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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 …

J.G. Jones, who has created many of the most iconic comic book covers of this generation, has turned his talents to the iconic Golden Age character The Black Terror for the cover of the Hall of Fame edition of The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide #52. Due in comic shops on July 20, 2022, this edition will be featured in the April PREVIEWS from Diamond Comic Distributors. It can be already seen on the inside back cover of The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide To Lost Universes #1, now on sal …

Butch Guice, who served two stints as artist on The Winter Soldier for Marvel, returns to the character for The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide #52. Due in comic shops on July 20, 2022, this edition will be featured in the April PREVIEWS from Diamond Comic Distributors and can be seen in a teaser on Page 303 in the February PREVIEWS, now on sale.This edition of The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide #52 will be available in both hardcover and soft cover formats. The hardcover version will be ex …

If recent times have taught us anything, it’s that unexpected things happen even when it seems like there’s more than enough time. So, why not make your ad reservation for The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide #52 today? WHY ADVERTISE?It’s been another tumultuous year, one that’s sent the comic book market in all sorts of different directions, and the Guide will be doing a deep dive on the events of the last 12 months. The Guide has been the Bible of the comic book industry for collectors, dea …