ComicLink is rapidly adding items for consignors to the upcoming Fall Featured Auction, which will begin on November 12, 2015. The firm encourages collectors and dealers interested in selling comic books or original artwork within this auction to contact the company as soon as possible in order to ensure placement. This is the final Featured Auction of 2015 and it is going to have a strong offering across all eras and collecting focuses.

To reserve upcoming auction placement, simply email buysell@comiclink.com with your prospective sale list, or call (617) 517-0062 (option 1) to speak with Josh Nathanson, Douglas Gillock, Jason Crosby, Jon Signorelli, or Ross Kearney. Cash advances are available to consignors upon receipt of material.

New comic book highlights that have come in very recently for the auction include exceptional Batman and Detective Comics issues from the Golden and Silver Age such as Batman #20 CGC 9.0 Spokane Pedigree (first Batmobile cover), #38 CGC 9.4 (Penguin cover), #43 CGC 9.0 (Penguin cover), #48 CGC 9.0 (“Secrets of the Batcave”), #66 CGC 9.4 (Joker cover), #141 CGC 9.4 (original Bat-Girl cover), #153 CGC 9.4 (Batwoman cover), and #171 CGC 9.0 Rocky Mountain (first Silver Age Riddler), Detective Comics #61 CGC 9.6, #137 8.5 (Joker cover), and #164 CGC 9.4. 

Other recently received highlights include Adventure Comics #48 (first Hourman) CGC 6.5, Adventure Comics #45 CGC 9.6 Mile High, Amazing Spider-Man #1 CGC 7.5, Marvel Mystery Comics #78 CGC 9.4 (Big Apple copy), Captain America Comics #58 CGC 9.0 (classic Schomburg cover), Archie’s Girl’s Betty and Veronica #320 CGC 9.8 (first Cheryl Blossom, highest graded, one of two), Avengers #4 CGC 9.4 (first Silver Age Captain America), Conan #1 CGC 9.8 (highest graded, first Conan in comic books), Fantastic Four #5 CGC 9.0, (first Dr. Doom), Green Lantern #1 (Silver Age) CGC 7.0 (first Guardians of the Universe), Incredible Hulk #181 CGC 9.6, and Tales to Astonish #27 CGC 7.5 Signature Series (first Hank Pym who later becomes Ant-Man).

Previously announced highlights include Tales of Suspense #39 CBCS 9.0 (first Iron Man), X-Men #1 CGC 9.0 Signature Series signed by Stan Lee (first X-Men and Magneto), Wonder Woman #1 CGC 6.5 (Davis Crippen/D copy) along with a significant run of very tough Golden Age and early Silver Age Wonder Woman issues, Marvel Mystery Comics #9 CGC 5.5 (Human Torch vs. Sub-Mariner battle cover and story), Amazing Spider-Man #129 CGC 9.8 (first Punisher), plus Amazing Spider-Man issues from the Westport 2 collection, Detective Comics #168 (Joker origin) CGC 8.5 (one of the top graded examples), Archie Comics #1 CBCS 4.0 and #10 CGC 8.0 (single highest), New Mutants #98 CGC 9.9 (first Deadpool), Marvel Family #1 CGC 7.0 (first Black Adam), All-American Comics #17 CGC 5.0 (second Green Lantern), Captain America Comics #74 CGC 5.5 (scarce Red Skull Weird Tales cover), Daredevil #7 CBCS 9.4 (first red costume), and Strange Tales #135 CBCS 9.6 (first S.H.I.E.L.D.). Much more is incoming.

Some of the latest highlights to be added to the original art session of the Fall Featured Auction include Jim Starlin’s classic Warlock #12 cover featuring Adam Warlock and Pip the Troll, a Jack Kirby page from X-Men #11 featuring the X-Men vs. Magneto, Quicksilver, Scarlet With and the Stranger, Gil Kane’s cover to Marvel Double Feature #15 featuring Captain America held prisoner by the Red Skull, Jae Lee’s recent variant cover to Dark Knight III: Master Race #1 (the 2015 sequel to Batman: The Dark Knight Returns), Oliver Copiel’s cover for the fourth issue of Siege, one of the biggest Marvel events of recent years and an over-sized Bill Sienkiewicz portrait of the Shadow and his agents created for a poster. 

Previously announced highlights include Marie Severin’s historic Incredible Hulk #102 title splash, the Don Heck Tales of Suspense #52 page which features the very first meeting ever of Iron Man Tony Stark and the Black Widow (in her very first appearance), Heck’s Ant-Man title splash page from Tales to Astonish #45 with the second ever appearance of the Wasp, a Jack Kirby Silver Surfer vs. Inhumans battle page from Silver Surfer #18 and his original Ka-Zar #12 cover pencils, Gil Kane’s Marvel Premiere #17 (third Iron Fist) cover, an Amazing Spider-Man #69 half-splash with Spider-Man battling the Kingpin, George Pérez’s iconic Justice League of America #217 cover, a Fantastic Four #40 page featuring Thing battling Dr. Doom, Buscema’s Conan #175 cover art, a Frank Frazetta Conan illustration and a stunning sci-fi fantasy pen and ink drawing, Steve McNiven’s Avengers #1 variant cover, a published 1974 Bernie Wrightson horror illustration, a Jim Lee Man of Steel cover and Lee’s historic “Meet Image!” featurette from the 1992 Chicago Comic Con program, a Chris Bachalo Death: The High Cost of Living page, Buscema’s Astonishing Tales #4 cover featuring Doctor Doom and Ka-Zar, Larry Lieber and John Romita’s final page splash from Amazing Spider-Man Annual #5, and, a memorable oversized Spider-Man door poster from 1987 by Mike Zeck.

“Everything mentioned in this article is just the tip of the iceberg for this fast-growing auction preview,” says Josh Nathanson, President of ComicLink.com. “Results realized by our consignors within our last Featured Auction, which ended recently, demonstrated broad strength throughout the industry. The Fall auction will give sellers the opportunity to participate in one of the best auctions of the year and expose their choice material to the best buyer pool in the hobby.”

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