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Heritage offered close to 500 lots, selling all but one for $7,780,514, a 99.8% sell-through rate. Jerry Robinson's Detective Comics #68 cover led at $475,000. Frank Miller and Klaus Janson's Daredevil #168, page 4 sold for $450,000, followed by Jim Lee and Art Thibert's X-Men #6 cover featuring Psylocke and Sabretooth at $437,500. Miller and Janson's Daredevil #181, page 35 featuring Bullseye brought $325,000, and Bob Layton's Iron Man #144 cover sold for $68,750. Jack Kirby and Joe Sinnott's Fantastic Four #56 cover did not meet its reserve.
Septimus sold 230 lots from close to 300 offered, totaling €175,162, with an 80.7% sell-through rate. Hergé's two panels from Tintin and the Picaros sold for €22,860. Guarnido's Les Indes Fourbes page with its original pencil drawing brought €12,319 against an estimate of €9,500 to €11,500. Dany's Olivier Rameau: L'Océan sans surface cover reached €10,795, above its €6,000 to €8,000 estimate. Enki Bilal's La Ville qui n'existait pas page sold below estimate at €6,985. Jacques Martin's Alix: La Griffe noire page remained unsold, reserve not met.
Little Nemo sold 136 lots from more than 200 offered, totaling €81,165, with 63.3% sold. The Libro d'Oro collection of drawings, catalogued under Bilal, Morris and Pratt, brought €8,400. Bioletto and Martina's Mickey's Inferno artwork, lot 298 sold within its €3,500 to €7,500 estimate at €6,200. Guido Crepax's Valentina: I Sotterranei artwork did not meet its reserve.
Millon sold Jean-Jacques Sempé's Brigitte Bardot gets people talking for €19,000, above the €5,000 to €10,000 estimate.
Catawiki offered more than 500 lots and sold 364 for €38,996, with 69.3% sold. Corrado Roi's Nathan Never Gigante #17 page brought €1,200, while his Dylan Dog #453: Pioggia di Sangue page sold for €500. Enric Badia Romero's Axa: Freak Show page did not meet its reserve.
Raremarq sold 54 of 135 lots, totaling $31,734. Stanley Artgerm Lau and Peach Momoko's charity collaboration featuring Psylocke and Sai brought $9,650. Alex Ross's Bionic Man #6 painted cover sold for $3,120.
Among smaller results, SWAU sold three of four lots for $570, while mycomicshop.com recorded one sale at $42. Bodnars Auction sold four lots for $40 in total. On todocoleccion, López Espí's 1971 Selecciones Marvel cover sold for €742.
eBay's new auctions included Rick Hoberg and Mike Machlan's All-Star Squadron #31 opening splash at $514, Steve Mannion's Fearless Dawn: Battle of Gigante Pequeno cover A at $499.99, and Bob Hall and Tom Palmer's Avengers Annual #16 artwork at $320. Also listed were Shane Glines and Bruce Timm's three pinup pages at $405, Jim Mooney and Mike Esposito's ThunderCats #19, page 8 at $310, and Dave Simons and Vince Colletta's Red Sonja #1 double-page spread at $263. These are current bids, not sale prices.
Catawiki added Jean-Marc Lelong's 1983 Carmen Cru page, currently at €450, and John Bolton's Bizarre Adventures #26 Kull page at €300. Jean-Charles Kraehn's Gil St André volume 10, page 16 with its color guide stands at €440. Bidding remains open.
Raremarq's fixed-price additions included Gianluca Gugliotta's Batman #1 variant cover at $3,500 and his Marvel Flair card illustrations of She-Hulk and Shang-Chi at $2,500 each. His official Dragonero illustration for Etna Comics is listed at $900.
Albert Moy added Sam Kieth's Marvel Comics Presents #95 cover at $60,000, Venom #2 cover at $50,000 and Aliens: Earth War #1, page 1 at $3,500. Romitaman listed Adam Hughes's Catwoman #59 cover at $22,000 and Barry Windsor-Smith and Tom Sutton's Avengers #99, page 18 at $15,000.
Art e Fumetto listed Frank Miller's Sin City: Hell and Back #4, page 26 and Hell and Back #9, pages 2 and 3 at €15,000 each. Dino Battaglia's Moby Dick title page with original lettering is available at €6,000. Philippe Labaune Gallery added Mike Mignola's Pinocchio: The Illuminated Edition artwork at $6,500 and Leonide the Vampyr #2, page 18 at $3,600.
Galerie Napoléon added Tabary's Iznogoud: Le Marchand d'oubli, page 1 at €9,000 and Iznogoud: Les Gros Yeux, page 5 at €8,000. Will's Comic Art Page listed Mark Brooks's Detective Comics #995 cover painting with a Sideshow print at $19,999. Anthony's Comic Book Art added David Finch and Danny Miki's Avengers #501, pages 22 and 23 at $18,000.
Laberinto Gris listed Luis Royo's Honey from the Shadows at €130,000. Scott Eder added Al Columbia's Pim & Francie: Sanitorium at $7,500 and Simon Hanselmann's Werewolf Jones & Sons zine back cover at $5,000.
Piasa's new catalogue contains more than 300 lots. Enki Bilal's La Foire aux immortels original, lot 1 is estimated at €40,000 to €45,000, and lot 2 at €35,000 to €45,000. Buichi Terasawa's Cobra: Black Bullet artwork and Cobra: Rugball artwork each carry estimates of €2,500 to €4,000.
