Heritage sets yet more records with Miller and Crumb sales

7 Comments POSTED ON Jun 02 2010 AT 1:42 pm BY The Beat
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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.”

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Bye Bye Bye

23 Comments POSTED ON Jun 02 2010 AT 8:00 am BY The Beat
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Yesterday was the final moving day at the old Publishers Weekly office. One last day to shovel everything into a box. Every move comes with a purge purge purge mandate, and since we're moving to a smaller office, the need to travel light was particularly urgent.

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DETECTIVE #27 goes for OVER $1 million

15 Comments POSTED ON Feb 25 2010 AT 4:13 pm BY The Beat
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Rich Johnston has the exclusive news that this week’s record comics sale of $1 million for an issue of ACTION #1 has already been broken by a copy of DETECTIVE #27 which sold for $1,075,500. That issue, of course, reprints  presents the first appearance of Batman. The Caped Crusader is topping the Man [...]

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