Welcome to #200 of Original Comic Art Tips! Four years ago, in August 2017 I had the idea of doing this weekly newsletter and started designing the logo and website. In October 2017 I sent the first issue to an audience of 3 (or 2 if you don’t consider myself).

BTW, there are still a lot of collectors who are not aware of this (based on the 5000 members inside Facebook groups…) so, as I usually ask on anniversaries, if you have friends or groups who may be interested in subscribing please forward them this link.

eBay: the 1947 Nancy daily went for a surprising $2,5k, same price for a Batman commission by Josh Middleton, the Silver Surfer page by Tom Grindberg for $1,8k, the Captain Marvel page by Tuska for $1,2k, a Thor page by Frenz/Sinnott for $800.

Conan pages by John Buscema like this one went for $350 until a couple years ago…

After a few sales we can say that the price for self-published pages by Steve Ditko is $1k.

Commission style pinups by Ed Benes are often on eBay, this time they went for higher prices, Fantastic Four for $1,1k, Birds of Prey for a little less.

Best Offers: an X-Men splash by Andy Kubert for less than $2,5k, a Roger illustration by Mike Mignola for $2k.

I usually don’t care for color guides, but Joe Chiodo is a great painter and the cover for Pitt #1 is a classic, so for nearly $800 it’s a good deal.

Somebody wasted $4k on an enlarged Leinil Yu Wolverine drawing, printed but “with hand retouching”… Somebody (I hope a different person) wasted about $2k on a badly traced Batman drawing by “Bob Kane”.

Heritage Weekly Auction: a Golden Age Major Victory half page was sold for $6,2k, the Bill Sienkiewicz Elektra for $5,1k, a Frankenstein prelim by Wrightson for $4k, the Fables cover prelim by James Jean for $3,3k, the Death sketch for the same price.

Spider-Man original art by John Romita Jr. is officially on another planet, with a panel page sold for $2,1k.

Catawiki: the remarked print by Moebius went for €1,8k, the Dany illustration for €3,4k, the Sergio Toppi page for €1k, Alan Ford by Magnus for €500 and the page by Gipi for a low €400.

Nate Sanders: high prices for the Peanuts strips, one was sold for $34k and the other for $45k.