The original art session of the Spring Featured Auction closes today, and with it, the chance to acquire close to 350 high-quality original art highlights for your collection! Now is the time to mark your territory and determine your final max bids! Some highlights are imaged at left and set forth below. The first lot goes off at 8pm Eastern Time (5pm Pacific) but there is no time like the present to review the auction lots!
Some top art session highlights include (but are not limited to): Jim Starlin's historic title splash page from Iron Man #55 introducing Drax (now the world famous member of the Guardians of the Galaxy appearing in some of the biggest films of our time); Dave Cockrum's wraparound cover for from Marvel Fanfare #3 featuring Wolverine and the X-Men in the Savage Land; numerous Gil Kane Marvel Bronze Age covers including Thor #201 with the Thunder God vs. Pluto, Marvel Team-up #19 with Spider-Man and Ka-Zar battling Stegron in his first appearance, Giant-size Super-Villain Team-up #2 with Doctor Doom and Sub-Mariner, Amazing Spider-Man #138 featuring John Romita inks and Marvel Spotlight #27 featuring the only late 1970s Sub-Mariner solo comic; early Barry Windsor-Smith Conan artwork; Todd McFarlane and Greg Capullo's Spawn #33 cover (from the epic Spawn vs. Violator issue) and other pages from the issue as well as multiple McFarlane Spider-Man pages; Mike Zeck's Secret Wars #9 Cover featuring the biggest Marvel heroes attacking Galactus; John Byrne's X-Men#109 page featuring the very first panel appearance of Alpha Flight's Vindicator/Guardian and a large Wolverine image; and there are many other exceptional works by some of the best artists to grace the comic book field.
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Neal Adams Detective Comics #400 Batman vs. Man-Bat page from the key 1st appearance of the later; Deadly Hands of Kung-Fu #3 painted cover featuring Bruce Lee and Jim Kelly
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Art Adams Fear Itself: The Fearless #9 Cover with Valkyrie vs. X-Men’s Storm and Dani Moonstar in her own Valkyrie mode
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Jay Anacleto Sword of Sorrow: Red Sonja and Jungle Girl #1 cover
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Lee Bermejo Darth Vader illustration
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Stephen Bissette Swamp Thing #62 cover featuring Swamp Thing in space
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Wayne Boring Action Comics #199 page from 1954 featuring Superman in flight battling the Phantom Superman plus a large Lex Luthor panel; a partial page from Superman #95
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John Buscema Defenders #66 cover featuring Valkyrie entering Asgard; Silver Surfer #15 page featuring the Surfer shopping for a suit!; Thor pages from #202 (1st Ego-Prime), just to name a few
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John Byrne X-Men #109 page featuring 1st interior appearance of James Hudson (Weapon Alpha AKA Vindicator AKA Guardian) plus a huge image of a maskless Wolverine
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J. Scott Campbell Fairytale Fantasies Calendar Cover; Red Riding Hood Fairytale Fantasies Calendar Illustration
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Joe Chiodo Wolverine vs. Sabretooth Poster Art
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Frank Cho Incredible Hulk #629 cover featuring Hulk vs. Red She-Hulk (Betty)
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Dave Cockrum Marvel Fanfare #3 Wraparound cover featuring Wolverine and the "New" X-Men in the Savage Land
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Oliver Coipel Thor #4 Cover featuring Thor and the Warriors Three
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Mike Collins Uncanny X-Men #266 page featuring Gambit and Storm from Gambit’s historic first appearance issue
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Tony Daniel Batman #17 Variant Joker cover from the "Death of the Family" saga
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Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #3 page
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Juan Ferreyra Green Arrow #1 cover from the hugely successful new Rebirth run
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David Finch Batman: The Dark Knight #9 cover featuring Batman, Red Robin and Talon
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Frank Frazetta Death Dealer V Preliminary Painting; Neanderthal illustration
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Yvel Guichet Batman: Harley Quinn Page 2: Huge page featuring the historic 1st appearance of Harley Quinn in the actual DC Universe, not to mention her 1st DCU meeting with her long-time BFF, Poison Ivy
