ComicLink’s Spring Featured Auction launches Thursday, May 19, 2022. This is one of the biggest ComicLink auctions of the year and it’s packed with key comic books and significant original art from the worlds of comics and fantasy.

Golden Age:

• Detective Comics #1 3.0 and #31 3.0
• Action Comics #2 4.0, #3 3.5, #4 4.5, #5 4.5, #9 4.0, #11 7.5 (top four), #12 3.0, #14 7.5 Larson, and #16 7.0 (top four)
• Sub-Mariner Comics #1 6.5
• Captain America Comics #74 7.0 Diamond Run
• All Star Comics #8 (first Wonder Woman) 7.0R and #33 (Solomon Grundy cover) 8.5
• Batman #1 4.5R and #23 9.0
• Black Cat Mystery #50 5.5
• Contact Comics #12 7.5
• Crime Patrol #15 (first Crypt-Keeper) 4.0
• Detective Comics #29 8.0R, #42 8.5 Billy Wright (top four), and #76 (Joker cover) 8.0
• Flash Comics #86 (first Black Canary) 6.5
• Human Torch #14 8.5 (highest, one of three)
• Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies #1 7.5
• More Fun Comics #69 9.2 (top three)
• Mystic Comics #1 (1940) 6.0
• Phantom Lady #17 3.5
• Planet Comics #3 8.5 Billy Wright (top four) and #4 9.0 (top five)
• Sensation Comics #53 9.8 (single highest)
• Shock SuspenStories #6 9.4
• Star Spangled Comics #1 8.5
• Startling Comics #39 (Schomburg robot cover) 7.0
• Suspense Comics #1 (1943) 8.5 Crowley
• Thrilling Crime Cases #49 9.4 (highest, one of two)
• Young Allies #1 8.0

Silver Age:

• Amazing Fantasy #15 7.5 and 6.5
• Tales of Suspense #39 9.0 and 6.5 and #57 9.4 White Mountain
• X-Men #1 8.0 and 4.0 Signature Series Stan Lee and #4 9.2
• Captain America #117 9.8
• Action Comics #252 9.0
• Amazing Spider-Man #1 4.5 and 4.0 Signature Series Stan Lee, #2 9.0 and 8.5, #3 9.0, #4 9.0 and 8.0, #5 9.0, #6 8.5, #7 9.0, #8 9.0, #9 9.0, #10 9.2, #13 9.4, #14 8.5, #50 9.6, and Annual #1 8.5
• Avengers #1 8.5, #4 9.0, and #57 9.6
• Daredevil #1 6.0 and #3 9.4 Signature Series Stan Lee CVA (top two)
• Fantastic Four #1 5.0, #2 7.5 Big Apple, #4 7.0, #5 4.0, and #12 8.5
• Green Lantern #1 8.0
• Incredible Hulk #1 5.5R
• Iron Man #1 9.6
• Journey Into Mystery #83 6.0
• Silver Surfer #4 9.6
• Strange Tales #89 7.0, #110 8.0, and #126 9.6
• Tales to Astonish #13 6.5 and #27 7.0

Bronze/Copper/Modern Ages:

• Giant-Size X-Men #1 9.8
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1 9.6 and 9.0
• Incredible Hulk #181 CGC 9.6
• Ultimate Fallout #4 CBCS 9.8 variant and CGC 9.6 variant
• Amazing Spider-Man #101 9.8 and #129 9.8
• Conan the Barbarian #1 9.8
• Edge of Spider-Verse #2 CBCS 9.8 Verified Signature Stan Lee variant
• Foom #10 9.8
• Green Lantern #76 9.6
• House of Secrets #92 9.4
• Special Marvel Edition #15 9.8
• Spider-Man 2009 #1 10.0 (single highest)
• Thorn Tales From the Lantern #nn 9.2 (predates Bone #1 by eight years, not certified due to size)
• Tomb of Dracula #10 9.6
• Werewolf By Night #32 9.2
• X-Men #94 9.6, #101 9.8, #129 9.8 newsstand, and #137 9.9