Finarte added close to 1,000 lots, including Sal Buscema's Spectacular Spider-Man #231 cover, estimated at €21,000 to €30,000, and Mike Mignola and Joe Quesada's Adventures of the Thing #3 cover, estimated at €20,000 to €30,000. Frank Miller's Sin City: Family Values artwork carries an estimate of €12,000 to €18,000.
Artcurial listed 40 works by Zep, including the Titeuf: À fond le slip ! cover and the pages Le Cartable and Les Maths from Dieu, le sexe et les bretelles. The cover's current bid is approximately $18,300 or €15,900. The two pages each stand at about $14,600 or €12,700.
Landry Pop Auctions added Mitsuteru Yokoyama's signed Tetsujin 28-go shikishi. Its current bid is $9,000 against an estimate of $18,000 to $24,000.
Aibo Art Auction added more than 300 lots. They include a lot associated with Hayao Miyazaki, number 214, estimated at €3,000 to €6,000, and a Grendizer lot, number 171, estimated at €1,500 to €3,000. The supplied descriptions do not specify their media.
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Oberon Auctions has 101 lots in the calendar. Frank Miller's Comics Retailer #64 Sin City cover stands at approximately $28,100 or €24,500. Jim Lee and Scott Williams's Uncanny X-Men #275 opening splash is at about $6,950 or €6,060, and Arthur Adams's Godzilla Color Special, page 3 at about $4,810 or €4,200. Frank Frazetta's Gollum portfolio illustration stands at roughly $36,100 or €31,500.
Heritage's calendar contains over 900 lots. Mark Gruenwald and Brett Breeding's Hawkeye #1 cover is at $11,250, and Rick Leonardi and Al Williamson's New Mutants #78 cover at $10,000. Lynn Varley's Batman: The Dark Knight #3, page 35 production colors over printed Frank Miller lines stand at $8,750. Ian Gibson's opening pages for The Ballad of Halo Jones in 2000 AD prog 463 and prog 406 are at $7,500 and $4,250. Andy Kubert and Matthew Ryan's X-Men #25, page 4 is at $4,625, while Gene Colan and Vince Colletta's Marvel Super-Heroes #15, page 2 is at $2,750.
Landry Pop Auctions lists 82 lots. George Wilson's Turok, Son of Stone #20 cover is at $1,200 against an estimate of $8,000 to $12,000. J.K. Woodward's Star Trek #2 variant cover is at $1,000, estimated at $2,000 to $3,000, and his Star Trek: Year 5 #1, page 17 is at $500, estimated at $1,000 to $1,500.
AZ auction has 188 lots, including René Goscinny's Dick Dicks page 7, numbered 140 at €520 against an €800 estimate, and Mittéï's Le P'tit bout d'chique opening page at €220 against a €200 estimate.
Nouvelle Etude has close to 400 lots. Its Dragon Ball lot 136, after Akira Toriyama carries an estimate of €5,000 to €10,000. Vermot et Associés has more than 500 lots, including Sempé's album dedication drawing, estimated at €200 to €400. Urania Casa d'Aste offers more than 400 lots, with Libico Maraja's Heidi artwork at €1,500 against an estimate of €1,500 to €3,000.
Fauve Paris's 14 lots include Hugo Pratt's Corto Maltese portrait and Albert Uderzo's Astérix portrait, each estimated at €1,500 to €2,000. Tessier Sarrou lists 19 lots, including Greg's Achille Talon page 20.
eBay offers Simone Bianchi's oil painting on canvas at €4,960 and Lucio Parrillo's Marvel cover at €2,960.20. Rick Hoberg and Mike Machlan's All-Star Squadron #31 opening splash stands at $514, Steve Mannion's Fearless Dawn: Battle of Gigante Pequeno cover A at $499.99, Jim Cheung and Don Hillsman II's Scion #4, page 21 at $350, and Bob Hall and Tom Palmer's Avengers Annual #16 artwork at $320.
Catawiki has more than 500 lots scheduled. Milo Manara's Borgia volume 3, page 10 is at €7,000 and his Giuseppe Bergman: Jour de colère page at €4,100. Don Heck and Mike Royer's Ka-Zar volume 2 #4 splash stands at €2,200, Ron Wilson and Dan Adkins's Marvel Team-Up #47 page at €1,600, and Derib's Celui qui est né deux fois cover at €1,300. William Vance's Bob Morane: Les 7 Croix de plomb page is at €950, Jean-Marc Lelong's Carmen Cru page at €450, and John Bolton's Bizarre Adventures #26 Kull page at €300.
Raremarq lists Scott Blair's Princess Leia sketch cover at $1,800 and Tyler Kirkham's Green Lantern Corps #4, page 4 at $600. mycomicshop.com has three lots, including Mike DeCarlo's Big Barda sketch at $27.
The top five are Moebius, Batman, Mike Mignola, Spider-Man and Frank Miller, in that order. Batman moved from fourth to second.
Claude Marin recorded the largest gain in the supplied weekly progression list, rising 720 places from 881st to 161st. Joshua Cassara gained 618 places, and Jason Fabok rose 574 places, from 769th to 195th.
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