🔥 Mignola Charity Auctions Are Back!! Original Comic Art Tips #232

Welcome to #232 of Original Comic Art Tips!! Another very long issue with many things to see, hope this doesn’t get clipped in half like last week…

eBay: after many months Mike Mignola is back with a bang, a full Batman and Joker illustration sold for charity, $15,1k!

The Star Wars page by Carmine Infantino went for $6,1k, an Elric illustration by Michael T. Gilbert for $3,5k, the Superman DPS by John Paul Leon for a low $1,9k, a Mephisto page by John Buscema for $1,5k, a rare Hulk page by Gary Frank for $1,2k.

A Titans cover by Brett Booth was sold for a Best Offer I hope much lower than $30k…

Heritage Weekly Auction: not comic art but this illustration by Kim Jung Gi was paid $10k. Saw much better pieces selling for half this price. The Black Spidey page by Milgrom went for $8k, X-Force by Capullo for $6,5k, Thor by Frenz for 44,5k, the Crumb sketch for $4,5k, a surprising $2,9k for this Conan page by Buscema, $2,6k for a Wash Tubbs daily by Crane, $2,4k for a Batman page by Breyfogle. Fables pages by Mark Buckingham are growing.

Catawiki: the Model Sheet by Magnus was sold for €1,5k, the postcard for €500, the strips by Manara for €830 and €780, a pinup by Rojo for €700, the sketch by Pazienza was affordable at €500, the Pogo daily at €400.

Comiclink: high record price for Jack Davis, with the Tales from the Crypt cover, sold for $181k. Already passed on HA in 2005 for a very high price for the time, $30k. The former personal record was for another cover sold in 2016 for $71k. The record for EC comics is for the cover by Wally Wood, paid $840k in 2021, followed, until now, by the $132k paid for the Panic cover by Al Feldstein last November.

Incredible interior art records for John Buscema: $59k for Silver Surfer and $30k for Fantastic Four.

Records also for Mike Deodato, with a Spidey cover sold for $15k, Humberto Ramos, $23k for a Spidey cover, $21k for a Batman cover by David Finch, Ernie Chan on Batman, with $5,5k paid for a panel page, Bryan Hitch with a Batman cover paid $8k, $10k for a Daredevil DPS by David Mack.

Not records, but high prices paid for Todd McFarlane, $62k for Spidey art, $6k for X-Men art by Andy Kubert, $17k for a Hulk page by Trimpe (paid $5k in a lot in 2019), $21k for a Batman cover by Gene Colan (paid $10k in 2020, a good gain for the owner), $22k for two covers by J. Scott Campbell, $13k for a Hulk page by Byrne. Early Valiant art continues to grow, with $12k paid for a Harbinger cover.

Bobby Murphy Heritage Auction: no surprises for the highest prices, with comic strip royalty in the first places. $31k for a Peanuts daily, $20k for a Prince Valiant, $15k for the beautiful Terry daily, $14k for the Popeye daily, $8k for the Jungle Jim topper, $7k for the Krazy Kat daily.

Then $4k for this beautiful Dick Tracy, $3,3 for Noel Sickles art, $2k for a Mac Raboy Sunday.