The iconic cover for The Dark Knight Returns issue #1 is scheduled to hit the auction block in June. Will it sell for $1,000,000?
“What Dark Knight did to superhero comics and the superhero genre itself, it was a big, fat Dope Slap,” Frank Miller said in a press release from Heritage Auctions. “It just slapped the genre awake.”
Miller and collaborator Lynn Varley’s original art for The Dark Knight Returns Book One’s iconic cover, featuring Batman in silhouette clenched like a prizefighter’s fist against a sky split open by lightning, now comes to market for the first time. The work, which comes from a collector who acquired it directly from Varley, will serve as the centerpiece of Heritage Auctions’ June 16-19 Comics & Comic Art Signature® Auction, which opens for bidding in late May.
This is definitely a comic cover everyone knows on sight, so it will be interesting to see how high bidders are willing to go.
