Original Comic Art Tips #167 - Andru, Miller, Kane!

Here’s #167 of Original Comic Art Tips, last week’s Jim Lee original art article was a small success, with 400 reads in a week, welcome to the new subscribers! The text was slightly tweaked since, after listening to some comments.

ebay: I finally found a new way to see the final Best Offer prices (reply to this email and I’ll send you a quick tutorial!) and used it to see that the Robocop cover by Jim Lee was sold for $3,850. Not bad if you care for Robocop...

The Wolverine commission by Jim Lee went for $4,3k, in October it went for $5,8k. The Rogue went for $3,550, a Daredevil sketch for $2,4k.

A Namor page by Marie Severin was sold for $4k, a Captain 3D page by Jack Kirby for $2,7k, a vintage Daredevil commission by Frank Miller for $2,750, a nice, uncredited Batman page by Norm Breyfogle went for a B.O. of $2,150, a nice Spidey cover by Humberto Ramos for a B.O. of $2k.

A Milestone cover by Walt Simonson was sold for $1.5k. After the sad news that Richard Corben died, yesterday, an Aliens page was quickly sold for $1,4k.

Comiclink Auction: the cover to Amazing Spidey #299 by Todd McFarlane was sold for $250k, consider that the iconic #300 cover was sold on HA for $140k in 2014. The Weapon X splash by Barry Windsor Smith went for $170k.

Going down a bit we have an X-Men cover tryptich by J. Scott Campbell sold for $39k, I can’t explain why this Transformers cover by Jim Lee made $34k.

Ron Lim wins the Cosmic battle with $28k, second comes Jim Starlin with $25k and third is George Perez with $12k.

Early Spidey original art by John Romita makes $33k, an Avengers cover by John Jr. $11k, a beautiful Defenders page by Sal Buscema $21k, a Wizard cover by Joe Mad $16k, I’d like to see the end price for a top U. X-Men cover.

The DC chart is topped by Jim Aparo, with the Batman promo sold for $25k, a Green Lantern by Neal Adams and a GA Doctor Fate page for $20k, the first appearance of Talia by Bob Brown for $19k.

Early Valiant pieces offered lately have seen a price growth, this Magnus cover by Art Nichols was sold for $11k.

The Calvin & Hobbes sketch by Watterson went for almost $13k.

This is getting too long.. Come back next week for the biggest bargains of this auction.

Heritage Weekly Auction: the complete Groo Issue by Sergio Aragones went for more than $15k, not much if you divide it for 22 pages and a cover.

The Dragon Lady pinup by Caniff was sold for $7,2k, a Doug Wildey page signed by Ray Bradbury for $6k, the four Alex Ross pages for $5,7k, the Andru/Romita Spidey page for $5,2k, the Matt Baker for $5k.

I was curious to see the end price for a vintage Fred Hembeck illustration, it went for $1,1k.

Not the best Superman page by Curt Swan but it went for $300, for the rare fan of The Demon an action page by John Byrne for less than $300 was a great deal. Ten nice X9 strips by Bob Lubbers went for $260.