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COMICS & COMIC ART
Maximize your results through Heritage Auctions!
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W HY CONSIGN YOUR COL L ECT ION
TO HERITAGE AUCT IONS?
You’ve spent years, even decades, putting your collection together, and maybe the time has
come to sell. Or perhaps you’ve inherited some items as part of an estate. Whatever your
situation, whatever your reason, you have one goal: to realize the very best price for every piece.
Heritage Auctions, the world’s third largest auction house, can help you accomplish that goal.
Y O UR CONSIGNMENT DECISI ON
Heritage Auctions knows that educating yourself is the most important step in the process of
selecting your auctioneer, and we want to make sure you have all the tools you need to make
an educated decision. Examine the advantages that Heritage offers, and you will learn how we
continually achieve some of the highest prices in the marketplace.
Your consignment is welcome, no matter the size, whether it is an entire collection or a single
valuable piece. We answer your questions, provide practical options, and help you decide which
items are most appropriate for our various auction venues. In order to maximize your profits,
we develop the best sales strategy for your collection, from estimating and researching your
The Amazing
comics or artwork, to presenting it to the right buyers. Our offices and galleries in Dallas, New
Spider-Man #1
Curator Pedigree (Marvel, 1963) York, Beverly Hills, San Francisco and Chicago allow for extensive advertising and promotion in
CGC NM+ 9.6 White pages
SOLD for $262,900 America’s largest and richest markets.
November 2016
FRED GUARDINEER
ACTION COMICS #15
Cover Original Art (DC, 1939)
SOLD for $286,800
February 2014
on the cover:
1. AMAZING FANTASY #15
(MARVEL, 1962) CGC NM 9.4
SOLD for $454,100
February 2016
2. ACTION COMICS #1
(DC, 1938) CGC FN- 5.5
Cream to off-white pages.
SOLD for $956,000
August 2016
3. FRANK MILLER BATMAN: THE DARK KNIGHT
RETURNS #2. Cover Original Art (DC, 1986)
SOLD for $478,000
August 2013
4. FANTASTIC FOUR #1
White Mountain Pedigree
(Marvel, 1961) CGC NM-9.2
SOLD for $203,150 THE AVENGERS #1
July 2012 (Marvel, 1963) CGC NM+ 9.6
Off-white to white pages
5. NEAL ADAMS SOLD for $215,100
Green Lantern #76 November 2015
Cover Original Art (DC, 1970)
SOLD for $442,150
November 2015
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W H AT S E TS HE RITA GE
A U C TI ONS APA RT?
O U R M IS S IO N — Our mission is to be the world’s most trusted
and efficient marketplace and information resource serving owners of fine art,
vintage collectibles and other precious objects.
Our knowledgeable staff and suite of auction tools help our clients assemble
the best collections possible using the latest technological advancements – far
and away the best in the business – that ultimately enhance the personal and
financial well-being of our consignors.
E XP E R IE N C E — Heritage Auctions has presented more than 6,700
successful auctions, selling more than $10 billion since 1976. More than
230,000 consignments have been sold successfully, with full, timely payment
to every consignor. Nearly 50,000 bidders have used our unique and patented
HERITAGE Live!®1 online bidding platform, winning more than 600,000 lots
valued well in excess of $1 billion in recent years.
BATMAN #1
S TRON G PR IC ES R EAL I ZED — Some of our notable auction (DC, 1940) CGC 9.2
SOLD for $567,625
results of the last few years are shown on these pages. We look forward to August 2013
attaining similarly impressive results for your pieces. Our success in the comic
auction realm is second to none: last year we enjoyed a banner year with nearly
$43 million in total revenue, breaking the previous record for sales of comics,
comic art and animation art in a year by any auction house in the world by more
than $5 million.
