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Heritage Auctions' Weekly Comics Auction breaks record at $621,231 Sanjulian (Manuel Perez Clemente) - Death Dealer Painting Frank Frazetta Tribute Original Art (2020)generated nearly two dozen bids before selling for $9,000. DALLAS, TX .- Heritage Auctions, the world's largest comics auctioneer, set a new world record for the largest weekly comics auction ever held, when its Sunday & Monday Comics, Animation, Video Games & Art Weekly Online Auction, which closed Feb. 1 on HA.com, amassed $621,231 in sales. The two-day event drew 3,123 bidders, 537 of whom won one or more of the 1,166 lots. ...

The US Capitol’s National Statuary Hall includes confederate statues Photo: Andy Feliciotti This week, we look at white supremacist art in the Capitol in Washington and discuss the legacy of Hannah Arendt. Plus, we look at a record-breaking auction sale of a Batman comic. Sarah Beetham, chair of liberal arts and assistant professor of art history at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, discusses the statue of the Confederate General Robert E. Lee that was removed from the Capitol building two weeks before right-wing mobs, incited by President Donald Trump and oth...

Batman memorabilia. Heritage Auctions confirmed Thursday that a Batman #1 from 1940 (the debut issue in the hero's very first ongoing series) set a new world record this week with a massive $2.2 million sale during the first session of the Comics & Comic Art event. That makes it 1) the most expensive Caped Crusader comic ever purchased and 2) the most expensive comic book Heritage Auction has ever sold. The previous record-holder was also a Batman #1, which netted $567,625 at the Dallas-based auction house in 2013. Pitting Batman and Robin against Doctor Hugo Strange, the comic al...

Highest-graded copy of 1940's 'Batman' No. 1 sets world record one week before live auction Batman #1 (DC, 1940) CGC NM 9.4 White pages. DALLAS, TX .- The finest known issue of Batman No. 1 now holds the distinction of being the most expensive Dark Knight comic ever sold – a full week before it heads to auction. On Jan. 14, during the first session of its four-day Comics & Comic Art event, Dallas-based Heritage Auctions will sell a near-mint issue of the 1940 comic book, the sole copy ever to receive a 9.4 grade from the Certified Guaranty Company. Since the sale's launch on Dec. 23, vigorou...

One of world's best copies of 'Captain America Comics' No. 1 heads to auction Captain America Comics #1 (Timely, 1941) CGC VF+ 8.5 Off-white pages. DALLAS, TX .- Captain America turned 80 years old this week. He still doesn't look a day over 30. It must be the experimental serum. Or the ice bath. Though the date on Timely's Captain America Comics No. 1 reads March 1941, the first issue to feature Steve Rogers, sidekick Bucky and forever-enemy Red Skull actually arrived on newsstands on Dec. 20, 1940. To commemorate the landmark occasion, Heritage Auctions offers one of finest known copies in...