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Auction Name Comics Total Sales (USD) 10,760,781.20
Auction Date March 05, 2020 - March 07, 2020 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 0.00
Sale Number #7224 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 0.00
Total Lots 1360
Sold Lots 1352 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 0.00
% of Lots Sold 99.41% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 0.00
Unsold Lots 8 Total Sales as a % of High Est. Inf%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
91050

Amazing Fantasy #15 (Marvel, 1962) CGC NM 9.4 Off-white to white pages.

1962 Not Available USD 795,000.00
93060

Nintendo Play Station Super NES CD-ROM Prototype - Sony and Nintendo c. 1992.

1992 Not Available USD 360,000.00
91034 John Romita Sr.

John Romita Sr. Amazing Spider-Man #51 Cover Kingpin Original Art (Marvel, 1967).

1967 Not Available USD 312,000.00
91070

Superman #1 (DC, 1939) CGC VG- 3.5 Off-white to white pages.

1939 Not Available USD 288,000.00
91054

Captain America Comics #1 (Timely, 1941) CGC FN/VF 7.0 Off-white to white pages.

1941 Not Available USD 186,000.00
91029 Winsor McCay

Winsor McCay Little Nemo in Slumberland Sunday Comic Strip Original Art dated 9-6-08 (New York Herald, 1908).

1908 Not Available USD 168,000.00
91036 John Romita Sr.

John Romita Sr. Hero for Hire #1 Cover Original Art (Marvel, 1972).

1972 Not Available USD 156,000.00
91053

Batman #1 (DC, 1940) CGC VG 4.0 Off-white to white pages.

1940 Not Available USD 117,000.00
91041 Bill Watterson

Bill Watterson Calvin and Hobbes Daily Comic Strip Original Art dated 2-6-87 (United Feature Syndicate, 1987).

1987 Not Available USD 102,000.00
91071

Superman #1 (DC, 1939) CGC FR/GD 1.5 Cream to off-white pages.

1939 Not Available USD 90,000.00
91035 John Romita Sr.

John Romita Sr. Amazing Spider-Man #72 Cover Original Art (Marvel, 1969).

1969 Not Available USD 84,000.00
92113

Amazing Fantasy #15 (Marvel, 1962) CGC FN/VF 7.0 Cream to off-white pages.

1962 Not Available USD 81,000.00
91047

Action Comics #23 (DC, 1940) CGC VF+ 8.5 Off-white to white pages.

1940 Not Available USD 72,000.00
91015 Steve Ditko

Steve Ditko Amazing Spider-Man #7 Story Page 9 Original Art (Marvel, 1963).

1963 Not Available USD 66,000.00
93038

Stadium Events: Family Fun Fitness Wata 9.2 A+ Sealed NES Bandai 1987 USA.

1987 Not Available USD 66,000.00
94168 Marie Severin and Herb Trimpe

Marie Severin and Herb Trimpe Strange Tales #157 Complete 10-Page Story "The End of the Ancient One!" Doctor Strange Original Art (Marvel, 1967).

1967 Not Available USD 66,000.00
91012 Gene Colan and Frank Giacoia

Gene Colan and Frank Giacoia Tales of Suspense #95 Cover Iron Man Original Art (Marvel, 1967).

1967 Not Available USD 63,000.00
91002 Ross Andru, Neal Adams, Dick Giordano, and Terry Austin

Ross Andru, Neal Adams, Dick Giordano, and Terry Austin Superman vs. The Amazing Spider-Man #nn Splash Page 50 Original Art (Marvel/DC, 1976).

1976 Not Available USD 60,000.00
94028 Frank Brunner

Frank Brunner Marvel Treasury Edition #6 Front Cover Doctor Strange Original Art (Marvel, 1975).

1975 Not Available USD 60,000.00
91066

Marvel Mystery Comics #44 San Francisco Pedigree (Timely, 1943) CGC NM 9.4 White pages.

1943 Not Available USD 55,200.00
91005 Frank Brunner

Frank Brunner Doctor Strange #4 Cover Original Art (Marvel, 1974).

1974 Not Available USD 52,800.00
92091

Suspense Comics #3 (Continental Magazines, 1944) CGC VG/FN 5.0 Cream to off-white pages.

1944 Not Available USD 52,800.00
91027 Erik Larsen and Mike Machlan

Erik Larsen and Mike Machlan Amazing Spider-Man #340 Cover Original Art (Marvel, 1990).

1990 Not Available USD 50,400.00
91048

All Star Comics #8 (DC, 1942) CGC FN- 5.5 Cream to off-white pages.

1942 Not Available USD 49,200.00
91008 Sal Buscema

Sal Buscema Avengers Annual #4 Cover Masters of Evil Original Art (Marvel, 1971).

