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Auction Info

Sale Name
Vintage Comics and Comic Art - Online (Bidstart 2/3)
Auction Date
02/22/2012 - 02/24/2012
Year of Sale
2012
Sale Number
#7054
Total Lots
1848
Sold Lots
1840
Lots Sold
99.6%
Unsold Lots
8
Price Unknown
0
Total Sales (USD)
8,797,480.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
2,877,360.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
2,877,360.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
2,879,860.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
2,879,860.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
305.48%
Currency
USD
Inflation Adjusted Price in U.S. Dollars
10,028,400.00

Top twenty five by sale price

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Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
91070 Detective Comics #27 Billy Wright pedigree (DC, 1939) CGC FN+ 6.5 Off-white to white pages....

USD 200,000.00 - 200,000.00 522,812.50
91001 Action Comics #1 Billy Wright pedigree (DC, 1938) CGC GD/VG 3.0 Off-white to white pages....

USD 140,000.00 - 140,000.00 298,750.00
91047 Batman #1 Billy Wright pedigree (DC, 1940) CGC VF+ 8.5 White pages....

USD 85,000.00 - 85,000.00 274,850.00
91036 All-American Comics #16 Billy Wright pedigree (DC, 1940) CGC VF 8.0 Off-white to white pages....

USD 65,000.00 - 65,000.00 203,150.00
91305 Detective Comics #27 (DC, 1939) CGC GD 2.0 Off-white pages....

USD 55,000.00 - 55,000.00 116,512.50
91118 Captain America Comics #2 Billy Wright pedigree (Timely, 1941) CGC NM 9.4 Off-white pages....

USD 40,000.00 - 40,000.00 113,525.00
91126 Marvel Comics #1 Billy Wright pedigree (Timely, 1939) CGC VF- 7.5 Off-white to white pages....

USD 65,000.00 - 65,000.00 113,525.00
92293 Bill Watterson Calvin and Hobbes 1989-90 Calendar Cover Watercolor Illustration Original Art (c. 1988)....

USD 42,500.00 - 42,500.00 107,550.00
92234 John Romita Sr. Amazing Spider-Man Annual #3 Spider-Man vs. the Hulk and the Mighty Avengers Cover Ori...

USD 65,000.00 - 65,000.00 104,562.50
91306 Detective Comics #33 (DC, 1939) CGC VF 8.0 Off-white to white pages.... (Total: 1 )

USD 30,000.00 - 30,000.00 92,612.50
92014 Carl Barks An Astronomical Predicament Oil Painting Original Art (1990).... (Total: 1 )

USD 6,000.00 - 6,000.00 89,625.00
91072 Detective Comics #29 Billy Wright pedigree (DC, 1939) CGC FN/VF 7.0 Off-white to white pages....

USD 40,000.00 - 40,000.00 83,650.00
92013 Carl Barks Donald Duck Flying Dutchman Painting Original Art (1972).... (Total: 1 Original Art)

USD 13,000.00 - 13,000.00 77,675.00
92015 Carl Barks Menace From the Grotto Painting Original Art (1975).... (Total: 1 )

USD 6,000.00 - 6,000.00 71,700.00
91499 Fantastic Four #12 Curator pedigree (Marvel, 1963) CGC NM+ 9.6 White pages....

USD 22,000.00 - 22,000.00 65,725.00
91493 Fantastic Four #5 Curator pedigree (Marvel, 1962) CGC NM 9.4 White pages....

USD 24,000.00 - 24,000.00 65,725.00
91285 Captain America Comics #1 (Timely, 1941) CGC FN 6.0 Off-white to white pages....

USD 37,500.00 - 37,500.00 65,725.00
91444 The Amazing Spider-Man #1 Twin Cities pedigree (Marvel, 1963) CGC NM- 9.2 Off-white to white pages....

USD 40,000.00 - 40,000.00 59,750.00
91029 Adventure Comics #40 Billy Wright pedigree (DC, 1939) CGC VF 8.0 White pages....

USD 18,000.00 - 18,000.00 59,750.00
91129 Marvel Mystery Comics #4 Billy Wright pedigree (Timely, 1940) CGC NM- 9.2 Off-white to white pages....

USD 22,000.00 - 22,000.00 50,787.50
92204 Frank Miller and Klaus Janson Batman: The Dark Knight Returns #1 Concluding Double-Page Spread 46 and 47 O...

USD 25,000.00 - 25,000.00 50,787.50
91119 Captain America Comics #3 Billy Wright pedigree (Timely, 1941) CGC NM- 9.2 Off-white pages....

USD 22,000.00 - 22,000.00 50,787.50
91043 All Star Comics #3 Billy Wright pedigree (DC, 1940) CGC VF+ 8.5 Off-white to white pages....

USD 17,000.00 - 17,000.00 49,293.75
91491 Fantastic Four #4 Curator pedigree (Marvel, 1962) CGC NM+ 9.6 White pages....

USD 18,000.00 - 18,000.00 44,812.50
91146 Sub-Mariner Comics #1 Billy Wright pedigree (Timely, 1941) CGC VF+ 8.5 Off-white pages....

USD 28,000.00 - 28,000.00 44,812.50
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  • <b><center>Heritage Auctions<br>Rare Books Signature Auction<br>December 15, 2025</center></b> <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> John Donne. <i>Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death.</i> London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633. <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> Edgar Rice Burroughs. <i>Tarzan of the Apes.</i> <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> F. Scott Fitzgerald. <i>Tender is the Night. A Romance.</i> <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> Bram Stoker. <i>Dracula.</i> Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897. <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> Jerry Thomas. <i>How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…</i>
    Heritage Auctions
    Rare Books Signature Auction
    December 15, 2025
    Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…
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  • <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
  • <center><b>Sotheby’s<br>Book Week<br>December 9-17, 2025</b></center> <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Francesco Colonna. <i>Hypnerotomachie,</i> Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Nausea. <i>De principiis dialectices Gorgias,</i> and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Billon. <i>Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur,</i> Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000. <center><b>Sotheby’s<br>Book Week<br>December 9-17, 2025</b></center> <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of <i>Sense and Sensibility,</i> the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.