Frank Frazetta ‘Escape on Venus’ painting sells for $660KDALLAS – Frenetic bidding drove the final price for Frank Frazetta’s Escape on Venus painting original art to $660,000 to claim top-lot honors in Heritage Auctions’ Comics & Comic Art Auction Aug. 2-4, which brought in a total of $6,670,739.
Frank Frazetta painting outshines Superman comic at auctionCHICAGO (AP) – Superman may be the Man of Steel, but he’s no Death Dealer. Comic books featuring the debuts of Superman, the Joker and Catwoman fetched hundreds of thousands of dollars at a Chicago auction Thursday, but the star was undoubtedly a painting by science fiction and fantasy artist Frank Frazetta.
Complete 1993 Magic: the Gathering Beta set commands $120K at WeissLYNBROOK, N.Y. – A complete Magic: The Gathering Beta card set from 1993, just the second set for MTG, with a print run of 3,200 cards, sold for a staggering $120,000 in an online-only Comics, Comic Art, MTG Booster Boxes & More auction held October 19 by Weiss Auctions.
War comics capture true cost of combatNEW YORK — The term “war comics” makes sense from a shorthand perspective; it’s a succinct way to describe this genre, but can be a tad misleading to outsiders. Far from glorifying war, war comics mostly tell unflinching and gritty stories of the cost of war, particularly the human cost. Some may have been borne […]