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  • Frazetta Cover Smashes Record For Any Page of American Comic Book Art ($380,000)

    06/10/2010 8:27:14 AM PDT · by a fool in paradise · 22 replies · 166+ views
    Heritage Auctions Gallery ^ | June 2010 | no byline
    Frank Frazetta's original 1955 artwork for Weird Science-Fantasy #29, considered by many comic art fans to be the finest comic book cover of all time, has been sold in a private treaty sale for $380,000 – almost certainly the most ever paid for a single piece of original American comic book art – to Heritage Co-Chairman and Co-Founder Jim Halperin, a collector known to own one of the finest comic book and original comic art collections in the world. It was an outright purchase for immediate payment, with no trade-ins involved. "Knowing I'm a huge Frazetta fan, and a...