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Sunday and Monday Comic Books Weekly Select
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Sunday
and Monday Comic Books Weekly Select Auction
Auction Ends:
November 27 - 28, 2022
Live Session at 6:00 PM CT
Highlights of this week's auction
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All-Flash #1 (DC, 1941) CGC FN- 5.5 Cream
to off-white pages
The Flash's first solo title. (He had been sharing Flash Comics,
where he first appeared the previous year, with Hawkman.) His
origin is retold. E. E. Hibbard cover and story art. Overstreet
2022 FN 6.0 value = $3,900. CGC census 11/22: 9 in 5.5, 40
higher.
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The Amazing Spider-Man #14 (Marvel, 1964)
CGC VF 8.0 Off-white pages
First appearance of the Green Goblin. Enforcers appearance. First
meeting of the Hulk and Spider-Man. Steve Ditko cover and art.
Overstreet 2022 VF 8.0 value = $4,300. CGC census 11/22: 165 in
8.0, 339 higher.
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Adventure Comics #283 (DC, 1961) CGC NM
9.4 Off-white to white pages
Cameo first appearances of General Zod and Dr. Xadu. First
appearance of the Phantom Zone. Last Congorilla backup story.
Superboy cover by Curt Swan. George Papp art. Overstreet 2022 NM-
9.2 value = $1,600. CGC census 11/22: 2 in 9.4, none higher.
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The Batman Adventures #12 (DC, 1993) CGC
NM/MT 9.8 White pages
This first comic book appearance of Harley Quinn (albeit outside of
DC continuity). One of the most desirable comics of the 1990s, it
regularly sells for well above Guide values. Mike Parobeck cover
and art. Currently tied for #7 on Overstreet's Top 20 Modern
Age Comics list. Overstreet 2022 NM- 9.2 value = $700. CGC
census 11/22: 1071 in 9.8, none higher.
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Captain Aero Comics #12 (Holyoke
Publications, 1943) CGC GD+ 2.5 Off-white to white
pages
The Photo-Journal Guide to Comics rates this book an "8"
("rare") in its Scarcity Index. WWII cover by Charles Quinlan.
Overstreet 2022 GD 2.0 value = $87. CGC census 11/22: 3 in 2.5, 5
higher.
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Giant-Size X-Men #1 (Marvel, 1975) CGC NM
9.4 White pages
The first appearance of the new X-Men (Nightcrawler, Storm,
Colossus, and Thunderbird), and the second full appearance of
Wolverine. Gil Kane and Dave Cockrum cover. Cockrum art. Currently
#3 on Overstreet's list of Top 25 Bronze Age Comics.
Overstreet 2021 NM- 9.2 value = $5,000. CGC census 11/22: 571 in
9.4, 602 higher
From the Fantast Collection.
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Katy Keene #1 (Archie, 1949) CGC VF 8.0
Cream to off-white pages
Archie, Jughead, Veronica, Betty, and Skipper Mason appearances.
Bill Woggon appears in one panel. Woggon story, cover, and art.
Overstreet 2022 VF 8.0 value = $1,651. CGC census 11/22: 4 in 8.0,
5 higher.
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Star Trek #1 (Gold Key, 1967) CGC VF/NM
9.0 White pages
The first Star Trek comic book. Leonard Nimoy, William
Shatner, and George Takei photo cover. Shatner photo back cover
pin-up. Overstreet 2022 VF/NM 9.0 value = $2,250; NM- 9.2 value =
$3,500. CGC census 11/22: 33 in 9.0, 31 higher.
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Wednesday Comic Art and Animation Select
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Wednesday
Comic Art and Animation Select Auction
Auction Ends:
November 30, 2022
Live Session at 6:00 PM CT
Highlights of this Week's Comic Art Include:
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Fox Comics Artist March of Crime
"The Fall Guy" Partial Story Original Art Group of 7 (Fox Feature
Syndicate, c. 1950-51)
A fascinating relic of a controversial censor-bait period: "The
Fall Guy" stops cold after seven pages -- likely a never-finished
story, left hanging upon the discontinuation of publisher Victor S.
