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From our humble beginnings, we have grown to the largest, most complete comic book price guide with well over 1,000,000 comics in our database. Created by stan lee and jack kirby in 1961, this comic book shows the fantastic fours first adventure. Also they will advance large amounts of money before the auction. Japanese premagna is considered the earliest form of comics. Be careful, though, as the more whistles you add to your auction. We offer modern, bronze age, silver age, and golden age comics. Comic books for sale at online auction bid to buy comic. In 1938, the introduction of superman turned comic books into the major industry it is today.
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Not to mention an auction house record as the most expensive comic book ever sold by heritage, the worlds largest comic book and comic art. Comics began in 18th century japan and various regions of europe, long before superman made his premiere on childrens comic books in the 20th century. Were talking complete runs of dcs action comics, detective comics, superman, and batman in essence, all the golden age comics dc fans love and more. This gives you the control as to how and when you sell your comic book collection. As one of the highestgraded copies of spidermans first appearance ever to be sold at public auction, it was expected to fetch a high price. I like the comic connect auctions as they seem to get the best books. Comics price guide was the first online price guide for comic books back in 1995. Its the finest known copy of the comic book, according to heritage auctions, which handled the bidding. Highest bids comic link the online vintage comic book and. Ed brought his vast experience and expertise in collectibles to heritage auctions in 2002. Superworld comics buying and selling comic books, free.
List of highest prices paid for us comic art at auction. Nov 22, 2019 an extremely rare and nearly perfect copy of the first comic book to feature the nowiconic marvel comics name was sold for a record amount at a texas auction on thursday the issue, marvel. The top comic book auctions websites for collectors. Jan 10, 2019 the best place for the individual to sell is through an auction site, such as ebay.
A portion of the proceeds from the auction are being donated to. Perhaps the hottest collectible comic book in recent years has been the first appearance of the incredible hulk in this 1962 comic book by stan lee and jack kirby. We have values for any marvel, dc, image, idw, darkhorse, or dell comic book. Most expensive comic book last year, another very special tintin comic book was up for auction at catawiki. The premier online comics price guide free comic book values.
If youre looking for a hard to find back issue, we probably have it. Most comic book lovers pledge allegiance to either dc comics featuring that famous alien from krypton and aquaman, among many othersor marvel comics, which gave us the webslinging spiderman, the. Lists the highest bid active comic auctions overall, from multiple categories, worldwide. The 10 bestselling comic book titles of 21st century. Today, comic books are graded in popularity by their ages. List of most expensive books and manuscripts wikipedia. Original comic art sets new record price at auction forbes.
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