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Mandarake Big Web sold all 144 lots. Akira Toriyama's Son Goku shikishi sold for about $79,400 or €70,900, and his second Dragon Ball shikishi for about $75,600 or €67,600. Osamu Tezuka's Big X manuscript artwork reached about $6,600 or €5,900. Kimitoshi Yamane's Time Bokan color shikishi and Hiroyuki Asada's Tegamibachi preliminary artwork each sold for about $380 or €340.
Heritage sold every lot across more than 600 offerings, totaling $553,805. Al Williamson's Star Wars Sunday strip of August 9, 1981 sold for $22,500, while the May 24, 1981 Sunday and July 19, 1981 Sunday each made $21,250. Hank Ketcham's Dennis the Menace Sunday of April 11, 1954 brought $7,500, and Hal Foster's partial Prince Valiant #841 Sunday $4,750. Brandon Peterson and Al Milgrom's Uncanny X-Men #298, page 16 sold for $2,750; Gene Colan and Tom Palmer's Tomb of Dracula #42, page 14 made $2,500.
On eBay, Tony Moore's The Walking Dead #4, page 13 sold for $27,600. John Byrne and Terry Austin's The Last Galactus Story, page 17 made $3,603.35, and Norm Breyfogle's 11 interior pages from Anarky #4 $1,625. Mark D. Bright's Iron Man interior page sold for $760, and Pierre-Henry Gomont's Pereira Declares cover for $628.77. Chris Weston's Flash Gordon special cover brought about $700 or €620; Simon Jacob's Armoured Gideon artwork about $670 or €600.
Catawiki sold 319 lots from more than 400 offerings, totaling €31,288, with a 75.1% sell-through rate. John Buscema's Kull battle page sold for €888, Jan Bosschaert's Icarus page for €321, and Jef Nys's Jommeke page 16 from Broeder Anatolius for €315. André Chéret's Rahan page, Édouard Aidans's Tounga color drawing, Olivier Grenson's Niklos Koda page, and Humberto Ramos and Wayne Faucher's Spectacular Spider-Man page did not meet their reserves.
Raremarq sold 81 lots from just over 200 offerings, totaling $91,378. Stanley Artgerm Lau's Arttrober Morrigan Aensland sold for $14,300 and Arttrober Starfire for $13,900. Jorge Molina's Absolute Wonder Woman #25 retail variant cover brought $6,500.
At Stanley Gibbons Baldwin's, Frank Bellamy's Heros the Spartan episode 13 double-page artwork sold for about $2,150 or €1,920. His episode 15 double-page artwork did not meet its reserve. The auction sold 24 of 45 lots, a 53.3% sell-through rate.
Elsewhere, Jean-Jacques Sempé's The Trio sold for about $12,200 or €10,900, above estimate. mycomicshop.com sold all five lots for $244. On todocoleccion, Sanjulian's Cousin Eerie drawing sold for €327.
eBay added Gary Frank's Geiger #25, page 7, with bidding at $252, and page 13, at $234.50. A Teen Titans Spotlight #19 splash featuring Starfire is at $177.50. Rob Schrab's signed Scud: The Disposable Assassin artwork is at $200.50.
On Catawiki, bidding is at €1,600 for Hugo Pratt's The Early Years of Corto Maltese three-panel strip, €700 for Enrico Marini's Batman watercolor, and €500 for Bill Sienkiewicz's Voodoo Child, page 108. Laurent Vicomte's Ballade au bout du monde volume 1 page is at €400, and Juan Giménez's A Fork in the Road, page 9 at €222.
Raremarq's fixed-price additions include Dan Quintana's Bride of Frankenstein ink sketch at $8,000, Will Jack's Wonder Woman sketch on Justice League #1 at $6,500, and Zeen Chin's A3 line artwork at $2,000. Dave Simons's complete Beastball Saga story is listed at $1,200, and his complete Army of Darkness: Montezuma's Revenge artwork at $800.
Albert Moy listed Harvey Kurtzman's Two-Fisted Tales #21 cover at $85,000, John Romita Sr.'s Captain America #140 cover at $75,000, and Alex Raymond's Flash Gordon Sunday of June 24, 1934 at $55,000. Dave Stevens's Venus Domina Candlemass Eve Special cover is listed at $40,000.
Will's Comic Art Page added John Romita Sr.'s Amazing Spider-Man #109, page 19 at $25,000. Rafa Sandoval and Jordi Tarragona's Flash #754 double-page spread is listed at $1,999, and Mike Zeck's Chuck Norris #1 cover preliminary at $1,500.