Fox's three-issue revival of the March of Crime title. (A 1948
March of Crime series had consisted of re-bound omnibus reissues of
Fox comics that had gone unsold in their 10-cent editions.) The
unbilled artist appears to be attempting a style modeled after that
of Johnny Craig, a leading artist with EC Comics' crime-thriller
comics of the period. A recurring rubber-stamp imprint (lower
margins) designates "March of Crime/Nov." -- the title had no
November issue, having ended with the September of 1951 issue. Ink
over graphite on Bristol board. Image area, 12" x 18". The pages
are lightly toned (darker at margins), and the title logo is a
combination of a paste-up and hand-lettering. Painted white art
corrections, minor edge wear, smudging throughout. Intact, and as
such in Very Good condition.
From the Lars Teglbjaerg Collection.
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Mark Bagley and Randy Emberlin The
Amazing Spider-Man #355 Story Page 16 Original Art (Marvel,
1991)
Huey, Dewey, and Louie — those whip-smart but mischievous nephews —
are about to sneak some candy from Uncle Donald's box, in this
original concept drawing. We've not been able to find this scene in
any cartoon with Huey, Dewey, and Louie, so it may be an unused
idea. The art is in crayon on a piece of illustration board
measuring approximately 6.25" x 5" with an image size of 5.25" x
4.25". In Good condition with handling wear and light soiling.
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Sergio Cariello and Ariane Lenshoek
Daredevil #328 Story Page 21 Original Art (Marvel,
1994)
Daredevil saves the life of a prisoner of Wirehead. Ink and
Zipatone over graphite on Bristol board with an image area of 10" x
15.25". Slight toning and signed by Lenshoek on the back. In
Excellent condition.
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Jim Cheung and John Livesay Young
Avengers #12 Story Page 16 Original Art (Marvel,
2006)
Captain America rushes to help Patriot in the hospital, finding
another super-soldier, Isaiah Bradley, already providing a
transfusion for his powered grandson. Jessica Jones joins Young
Avengers Kate Bishop, Hulkling, and Vision on this page created in
ink over graphite on Marvel Bristol board with an image area of 9"
x 14.25". Personalized by Cheung at the bottom right and in
Excellent condition.
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Russ Braun The Boys #63 Story
Page 15 Original Art (Dynamite Entertainment, 2012)
Billy Butcher has a gift for Wee Huey — a chained up A-Train who's
ready to receive his comeuppance, after he unsympathetically killed
Huey's girlfriend, Robin all the way back in issue #1! This
shocking page this marks the first time Wee Huey has intentionally
killed a character. Composed entirely in graphite on Dynamite
Bristol board with an image area of 9.75" x 15". Editorial
marks/notes. Signed by Braun in upper margin. In Excellent
condition.
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Extreme Ghostbusters Eduardo
Rivera, Garret Miller, Roland Jackson, and Kylie Griffin Production
Cel (Columbia TriStar, 1997)
The new generation of Ghostbusters take the spotlight in this
spectacular production cel from the 1997 series Extreme
Ghostbusters. Premiering September 1st, 1997, Extreme
Ghostbusters was created as a direct continuation of the 80's
animated series The Real Ghostbusters, based on the iconic
movie series. The 1997 series aimed to attract a new generation,
featuring a new cast of characters and updated visual style. The
spectacular three-layer hand-painted production cel has Eduardo
Rivera (4.5" tall), Garret Miller (4.75"), Roland Jackson (6.5"),
and Kylie Griffin (5.25") all together on the 12-field production
cel, showing the characters illuminated by a yellow light. The cel
shows light handling wear from production and is presented on a
printed background. In Very Good condition.
