Heritage Auctions January Comics & Comic Art event sets records and smashes expectations
Captain America Comics #1 (Timely, 1941) CGC VF+ 8.5 Off-white pages. Sold for: $384,000.
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.-Heritage Auctions began the new year where it left the old one: smashing records and shattering expectations during a Comics and Comic Art event.
The latest, held Jan. 14-17, realized $12.11 million more than 50% above pre-sale estimates, the highest percentage above expectation in the category s history. More than 5,000 bidders from around the globe participated, too, walking away with more than 99.9% of the more than 1,100 lots offered that ranged from Batman to Pokémon, from superheroes to Super Mario Brothers. Indeed, Pokémon and video games each surpassed $1 million in sales all by themselves.
Amazing and spectacular original comic book art in Heritage Auctions January event
Justice League of America No. 89, published in 1971 as an homage to science-fiction author Harlan Ellison.
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.- At the beginning of 2020 Forbes pondered why collectors are increasingly drawn to original comic-book art and whittled down the list to a few factors, among them: rarity (Hey, there s only one!), approachability (Well, everyone knows Superman!) and displayability. Because, well, nothing looks cooler than a Todd McFarlane-drawn Spider-Man splash page as decoration, the Wall-Crawler hung on the wall.
The story missed only one further pull to these original works: They are the raw, hand-crafted building blocks of modern myth and memory, blank pages upon which handmade heroes and villains strain and struggle before their adventures were mass-reproduced and placed for sale on spinner racks and comic-shop shelves. They re first drafts of comics history, nostalgic fragments from belo