1 U.S. Patent No. 9,064,282
ALL-AMERICAN COMICS #16
(DC, 1940) CGC 8.0
SOLD for $203,150
August 2013
FRANK FRAZETTA
DETECTIVE COMICS #27 At The Earth’s Core
(DC, 1939) CGC VF 8.0 Paperback Cover Painting Original Art (1974)
SOLD for $1,075,500 SOLD for $1,075,500
February 2010 August 2016
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EXPERT CATALOGING AND
PRESENTATION — Heritage Auctions understands
that presentation is a key factor to generating demand. Our
experts describe each of your consigned items to maximize its
appeal while maintaining strict standards for accuracy.
The award-winning catalogs produced for each of our
Signature® auctions are second to none: beautifully produced
by professional graphic designers with full-color images of
each lot composed in detail by professional photographers.
The result is a book that is both a gorgeous and collectible
auction catalog, and a treasured reference work for students,
scholars and collectors. Such an elaborate presentation will
On average, HA.com receives 44,000+ visits per no doubt make you proud and ensure your legacy for years to
day — the highest web traffic of any auction house
(Source: SimilarWeb.com) come.
W ORLDW IDE MARKETING RE ACH —
Our auctions are events watched by the world. Previous
auctions have generated national and international press
coverage on major TV, radio, newspaper and Internet news
outlets. Every year we spend $20+ million dollars marketing
our consignors’ items to a worldwide audience.
Marketing campaigns begin with press releases to a variety
of news organizations announcing important consignments
and significant highlights, followed by advertisements in trade
publications and mainstream press. Updates and targeted
messaging are also regularly distributed to interested buyers.
Heritage Auctions boasts more than 2.3 million collectors in
our client database, more than 1 million of which – in 192
countries worldwide – are online bidder-members on
HA.com. All of this exposure means more money for each
MyBids lets every bidder track and research lots. piece you consign!
BILL WATTERSON CALVIN AND HOBBES
HAND-COLORED SUNDAY COMIC STRIP ORIGINAL ART
(Universal Press Syndicate, 1986)
MyConsignments keeps consignors abreast of their SOLD for $203,150
bid status. November 2012
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A PP R AI SAL SER VI C ES —
Heritage Auctions has recently organized its
appraisal services into a centralized department
that will produce formal fair market value and
retail replacement appraisals for estate tax, gift
tax, financial planning, insurance and charitable
donation purposes. Working with our experts,
you will receive thorough, illustrated appraisal
reports written in compliance with all IRS, USPAP
and Insurance standards. Should you later
decide to sell your property listed in a Heritage
appraisal, all fees will be rebated in full or on a
prorated basis against the seller’s commissions.
Heritage Auctions employs the top talent in the
appraisal business to give you the best possible
information on the value of your collection.
BERNIE WRIGHTSON
Swamp Thing #1 Cover Original Art (DC, 1972)
MULTIPLE VENUES TO SOLD for $191,200
ACCOMMODATE YOUR ENTIRE August 2016
COLLECTION — We realize that most
collections include a variety of material, from
the rare and valuable to the more common. For
this reason, Heritage Auctions has established
multiple selling venues, several with low lot
minimums, so that we can likely handle the
entirety of your consignment, rather than “cherry
picking” the best material and leaving you with
the rest, as many auction houses are renowned
for doing.
Heritage’s Signature® auctions are for the most
valuable material in your collection. These HERITAGE SIGNATURE® AUCTIONS
items are spotlighted in our full-color illustrated are among the biggest events in the comic book hobby.
catalogs, which are sent to our best buyers.
Signature® auctions consist of exciting live floor
sessions in which bidders from all over the world
compete for your treasures
in person, over the phone
and through
HERITAGE Live!®
TOP-FLIGHT MATERIAL that’s consigned to us is
featured in our full-color catalogs that are distributed to
thousands of bidders worldwide.
