Original Comic Art Tips - Issue #89

Welcome to #89 of Original Comic Art Tips, there was a lot of talk on the web about the fake Hellboy illustration sold for more than $600. Mike Mignola himself offered to identify his original art before bidding, by posting his email address on Twitter. I’ve been warning people on that seller for weeks, he specializes in crude Mignola and Romita fakes and fake Stan Lee/Jack Kirby signed comics, he still made a lot of money in a few months…

eBay: a painted page by Jon J. Muth ended for $2,100, the Cover prelim by Brian Bolland went for $800, the F4 splash by Paul Ryan for $400, the nice Wonder Woman page by Don Heck went for $550, the GenX page by Chris Bachalo for $500, the Batman strip by George Tuska for $200.

Heritage Sunday: no big prices this week, so I’m only showing pages sold for less than $500. Wonder Woman and Hawkman original art by John Byrne for $288, that great Gil Kane Superman page for the same price, Hulk by Adam Kubert for $372, 3 pages went for $264: Conan page by Buscema, Doc Ock by Buscema/Sienkiewicz and Spider-Man by Kerry Gammill. A Shang-Chi by Mike Zeck was sold for $500.

Comiconnect - Kirby: the cover to Thor #157 was sold for $71k, interior prices were “affordable” with the Fantastic Four annual page sold for $12k, Thor pages for $8k and $7k, a good Falcon action page for $2,5k. An Incredible Hulk page by Jim Starlin went for $500 and a very nice Rip Kirby strip by Alex Raymond sold for $800.

Heritage European Auction: it’s no news that the Tintin cover was sold for $1.125,000. A splash by Moebius went for $87,000 and an Incal page for $52,000. I hoped that the Micheluzzi illustration would go unnoticed, in an international auction, it made a record at $10k…

A complete Lee Elias 7 page horror story went for $3,750, $550 for each page. An Incredible Hulk half splash by Jim Starlin went for $650, a Terry Dodson X-Men page went for $200.