ComicConnect’s Event Auction 61, featuring vintage comics, original art, rare pulps, and memorabilia from across the comic ages, starts on Monday, February 24, 2025.

Event Auction 61’s high grade Golden Age keys include Wonder Woman #1 8.0, the first appearance of Captain America in Captain America Comics #1 7.0, and Aquaman and Green Arrow’s debuts in a More Fun Comics #73. Batman meets his first supervillains in copies of early Detective Comics, Superman emerges in high grade copies of early Action Comics and Superman, while Lion Man becomes the first African American superhero in All-Negro Comics #1 from 1947.

Prince Namor bridges the Golden and Silver Ages in Fantastic Four #4 9.0, there’s a Fantastic Four #1, Amazing Spider-Man #1 9.4, Amazing Fantasy #15, and the start of the Incredible Hulk from Marvel. There’s also a new start for DC as the Justice League of America is brought together in Brave and the Bold #28. High grade Bronze Age classics include Blade’s debut in Tomb of Dracula #10 and Wolverine’s first appearance in Incredible Hulk #181, along with a selection of foreign comics.

The original art listings are led by Wolverine work, starting with a Barry Windsor-Smith page from the Weapon-X origin tale Marvel Comics Presents #84, Jim Lee’s large 15” x 20” Wolverine illustration inked by Scott Williams, plus Adam Kubert’s scratchboard cover for Return of Wolverine #5. The art includes George Pérez’s cover for Fantastic Four Annual #15, and John Romita’s title page for Fantastic Four #103, which is the first non-Jack Kirby art to ever appear in the book.

Kirby’s own contributions include a Thor page from Journey Into Mystery #86 and some later mastery on the cover of The Sandman #5. Alex Ross renders Batman and Poison Ivy in a spread from JLA: Liberty and Justice, and a rare 1980 Russ Manning Star Wars Sunday strip boasts Darth Vader, space warfare, and all six Star Wars leads in a single panel. The auction includes a John Buscema cover on Fantastic Four #117, an intricate Tradd Moore page from the first issue of The New World, and Jim Aparo’s cover for Batman #341.