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PRO FE S S I O N A LI S M
Heritage Auctions’ fine reputation is not a matter of chance. It reflects our
relentless drive to always improve our services. Innovation is a Heritage
trademark, seen in every element of our auction process from policy to
technology. We combine this with a strong corporate ethic, uncompromising
integrity, transparency and old-fashioned customer service. That’s why we are the
world’s third largest auction house with more than $10 billion sold since 1976.
We’ve sold and fully settled more than 230,000 consignments, on time and in full.
I NTE R N E T A N D TEC H N O LOGY LE A D E R S H I P
Heritage Auctions is a leader in the field when it comes to cutting-edge
technological innovation. On average, HA.com receives 44,000+ visits per day
— the highest web traffic of any auction house (Source: SimilarWeb.com).
Heritage maximizes the number of participants in our auctions through two
HERB TRIMPE AND JACK ABEL
proprietary user-friendly Internet bidding systems. The first one enables the Incredible Hulk #180 Page 32
Original Art (Marvel, 1974)
buyers to place bids in the weeks leading up to the auction. This generates
SOLD for $657,250
millions of dollars in bids from around the globe, pushing prices higher and May 2014
higher prior to the live auction sessions. With the second proprietary platform,
HERITAGE Live!®, we bring the live auction floor to the buyer (no matter where
they might be) enabling them to watch the auctioneer and participate in real time
with the floor bidders. As the consignor, our technology brings you demand and
participation from around the world and top prices for your materials!
The Heritage Auctions website offers an extensive set of tools for both buyers
and sellers. The Auction Archives, a record of virtually every lot Heritage has
auctioned over the last decade – more than 4.2 million lots across all our auction
categories, complete with full-color, enlargeable images, thorough catalog
descriptions and auction results – is one of the premier tools available exclusively
to Heritage members. No other auction house offers this level of information
to its clients. By accessing the archives, potential buyers can easily research
pricing trends over several years, making them more confident bidders. More
confident bidders equal higher prices.
In addition to the Auction Archives, Heritage makes it possible for collectors to
SUPERMAN #1
enter items they’re seeking into MyWantList®. When an item you’ve consigned (DC, 1939) CGC VG+ 4.5 Cream to off-white pages
matches an item on a collector’s MyWantList®, that collector is automatically SOLD for $358,500
November 2016
sent an email notification inviting them to bid on your piece. If that collector is
subsequently outbid on a lot, they are invited to bid again. In this way, Heritage
maximizes the results for all of your consigned items.
Heritage Auctions utilizes today’s social media platforms to further market your
consignment. Our social media specialists are dedicated to posting auction
news and creating buzz for auction highlights on social media platforms. Video
highlights are uploaded to YouTube, to be viewed and shared by dealers and
collectors worldwide.
The HERITAGE Live!® online bidding platform, with streaming audio and video of
the Live auction, also facilitates Mobile bidding so collectors can view, track, bid
ALEX RAYMOND
and win from virtually anywhere. Flash Gordon Sunday Comic Strip Original Art dated
8-28-38 (King Features Syndicate, 1938)
SOLD for $215,100
May 2014
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WHAT O U R C L I E N T S SAY “Far as I’m concerned, the real
superheroes are the great guys
The real measure of any business’s success is what its customers say at Heritage. I really lucked out
when I met ’em ’cause they got
about it. Here are just a few comments from past Heritage clients: me prices that exceeded my
wildest expectations, plus it was
“I was thrilled to find a comic book from my adolescence that I thought I’d lost -- a
a real kick to work with them.
well-read copy of Amazing Fantasy #15. It’s been 50 years (gulp!) since I collected
I don’t want this to sound like
comics, so my only impulse was to find the best price at auction for this collector’s
a TV commercial but, so help
item that I could manage. A still-active collector friend pointed me to Heritage, so I
me Spidey, there’s no one I’d
sent a message about my find to them via their website. I don’t think five minutes
rather entrust with my collection.
had gone by before Matt Griffin, comics consignment manager at Heritage, called
Excelsior!”