Daniel Maghen listed Alex Alice's two Castle in the Stars volume 7 covers at €20,000 each, for the standard edition and large-format edition. His volume 7 artwork numbered 23.06 is listed at €5,000.
Essential Sequential added Rafael Albuquerque's Absolute Batman #24 variant cover at $8,000 and #23 variant cover at $7,500. David Finch's Terminal #6 cover is also listed at $7,500.
Graphic Collectibles listed Frank Miller's Sin City: Hell & Back #9, page 35 at $7,000 and #8, page 22 at $6,750. Dick Moores and Manny Gonzalez's Peter Pan Sunday of March 22, 1953 is listed at $4,500.
Galerie Antoine Mathon added Pascal Rabaté's L'Enfance des ruines endpaper artwork at €3,000 and back-cover illustration at €2,000. His page 30 is listed at €1,800.
BDEnchères added Juanjo Guarnido's Blacksad volume 7, page 22, with bidding at €10,000 and an estimate of €12,000 to €15,000. Franquin's Marsupilami illustration is at €4,000, estimated at €6,000 to €8,000, and Tibet's Ric Hochet volume 5 page at €3,000, estimated at €4,500 to €5,000.
Artcurial's new catalog includes Hergé's The Red Sea Sharks preparatory page, estimated at €100,000 to €150,000, and Hugo Pratt's Corto Maltese in Siberia page, at €60,000 to €80,000. Sempé's Pianist for Night Owls illustration carries a €20,000 to €30,000 estimate; Philippe Druillet's Salammbô chapter 1, page 48 is estimated at €12,000 to €18,000.
AZ auction added close to 300 lots, including Franquin's Gaston gag page #531, estimated at €40,000 to €50,000. Albert Uderzo's Jehan Pistolet page 39 is estimated at €6,000 to €8,000, and Derib's Yakari illustration at €5,000 to €6,000.
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Mandarake Big Web has Osamu Tezuka's Mashin Garon color manuscript artwork, with bidding at about $18,300 or €16,300. Akira Toriyama's Dragon Ball Frieza shikishi is at about $7,200 or €6,500.
Hake's offers 72 lots. Bidding on the Hildebrandt brothers' Journey in the Dark book-cover painting is at $28,000. Bill Sienkiewicz's Daredevil volume 5 #6 cover study featuring Elektra is at $2,400.
Heritage has more than 500 lots scheduled. Jamie Hewlett's Tank Girl page 7 from Deadline #6 is at $3,500; Frank Springer and Armando Gil's Dazzler #4, page 14 at $718.75; and Sam Kieth's Wolverine/Hulk #3, page 14 at $575. Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman's Zits daily of September 16, 2003 is at $84. The catalog also includes Frank Miller and Klaus Janson's Daredevil #166, page 7.
Tessier Sarrou's 174 lots include Victor Hubinon's Buck Danny page from La Revanche des Fils du Ciel, estimated at €20,000 to €30,000, and Jean Graton's Michel Vaillant: Le Pilote sans visage, page 50, at €25,000 to €30,000. Milo Manara's six-page Bolero sequence carries an estimate of €50,000 to €60,000.
At Nate Sanders, bidding on Charles Schulz's 1985 Peanuts Sunday featuring Charlie Brown playing baseball is at $42,000.
eBay offers Gary Frank's Geiger #25, page 7 at $252 and page 13 at $234.50. Bidding on the Teen Titans Spotlight #19 Starfire splash is at $177.50. Muriel Fahrion's Strawberry Shortcake and Custard drawing is at $635, and Gray Morrow's Game Boy #1 artwork at $330.
Catawiki has more than 300 lots, including Alberto Breccia's The Colour Out of Space page, with bidding at €4,500. Romano Scarpa's Donald Duck page from Paperino e la Scuola dei Guai is at €700, and Eddy Paape's Luc Orient page from Les Légions des anges maudits at €300.
On Raremarq, Dave Nestler's Witchblade x Vampirella variant-cover painting and sketch is at $2,400. Carlo Pagulayan's Batman and Robin Eternal #23 cover pencils are at $800. On todocoleccion, bidding on José González's Vampirella page is at €1,260.
Moebius ranks first, followed by Mike Mignola, Batman, Spider-Man, and Frank Miller. The first three have held those positions throughout the five-week period.
Shadowrun made the largest weekly gain, rising from 1,334th to 77th, up 1,257 places. James Stokoe moved from 1,108th to 195th, gaining 913 places; Russ Manning rose from 723rd to 198th, up 525; and Zagor advanced from 653rd to 153rd, gaining 500.
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