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Heritage sold all of its more than 900 lots, totaling $2,913,352, with a $1,125 median. Erik Larsen's Spider-Man #20, page 3, with Deathlok led at $60,000. Mark Gruenwald and Brett Breeding's Hawkeye #1 cover made $40,000, followed by Rick Leonardi and Al Williamson's New Mutants #78 cover at $23,750. Lynn Varley's Batman: The Dark Knight #3, page 35 production colors, over printed Frank Miller lines, sold for $17,500. Ian Gibson's Halo Jones opening page from 2000 AD Prog 463 and Alex Saviuk and Joe Rubinstein's Web of Spider-Man #100, splash page 16 each reached $13,750.
Further Heritage results included Andy Kubert and Matthew Ryan's X-Men #25, page 4 at $11,250, Gene Colan and Vince Colletta's Marvel Super-Heroes #15, page 2 at $10,625, and Philippe Druillet's Lovecraft interior illustration at $9,687.50. Ian Gibson's Halo Jones opening page from 2000 AD Prog 406 made $6,562.50; Mark Bagley and Larry Mahlstadt's New Warriors #11, splash page 19 sold for $2,000.
Oberon Auctions sold 99 of 101 lots, a 98% sell-through rate. Enzo Nistri's Godzilla artwork for the first Italian-release poster reached about $112,700 or €98,300, and Frank Frazetta's Gollum portfolio illustration about $84,500 or €73,700. Frank Miller's Sin City cover for Comics Retailer #64 sold for about $53,000 or €46,300. Jim Lee and Scott Williams' Uncanny X-Men #275, opening splash made about $29,800 or €26,000, while Arthur Adams' Godzilla Color Special, page 3 brought about $12,400 or €10,800.
Nouvelle Etude offered close to 400 lots and sold 295, totaling €133,380, with 73.9% sold. Its Dragon Ball studio artwork, lot 136, catalogued after Akira Toriyama, sold for €5,850 within its €5,000 to €10,000 estimate. A Dragon Ball Z artwork, lot 145 reached €4,160, above its €1,500 to €3,000 estimate.
Urania Casa d'Aste sold 336 lots from more than 400 offered, totaling €80,835, with 79.1% sold. Libico Maraja's The Royal Book of Ballet illustrations made €3,500 against €300 to €900. Romano Rizzato, working as Sergio, saw his The Adventures of Pinocchio illustration sell for €2,400 against €150 to €450.
Vermot et Associés sold 101 lots from roughly 550 offered, totaling €3,322, with an 18.5% sell-through rate. Alexis' Time is Money dedication drawing sold for €290. Jean-Jacques Sempé's dedication in Sempé in New York did not meet its reserve.
AZ auction sold 173 of 188 lots for €15,805, with 92% sold. René Goscinny's Dick Dicks, page 7 made €720 against an €800 estimate. Mittéï's Le P'tit bout d'chique, opening page reached €340 against €200.
Landry Pop Auctions sold 24 of 41 lots for $8,411. A Disney Pinocchio animation drawing from 1939 brought $1,708, above its $1,000 to $1,500 estimate. J.K. Woodward's Star Trek #2 variant cover and Star Trek: Year 5 #17, page 1 did not meet their reserves.
eBay's selected results included Carlos Ezquerra's Starlord #12 cover at $9,935.25 and Simone Bianchi's oil painting on canvas at €4,873.30. Rick Hoberg and Mike Machlan's All-Star Squadron #31, opening splash sold for $1,375. Three Shane Glines pin-up pages inked by Bruce Timm sold as a group for $977.58, and Dan Green and Terry Austin's Doctor Strange #60, page 20 made $898.88.
Catawiki sold 378 lots from more than 500 offered, totaling €54,590, with 71.9% sold. José Luis Munuera's two Zorglub pages from La Fille du Z brought €2,156. John Bolton's King Kull page from Bizarre Adventures #26 sold for €1,450, and Jean-Marc Lelong's Carmen Cru page for €560. Milo Manara's Borgia volume 3, page 10, his Giuseppe Bergman page from Jour de colère, and Derib's Born Twice cover did not meet their reserves.
Raremarq sold 48 of 132 lots for $24,154. A Batman original by Deathstar_Soy made $2,999, Jonathan Knight's Gwenom acrylic sketch cover $1,990, and Artgerm's Supergirl original $1,601.
Among the smaller sales, Tessier Sarrou sold 14 of 19 lots for €1,789, and mycomicshop.com sold all three lots for $104.
eBay additions include Kevin O'Neill's Nemesis the Warlock interior art, currently about $2,050 or €1,790, John Czop's Marvel Comics Presents #153, page 1 with War Machine at $800, and Jim Cheung and Don Hillsman II's Scion #4, page 21 at $350. Arthur Adams' New Fantastic Four cover preliminaries stand at $500, Ben Edlund's The Tick drawing at $329, and Gary Frank's Geiger #25, page 1 at $190.50. These are current bids, not fixed prices.
Catawiki listed Jaime Hernandez's Love and Rockets page from 1992 at a current €912, Gene Colan and Tom Palmer's Tomb of Dracula #64 page at €800, and Dan Jurgens and Mike DeCarlo's Warlord #66 page at €650. Gilbert Hernandez's Love and Rockets page with Tonantzin stands at €550, and Steve Ditko's Scary Tales page at €390.