me back to express HA’s interest in handling my auction. Over the ensuing days,
- Stan Lee
Matt “held my hand” through all the stages of advising, shipping, and follow-up;
he was super-prompt and cheerful about getting back to me at other times as
well, no matter how trivial my enquiry. Before too many weeks had passed, my
AF15 was graded, showcased in HA’s impressive print catalog for the upcoming
Signature Auction, and opened up for online bidding. What a thrill to watch the “My father, Joe Simon, was very concerned
bidding unfold over the next two weeks ... and finally to view the auction in real- about what would happen to his huge art
time, thanks to HA’s streaming-video setup. I’m very happy to endorse HA’s well- collection, to all the art he had saved and
thought-through approach to their Signature Auction prospects and clients.” collected over the decades of his prolific life.
-Jonathan King, Berkeley, CA Repeatedly, my father would instruct us: ‘Give
it to Heritage’. That was Dad’s unwavering
“I am very enthusiastic about continuing to be a part of your auctions of original comic advice to our family.
book art. Heritage has treated me most professionally. I was sent notifications every As my father had expected, Heritage
step of every auction, and the settlement checks for each sale were sent with such responded in the highest professional capacity
precision that I could forecast in which day’s mail the check would come. “ we could ever have hoped for.
- Dick Ayers I wish to thank the staff at Heritage Auctions,
and especially Ed Jaster, for the superb
“When our family decided to part with some of my grandfather Wilson McCoy’s work that has been done for the Estate of
original artwork, we researched all our options. The resources and expertise of Joe Simon. The advice, the publicity, the
Heritage Auctions placed it above the rest, and their intelligent sales strategy correspondence, and the sensitivity shown us
helped us maximize the value of our items. Their level of service and knowledge were wonderful.”
was highly appreciated. Heritage Auctions’ reputation in the field of comic -Melissa Simon Groben, Co-Executrix, The
auctions is unparalleled, and we’re so glad we chose to work with them! We Estate of Joseph H. Simon
would highly recommend them to anyone looking to sell their family collection.”
- Bruce McCoy
The Estate of Wilson McCoy
(Note: Wilson McCoy was the artist of the comic strip The Phantom.) “I feel that I must acknowledge the
outstanding effort that I feel you made on my
“I collected Golden Age, Silver Age, and Bronze Age for nearly 50 years. behalf to get my comic collection into shape
It took me three years to decide how to sell my comics. One company stood out. for your Signature and Sunday auctions over
They produce beautiful catalogs, no hidden fees. I’m glad I went with Heritage the past few months.
Auctions.”
- Mister Magik Woo Your prompt and professional replies to my
questions, and your advice on which books
would most benefit from CGC grading paid
Ex cl u s i v e Au ct io n eer o f t h es e off in ways that I had not imagined, both
P ers o n a l C o llect io n s in terms of the number of bids that were
generated and the prices realized for the
The Kerby Confer Collection $3.9 million sold books. You placed my collection in its best
The Doug Schmell Collection $3.9 million sold light, and I am grateful to you for that. It is
obvious to me that I made the correct choice
The Empire Comics Collection $3.9 million sold in consigning with Heritage.”
The Billy Wright Collection $3.6 million sold - John Hutchins
The Eric Sack Collection $3 million sold
The Gary Dahlberg Collection $2.4 million sold
The Martin Shamus Collection $2.3 million sold
“The decision to
The Nicolas Cage Collection $1.9 million sold part with my comic
collection was a
The Davis Crippen Collection $1.8 million sold difficult one, but
knowing that the entire
The Don and Maggie Thompson Collection $1.5 million sold process would be
C h o s e n a s au ct io n eer handled by Heritage
made it all that much
b y t h e s e i n s t it u t io n s : easier from the beginning, and I certainly
have not been disappointed.”
The Random House Archives $2 million sold - Keith Marlow, Houston
The Mad Magazine Archives $757,000 sold
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Comic collection and Heritage featured in
Minnesota Star Tribune. Gary Dahlberg’s
collection sold for $2.4 million.
