👍👎Miller DKR Cover for 2.4M, High or Low? Original Comic Art Tips #246

eBay: the Fantastic Four page by Jack Kirby was sold for $35k, a Kraven’s Last Hunt page (no Spidey) by Mike Zeck for $3k, a Hulk cover by Mark Bagley for a $2k Best Offer, a Captain America cover by Jae Lee for $1,8k, a Red Sonja cover by Linsner for $1,5k.

After yesterday’s sad news, a trading card original art by Tim Sale was sold for $1,5k, a few days before, this Doom commission went for less than $500.

We can already assign the prize for 2022’s biggest waste of money: this Bud Sagendorf sketch (worth at most $300), was instead sold for $9k. Let’s congratulate the buyer for taking advantage of a 10% discount. 💸💸💸

A Groo commission by Aragones was sold for a pretty high $1,2k B.O., the early Batman by Adam Hughes was finally sold for $800, a detailed painted cover prelim by Jim Steranko for $1,3k. The auction for this low priced ($1,6k) Green Goblin prelim by John Romita was quickly closed down…

Heritage Signature Auction: the top+ pieces were sold yesterday, but the auction will go on for the entire weekend, so as usual I will look at all of the results next week. Let’s just say that if you haven’t already read the news, the original art for the Dark Knight returns cover was sold for $2,4 Million, putting Frank Miller art at #5 of the highest prices ever paid.

Some commented that it’s too much, some that it had to go higher and it’s a sign of prices lowering… I was just sure it would go over a million dollars. If you want to tell me what you think just reply to this email!

Heritage Weekly Auction: $8,4 for the Popeye strip by Segar, $6,6 for the nice Spidey page by Jim Mooney, $5k for the Conan page by Buscema/Alcala, $5k for the Brunner Dr. Strange page, $4,8k the Fly by Ditko, $3,6k for a Usagi pinup by Stan Sakai, prices for vintage Usagi art are growing very quickly.

Really rare to find a top X-Men page from Chris Bachalo‘s first run, so this one was paid $3,5k.

Catawiki: of all the Jacques Laudy pages, only 6 were sold, probably a niche too small for Catawiki… The Goon DPS by Eric Powell went for €1,4k, a cover by Aidans for €1,6k, a Colombe pinup by Dany went for only €140.

Huberty Breyne Auction: top price for this Gil Jourdan page sold for €148k, two Tintin preliminary pages by Hergé for €90k, Spirou by Franquin for €70k, a Johan page by Peyo for €60k, a Lucky Luke illustration by Morris for €54k.

A page by Carl Barks for €26k, a page by Manara for 20k, a watercolor with Corto by Pratt for €19k, a detailed Asterix sketch by Uderzo for €14k.

Good deals on Robert Crumb art, with a Mr. Natural page sold for €11k and a half page for €5k. Good deals also for Hal Foster art, with a Tarzan page sold for €10k and a 1960 Valiant sold for a little less.

Coutau-Bégarie: €19k for this Buddy Longway page by Derib,