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Jun 20th 2022
Heritage Sells Dark Knight Returns Book One Cover for Record $2.4M
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
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Apr 29th 2022
Inside the Guide: Amazing Spider-Man #1
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
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Apr 15th 2022
Report: Mile High Superman #1 Sells for $5.3 Million
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
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Apr 8th 2022
Captain America Comics #1 CGC 9.4 Totals $3.1M at Heritage; First Session Sees $13.1M
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
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Apr 4th 2022
Aaron Lopresti Celebrates Bill Gaines at 100, EC Horror Hosts on Overstreet #52
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
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Mar 25th 2022
Marvel Comics #1 $2.4M Sale Leads ComicConnect $10.8M Auction
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
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Mar 25th 2022
Hake’s Auction Soars to $3.2 Million; Boba Fett Prototype Nabs $204K
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
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