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Paul Gulacy Swamp Thing Portfolio Plate original featuring Swampy and sexy actress Adrienne Barbeau based on the 1982 movie
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Jaime Hernandez early Love and Rockets store poster illustration
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Gil Kane Thor #201 cover (Thor vs. Pluto); Marvel Team-up #19 cover (Spider-Man teamed with Ka-Zar); Giant-size Super-Villain Team-up #2 cover (Doctor Doom and Sub-Mariner); Marvel Spotlight #27 cover with Sub-Mariner
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Gil Kane and John Romita Amazing Spider-Man #138 cover
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Jim Lee Uncanny X-Men #248 page featuring Psylocke from Lee’s historic first X-Men issue; Batman #612 "Hush" page featuring Catwoman punching out Poison Ivy plus Batman, Superman and Krypto; Justice League #6 page featuring Wonder Woman vs. Darkseid; Superman Unchained DPS featuring Superman visiting the Batcave
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Joe Madureira Excalibur #68 cover featuring Nightcrawler and the Starjammers
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Doug Mahnke Green Lantern #14 (2013) featuring the historic 1st meeting of Simon Baz and his future Justice League teammates
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Todd McFarlane Spider-Man #14 DPS featuring a black costumed Spidey and Morbius; pages from Amazing Spider-Man #307 & #308
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Todd McFarlane and Greg Capullo a rarely available 90s Spawn cover from Spawn #33 cover plus three interior pages from the same issue
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Mike Mignola B.P.R.D. (Vol. 14) King of Fear TPB cover, Jenny Finn #1 cover and multiple Hellboy pages
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Frank Miller Wolverine #1 (1982) page featuring Logan and Mariko from the landmark mini-series
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Joe Orlando House of Mystery #278
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George Perez New Teen Titans Archive #1 Cover featuring a portrait of the classic early 80s team
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Mac Raboy Flash Gordon Sunday from 1960
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Esad Ribic Loki #1 splash page featuring a huge image of Hela
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John Romita and Don Heck Amazing Spider-Man #62 two pages sold separately from the Medusa as guest star issue--one featuring Spider-Man and Medusa in battle and one featuring strong images of the Queen of the Inhumans by herself
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John Romita Amazing Spider-Man #116 page drawn in 1968 and initially published in Spectacular Spider-Man (magazine) #1, Daredevil #13 pages featuring DD and Ka-Zar (offered separately)
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Steve Rude Superman Over-sized illustration
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Tim Sale Superman Confidential #1 cover
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Joe Shuster a rare Superman #1 cover recreation
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Bill Sienkiewicz New Mutants #20 two pages from the epic "Demon Bear" saga offered separately
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Frank Springer Dazzler #10 cover featuring Dazzler vs. Galactus
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Jim Starlin Iron Man #55 historic page 1 title splash featuring the introduction of Drax the Destroyer from Guardians of the Galaxy from the famous issue that also introduced Thanos
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Michael Turner Fathom #6 page featuring beautiful images of Aspen, Kyla and Taras; Wizard World Los Angeles cover featuring Supergirl, Aspen and Soulfire
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Barry Windsor-Smith Conan the Barbarian #7 title splash and three additional panel pages (offered as separate lots) from the historic run plus a Machine Man #4 page featuring an incredible Machine Man vs. Iron Man 2020 battle scene
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Wally Wood Weird Science #12 page, Mad #143 page 1 of Altar Ego story
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Bernie Wrightson A Look Back lliustration, Witching Hour #3 title splash
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Leinil Yu Ultimate Wolverine vs. Hulk #5 cover, New Avengers #37 cover featuring a great team portrait, Secret Invasion #3 Variant cover featuring Spider-Woman
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Mike Zeck Marvel Superheroes: Secret Wars #9 cover
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And there is so much more!
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