TWO HERITAGE Anime & Original Comic Art Auction Catalogs October 2023 #7345

Description: Lot of TWO Heritage Original Comic Art, and Comic Book Auction Catalogs. November 2021 Platinum, #7345. Original Adult Owner - Smoke Free Home. All Catalogs are VG++++/Like New. Great examples of these OOP Catalogs. I pack with care and ship fast - see my feedback (and other auctions!) and bid with confidence! GREAT Original Comic Art Auction Catalogs with SPECTACULAR production Quality The Press Release from the Completed Auction: Press Release - October 10, 2023 A Killer Record: Frank Miller’s Original Art Depicting Joker’s Death in Batman: The Dark Knight Returns Realizes $550,000 at Heritage Comedian’s murder from Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons’ Watchmen also sells for record $115,000 in $3.6 million International Original Art and Anime event Frank Miller and Klaus Janson Batman: The Dark Knight Returns #3 Story Page 45-46 Iconic Joker Death Original Art DALLAS, Texas (Oct. 10, 2023) — The Dark Knight returned this weekend to set another auction record. A killer sequence from Frank Miller's 1986 comic book Batman: The Dark Knight Returns – the two-page spread during which the Joker snaps his neck to make it look like Batman killed him — sold this weekend at Heritage for $550,000. Those are now the most expensive story pages from the book that, in Miller's own words, "slapped the genre awake." These pages depict one of comicdom's most horrific and controversial episodes: that moment in The Dark Knight Returns where Batman paralyzes the Joker but resists the urge to kill him. Ultimately, the Joker finishes the job — "With a devil's strength ... he twists ... and twists" — to make it appear The Dark Knight committed the unthinkable. There's been a long-held fan theory that Batman finished the job and only imagined Joker taking his own life. Saturday's result, realized during day two of Heritage's $3,596,570 International Original Art and Anime Signature® Auction, wasn't the figment of anyone's imagination. Only the cover to the first issue of Batman: The Dark Knight Returns has sold for more. The Oct. 6-8 auction was an utterly sold-out affair, with more than 3,600 bidders worldwide competing for 964 lots that featured some of comicdom's most influential artists and most consequential moments. "We knew the moment we saw those Dark Knight Returns pages that we had something likely to set an auction record — they're as stunning as they are significant," says Olivier Delflas, Heritage's Director of International Comic Art and Anime. "We were honored to offer them in an auction that proved to be our most successful since this category debuted in 2018. It's always a thrill to be a part of comic-book history." Dave Gibbons Watchmen #1 Story Page 3 Original Art The Comedian's Death with Matching Color GuideIndeed, another landmark moment from another milestone book exceeded pre-auction estimates, when the Comedian's murder depicted in the first issue of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' 1986 Watchmen realized $115,625. Initially bought in 1988, this page was thought to be lost until its recent discovery in Paris. It, too, set a record for a story page from Moore and Gibbons' murder-mystery dressed up in superhero tights: Only the cover to Watchmen No. 1 has ever sold for more at auction. And then there was your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man, who swung into action with two six-figure sales during the event. A page from 1967's Amazing Spider-Man No. 52, in which John Romita Sr. and Mike Esposito pit the Web-head against Wilson Fisk's Kingpin, realized $137,500. And another page from Amazing Spider-Man No. 36 by the legendary Steve Ditko realized $100,000. The latter is incredibly historic, not just because it pits the Web-Slinger against the Looter in an epic rendering, but because it dates from the end of Ditko's 38-issue run on Spidey. Another marvelous Marvel likewise topped its pre-auction expectations, deservedly so, when John Byrne and Terry Austin's Page 7 from X-Men No. 129 sold for $90,625. This was the start of the Hellfire Club storyline that led to the Dark Phoenix Saga. The international offerings in this auction were nearly as significant as their American counterparts, among them Page 35 from Astérix Légionnaire No. 10 by the adored Uderzo. Initially published in 1967 in the French comic magazine Pilote No. 385, Uderzo's pages from this landmark work — featuring the beloved Asterix and Obelix and Julius Caesar himself — are among the most coveted by collectors. It realized $93,750. From the collection of Enrico Marini came the wraparound cover of 2000's La Marque du Diable No. 1, which kicked off the cloak-and-dagger Scorpion series set in 18th-century Rome. This rendering of the titular Scorpion, Armando Catalano, "is a real feast for the eyes," says Delflas; hence, it realized $57,500 over the weekend. And one of the auction's biggest stars was one of its smallest attractions: Astro Boy! These two 1963 kamishibai illustrations from his creator Osamu Tezuka realized $45,000.Heritage Auctions is the largest fine art and collectibles auction house founded in the United States, and the world's largest collectibles auctioneer. Heritage maintains offices in New York, Dallas, Beverly Hills, Chicago, Palm Beach, London, Paris, Geneva, Amsterdam and Hong Kong.

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