Raremarq's fixed-price additions include Donghee Kim's Sephiroth cover for FAME: Hironobu Sakaguchi at $1,500 and Goku cover for Artbook #2 at $850. Tyler Kirkham and Matt Banning's Green Lantern: New Guardians #6, page 11 is offered at $450, Dave Gibbons' Rogue Trooper sketch at $400, and Travis Charest's Batgirl drawing at $300.
Romitaman added John Romita Jr. and Frank Giacoia's Amazing Spider-Man #225 cover at $75,000 and Wally Wood's Daredevil #6, page 13 at $32,000. Carmine Infantino and Joe Giella's Flash #136, opening splash is priced at $10,000.
Scott Eder listed S. Clay Wilson's Zap Comix #5 seven-page story at $100,000 and Robert Crumb's Kafka for Beginners, page 97 at $8,500.
Thornbush Art added Richard Corben's Alien Wedding illustration at €38,000, with restoration noted, and Moebius' film design for Jodorowsky's Dune at €8,000.
Galerie Barbier listed Rosinski's Thorgal: The Eyes of Tanatloc, page 42 at €28,000. Jacques Tardi's Nestor Burma: M'as-tu vu en cadavre?, page 10 is €27,000, and his Adèle Blanc-Sec: The Mystery of the Depths, page 23 €23,000.
Daniel Maghen added David Sala's Frankenstein painting, Facing the Mountain at €16,000 and Frankenstein, pages 164 and 165 at €6,500. Milo Manara's Giuseppe Bergman: Jour de colère, Spanish-edition cover is €15,000, while Didier Graffet's Steam Lines: Manhattan Transfer painting is €25,000.
Will's Comic Art Page listed Mark Brooks' Detective Comics #995 cover painting with Sideshow print at $19,999.
Hake's newly listed auctions include Todd McFarlane's Amazing Spider-Man #302 page at $28,000 and his Amazing Spider-Man #304 title splash at $25,000. Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #5 page stands at $17,000, Neal Adams' World's Finest #209 cover at $10,000, and Pat Broderick and Bob Smith's Detective Comics #551 cover at $5,000. All are current bids.
Dagoty added Albert Uderzo's Tanguy and Laverdure, page 57, currently €3,125 against an estimate of €4,000 to €6,000.
McTear's listed John Ridgway's Candy and the Catchman title page for 2000 AD, currently about $120 or €100. Rich Buckler and Dick Giordano's Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #118 page stands at about $80 or €70.
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The supplied calendar does not specify closing dates. The following are its selected lots; current bids may change.
ComicConnect has 36 lots, led by John Romita Sr. and Mike Esposito's Amazing Spider-Man #39 interior page at $49,000 and Gil Kane and John Romita Sr.'s Amazing Spider-Man #96 title splash at $41,000. Two Gil Kane and Frank Giacoia pages from Amazing Spider-Man #97 stand at page 2 for $28,000 and another interior page for $23,111.
Piasa offers two Enki Bilal originals from The Carnival of Immortals. Lot 1 is currently €40,000, against €40,000 to €45,000; lot 2 is €34,000, against €35,000 to €45,000.
Landry Pop Auctions offers Mitsuteru Yokoyama's signed Tetsujin 28-go shikishi, currently $9,000 against an estimate of $18,000 to $24,000.
Heritage has more than 550 lots in the calendar. Keith Pollard and Klaus Janson's Marvel Saga #13 cover stands at $3,250, and Alex Saviuk and Don Hudson's Web of Spider-Man #98 double-page splash at $1,062.50. A Josie and the Cupcakes one-page advertisement attributed to Dan and Jim DeCarlo is at $781.25. Carlos Ezquerra's Strontium Dog page from 2000 AD #192 is $626.25, and Dan DeCarlo's Archie Comics Digest #50 cover $243.75.
Hake's calendar contains 157 lots, including Kevin Maguire and Geof Isherwood's Suicide Squad #38 cover at $2,100, Mark Pacella and Tom Palmer's Uncanny X-Men: Pro Action #2 splash at $600, and Ron Lim and Tom Christopher's Silver Surfer #49 page at $575.
eBay's calendar includes Kevin O'Neill's Nemesis the Warlock interior art, currently about $2,050 or €1,790, John Czop's Marvel Comics Presents #153, page 1 at $800, and Jim Cheung and Don Hillsman II's Scion #4, page 21 at $350.
Catawiki has more than 300 lots scheduled. Jaime Hernandez's Love and Rockets page stands at €912, Gene Colan and Tom Palmer's Tomb of Dracula #64 page at €800, and Dan Jurgens and Mike DeCarlo's Warlord #66 page at €650.
Raremarq includes Alex Ross' Marvel Snapshots painted cover at $560 and Juan Ferreyra's Absolute Superman #15 pages 12 and 13 at $500 each.
mycomicshop.com lists 74 upcoming lots, including Larry Hama's Beyonder concept art for Secret Wars and John Byrne's Fantastic Four commission. No bids are recorded for either.
Moebius ranks first, followed by Batman, Mike Mignola, Spider-Man, and Frank Miller in positions two through five.
The largest weekly gains are J.R.R. Tolkien, up 853 places from 1,044 to 191, and Dan Dare, up 841 places. Astonishing X-Men rose from 548 to 87, and Rebecca Guay from 513 to 140.
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