The first auction of the Joe Kubert collection
totaled $131,000 for just 36 items.
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“The results of this inal auction of my collection were
about 50% higher than I expected.
What impressed me the most was the constant attention
to promoting the history of the paintings. When I read the
write-ups I realized you and your staff knew a lot more
about the paintings than I did, and I had them for 30
years. That really gave the auction something extra, and
it was handled with extreme professionalism.
Also, I own 70 radio stations and have owned more than
200 stations, all of which have websites. I am jealous
and covetous of the job you do with your website. It’s
so friendly and comprehensive – it’s a work of art. It’s a
superior product that makes the end product of buying
and selling easier and more productive.
In general, everyone I dealt with was very businesslike
and professional.”
Kerby Confer
The Davis Crippen Collection
sold for $1.8 million at
Heritage.
The Kerby Confer Collection has
sold for $3.9 million.
Nicolas Cage’s comic collection sold for $1.9 million at Heritage. 9
A N O U T STANDI NG AU CT I ON TEAM
Heritage Auctions employs industry leaders in all phases of our operations, from our Consignment Directors – your
closest point of contact – who will help you through the entire auction process, to our highly skilled catalogers, talented
photographers using state-of-the-art digital imagery, cutting-edge IT staff, award-winning Marketing department and
more.
All work together to ensure your items bring top dollar at auction. A global firm, Heritage Auctions maintains offices
across the United States and the world, facilitating important international client demand for your consignment,
regardless of a bidder’s location.
M A N A G EMENT STABI L I T Y
Since conducting our first auction in 1976, Heritage has flourished under the continuous leadership of its executive team.
You can enjoy the confidence that comes from knowing the commitment of our principals.
U N Q U E S T I ON ED F I N AN CI AL STAB ILITY AND TIMELY PAYMENT
Nothing matters more than financial stability when your check is due, and Heritage Auctions delivers like no other auction
house.
Heritage enjoys $50 million in equity and owners’ capital. With more than $850 million in 2016 sales, Heritage is the
auction firm you can count on; a firm with consistent, demonstrated leadership from the management team, and an
unbroken record of timely payment to all consignors.
Assembling your collection over a period of many years – even decades – may have been a matter of passion for you,
but when the time to sell arrives, you want to be compensated without delays or surprises. Under our management
team, 230,000 consignments have been sold and fully settled since 1976.
The managing partners of Heritage, left to right:
CRISTIANO BIERRENBACH, Executive Vice President
PAUL MINSHULL, Chief Operating Officer
JIM HALPERIN, Co-Chairman
STEVE IVY, Co-Chairman and CEO
TODD IMHOF, Executive Vice President
GREG ROHAN, President
10F O R A L L T H ESE R EASON S, HERITAGE IS YOUR VERY B EST CHOICE
TTo discuss your consignment for an upcoming auction in greater detail, please contact us today at 877-HERITAGE (437-4824).
We look forward to hearing from you.
Lon Allen Ed Jaster Barry Sandoval Joe Mannarino
ext. 1261 ext. 1288 ext. 1377 ext. 1921
LonA@HA.com EdJ@HA.com BarryS@HA.com JoeM@HA.com
These are just a few of the
top-flight collections Heritage
has brought to the market.
on the back:
1. STARTLING COMICS #49 Mile 2. FRANK FRAZETTA 3. ROBERT CRUMB 4. FANTASTIC FOUR #52
High Pedigree (Better Publications, The Norseman ZAP COMICS #9 (Marvel, 1966) CGC NM/MT 9.8 White pages
1948) CGC NM+ 9.6 Off-white to Painting Original Art (1972) ORIGINAL COVER ART SOLD for $83,650
white pages SOLD for $454,100 SOLD for $71,700 February 2016
SOLD for $101,575 May 2016 May 2012
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