Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
Here we highlight some notable sales in the big bad world of comic book auctions.
Comic Link Summer Featured Auction The comic book portion of what I’ll call a historic ComicLink Summer Featured Auction ended Thursday September 8th. This auction was historic for the number of quality Canadian White’s available, quality in issue selection and…
Comic Link Summer Featured Auction The comic book portion of ComicLink’s Summer Featured Auction ended Thursday September 8th and there were plenty of very interesting results. The team at ComicLink did a stellar job on this one! The big book…
Comic Link Winter Featured Auction The comic book portion of ComicLink’s Winter Featured Auction ended Wednesday February 24th and there were some noteworthy results. The book that took top spot was a CGC 2.0 Action Comics #7, it earned an…
Heritage Signature Auction February 18th I watched that Amazing Fantasy #15 auction finish live and it was pretty exciting. I wanted to click “Bid” but there was one too many zero in the price, actually there was more like two…
Comic Connect Winter Special Auction (#330) Session 1 Original Art wrapped up this week. It was a particularly strong showing for this auction house and had a varied range of outstanding material. Reserves on the higher end pieces hurt sales.…
Comic Link Fall Featured Auction The comic book portion of ComicLink’s Fall Featured Auction ended Wednesday December 2nd and there were definitely some interesting results. The CGC 6.5 Wonder Woman #1 emerged as the strongest comic in the lot finishing…
Comic auctions continue to be a hot commodity and Hake’s recently completed their Auction #216, from which we’ll look at Original Art & Related. Hake’s is a smaller player in the original comic art field, mostly covering illustration, animation and…
ComicLink recently wrapped up their October 2015 Focused Auction. This is the lower end auction that complements their larger Featured Auctions. Original Art in the Focused Auction is a grab bag of items ComicLink feels are worth less than $500…
Comic Link Summer Featured Auction The comic book portion of ComicLink’s Summer Featured Auction ended Wednesday September 9th and it produced some results worth talking about. Two Marvel Silver Age CGC 9.0s fought it out for top spot with a CGC…
Heritage wrapped up Sunday Internet Comics Auction #121530 a few days ago and some unusual items came and sold at record prices. Heritage runs this weekly auction and averages 100 pieces of original artwork and seems to dole out collections one at…
ComicLink has just wrapped their Spring Featured Auction: Original Art and as always there was furious bidding with record highs achieved. Unfortunately auction links from ComicLink are only good for a few days afterwards so please have a look at…
Comic Link Spring Featured Auction The comic book portion of ComicLink’s Spring Featured Auction ended Wednesday June 10th with some very interesting results. The CGC 7.5 Amazing Fantasy #15 ended up as the top book selling for $68,500.00. Personally I’m…
ComicLink wrapped up their March 2015 Focused Auction recently, with the original art section ending March 31st. The Focused auction features artwork worth less than $500 and is more a free-for-all of who-knows-what comic artwork. To be sure bargains can…
The original art portion of ComicConnect’s Event Auction XXXVI closed Monday March 23rd. The art offered is a mixture of high and low end material: anything could end up in the mix. This time around several pieces didn’t meet their…
Sotheby’s had a Bande Dessinée auction this month with 288 items by European, Asian and American artists. Total sales were 3,821,947 Euros, or $4,026,421 U.S. dollars. For this Auction Highlight I’ll be looking at American works sold in this auction, with an…
Over the last ten years or so I’ve been collecting comic artwork. Like most teenagers I had posters, then when the budget allowed I collected prints and portfolios and then transitioned to original artwork. eBay and Toronto comic conventions allowed…
Comic Link Winter Featured Auction The comic book portion of ComicLink’s Fall Featured Auction ended Wednesday February 25th with some staggering results. The market is still hot! The big book of the auction turned out to be the CGC 9.6…
Completing Thursday December 18th 2014, Russ Cochran’s Comic Art Auction #129 contained some interesting items. A regular event run by Cochran with less than 100 items, these have become the definitive source for Frank King Gasoline Alley strips, and this…
Comic Link Fall Featured Auction The comic book portion of ComicLink’s Fall Featured Auction ended Wednesday December 3rd and there were some very interesting results. To say that the market is hot would be an understatement! So many books set…