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  • Frank Miller's Daredevil #188 Cover Hits $101,575, Sets New Record

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  • Posted: June 9, 2010 3:10:52 pm
  • Frank Miller's Daredevil #188 Cover Hits $101,575, Sets New Record

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    Frank Miller’s original cover for Daredevil #188 sold for $101,575 as part of an event that tallied more than $3.2 million at Heritage Auction Galleries on Friday, May 21, 2010. The price, which includes the 19.5% Buyer’s Premium, is a record, the company said.

    “This is a world record public auction price for a piece of 1980s comic art,” said Todd Hignite, Consignment Director for Original Comic and Illustration Art at Heritage Auctions, “and it’s one of the handful of highest prices that Heritage has ever seen paid for a piece of comic art, period. It’s in very rarefied company.”

    In the aftermath of Miller’s two runs on Daredevil (#158-191, and #226-233) and with the lofty heights his career has reached with Ronin, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Sin City and 300, it might seem hard to believe that when he came on board for Daredevil #158 the title had been demoted to bi-monthly status and was in danger of cancelation.

    With Miller first as artist (teamed with inker Klaus Janson on interiors), then as writer-artist and later simply as writer, Daredevil sprang into the upper echelons of Marvel’s titles.

    Daredevil #188’s, which features both Daredevil and the Black Widow, came just a few issues before the end of Miller’s first run.

    The art was accompanied with another record in the auction as bound volumes of Action Comics#1-24 realized $143,400, the most ever paid for a bound volume of comics and yet probably a tremendous bargain in light of the prices being paid for Action Comics #1 these days.

    “The Heritage Comics & Comic Art Auction overall saw more than 1900 bidders competing for more than 1200 lots. The $3.2 million+ total represents an astounding 99.35% sell-through rate by total lots,” the company said in a release.





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  • Posted: June 9, 2010 3:35:58 pm
  • It makes me wonder what I could get for the original cover I have of Captain America Vol. 1 #291 by John Byrne.Think
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