In case you ’d forgotten how mind - blowing the artistic production of the late Frank Frazetta and Frank Miller is , an artistic creation - fan bear a record - breaking $ 101,575 for Miller ’s disgraceful - and - white cover image for Daredevil#188 . Check out Frazetta ’s even more expensive art below .
This is Frazetta ’s nontextual matter from Weird Science Fantasy#29 , from 1955 , which went for $ 380,000 . Pretty amazing . According to the L.A. Times :
At the centre of both sales was Heritage Auction Galleries of Dallas . The Miller cover sold at the auction house ’s Signature Comics & Comic Art sales event ( which dropped the gavel on $ 3.5 million in sales ) . The Frazetta spell was bought instantly by Jim Halperin , the co - founder of Heritage , and a collector devoted to the macabre and howling legacy of EC , the cartoon strip company that gave the world Tales from the Crypt and showcased the talents of artist such as Wally Wood , Jack Davis and Al Williamson .
“ Knowing I ’m a huge Frazetta sports fan , and a overzealous EC collector , Stephen Ferzoco and Rob Pistella , the agent for the mob , approached me as soon as they asked them to sell this piece , ” Halperin tell in a written statement . “ I was thrilled to pay their asking price , which , although it set a new record by a wide of the mark allowance , actually seemed quite fair for the ultimate EC cover … Frazetta did a totality of 42 comic - book top , many of which are no longer thought to survive as original art , though WSF No . 29 is by far his most famous . ”
And apparently this covering fire started life as a Buck Rogers piece , but had to be changed when the original publisher did n’t employ it . [ Los Angeles Times ]
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