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Pete's Dragon Elliott Color
Model/Test Cel and Maquette Photo (Walt Disney, 1977)
This is an early development color model/test cel of Elliott the
friendly dragon from Walt Disney's 1977 live-action/animated
musical feature film Pete's Dragon. Created by Ken
Anderson and animated by Don Bluth, Elliott is a big green dragon
who is best friends with a young orphan named Pete. In visual arts,
a color model/test cel is an animation cel made to ensure correct
coloration and determine the paint colors for the characters in
various lighting and situations they encounter in the film.
Anderson opted to make Elliott look more like an eastern, rather
than western, dragon because oriental dragons are usually
associated with good. This large image of Elliott is hand-painted
on 16 field acetate and presented over a background print. The
setup is matted to 20" x 16" with an aperture of 13.5" x 10.5".
It's a terrific image measuring 12" x 9.5" – almost consuming the
entire cel. Along with the cel is an 8" x 10" black and white photo
of an Elliott maquette used by the animator during production. The
cel exhibits light wear from production use. Overall condition is
Very Good.
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Marvel Superheroes Iron Man and Captain
America Color Model Cel (Marvel, 1985)
Face front, True Believers! Here's a rare original hand-painted
color model cel of two characters made famous in the pages of
Marvel comic books. It was created for a Mattel toy line television
commercial based on the popular comic series Secret Wars and
features Iron Man and Captain America (with an unpainted side view
of Cap). It's is noted as "MP #1103 Spot - 235 Marvel Generic
Opening" -Mattel with figure sizes of 8.75" tall. The cel is in an
18" x 16" frame under glass with a mat window of 12" x 9.5. Minor
handling and some rippling of the surface mat along the left side.
Condition is Very Good and frame is sold as-is.
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Without you, we wouldn't exist. From all of us, please have a safe
and wonderful Thanksgiving with family and friends!
Sincerely,
The Comic Department
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Don't Forget About These Great Showcase
Auctions Currently Live |
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The Joke's on Batman as Historic
'Detective' Comic Featuring The Joker's Debut Sells for
Record-Setting $324,000 |
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During the first 90 minutes of Heritage Auctions' Nov. 17-20
Comics & Comic Art Signature® Auction, 66 lots of
comic books and comic art realized more than $5.5 million, and an
original 1987 Calvin and Hobbes tied the first Flash
Gordon for the world's most valuable newspaper strip. Things
got only more exciting from there.
By Sunday night, every single one of the four-day event's 1,404
lots sold to the more than 5,500 bidders worldwide who helped bring
the auction's total to $18,589,015. And several significant records
were set, including one for Detective Comics No. 168 — the
comic book that tells the origin story of The Joker, who's clearly
having the last laugh.
An issue of
Detective Comics No. 168 graded CGC Near-Mint 9.4 realized
$324,000 to smash the previous record for the book. This
historic book had never before been offered at auction in a grade
higher than 9.0.
But the other half of the World's Finest team carried his weight,
too, when a copy of
Superman No. 1 graded CGC Good- 1.8 sold for $288,000
to more than double the previous high for the grade ($132,000,
which was set in November 2018 at Heritage).
There were some Marvel-ous results, too: Early comics collector
Biljo White's stunning
copy of Spider-Man's debut appearance in Amazing Fantasy
No. 15 graded CGC Very Fine+ 8.5 sold for $552,000.
And, of course, the auction's Top Five included a hand-colored
Calvin and Hobbes Sunday strip from May 24, 1987, which
sold for $480,000 to set a new auction record for Bill
Watterson and his beloved creations. That price, from the
collection of Watterson's late editor Lee Salem, also tied the
record for the most valuable original newspaper strip ever sold at
auction.
But bidding wars were a constant throughout the four-day event,
especially for horror-themed titles. A CGC Fine- 5.5 copy of
1945's Punch Comics No. 12 sold for $90,000. A CGC
Near Mint- 1953's Chamber of Chills,
featuring Lee Elias' legendarily terrifying cover image, realized $72,000.
