ComicConnect is closing out 2024 with even more record sales from Event Auction 60. That includes an Action Comics #1 CGC 9.0 hitting a new high for restored comics at a closing bid of $794,650. This continues ComicConnect’s high results for Action Comics #1, which began with the company bringing in the book’s first million dollar sale back in 2010.
Superman also set new records for ComicConnect with the Japanese printing of Superman #1 — also released as the classic US comic Superman #53, featuring Wayne Boring’s iconic Superman cover and an origin that became Superman’s definitive start. This scarce 3.5 CGC copy of the Japanese Superman #1 had a surprising final total of $6,775. That’s more than any American edition of this beloved comic has sold for at a grade under 9.0, and three times the price that a US Superman #53 7.0 sold for earlier this year.
ComicConnect’s top original art sales featured a page from Barry Windsor-Smith’s Wolverine origin in Marvel Comics Presents #75 selling for $59,800. Adam Kubert’s double-spread pitting Wolverine against Deadpool in their first brawl from Wolverine #88 brought in $41,975. Tradd Moore defied expectations with a $26,451 sale for a page from his Silver Surfer: Black #1, marking the first time that original art from this book came up for auction.
Foreign comics kept booming with El Sorprendente Hombre Arana #128, showcasing a Peter Parker/Gwen Stacy fantasy wedding that was never published in the US. Graded 7.5, the issue sold for $25,300, eclipsing the 2023 price on a higher grade edition while illustrating the new passion for foreign books offering new worlds for collectors. That also inspired bold bidding over El Sorprendente Hombre Arana #180’s classic Gwen Stacy cover from when the Mexican publishers ignored Gwen’s death in the American comics.
High grade pulps continued to thrive in the collector’s marketplace, as well, including a $13,225 sale for Buck Rogers’ first appearance in Amazing Stories #5. This is all in the wake of ComicConnect’s sales like Detective Comics #27 6.5 at a record-breaking $1.8 million and a Giant-Size X-Men 9.9 for an uncanny $170,000.
