15+ Record Prices! - Original Comic Art Tips #225

eBay: the vintage Spider-Man page by Mark Bagley was sold for $6k, the New Warriors page for $1,9k, a Hulk page by Herb Trimpe went for $5k, a Kamandi page by Kirby for $3,3k, a Stray Dogs cover by Tony Fleecs for $2k, an Alec cover by Eddie Campbell for $1,7k.

A Red Sonja page by Thorne and a Jim Morrison portrait by Sienkiewicz that were both on eBay for years were sold for $1,5k each, a Love & Rockets page by Gilbert for $1,1k, a Wolverine splash by Jock went for $1k, considering the price for his sketches, a very good deal.

Look: a remarked 9.8 copy of Secret Wars #8 (on eBay for 2 years) was sold this week for $1,9k.

Best Offers: a Grendel cover by Matt Wagner went for less than $7,5k, a Godzilla cover by James Stokoe for $3,5k, a Hellboy book illustration by Mignola for $3k, a Daredevil commission by Gabriele Dell'Otto for less than $2,5k. $400 is a good price in perspective for a Batman page by Gary Frank. Remember the George Perez pieces from last week? They all went unsold. so they were put for sale again with a doubled price…

Heritage Weekly Auction: lately it seems like many buyers think the only place to buy original art is HA, and start bidding with pockets full of cash without a clue on an artist price evaluation. This Batman commission by Gabriele Dell'Otto was sold for $13k, don’t know his current prices but a commission like this may be priced at about $2k.

This JLA page by Jim Lee at $10k was another (small) surprise, yes there’s the full team, but it’s a pretty plain page that you could buy for $3k just a couple of years ago, and I could point the buyer to 100s better originals valued $10k.

One of the first appearances of The Elementals by Bill Willingham was sold for $12k, the F4 page by Byrne for $8,5k, a quick sketch by Gary Larson for $4k, a Batman commission by Coipel for $3,8k.

Remember the Infinity Inc. pages by McFarlane selling every week on eBay for $1-1,3k? Ok, this is a splash but still went for $2k, while I’ve seen more creative pages lately selling for much less than $1,8k.

Heritage Signature Auction: let’s start from where we were last week, 4th place for the G.I. Joe cover by Ed Hannigan sold for $312k, obvious record for the artist and probably also a record for G.I. Joe original comic art. Two years ago everybody was surprised when Sal Buscema art went over $100k, this Defenders cover made $288k, same price for Secret Wars #8 page 24, published before the $3M page 25 record by Mike Zeck.

$144k is the second highest price ever paid for John Byrne art, big $108k record for Garcia-Lopez, but the cover to Batman/Hulk is one of the most iconic superhero covers ever.

$81k for this Hulk cover is a record for Jim Starlin, just wait for an iconic cosmic piece to enter the $100k club, after the $50k paid in September, $78k is the new record for Daredevil art by Frank Miller, $72k record for Kevin Nowlan, $66k for Erik Larsen, $48k for David Lloyd, $46k is a record for Marc Silvestri… but for a Spawn cover of all things.

$38k is close to the Bill Sienkiewicz record (and it seems very low, I’d invest in vintage Sienk covers if I had the money), $38k for Rich Buckler, $38k for Paul Gulacy, this $28k record for interior Batman art by Neal Adams is not going to last, $26k for an unused New Mutants cover by Liefeld.

Look: $24k paid for a (big) Snoopy sketch by Schulz. $21k for Tim Sale Batman art.

Catawiki: a Zagor cover by Ferri went for €1k, La Linea by Cavandoli for €750, the published Claudio Villa illustration for only €350, the Dylan Dog page by Micheluzzi for €270, the pinup by Enrico Marini for €800.

The page by Juan Gimenez went for €800, the Thorgal sketch by Rosinski for €900, a nice 1965 On Stage daily for €160.