Comic Books & Graphic Novels
Snoopy Fetches $192,000
A 1950 Peanuts comic strip featuring Snoopy, the world's most famous beagle, sets a record price at Heritage Auctions.
The Dark Knight Soars
Detective Comics No. 27, featuring the first appearance of Batman, sells for world record $1.5 million at Heritage Auctions.
Holy Happy Ending, Batman
Crime fails and collector prevails as recovered collection of stolen Batman comic books worth nearly $2 million heads to auction at Heritage.
First published Tintin cover sells for $1.12M
The very first original cover art featuring the comic character Tintin sold for more than $1.12 million by Heritage Auctions on Saturday, June 8.
Pokemon, Magic cards building esteem with collectors
Important Pokémon and Magic: The Gathering cards and sets sold for nearly $300,000 at auction recently.
Comic book art from Deadpool debut climbs to $40,380
Fresh-to-market original comic book art spurred a fan frenzy at Hake’s March 13-14 auction and produced a $1.26 million result.
Get set for antique picking at vintage market
Spring is here and the May Gold Rush vintage market at the Olmsted County Fairgrounds (also known as Graham Park) in Rochester, Minnesota, is setting the stage for spring picking May 10-12, 2019.
Flash #105 soars to $20,000 in comic book auction
A copy of DC Comics Flash #105 (Feb.-Mar. 1959) in superb condition, with a grade of CBCS 9.0, soared to $20,000 at a Toy & Comic Auction that featured many rare superhero comics.
Vintage video game cartridge sets record price
An unopened copy of Super Mario Bros., the classic video game released by Nintendo in 1985, set a world record for a graded game when it recently sold for $100,150.
Six records set during illustration art auction
Swann Galleries’ auction of Illustration Art on December 6, 2018 saw a bustling auction room as well as live bidding from the firm's newly launched app.
‘Master Race’ original comic art stirs up $600,000
The Boon Foundation for Narrative Graphic Arts cast the winning bid to add the original comic art for the 8-page story Master Race to its collection.
Pop culture auction accessible to all collectors
In this year’s fall classic, a fully curated 2,518-lot auction to be held Nov. 13-15, Hake’s Auctions is giving pop culture collectors what they want: the finest-quality examples of toys, comic books and vintage collectibles of their youth, as well as premier historical and political items from long-held collections.
Confessions of a Nancy Drew collector
Jennifer Fisher of Queen Creek, Arizona spent the halcyon days of her childhood absorbed in the Nancy Drew books of the 1970s and ’80s. She's turned her passion for the plucky sleuth into a full-time career.
Original comic art tops $1.9M auction
The comic book boasting the first appearance of Robin the Boy Wonder, Detective Comics #38 from 1940, changed hands for $28,997 during Hake's July 11-12 auction.
