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Auction Name Comics & Comic Art Total Sales (USD) 212,598.00
Auction Date October 28, 2021 - October 28, 2021 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 148,680.00
Sale Number #745 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 234,700.00
Total Lots 400
Sold Lots 371 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 161,530.00
% of Lots Sold 92.75% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 254,550.00
Unsold Lots 29 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 83.52%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
267

AMAZING FANTASY No. 15 * Signed by Stan Lee

August, 1962 USD 10,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 19,200.00
174

WEIRD MYSTERIES No. 5

USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 9,000.00
280

AVENGERS No. 1

September, 1963 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 8,400.00
279

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN ANNUAL No. 1

1964 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 6,600.00
361 [Original Comic Art] Grell, Mike

Original Mike Grell "Green Lantern" Splash Page, Flash #241

1976 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 5,400.00
294

TALES OF SUSPENSE No. 39

March, 1963 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 4,800.00
392 [Original Comic Art] Beyer, Mark

"We're Depressed" Original Art * Three Pages

1980s USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 4,200.00
92

MAD No. 1

October-November, 1952 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 3,900.00
281

BRAVE AND THE BOLD No. 28 * 1st Justice League of America

February-March, 1960 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,900.00
45

CRIME SUSPENSTORIES No. 22

April-May, 1954 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 3,300.00
269

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN No. 14

July, 1964 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,300.00
397 [Original Comic Art] Griffin, Rick

Original Rick Griffith Pen & Ink Preliminary Art for Big Brother / Albert King Concert Poster

1968 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,300.00
375 [Original Comic Art] DeCarlo, Dan

Sabrina the Teenage Witch No. 1: Original Art for Front Cover and Entire Issue, Plus Cover Proof and Signed Copy of Published Comic

1997 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 3,000.00
376 [Original Comic Art] DeCarlo, Dan

Sabrina the Teenage Witch Nos. 2 & 3: Original Art for Front Covers and Entire Issues, Plus Cover Proofs

1997 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 3,000.00
43

CRIME PATROL No. 16 * Signed by Feldstein

February-March, 1950 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,040.00
115

MISTER MYSTERY No. 11

May, 1953 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,040.00
85

JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY No. 6

March, 1953 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,920.00
398 [Original Comic Art] Griffith, Bill

"I Was A Teenage BEATNIK" Seven-Page Story Featuring Zippy the Pinhead

1985 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,800.00
238

PLANET COMICS No. 72

Fall, 1953 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,680.00
266 [Golden Record Set]

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN No. 1 * Golden Record Set * Comic and Record

1966 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,680.00
234

ILLUSTRATED STORIES FROM THE OPERA: RIGOLETTO * Black & White Variant

1943 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 1,440.00
305

FEDS 'N' HEADS COMICS No. 1 * 1st Printing

1968 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,440.00
356 [Original Comic Art] Shuster, Joe

Original Color Sketch of Superman

1979 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 1,440.00
17

BEWARE No. 13 [1st Issue]

