Frazetta & Miller Set Original Artwork Record Sales

The L.A. Times is reporting that Frank Frazetta’s original 1955 artwork for Weird Science-Fantasy No. 29 been sold in a private treaty sale for $380,000 - a price that is reportedly the largest ever paid for a single page of American comic-book artwork - and Frank Miller's 1982 cover image for Daredevil No. 188 sold for $101,575 on May 21, a somewhat startling number for a piece from the 1980s - it's the most ever paid for a single-page piece from that decade, by some estimations.


At the center of both sales was Heritage Auction Galleries of Dallas. The Miller cover sold at the auction house's Signature Comics & Comic Art sale. The Frazetta piece was bought outright by Jim Halperin, the co-founder of Heritage.

According to Heritage, the previous record for a single piece of American comic-book art was the $200,000 paid for Wood's cover to Weird Science No. 16, another EC classic, which Heritage sold via private treaty in April 2008.