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Heritage’s Latest Comic Book and Comic Art Auction

Surpasses $13.5 Million

DALLAS, TX – No single comic was left on the spinner rack, nor a single series realized $156,000, making it Miller’s most valuable rendering of
work of art was left hanging on the gallery wall. And by the time Heritage the man called Logan. Writer-artist Bob Layton’s original cover art for
Auctions’ completely sold-out Jan. 12-15 Comics & Comic Art Signature® Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars No. 7—starring Captain America,
Auction ended late that Sunday night, its final total of a remarkable three of the X-Men, a “new” Spider-Woman, and She-Hulk, among
$13,508,641 for only 1,015 lots, numerous records were realized others—sold for $132,000, setting a new auction record for a work by
involving, among others, Spider-Man, the X-Men, Frank Miller’s take on the famed Iron Man storyteller. Speaking of, Page 4 from Tales of
Wolverine, Captain Marvel, Conan the Cimmerian and Little Dot and Suspense No. 39 by Don Heck—in which Tony Stark takes shrapnel to
her pal Richie Rich, the poor little rich boy himself. his heart—realized $132,000.
Nearly 4,700 bidders from around the world participated in this Bidding wars for original art happened throughout the weekend:
four-day event, which kicked off January 12th with a Platinum Session George Pérez and Joe Sinnott’s cover for Fantastic Four No. 184 sold
that exploded with a bidding war that led to a new auction record for for $120,000. And several minutes passed as collectors tussled over
legendary artist-creator Dave Cockrum. He was the man who helped Don Perlin, Ian Akin, and Brian Garvey’s original cover for 1986’s
save Marvel Comics’ X-Men after readers abandoned Stan Lee and Jack Transformers: The Movie No. 1. It sold for $102,000.
Kirby’s team of young evolutionary marvels in the 1970s and their Spider-Man’s 1962 inaugural swing through Marvel Comics
books filled with reprinted stories languished on shelves and racks. continues to attract collectors: A copy of Amazing Fantasy No. 15 graded
One of Cockrum’s earliest covers from his legendary X-Men run CGC Near Mint 9.2 sold for $810,000 – a new record for the grade.
with writer Chris Claremont made its auction debut: April 1976’s X- A copy of Flash Comics No. 1 graded CGC VG/FN 5.0, which
Men No. 98, featuring Storm, Nightcrawler, and Colossus, all opened live bidding at $70,000 and sold for $192,000 – the second-
Cockrum creations, and a very early cover appearance of Wolverine. highest price realized at Heritage for that Golden Age gem. But it
The art opened with live bidding starting at $120,000, but heated wasn’t only superheroes setting records last weekend – or, for that
bidding drove its final price to $432,000, shattering the previous record matter, comic books and original art.
for the beloved artist set just one year ago. There was nothing little about the Little Dot No. 1 graded CGC
Moments later, bidders fought it out over one of the most memo- Near Mint+ 9.6 in this auction, as this popular book among collectors
rable Frank Frazetta originals at auction in a while: the cover for 1973’s led to one of the most heated bidding wars of the entire affair. The
Signet paperback Flash for Freedom! This very Frazetta piece—which result: a new auction record of $78,000 for this Harvey Comics key.
renders the anti-hero Harry Flashman more cocksure cowboy than The Internet’s most popular auction-house website, HA.com, has more
Victorian-era military hero—realized a staggering $660,000 by the than 1,500,000 registered bidder-members and searchable free archives of
time the hammer fell. five million past auction records with prices realized, descriptions and
Time and again, new records were realized: Page 17 from the second enlargeable photos. For breaking stories, follow us: HA.com/Facebook and
issue of Claremont, Frank Miller, and Joe Rubinstein’s Wolverine mini- HA.com/Twitter . Link to this release or view prior press releases.

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