January, 1953 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,320.00
63

HAUNTED THRILLS No. 5

January, 1953 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,320.00
  • Doyle, May 1: Thomas Jefferson expresses fears of "a war of extermination" in Saint-Dominigue. $40,000 to $60,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An exceptional presentation copy of Fitzgerald's last book, in the first issue dust jacket. $25,000 to $35,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The rare first signed edition of Dorian Gray. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The Prayer Book of Jehan Bernachier. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Van Dyck's Icones Principum Virorum Doctorum. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The magnificent Cranach Hamlet in the deluxe binding by Dõrfner. $7,000 to $10,000.
    Doyle, May 1: A remarkable unpublished manuscript of a voyage to South America in 1759-1764. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Bouchette's monumental and rare wall map of Lower Canada. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An rare original 1837 abolitionist woodblock. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An important manuscript breviary in Middle Dutch. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An extraordinary Old Testament manuscript, circa 1250. $20,000 to $30,000.
  • Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Piccolomini's De La Sfera del Mondo (The Sphere of the World), 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Vellutello's Commentary on Petrarch, With Map, 1525.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Finely Bound Definitive, Illustrated Edition of I Promessi Sposi, 1840.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Rare First Edition of John Milton's Latin Correspondence, 1674.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Giolito's Edition of Boccaccio's The Decamerone, with Bedford Binding, 1542.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of the First Biography of Marie of the Incarnation, with Rare Portrait, 1677.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Aldine Edition of Volume One of Cicero's Orationes, 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Bonanni's Illustrated Costume Catalogue, with Complete Plates, 1711.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Important Incunable, the First Italian Edition of Josephus's De Bello Judaico, 1480.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Jacques Philippe d'Orville's Illustrated Book of the Ruins of Sicily, 1764.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Incunable from 1487, The Contemplative Life, with Early Manuscript.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Ignatius of Loyola's Exercitia Spiritualia, 1563.
  • Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 546. Christoph Jacob Trew. Plantae selectae, 1750-1773.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 70. Thomas Murner. Die Narren beschwerung. 1558.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 621. Michael Bernhard Valentini. Museum Museorum, 1714.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 545. Sander Reichenbachia. Orchids illustrated and described, 1888-1894.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1018. Marinetti, Boccioni, Pratella Futurism - Comprehensive collection of 35 Futurist manifestos, some of them exceptionally rare. 1909-1933.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 634. August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof. 3 Original Drawings, around 1740.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 671. Jacob / Picasso. Chronique des Temps, 1956.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1260. Mary Webb. Sarn. 1948. Lucie Weill Art Deco Binding.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 508. Felix Bonfils. 108 large-format photographs of Syria and Palestine.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 967. Dante Aligheri and Salvador Dali. Divina Commedia, 1963.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1316. Tolouse-Lautrec. Dessinateur. Duhayon binding, 1948.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1303. Regards sur Paris. Braque, Picasso, Masson, 1962.
  • Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: McCarthy (Cormac). Cities of the Plain, N.Y., 1998, First Edn., signed on hf. title; together with Uncorrected Proof and Uncorrected Advance Reading Copies, both signed by the Author. €800 to €1,000.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Stanihurst (Richard). De Rebus in Hibernia Gestis, Libri Quattuor, sm. 4to Antwerp (Christi. Plantium) 1584. First Edn. €525 to €750.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Fleischer (Nat.) Jack Dempsey The Idol of Fistiana, An Intimate Narrative, N.Y., 1929, First Edn. Signed on f.e.p. by Rocky Marciano. €400 to €600.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Smith - Classical Atlas, Lond., 1820. Bound with, Smiths New General Atlas .. Principal Empires, Kingdoms, & States throughout the World, Lond. 1822. €350 to €500.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Rare Auction Catalogues – 1856: Bindon Blood, of Ennis, Co. Clare: Sotheby & Wilkinson. €320 to €450.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Mavor (Wm.)] A General Collection of Voyages and Travels from the Discovery of America to the Commencement of the Nineteenth Century, 28 vols. (complete) Lond., 1810. €300 to €400.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Mc Carthy (Cormac). Outer Dark, N.Y. (Random House)1968, Signed by Mc Carthy. €250 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Three signed works by Ted Huges - Wodwo, 1967; Crow from the Life and Songs of the Crow, 1970; and Tales from Ovid, 1997. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: The Garden. An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Horticulture in all its Branches, 7 vols. lg. 4to Lond. 1877-1880. With 127 colored plates. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Procter (Richard A.) Saturn and its System: Containing Discussions of The Motion (Real and Apparent)…, Lond. 1865. First Edn. €160 to €220.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Ashe] St. George, Lord Bishop of Clogher, A Sermon Preached to the Protestants of Ireland, now in London,... Oct. 23, 1712, London 1712. Second Edn. €130 to €180.
  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
    Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
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