The Original Art Session of the current ComicLink Summer Featured Auction will be closing on Tuesday, September 4, 2018, starting at 8 PM ET/5 PM PT. The session offers a selection of hundreds of high quality comic book and fantasy related works of original art.
Original art highlights in the Summer Featured Auction include one of the most important pages from Infinity Gauntlet #1, a full page George Pérez Thanos splash where Thanos first wields the power of the Infinity Gauntlet. Late Silver and Bronze Age Marvel art offerings will include a significant Jim Starlin page from Strange Tales #180 with Adam Warlock using the soul gem, plus the first published Starlin-penciled superhero page in his incredible career, which appeared in Iron Man #53; as well as Pérez’s covers to The Official Justice League Index (1986) #1 and #2.
Todd McFarlane art includes the double page spread from Spider-Man #8 featuring great images of Spidey in action. There are also pages from McFarlane and Greg Capullo’s Spawn #33 including a full page Spawn vs. Violator battle splash, a full page McFarlane splash from Spawn #27, and the Capullo/McFarlane cover to Spawn #82.
Vintage comic strip highlights include choice Hal Foster Prince Valiant Sunday and a Burne Hogarth Tarzan Sunday pages. There is also a rare Wally Wood Sunday-sized comic strip, Shattuk #W3 created for Overseas Weekly.
There is also a John Byrne/Terry Austin page from X-Men #132 featuring Wolverine and Storm battling the Hellfire Club, which shows Wolverine falling through the floor into the sewer, setting up the famous cliffhanger ending. There’s also Byrne’s cover to Classic X-Men #43, a reimagining of his cover to the finale of his “Dark Phoenix Saga,” X-Men #137. Another big highlight is the John Romita Jr./Al Williamson cover to Daredevil: The Man Without Fear #5, the final issue of the landmark origin tale written by Frank Miller, plus the Romita Jr./Williamson cover to Daredevil #271.
Other highlights include a Jeff Jones oil painting from 1970 used as the cover to the paperback edition of The Purple Pirate; the stellar Barry Windsor-Smith page 1 title splash to Conan the Barbarian #6 “Devil Wings of Shadizar,” which is a rare opportunity to acquire a title splash from the historic run, plus a panel page from the same story and a battle page from Machine Man #1; a Steve Ditko twice-up, ink wash title splash to Eerie #9; and Bernie Wrightson’s Back For More painted cover from 1978 featuring the master of the macabre at his finest plus several other Wrightson offerings.
The auction includes a Neal Adams page from X-Men #61 with Angel battling Sauron; the John Buscema title splash to Silver Surfer #7, “The Heir of Frankenstein”, plus a panel page with the Surfer from the same story; the Rich Buckler/Klaus Janson finale page from Jungle Action #6 featuring Kill-Monger, in his first appearance issue, throwing Black Panther down a waterfall ‒ a scene faithfully recreated in the Black Panther movie; plus a Buckler page from Supernatural Thrillers #5 featuring the first appearance of the Living Mummy; a significant first appearance of Scott Lang as Ant-Man page from John Byrne’s Marvel Premiere #47; a John Romita battle page from Amazing Spider-Man #108 and his cover used for both Marvel’s Our Love Story #6 and #22 featuring a Gwen Stacy lookalike; a Frank Brunner page from Howard the Duck #1 featuring Howard and Beverly as barbarians; Frank Miller pages from Daredevil #163 with Daredevil trying to stop a rampaging Hulk (one of the rare occasions where Miller drew the green goliath) and #167 with Daredevil in action in multiple panels; and the Ed Hannigan wraparound cover to the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe #10 starring Spider-Man, Silver Surfer, Sub-Mariner, and Storm.
DC art includes Jim Aparo’s cover to Batman #306 with the Dark Knight battling the Black Spider. There are also two key consecutive Steven Bisette/John Totleben pages from the Swamp Thing story with Alan Moore ‒ “The Rite of Spring” from Saga of the Swamp Thing #34, where Swampy and Abby consummate their relationship. There are two offerings for Neil Gaiman’s classic series, The Sandman, including a climatic two-page sequence from The Sandman #69 where the child Daniel becomes the new Sandman following the death of Dream with art by Mark Hempel; plus a Jill Thompson page from The Sandman #43, part of the classic “Brief Lives” story, featuring Dream and Delirium visiting Dublin in search for their brother, Destruction. Plus, a Rob Liefeld cover to Hawk and the Dove #1 (1988), which is the first significant work ever done by the famous Deadpool creator and founder of Image Comics.
There is some incredible Modern Era art including a Frank Miller Sin City: The Big Fat Kill splash page, and an illustration of Elektra by Miller; the Alex Ross covers to Paradise X #7 with the Punisher and Six Million Dollar Man: Season Six #1; the John Cassaday covers to Amazing Spider-Man #1.3 (2014) and Daredevil #510 featuring Daredevil and the Kingpin; the Frank Cho variant cover to Spider-Man Dark Reign The List #1; the Sam Kieth cover to The Maxx: Maxximized #19; a Goseki Kojima illustration of his world famous Lone Wolf and Cub characters; the Greg Land variant cover to Amazing Spider-Man #1 (2018) with Spidey and his greatest foes; the John Romita Sr. cover to Stan Lee’s How to Draw Comics featuring Marvel’s biggest heroes, the John Romita Jr. covers to Incredible Hulk #608 with Spider-Man and Wolverine and Eternals #1, from the revival of that series Romita Jr. did with Neil Gaiman; a Brian Bolland Judge Dredd finale page; the David Finch cover to Cable #2 with Cable vs. Bishop; the Dave Sim cover to Low Society; and the Rafael Grampa cover to Uncanny X-Force #19 with Wolverine, Deadpool, and team.
The auction also has some complete issues of original art sold in single lots ‒ there is 21-page story from World’s Finest Comics #191 featuring Superman and Batman visiting Krypton with art by the team of Ross Andru and Mike Esposito. There is also Gil Kane’s memorable 23-page story for Action Comics #554, a unique tribute to Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster; Kane’s cover to DC Comics Presents #60 with Superman fighting the Green Lantern Corps and a Kane page from Marvel Team-Up #3 featuring Spider-Man, the original X-Men, and Morbius.
The firm is currently accepting consignments for the September Focused Auction, the Fall Featured Auction, and other upcoming auctions.
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Interested sellers may contact ComicLink by emailing buysell@comiclink.com or by calling (617) 517-0062 (option 1) to speak with Josh Nathanson, Douglas Gillock, Jason Crosby, Jon Signorelli, or Ross Kearney. In addition to auctioning items for consignors, ComicLink is also always accepting new sellers for the ComicLink exchange marketplaces, brokering private placement deals, and buying outright.
