Original Comic Art Tips - Issue #88

Here we are with #88 of Original Comic Art Tips! Long results section, this week.

eBay: the Sandman splash by P. Craig Russell went for $2,800, the Gene Colan Black Widow splash for $1,550, the Fantastic Four page by Jim Lee for $2,300, a Buscema Conan page for $1,300.

Happy collectors won a Robin splash by Scott McDaniel for $450, a Batman by Graham Nolan and a Flash by Don Heck for $200 and an Avengers DPS by Paul Ryan for $375.

Heritage Sunday: the Batman page by Bernie Wrightson was sold for $2,600, two pages by Gene, Daredevil by Colan and Shang-Chi by Day both went for $1,680, a Fantastic Four page by Buscema/Sinnott for $1,300 is a good catch, a Thor by Buscema went for $1,700, a JLI page by Kevin Maguire went for $1,300.

Not that great, but a JLA page by Byrne went for $230, a Walking Dead page with Zombies went for $450.

ComicLink: Not many interesting results, most of the auctioned items ended for market prices. The Daredevil title splash by Gene Colan went for $39,000. Not a surprising price if you think of the historic value of the art, but very high compared to Colan’s usual auction results. The cover to Spider-Man #4 by Todd McFarlane went for $136k. Less iconic covers were sold years ago for the same price, I expected more. The opposite can be said about the cover to Prophet #6 by Stephen Platt, that was sold for $17k. Other less iconic covers went for $3/5k in 2017, I expected less!

Quick flips went really bad. The Batman splash by Don Newton, sold on eBay in February for $4,300, went for $2,500. The Fantastic Four cover by Paul Ryan, sold on eBay in April for $3,350, went for $2,700. The Conan cover by Barry Smith went for $57k and was sold on Heritage in 2018 for $60k.

Much more satisfied were the collectors searching for cheap original art: a Moon Knight splash by Stephen Platt went for $1,800, a very nice Zatanna by Adam Hughes for $1,200, a Scarlet Witch for $500 and a Joker splash by Tim Sale for $1,700. A Cable splash by Ian Churchill went for $700, a JLA splash by Howard Porter for $750 and a Flash cover for $650, a Batman splash and a Superman splash by Tony Daniel both went for $650, a Thanos page by Jim Starlin for $550, a nice Spider-Man page by John Romita Jr. for $550 and a Thor battle page by Olivier Coipel for $450.

Don’t forget the ComiConnect auction ending on Monday!