NEW YORK (AP).- Comic book artist Gene Colan, whose career spanned seven decades and illustrated the adventures of characters like Dracula, Batman, Daredevil and the wise-cracking fowl Howard the Duck, has died in the Bronx at age 84. Longtime friend …
World Record Breaking $6.077+ Million Comics Sale at Heritage Auctions
NEW YORK, NY.- In an auction where spectacular prices were in abundance – a World Record price of $448,125 for the original art from Page 10, issue #3 of Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, $179, 250 for Carl Barks’ Vacation Panel Painting Original Art, $…
Original Batman Drawing Sets World’s Record at Heritage Auctions Sale of Comics
NEW YORK, NY.- The original art from Page 10, issue #3 of Frank Miller and Klaus Janson’s Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (DC, 1986) became the single most valuable piece of American comic art to ever sell when it brought $448,125 as part of Heritage A…
Andy Hope’s First Solo Exhibition in Spain at Contemporary Art Centre of Málaga
MALAGA.- The Contemporary Art Centre of Málaga is presenting Robin Dostoyevsky by Andy Hope 1930, the first solo exhibition in Spain on one of Germany’s most internationally celebrated artists. Nine, large-format works and a sculptural piece, all…
Frank Miller’s 1986 Dark Knight Batman & Robin Splash Page to Be Offered at Heritage Auctions
NEW YORK, N.Y.- The iconic original art for the page 10 splash page from issue #3 of Frank Miller and Klaus Janson’s The Dark Knight Returns, the comic series that almost single-handedly re-vitalized Batman, and defined the best of 1980s comics, is exp…
1942 Archie Comics #1 Brings $167,300 World Record Price at Heritage Auctions
DALLAS, TX.- Archie Andrews, everyone’s favorite carrot-top, has proved that he can hold his own with, and even exceed, the likes of Spider-Man, The Hulk and The Fantastic Four. This was no epic fight to save the planet, or even Riverdale, for that mat…
1942 Archie Comics #1 Brings $167,300 World Record Price at Heritage Auctions
DALLAS, TX.- Archie Andrews, everyone’s favorite carrot-top, has proved that he can hold his own with, and even exceed, the likes of Spider-Man, The Hulk and The Fantastic Four. This was no epic fight to save the planet, or even Riverdale, for that mat…
Rare Anti-Communist Comics at Heritage Auctions
DALLAS, TX.- A superb collection of high-grade anti-communist comic books from the 1950s, from The Collection of Todd Warren, will make for an esoteric and interesting corner of Heritage Auctions’ Feb. 24-25 Signature® Vintage Comics & Comic Art …
Celebrity Cars on the Red Carpet at Fort Lauderdale Auction
FORT LAUDERDALE, FL.- Collector cars featuring celebrity provenance, including a 1957 Chrysler Imperial Convertible (estimate: $120,000 – $140,000) once owned by Howard Hughes, and the Batmobile (estimate: $200,000 – $275,000) from the 1995 film ‘…
First "Bat-man" Comic Proof Pages, Saved from the Trash in Queens, Highlight Comics Event at Heritage Auctions
DALLAS; TX.- The original 1939 production proofs for pages 2-6 of Detective Comics #27, otherwise known as the first appearance of “The Bat-Man,” perhaps the closest the world will ever get to the original art for this monumental comic book – lo…