritage Auctions and we partnered up with them to make the purchase Since then we've had a great relationship with Heritage (Keep your eyes on what's coming[...]

Heritage Auctions has just announced that Schmell's collection will be auctioned off during its July 26-27 Beverly Hills Signature Auction. I've been admiring some of the highlights of this collection for years in the "vault" section of Schmell's website, and it's truly amazing to consider that the quality of the collection extends through complete Silver Age[...]

A fascinating piece of modern comic book history has just sold at Heritage Auctions for $71,700  The first-ever drawing of the concept by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird, TMNT would go on to become a key part of the 1980s indie comics scene and its subsequent success in cartoons, games, toys, and film would help[...]

A spectacular page of original art from Fantastic Four #55 drawn by Jack Kirby, inked by Joe Sinnott and featuring the Silver Surfer sold at Heritage Auctions earlier today for $155,350 The 1966 page is from one of the peak periods of the Silver Age, just a few months after the Silver Surfer first appeared in Fantastic[...]

Over the past few months, we've talked quite a bit here about how key first comic book appearances of Avengers team members have been going for record prices — less than 2 weeks ago, Bleeding Cool told you about a Tales of Suspense #39 (the first appearance of Iron Man) going for $375,000, for example. And[...]

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[...]

 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[...]

Even if you're a casual reader of comic book news, you may have heard the tragic story of Gary Dahlberg's death. A retired bus driver in Minneapolis,

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[...]

From an anonymous internet bidder, the first page of Watchmen has sold for $33,640. 21 bidders and no reserve. This is the highest a Watchmen page has