Buck Rogers Cover Art and Action Comics’ No. 1 Lead Comic Art Auction

Frank Frazetta’s pen-and-ink  Famous Funnies No. 214 Buck Rogers cover original art which portrays Buck Rogers sailing through space topped Heritage Auctions' Comic & Comic Art auction, selling for $1,035,000.

“Frank Frazetta is universally acknowledged as one of the premier artists in the comic world, and his work has been eagerly collected for decades,” said Barry Sandoval, Vice President at Heritage Auctions. “This piece is widely regarded as one of the greatest comic covers of all time, and the final result certainly validates that.”

Meanwhile, the cover wrap of Action Comics No. 1 drawn by Joe Shuster broke the auction record for a stand-alone cover when it sold for $408,000, beating the previous mark for a loose cover of $20,000 for a Flash Comics No. 1 cover that sold in January.

Other highlights included:

• an issue of The Incredible Hulk No. 1 (Marvel, 1962), which marks the Hulk’s debut, went for $780,000
• Fantastic Four No. 1 White Mountain Pedigree (Marvel, 1961) was sold for $600,000
• Bill Watterson's hand-colored Calvin and Hobbes strip featuring the first appearance of Spaceman Spiff made $480,000
• Todd McFarlane’s The- Amazing Spider-Man No. 311 Mysterio cover original art (Marvel, 1989) sold for $456,000
• Jock Detective Comics No. 880 Joker cover original art (DC, 2011) sold for $288,000
• Whiz Comics No. 2 (No. 1) (Fawcett Publications, 1940) sold for $288,000
• Steve Ditko's The Amazing Spider-Man No. 25 splash page 1 original art (Marvel, 1965) sold for $288,000