And a CGC Very Fine+ copy of
1954's Crime SuspenStories No. 22 scared up $52,800
after the dust settled.
"Bidders couldn't get enough of these ghoulish titles," says
Heritage Auctions Vice President Barry Sandoval. "What's especially
gratifying is that 37 collectors saw their consignments to this
sale top $100,000. And, of course, we were thrilled to see our
company's all-time highest prices for a number of artists,
including greats like Jim Starlin and Graham Ingels."
Indeed, in addition to Watterson's record-setter, Starlin's original cover
for 1974's Marvel Super-Heroes No. 47, featuring the
beloved artist's incredible Hulk, sold for $102,000. Ingels' original cover
for 1953's Haunt of Fear No. 20 realized even more,
fetching $114,000 after a heated bidding war for the work signed by
the artist who earned his nickname "Ghastly."
Click here to see complete
results from Heritage Auctions' Nov. 17-20 Comics & Comic Art
Signature® Auction.
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Heritage Auctions Opens Forrest Fenn's
Treasure Chest to Collectors
This time, at least, the hunt for Forrest Fenn's treasure won't be
so challenging. What remains from that famed chest hidden in the
Rocky Mountains — for a decade, the stuff of dreams and countless
news stories — is now available with the simple click of a
button.
On Friday Heritage Auctions opened bidding on Forrest Fenn's Treasure,
which closes Dec. 12. The thrill of the chase is prolonged another
month as collectors once again vie for 476 gold pieces, coins,
jewelry and other items found in the chest that was planted in 2010
by the author, decorated fighter pilot and art dealer. Fenn, a
native of Temple, Texas, saw the treasure hunt as a fitting
farewell to a life well lived — and, he said, as a way to encourage
people "to get off their couches."
Before and even after the chest's discovery in
2020 by Jack Stuef, Fenn's story became a nearly mythic tale
that began with a simple poem in his memoir The Thrill of the Chase, which
contained nine clues to the chest's whereabouts. It began: "As I
have gone alone in there/And with my treasures bold/I can keep my
secret where/And hint of riches new and old." Fenn believed that
after he hid the treasure in the mountains, more than 300,000
people searched for what he called his "title to the gold."
Read the full press release here.
More information about Numismatic
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Hollywood Swinging: In December, Heritage
Raises the Curtain on Its Most Star-Studded Epic Entertainment
Auction Ever
Go ahead — pull back the curtain. When you do, pay plenty of
attention to the history waiting behind it.
In Heritage Auctions' Dec. 13 Hollywood &
Entertainment Signature® Auction, cinephiles and
collectors will find hundreds of costumes, vehicles and props from
some of the most momentous and treasured films of all time — and
even a Holy Grail. The
blockbuster event spans a century of cinema and counts among its
myriad highlights iconic offerings from The Wizard of Oz,
The Ten Commandments, The Sound of Music,
Mary Poppins, Dr. No, The Prince and the
Showgirl, The Shawshank Redemption,
Gladiator, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The
Princess Bride, the original Star Wars trilogy,
Avengers: Endgame and Titanic. That is but the
tip of the proverbial iceberg.
"I am always excited to announce a new auction, but this one is
especially thrilling," says Executive Vice President Joe Maddalena.
"It's an epic event, without question, filled with memories and
magic from some of our favorite movies — from the wide-screen
marvels and musicals that delighted us as children to the modern
masterpieces and superhero films and space operas that keep us
going back to the big screen."
For proof of this sale's scale, look no further than the two items
offered from The Wizard of Oz, which Vanity Fair
in 2018 called "officially the most influential film of all
time."
Read the full press release here.
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Covers of the Week: The World's Smallest Aircraft
Carrier! |
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Since the Silver Age and Golden Age Sub Mariner are the same
person, this aircraft carrier can only be 12' long! This has to be
the worlds shortest runway and smallest planes! You can bid on this
great Sub Mariner Comics #8 here, and the group lot
of books with Sub Mariner #2 here.
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