Comic Book Graded 3.0 Could Be Worth $35K

A comic shop in Milwaukee, Wis., finds itself selling something unexpected and something incredibly valuable. Steve Dobrzynski displays the early Marvel’s Amazing Fantasy No. 15, featuring Spiderman’s origin story. A couple came to the Collector’s Edge comic shop looking to sell a stash of old comic books that had belonged to a late relative. What […]

Bidders’ Spidey-Senses Tingling with Sale of Rare Spider-Man No. 1

Superheroes continue to have collectors trapped in their web of popularity. A beautifully clean copy of Amazing Spider-Man #1 (Marvel, 1963) – one of only five of its issue grade known to exist – set off a bidding war at Hake’s July 25-26 auction of pop culture memorabilia, climbing to a staggering final price of […]

Comic Book Art Sells for $3M

Two original pieces of artwork from the comic book Secret Wars No. 8 with Spider-Man sold on Jan. 13, 2022, at Heritage Auctions for a combined $3.648 million. One of the original pages of artwork from the 1984 Marvel comic book, which tells the origin story of the Spider-Man’s black costume, sold for $3.36 million. Right […]

Shazaam! Comic Books, Artwork Getting Huge Prices

Rummage through your grandparent’s attic. And for the love of collecting, do not throw away any old comics and comic art you may find. National Comics Day is Sept. 25 and in recent years, vintage comic prices have been soaring at auctions. The genre is more than the traditional comic book. It has grown to […]

Comic Book Bids Soar

A mint-condition Detective Comics No. 140 sold for $456,000 in a June 2021 Heritage auction. The comic was part of a grouping of high-grade Golden Age comic books bought by a teenager in the 1940s. The 5,000 comics are called the Promise Collection and are being in several auctions, the first of which totaled $7.1 million […]

Brother Keeps His Promise: Small Portion of Comic Collection Sells for $7.1 Million 

A portion of the comics in the Promise Collection, a grouping of high-grade Golden Age comic books bought by a teenager in the 1940s, sold at a June 7 Heritage auction for a total of $7.1 million. The total was for just 181 comics from the 5,000-plus comic books that make up the Promise Collection. […]

Kovels On Antiques & Collectibles Vol. 47 No. 8 – April 2021

Antique Silhouettes … Shipwreck of the RMS Carpathia … Modern American Furniture … 19th-Century Toby Jugs … Hummel Figurines … Market Report – Comic Books … Marks on Hummels … Collector’s Gallery … Prices