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.
Continuing our look at Heritage 2013 February 21-23 Vintage Comics & Comic Art Signature Auction (7073), this time at the bountiful bronze Age material offered. There’s no stopping this auction. Amazing Spider-Man issue 121 cover by John Romita Sr, 1973,…
Continuing our look at Heritage 2013 February 21-23 Vintage Comics & Comic Art Signature Auction (7073), this time at the bountiful Silver Age material offered. Avengers issue 55 cover by John Buscema and George Russos, 1968, sold for $35,850.00. Source. A…
Over the weekend Heritage Auctions completed their 2013 February 21-23 Vintage Comics & Comic Art Signature Auction (7073) in New York. There were some significant pieces for sale and startling final prices were achieved. Heritage has made itself the preeminent…
Heritage is the largest comics auction house and frequently runs internet only auctions with a Sunday close; this Auction Highlights will look at the results of last weekend, picking five items that caught my attention. All prices are in U.S.…
Auction Highlights #75, Comic Link January Focused Auction The Comic Link Focused Auction has just ended, all results below ended between Tuesday January 22nd and Friday January 25th. There were no big money books offered up on this auction; ComicLink…
Comic book auctions had their ups and downs in 2012. Things started with a bang last February when the Billy Wright collection set records at Heritage Auctions. That collection pumped some life into what had been a drab Golden Age…
ComicLink completed their November Focused Auction last week, with the original comic art portion ending September 28th. Here we’ll look at five choices that stuck out from the rest of the herd. This auction featured a large number of Steve…
Auction Highlights #74, Comic Link November Featured Auction The Comic Link November Featured Auction has just ended, all results below ended between Tuesday November 27th and Wednesday November 28th. WOW! I’m calling this the “Get Smart Auction”. The famous saying…
Heritage wrapped up their 2012 November 15-17 Vintage Comics & Comic Art Signature Auction – Dallas this past weekend and it was another high stakes comic art auction. It seems Heritage gets the cream of the crop and the buyers…
The Pedigree Grand Auction has just wrapped up, all results below ended Wednesday November 14th. I don’t know how Mr. Schmell does it but he sure puts up a lot of very high grade Silver Age comics! Many of these…
The Comic Link October Focused Auction has just ended, all results below ended between Tuesday October 23rd and Wednesday October 24th. C-Link produced a rare dud with this auction. Sure there were some solid books but when your top book…
ComicLink completed their September Focused Auction last week, with the original comic art portion ending September 28th. Here we’ll look at five picks that tickled my fancy. It was an odd auction with mostly lower end material for sale; a…
Apologies for the late ComicLink Auction Highlights! Better late than never I always say. The Comic Link September Focused Auction ended last week, all results below ended between Tuesday September 25th and Friday September 28th. I found the auction to…
ComicLink has just wrapped up its August Featured Auction with the original comic art segment ending August 30th. Here we’ll take a look at five highlights of the auction. Before diving into that it’s interesting that approximately one third of…
Auction Highlights #70 ComicLink’s August Featured Auction ends Friday August 31st. All the books listed below sold between Tuesday August 28th and Thursday August 30th. C-Link’s August offering was heavy on the original art, which Scott should cover in the…
With the increased, some would say exponentially, prices of original comic art comes far more interest from all comic auction houses. ComicConnect wrapped up part 1 of their Summer 2012 Event Auction that included a small but impressive collection of…
Auction Highlights #69 Well the big Doug Schmell/Pedigree Comics collection was finally auctioned this past weekend through Heritage Auctions (HA). Below are excerpts from HA’s press release. BEVERLY HILLS — The multi-million dollar Doug Schmell Collection, featuring the single greatest…
Heritage just wrapped up their 2012 July 26-28 Vintage Comics & Comic Art Signature Auction- Beverly Hills #7063, resulting in the first comics auction over ten million. Yes, that’s crazy but the volume was incredibly high. We’ll be looking at the…
Auction Highlights #68 ComicLink’s July Focused Auction ends Friday July 20th. All the books listed below sold between Tuesday July 17th and Thursday July 19th. This auction was even more Marvel skewed than last month’s (and that one was very…
As part of Comic Book Daily’s look at auction highlights of original comic art we’re taking stock of Sotheby’s recent bande dessinée auction held in Paris on July fourth. This was the first Sotheby’s auction dedicated to comics work. Here’s…