Original Comic Art Tips - Issue #115 - Peanuts!!

Welcome to #115 of Original Comic Art Tips!! This week we have a long auction results section.

eBay: the Superman/Batman cover by Ed McGuinness went for more than $4,000, a Captain America cover by Paul Neary was sold for a Best Offer of $4,200, a Spidey cover by Angel Medina for $3,200, a Namor page by Marie Severin for $2,100. I think $2,350 for a generic monster drawing by Todd McFarlane are a bit too much, this Cyberfrog DPS by Ethan VanSciver went for a $2,200 Best Offer.

An early Daredevil page by Joe Orlando went for $4k, I think it may be the same that was for sale last month, but I’m late this week, no time to check… the same seller sold a $2k+ Fantastic Four page by Buckler/Sinnott.

Profiles in History: nobody noticed that the Frankenstein cover by Bernie Wrightson was sold for $1 million +BP? It is the most famous piece drawn in his career, but this sale goes straight in the olympus of the most valuable original art, with Frank Frazetta and Hergé.

Complete stories: (all prices before BP) an EC 6 pager by Harvey Kurtzman went for $55k, a 7 pager by Wally Wood for $42k, one by Graham Ingels for $20k. The complete Iron-Man story by Romita Jr. went for $17k, considering the BP it means more than $1,000 for each page, a very high result. A complete issue of Fantastic Four Original Art drawn by John Byrne went for $75k. A complete Thor issue by Jack Kirby went for the same price.

A Spidey action page by Steve Ditko went for $75k, more or less in line with past results, a lower quality page instead went for $25k, which is a very good price.

Weapon X pages by Barry Smith went up a bit at $18k and $12k. This detailed Conan prelim went for a nice $5,500, and a good catch was this Conan page sold for $4,500.

Comic Link: a Thor cover by John Buscema went for $19k, the last page from F4 #112 for $13k, the title splash from #108 for $6k and a Wolverine half splash for almost $8k.

Happy collectors bought many “affordable” pieces of original art by John Byrne: a 1988 Superman page for $800, an X-Men “Elsewhere” page and a nice She-Hulk page for $1,200, a 1979 Spider-Man page for $3,500, a Fantastic Four page for $1,600, one with the full team Vs. Galactus for $3,600 and a pinup of the entire JLA for $1,100.

Jack Kirby: a Thor splash went for $39k, a Strange Tales splash for $28k, a Kamandi title splash went for $3,700 and a Captain Victory page for less than $1,000.

Modern Avengers covers by George Perez can still grow a lot in price, this one went for less than $5k. I’d like to see on Heritage this Excalibur page by Alan Davis, sold for $900.

A J. Scott Campbell cover went for $12k, $14k for this Flash cover may be a record price for pencils/inks original art by Dick Giordano, a Thor cover by Kane/Romita went for “only” $18k, a Tony Moore Walking Dead page went, to no surprise, for $11k.

A Superman page by Frank Quitely for $6k, the Spidey splash by John Romita Jr. has grown another $500 since September, a Batman cover by Alex Ross was sold for $26k, a Witchblade cover by Michael Turner for $14k, a Captain America cover by Mike Zeck for $11k.

Coutau-Begarie: the Hergé Tintin illustration went for more than €60k, Blueberry pages by Giraud are selling lately for much more than the evaluation, this 25/28k€ page was sold for €38k.