Comic Art Weekly

A summary of the week in original comic art

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Sat, 24 Oct 2026 10:00 (CET)

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The week's auction resultsAuctions results

Finarte offered more than 900 lots and sold 386, totaling €537,636, with a 40% sell-through rate and a €600 median. Charles M. Schulz's 1952 Peanuts Sunday strip sold for €114,000, above estimate. Jean-Claude Mézières's Valérian: On the Frontiers artwork sold within estimate for €8,400. Ambrogio Vergani's Topolino #3 cover sold for €15,600. Among the unsold lots were Frank Miller's Sin City: Family Values artwork, Hugo Pratt's Corto Maltese: Tango strip, Sal Buscema's Spectacular Spider-Man #231 cover, Mike Mignola and Joe Quesada's Adventures of the Thing #3 cover, and Philippe Druillet's Nosferatu Is Not Dead artwork. Their reserves were not met.

Hake's sold 136 of 156 lots for $368,820, an 87.2% sell-through rate. Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #5 page sold for $60,000. Todd McFarlane's Amazing Spider-Man #302 page sold for $48,000, while his Amazing Spider-Man #304 title splash, with Joe Rubinstein, sold for $40,800. Neal Adams's World's Finest #209 cover brought $31,200. Pat Broderick and Bob Smith's Detective Comics #551 cover did not meet its reserve.

Heritage sold all lots in a selection of more than 300, totaling $328,195, with a $375 median. The Mighty World of Marvel #145 Hulk cover, attributed to Herb Trimpe and Duffy Vohland, sold for $10,625. Brian Bolland and Dick Giordano's Camelot 3000 #6, page 16 sold for $5,250; John Romita Jr. and Klaus Janson's World War Hulk #1, page 36 splash for $5,000; and Daniel Clowes's New Yorker cover preliminary for $4,250.

Piasa's 26 lots remained unsold. These included John Buscema and Joe Sinnott's Thor #263 cover, estimated at €35,000 to €45,000, Gene Colan's Daredevil #46, page 3, and Jack Kirby and Joe Sinnott's Silver Surfer graphic novel artwork. None met its reserve.

On eBay, Dan Jurgens and Bob Layton's Captain America #41 cover sold for $5,000. Tony Salmons's two G.I. Joe #69 pages sold for about $820 or €730 for page 10, and about $630 or €560 for page 8. Pierre-Henry Gomont's Pereira Maintains cover sold for $628.99. Chris Weston's Flash Gordon special cover sold for about $690 or €620, and Bryan Lee O'Malley's Scott Pilgrim volume 5, page 131 for about $680 or €610.

Catawiki sold 312 lots from more than 400 offered, totaling €29,990, with a 77.2% sell-through rate. Corrado Roi's Nathan Never Gigante #17 page sold for €1,460, Will Eisner's Invisible People: Mortal Combat page for €902, and Jef Nys's Jommeke #41 page for €161. Mike Zeck and Gene Day's Master of Kung Fu #78 page, Gene Colan and Tom Palmer's Tomb of Dracula #64 page, and Régis Loisel's Peter Pan preliminary drawing did not meet their reserves.

Raremarq sold 74 lots from more than 200 offered, totaling $83,936. Stanley Artgerm Lau's Arttrober Black Cat artwork sold for $10,950 and his Lara Croft illustration for $9,732. Jorge Molina's Absolute Batman #24 retail variant cover sold for $8,852.

Among the smaller sales, McTear's sold all 19 lots, including John Ridgway's Candy and the Catchman title page for about $350 or €310 and Rich Buckler and Dick Giordano's Lois Lane #118 page for about $320 or €280. Artcurial sold Cosey's Your Montreux illustration for about $1,510 or €1,350; his In Search of Peter Pan, page 2 and page 24, and Tardi's Death on Credit illustration, remained unsold. Mycomicshop.com sold all 25 lots for $2,880, and AZ auction sold all 23 for €1,525.

New art listed this weekNew comic art

eBay's arrivals include Norm Breyfogle's 11-page Anarky #4 group, with bidding at $1,525, and his 10-page Anarky #1 group, at $1,500. Simon Jacob's Armoured Gideon artwork is also listed. Bidding is at $785 for Rob Schrab's Scud the Disposable Assassin #8 artwork, $530 for Barry Windsor-Smith's Opus cover preliminary, $285 for Drew Hayes's Poison Elves #16, page 7, and $167.50 for Gary Frank's Geiger #25, page 14.

At Catawiki, bidding is at €1,000 each for Gil Formosa's Buck Danny volume 58 pages 38 and 26. Buichi Terasawa's 1978 Space Adventure Cobra page and Massimiliano Frezzato's unpublished Dylan Dog page each stand at €500. Claude Auclair's Bran Ruz page is at €270.

Raremarq's fixed-price additions include Nick Bradshaw's Magik and Darkchylde illustration, listed at $8,000, Sara Pichelli's Logan: Black, White and Blood #3 cover at $7,000, and her Phoenix #9 variant cover at $6,000. Stanley Artgerm Lau's Arttrober auctions include a Princess Mononoke illustration, with bidding at $7,800, and a Zatanna illustration, at $7,475.