Original art:

• Steve Ditko Amazing Spider-Man #34 page with Spider-Man and Kraven the Hunter, Tales to Astonish #38 title splash, and Ghostly Haunts #54 cover
• Frank Frazetta Vampirella illustration
• Rob Prior Iron Man Revealed (as Stan Lee) painting from the Stan Lee Legacy Collection
• Barry Windsor-Smith Conan the Barbarian #6 page
• Jim Lee Alpha Flight #87 cover with Wolverine looming over the team, Batman/Catwoman #6 cover, Batman #616 “Hush” page with Batman and Ra’s al Ghul, Uncanny X-Men #276 page, and Fantastic Four #2 page with the Sub-Mariner
• John Byrne Amazing Spider-Man #12 finale splash with Spider-Man and Venom, X-Men: The Hidden Years #13 cover with Angel taking flight, and Wolverine #21 cover with a close-up of a maskless Logan
• George Pérez New Teen Titans #30 splash with Terra revealing her new superhero outfit
• Gil Kane Tales of Suspense #89 page with Captain America battling the Red Skull
• Bernie Wrightson Marvel Graphic Novel #22 Amazing Spider-Man, finale splash with a huge image of Spidey in a snowstorm, Swamp Thing #9 page with Swampy emerging from the swamp, plus inks by Jeff Jones, and The Monsters: Color the Creature Vampire illustration
• Neal Adams Batman Book and Record Set page with Batman sharing Man-Bat’s history with Robin
• Mike Mignola Cosmic Odyssey #3 cover with Kirby’s Darkseid and Etrigan the Demon together
• Frank Brunner Doctor Strange #2 half splash with a great Doctor Strange image plus Spider-Man, Silver Surfer, the Avengers, and the Defenders
• Rafael Grampa Dark Knight Returns: The Golden Child #1 splash/promo poster/Black Label cover with Carrie Kelley as the new Batwoman
• Barry Windsor-Smith Conan the Barbarian #6 page
• J. Scott Campbell four Spider-Man variant covers and one each from series featuring the X-Men, the Champions, and the Civil War II event
• John Buscema and Joe Sinnott Fantastic Four #112 page with Thing vs. Hulk
• John Buscema and Tom Palmer Avengers #75 page with Captain America and the Vision battling Quicksilver
• Sal Buscema Avengers #71 page with the Avengers and Kang
• David Finch Batman: The Dark Knight #8 cover
• Joe Kubert House of Mystery #301 cover
• Adam Kubert Wolverine #75 splash where Magneto extracts the adamantium from Wolverine’s skeleton, and Gambit #2 cover with Gambit and Storm
• Joe Quesada Wolverine: Origins #3 cover with Logan vs. Nuke from “Daredevil: Born Again”
• Geof Darrow Spawn #11 insert poster with Spawn and the key first appearance of Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot, Hard Boiled #3 splash, plus more Darrow pieces
• Mike Zeck Captain America #258 complete 22-page story, Epic Graphic Novel: The Punisher – Return to Big Nothing half splash with a Punisher scene, and pages from Master of Kung Fu
• Tim Sale Captain America: White #1 incentive variant cover
• Gene Colan Hulk #11 Moon Knight title splash from the first issue of the first on-going Moon Knight series
• Mike Sekowsky Brave and the Bold #30 chapter page from the third Justice League of America
• Dick Dillin Justice League of America #123 page 1 title splash from the annual JLA/JSA crossover
• Mike Deodato Amazing Spider-Man Family #2 cover
• Charles Vess Sandman #75 page from the finale issue
• Bill Sienkiewicz Moon Knight #10 title splash
• Greg Capullo Spawn #17 finale splash with Spawn vs. Anti-Spawn and Batman #36 page with Batman visiting Arkham

Placement in future ComicLink auctions, including the next Focused Auction starting in June, can be done by emailing buysell@comiclink.com or calling (617) 517-0062. Cash advances are available.