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Bill Waterson’s Pearls Before Swine strips to be auctioned for Parkinson’s research

Press Release The original artwork for the recent three comic strip collaboration between Bill Watterson, the reclusive genius behind the much-loved Calvin and Hobbes comic strip, and Pearls Before Swine cartoonist Stephen Past...

Weekend auction has plenty of Flash

Heritage Auctions has a big FLash auction going on, and if you are into collecting comics, the Flash collection is definitely a bargain – for now.

IDW Publishing, Hasbro, And Heritage Auctions Combine Forces to Give Kids The World

Press Release My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic fast became the best-selling comic in IDW’s history and last year the title reached a monumental milestone of selling over one million copies at retail. To celebrate the o...

Black Beauty up on the auction block

Green Hornet’s car, Black Beauty, is up on the auction block, and you can get it… for the right price.

Own Wolverine’s claws from X-Men: Days of Future Past

Here’s a really cool auction where the winner walks away with Wolverine’s claws.

First appearance of Wolverine breaks single page record

Heritage Auctions has announced that the original page from Hulk #180, that features the first appearance of Wolverine has sold for a record $657,250.

Comic Art Professional Society’s eBay auctions to benefit family of Stan Sakai

Press Release On Thursday, March 6, 2014, Southern California’s CAPS, the Comic Art Professional Society, will launch an ongoing series of eBay auctions of original comic art. Its goal is to raise funds for medical care f...

AUCTION: Sting Hits the Auction Block

Want to own Sting, so you can take down orcs and other vile baddies? Profiles in History will be putting Frodo’s trusty weapon from the Lord of the Rings Trilogy on the auction block December 21, 2013.

AUCTION: Han Bid First – Solo’s Blaster on the Auction Block

If you are looking for a really unique piece of film history to give to someone for the holiday, you might want to hustle over to Invaluable where they are putting Han Solo’s DL-44 Blaster from The Empire Strikes Back on ...

AUCTION: Tales of Suspense #39 Sells for $262,900 at Auction

Press Release The first selections from the Don/Maggie Thompson Pedigree Collection hit a combined $835,384 to lead $5.8+ million in comic books and original comic art at Heritage Auctions. Every one of the 1,700 lots found a b...

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CONVENTIONS: Neal Adams to Conduct Charity Art Auctions at Wizard World Events

Press Release Eisner Award Hall of Famer Neal Adams, in conjunction with Wizard World, Inc., will conduct a series of charity comics art auctions at Wizard World’s pop culture conventions across the United States, beginni...

AUCTION: Avengers #1 Expected to Bring $80,000

Press Release One of the finest known copies of The Avengers #1, CGC NM 9.4, is expected to bring $80,000+ to highlight the Don/Maggie Thompson Pedigree Collection Nov. 21-23 at Heritage Auctions. The collection, estimated at $...

AUCTION: Kirby’s Argo collection to go on auction block

Press Release In 2007, Jim Lee, one of the most accomplished comic book writers and artists of the Modern era, and the Co-Publisher of DC Comics, read a story in Wired Magazine and suspected there was something special about tw...

AUCTION: Spider-Man #121 cover art to hit the auction block

Press Release For many fans it signified the end of innocence in comics – Amazing Spider-Man #121, The Night Gwen Stacy Died – and now the original John Romita Sr. cover art from 1973 that warned readers all over the world of t...

AUCTION: Watchmen #1 cover hits the auction block

Press Release The original cover art for Watchmen #1 – the issue that began the most influential graphic novel series of the 1980s – is expected to bring $100,000+ as part of Heritage Auctions’ Comics & Comic Art Signature®...

AUCTION: Batmobile sells for over $4.6 million in auction

We heard about this a couple of weeks ago, when Barrett-Jackson sold the original 1966 Batmobile for $4.6 million. But is it the most expensive pop-culture car ever to be sold on the auction block? The official press release ...

AUCTION: Watchmen original covers and pages up for bidding

Have you ever wanted to own the iconic cover from Watchmen #1? Well that piece and more from Dave Gibbon’s work on Alan Moore’s Watchmen could soon be hanging in your Nerd Room of Doom if you come out on top of a bi...

AUCTION: Batmobile headed to auction block

Press Release Barrett-Jackson, the World’s Greatest Collector Car Auctions™, announced today that it will offer one of the most recognized and popular pieces of entertainment history worldwide, at its 42nd annual Scottsdale auc...

ART: Calvin & Hobbes strip sells for $203,150 at auction

Press Release The original hand-colored Bill Watterson Calvin & Hobbes artwork from Nov. 19, 1986 – the first original Watterson Sunday strip known to have come up for public auction – brought a world record price of $203,...

AUCTION: Amazing Fantasy #15 breaks $11K mark

Press Release If further proof was needed the market for vintage comic books and original comic book art is white hot, Heritage Auctions provided it in Sunday night, Aug. 26, as the company’s Weekly Sunday Internet Comics Aucti...

AUCTION: Star Wars merch sells high in auction

Profiles in History is the place to go for movie memorabilia and collectibles, and recently a number of Star Wars items sold for high dollar.

AUCTION: Doug Schmell collection brings in millions

Press Release The multi-million dollar Doug Schmell/PedigreeComics.com Collection, featuring the single greatest grouping of Silver Age Marvel CGC #1 Registry sets ever assembled, realized more than $3.94 million on July 26 as ...