Daniel Maghen listed Milo Manara's Aphrodite watercolor at €15,000 and Paolo Serpieri's Druuna: Parfums de femme illustration at €11,000. Other additions include Christophe Blain's Gus: Happy Clem, page 8 at €6,900 and Batem's Marsupilami: Biba cover for Spirou magazine at €7,000.

Huberty Breyne Gallery added Marjane Satrapi's untitled 2012 acrylic painting, listed at €18,000, and Christian Quesnel's The Hound of the Baskervilles watercolor cover at €2,850. The painting measures 150 by 100 cm.

Thornbush Art listed Jean-Pierre Gibrat's Mattéo painted double page at €15,000 and Hermann's Jeremiah painting with Kurdy and Lena at €2,400.

Cool Lines Art added Mike Zeck's Secret Wars #12 double-page splash, pages 26 and 27, Bernie Wrightson's Swamp Thing #3, page 9, and Bill Sienkiewicz's Dazzler #29 painted cover. The Dazzler listing also identifies its use in an X-Men film.

Comix Art Studio listed Will Sliney's Midnight Fantastic Four #1 cover and Midnight X-Men #1 cover at $4,400 each. Carlos Gómez's Wade Wilson: Deadpool #10 cover is listed at $2,625.

The Green Room added Fernando Blanco's W0rldtr33 #21 cover at €2,550 and #22 cover at €2,300. Achetez de l'Art listed Neyef's Les Enfants Perdus, page 24 at €1,500.

On 2DGalleries, Frank Miller's Sin City: Hell and Back #4, page 25 is listed at €9,800, and Catherine Meurisse's Le Clan de Walden, page 28 at €5,000. ComicArtFans Classifieds has Dave McKean's Arkham Asylum introduction pages 4 and 5 listed at €7,500.

Auctions for the coming weekAuctions calendar

Heritage has close to 1,200 lots scheduled. Albert Uderzo's Astérix the Legionary, page 7 has bidding at $175,000, his Pilote #652 cover for Astérix and the Soothsayer at $150,000, and his first-version Astérix map of France artwork at $96,875. Dave Stevens's Rocketeer Adventure Magazine #3, page 27 splash stands at $32,500; Charles Burns's Big Baby: Curse of the Molemen cover at $16,250; and Moebius's Iron Man illustration at $13,125. Jim Lee and Scott Williams's Batman/Spawn #1 variant cover and E. C. Segar's 1936 Thimble Theatre Sunday strip each stand at $14,375.

HVMC's 155 lots include Enki Bilal's Coup de sang trilogy artwork, estimated at €80,000 to €120,000. Grzegorz Rosinski's Thorgal DVD-cover painting is estimated at €35,000 to €40,000, and his The Island of Frozen Seas, page 9 at €7,000 to €10,000. Olivier Ledroit's Wika and the Black Fairies cover carries a €20,000 to €25,000 estimate.

Tajan's 116 lots include Philippe Francq's Largo Winch: H, page 14, with bidding at €13,240, Enki Bilal's The Color of Air drawing at €6,620, and André Chéret's Rahan page from Pif Gadget #162 at €2,648. Dagoty has more than 200 lots, including Uderzo's Tanguy et Laverdure, page 57, with bidding at €3,125 against a €4,000 to €6,000 estimate.

Tessier Sarrou's 189 lots include Hermann's Comanche, page 18, estimated at €12,000 to €15,000, Will's Tif et Tondu, page 5 at €8,000 to €10,000, and Moebius's Arzak: L'Arpenteur page inspired by the published artwork at €8,000 to €12,000.

Russ Cochran offers Ingles's Gunfighter #12 cover, with bidding at $2,400. Excalibur Auctions' 192 lots include Alessandro Biffignandi's The Spider: Stupendous Series #4 cover, John Stokes's two Star Trek pages from Valiant, and Alan Davis and Mark Farmer's Avengers volume 3 #41, page 9.

On eBay, bidding is at $1,525 for Norm Breyfogle's 11-page Anarky #4 group. Simon Jacob's Armoured Gideon artwork is also scheduled, with bidding at about $670 or €590.

Catawiki has more than 500 lots scheduled. Bidding is at €6,250 for Philippe Druillet's Lone Sloane: Chaos page, €2,400 for Tibet's Ric Hochet contre le bourreau page, €1,402 for Alberto Breccia's El Viajero de Gris: Verdadera Magia page, and €1,000 for William Vance's Bob Morane: The Giants of Mu page.

Trending keywordsTrending searches

Moebius ranks first, followed by Mike Mignola, Batman, Milo Manara, and Spider-Man. Manara moves from sixth to fourth.

The largest weekly gains are Dilbert, up 2,130 places from 2,329th to 199th, and Fortnite, up 1,608 places from 1,776th to 168th. Flash Gordon rises from 935th to 195th, and Kent Williams from 848th to 181st.

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