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$101,575 for a page of comic art?

Posted: Thu Jun 03, 2010 7:25 -0700
by go
"Via a press release, and speaking of Frank Miller, Heritage Auctions set a record by selling a page of Miller art from Daredevil #188 for $101,575. According to Todd Hignite, who is Consignment Director for Original Comic and Illustration Art for Heritage, it’s a record for original art from the ’80s, and “one of the handful of highest prices that Heritage has ever seen paid for a piece of comic art, period. It’s in very rarefied company.”
"Among other bestsellers, a page of Robert Crumb’s very early Fritz the Cat story, “Fritz Comes on Strong,” which sold for $35,850. A high-grade copy of ZAP #1 sold for $26,290, a record for an underground comic. Finally, a page of Far Side art by Gary Larson sold for $20,315. Such pieces rarely come onto the market, the release noted."

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Posted: Thu Jun 03, 2010 7:34 -0700
by Jet_Jaguar
Wow, that's pretty amazing. I would have thought that a page of comic art that sold for that amount would have to be an ultra-rare piece of Winsor McCay artwork or something like that.