1971 Not Available USD 48,000.00
  • Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A RUTH BADER GINSBURG BEADED JUDICIAL COLLAR. $80,000 - $120,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: ONLY KNOWN COPY OF THE ONLY BOOK BY THE REMARKABLE EVE ADAMS. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A COMPLETE RUN OF VISIONAIRE MAGAZINE THROUGH 2010. $6,000 - $9,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: LAW REVIEW OFFPRINT SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY RUTH BADER GINSBURG. $3,000 - $5,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: META REBNER'S WORKING SCRIPT OF THE LOVED ONE. $1,500 - $2,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A KATHY GROVE PORTRAIT OF CYNDI LAUPER FOR THE FEBRUARY 1989 DETAILS COVER. $800 - $1,200
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A PLASTIC COAT BY MILLIE DAVID FEATURED IN SOHO NEWS STYLE SECTION, FROM THE COLLECTION OF ANNIE FLANDERS. $500 - $700
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A RUTH BADER GINSBURG JEWELRY BOX. $600 - $900
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A SET OF JONI MITCHELL LYRICS FOR "IF I HAD A HEART." $2,000 - $3,000
  • 19th Century Shop
    Catalogue 198 just published
    19th Century Shop. Darwin and Wallace, first printing of the first paper on natural selection
    19th Century Shop. Shakespeare’s Poems, first collected edition
    19th Century Shop. Walt Whitman portrait inscribed with a Leaves of Grass poem
    19th Century Shop. Major Elizabeth Barrett Browning manuscript notebook
    19th Century Shop. Spock's Baby Book, original MS
    19th Century Shop. Cellarius, Harmonia Macrocosmica, the great celestial atlas
  • Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [RUTH, George Herman “Babe” (1895-1948)]. Signed photograph. Circa 1930s. 191 x 248 mm. $1,500 to $2,500.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HARRISON, Benjamin. Document signed (“Benj Harrison”) as governor of Virginia, certifying the service of Daniel Cumbo, a Black Revolutionary soldier. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: ONE OF THE FIRST PRINTED ANNOUNCEMENTS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: FIRST PRINTING OF LINCOLN’S IMMORTAL GETTYSBURG ADDRESS. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HIGHLY IMPORTANT MORMON ARCHIVE. ALLEY, George. Archive of 23 Autograph Letters Signed by Mormon Convert George Alley to His Brother Joseph Alley. $10,000 to $20,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [AVIATION]. [ARMSTRONG, Neil A.] Aviation Hall of Fame Gold Medal MS64 NGC, Awarded to Neil Armstrong in 1979. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: NEWLY DISCOVERED FIRST PRINTING OF "WITH MALICE TOWARDS NONE... " FROM THE ONLY NEWSPAPER ACTUALLY ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE IN LINCOLN’S SECOND INAUGURAL PROCESSION. $4,000 to $8,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: THE MOST IMPORTANT GEORGE WASHINGTON DOCUMENT IN PRIVATE HANDS; GEORGE WASHINGTON’S COMMISSION AS COMMANDER IN CHIEF, 1775, ONE OF ONLY TWO ORIGINALS. $150,000 to $250,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: A VERY RARE ACCOUNT OF BLACKBEARD’S DEATH AND ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PIRATE ITEMS EXTANT. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: EDISON, Thomas. Patent for Edison’s Improvements on the Electric-Light, No. 219,628. [Washington, D.C.: U.S. Patent Office], 16 September 1879. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [VIETNAM WAR]. The original pen used by Secretary of State William P. Rogers to sign the Vietnam Peace Agreement, Paris, 27 January 1973. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: SONS OF LIBERTY FOUNDER COLONEL BARRÉ ANNOTATED TITLE-PAGE, “WHICH OUGHT TO ROUSE UP BRITISH ATTENTION”. $4,000 to $6,000.
  • Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: [Langland (William)]. The vision of Pierce Plowman, nowe the seconde time imprinted..., Roberte Crowley, 1550. £8,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: [Shakespeare (William)]. [Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies], second folio edition, [by Tho.Cotes, for Robert Allot], [1632]. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Bible, Czech Biblia Bohemica, first complete Bible printed in the Czech vernacular, Prague, August 1488. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Shabthai Tzvi.- Collection of four printed and illustrated broadsides detailing the appearance, rise and fall of the false messiah, Shabthai Tzvi, Augsburg, 1666-67. £40,000 to £60,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Leaf from the Beauvais Missal, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment, [Northern France (perhaps Beauvais or Amiens)], [fourteenth century (c.1310)]. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Aubrey (John). [Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme], manuscript in English, Latin and Greek, [c. 1693]. £30,000 to £50,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord). Poems on Various Occasions, first edition, Harriet Maltby's copy, Newark, Printed by S. & J. Ridge, 1807. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Hobbit, first edition, second impression with dust-jacket, 1937 [but 1938]. £7,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Blake (William).- Thornton (Robert John). The Pastorals of Virgil, 2 vol., engraved plates by William Blake, 1821. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: America.- Mount (William J.) & Thomas Page. The English Pilot…, [bound with] The Fourth Book, describing The West Indies Navigation from Hudson's-Bay to the River Amazones, 1721. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Oldfield (Henry Ambrose), Rajman Singh Chitrakar & others. An album of 160 photographs and 13 original artworks, (1833-1919), [c. 1850s-1880s]. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Audubon (John James) [and William MacGillivray]. Ornithological Biography…, 5 vol., first edition, presentation copy inscribed by Audubon, Edinburgh, 1831-49 [i.e. 1831-39]. £10,000 to £15,000.
  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
    Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
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