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On Thursday, June 16, 2022, Heritage opened their Comics & Comic Art Signature Auction with a total of $11 million in sales in the first session. As expected, the opening day star was Frank Miller and Lynn Varley’s original cover for Batman: The Dark Knight Returns Book One, which sold for $2.4 million.Reflecting the interior content of the groundbreaking series, The Dark Knight Returns Book One cover is a striking image of a silhouetted Batman illuminated by a white hot bolt of li …

During the Silver Age of comics, Marvel introduced many of their most influential and inspiring characters. By giving their heroes flaws, fears, and insecurities, they ushered in new storytelling techniques where the heroes’ bravery was exalted by overcoming their fallibility. One such character that epitomized 1960s Marvel comic introductions was Spider-Man.Peter Parker, the teenager who became Spider-Man, was introduced in Amazing Fantasy #15 in 1962. Just a few months later, Spidey …

The CGC-certified 8.0 Edgar Church (Mile High) copy of Superman #1 traded hands privately in January 2022 for $5.3 million, CGC has reported. This total makes it the highest grossing comic book sale (auction or private), besting the Amazing Fantasy #15 CGC 9.6 that realized $3.6 million in September 2021.According to CGC, this sale was brokered by Tony Arnold of TonyeTrade Enterprises, which specializes in buying and selling sports cards and comics, and Canadian comic dealer Roy Delic …

Seeing a comic sell for over $1 million was a rare occurrence just a few years ago, but is becoming an achievable benchmark in auctions. In the first session of Heritage’s Comics & Comic Art Signature Auction, which runs on April 7-10, 2022, two more comics joined the $1 million club.The auction quickly set the standard when Captain America Comics #1 San Francisco Pedigree CGC 9.4 rose to the towering total of $3,120,000. The key aspects of this book (the origin and first appearanc …

Artist Aaron Lopresti has penciled, inked, and colored a new EC Horror Hosts cover for The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide #52. His piece not only puts EC’s iconic Old Witch, Vault-Keeper, and Crypt-Keeper center stage, it also celebrates the 100th birthday of EC founder William M. Gaines. Due in comic shops on July 20, 2022, this edition will be featured in the April PREVIEWS from Diamond Comic Distributors.This edition of The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide #52 will be available …

ComicConnect reported over $10,850,000 in sales for Event Auction #49, which closed on March 14-19, 2022. The Marvel Comics #1 CGC 9.2 Pay Copy led all bids with a sale of $2,427,778. For the comic sales of 2022, this total makes it the first Marvel book to sell for over $1 million, the second highest price achieved at auction for a comic, and just the third book to surpass $1 million. Additionally, the sales total is a full 10% higher than the auction house’s previous record sum.Pub …

Hake’s Auctions has just completed another blockbuster auction. On March 15-16, 2022, Hake’s closed their first premier auction of the year with a total of $3.2 million in sales. The two-part auction, designated by historical material in Part I and pop culture items in Part II, was dominated by high prices and new records for Star Wars collectibles, political campaign material, and original comic art.As expected, the auction’s top spot went to the Boba Fett rocket-firing prototype (J-s …