COMICS & COMIC ART Maximize your results through Heritage Auctions! 2 2 3 3 4 4 1 5 5 WHY CONSIGN YOUR COLLECTION WHAT SETS HERITAGE TO HERITAGE AUCTIONS? AUCTIONS APART? You’ve spent years, even decades, putting your collection together, and maybe the time has come to sell. Or perhaps you’ve inherited some items as part of an estate. Whatever your situation, whatever your reason, you have one goal: to realize the very best price for every piece. OUR MISSION — Our mission is to be the world’s most trusted Heritage Auctions, the world’s third largest auction house, can help you accomplish that goal. and efficient marketplace and information resource serving owners of fine art, vintage collectibles and other precious objects. YOUR CONSIGNMENT DECISION Our knowledgeable staff and suite of auction tools help our clients assemble the best collections possible using the latest technological advancements – far Heritage Auctions knows that educating yourself is the most important step in the process of and away the best in the business – that ultimately enhance the personal and selecting your auctioneer, and we want to make sure you have all the tools you need to make financial well-being of our consignors. an educated decision. Examine the advantages that Heritage offers, and you will learn how we continually achieve some of the highest prices in the marketplace. EXPERIENCE — Heritage Auctions has presented more than 9,300 successful auctions, selling more than $873 million in 2020. More than 336,000 Your consignment is welcome, no matter the size, whether it is an entire collection or a single consignments have been sold successfully, with full, timely payment to every valuable piece. We answer your questions, provide practical options, and help you decide which consignor. 85,154 bidders have used our unique and patented HERITAGE items are most appropriate for our various auction venues. In order to maximize your profits, Live!®1 online bidding platform, winning more than 1,199,016 lots valued well in we develop the best sales strategy for your collection, from estimating and researching your excess of $1.8 billion in recent years. AMAZING FANTASY #15 comics or artwork, to presenting it to the right buyers. Our offices and galleries in Dallas, New (Marvel, 1962) CGC NM 9.4 MARVEL COMICS #1 Off-white to white pages York, Beverly Hills, San Francisco and Chicago allow for extensive advertising and promotion in STRONG PRICES REALIZED — Some of our notable auction Windy City pedigree (Timely, 1939) SOLD for $795,000 America’s largest and richest markets. CGC NM 9.4 Off-white pages March 2020 results of the last few years are shown on these pages. We look forward to SOLD for $1,260,000 attaining similarly impressive results for your pieces. Our success in the comic November 2019 auction realm is second to none. Our ten most recent Comic & Comic Art FRANK FRAZETTA Famous Funnies #209 Signature® auctions (January 2019 through January 2021) have averaged an Cover Original Art astonishing $10 million-plus each in prices realized on behalf of our consignors. (Eastern Color, 1953) SOLD for $552,000 We’re especially proud of this landmark achievement because no auction firm February 2019 other than Heritage has ever conducted even one $10 million Comics & Comic Art auction. on the cover: 1. THE INCREDIBLE HULK #1 1 U.S. Patent No. 9,064,282 (Marvel, 1962) CGC NM- 9.2 White pages SOLD for $336,000 November 2018 2. ACTION COMICS #1 (DC, 1938) CGC FN- 5.5 BATMAN #1 (DC, 1940) CGC Cream to off-white pages. NM 9.4 White pages SOLD for $956,000 SOLD for $2,220,000 August 2016 January 2020 3. FRANK MILLER BATMAN: THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS #2. Cover Original Art (DC, 1986) SOLD for $478,000 August 2013 4. FANTASTIC FOUR #1 White Mountain Pedigree (Marvel, 1961) CGC NM-9.2 SOLD for $203,150 THE AVENGERS #1 (Marvel, 1963) CGC NM+ 9.6 July 2012 FRANK FRAZETTA Off-white to white pages DETECTIVE COMICS #27 Egyptian Queen 5. NEAL ADAMS SOLD for $215,100 (DC, 1939) CGC FN/VF 7.0 Painting Original Art (1969) Green Lantern #76 November 2015 Off-white pages SOLD for $5,400,000 Cover Original Art (DC, 1970) May 2019 SOLD for $442,150 SOLD for $1,500,000 November 2015 November 2020 2 3 EXPERT CATALOGING AND APPRAISAL SERVICES — PRESENTATION — Heritage Auctions understands Heritage Auctions has recently organized its that presentation is a key factor to generating demand. Our appraisal services into a centralized department experts describe each of your consigned items to maximize its that will produce formal fair market value and appeal while maintaining strict standards for accuracy. retail replacement appraisals for estate tax, gift The award-winning catalogs produced for each of our tax, financial planning, insurance and charitable Signature® auctions are second to none: beautifully produced donation purposes. Working with our experts, by professional graphic designers with full-color images of you will receive thorough, illustrated appraisal each lot composed in detail by professional photographers. reports written in compliance with all IRS, USPAP The result is a book that is both a gorgeous and collectible and Insurance standards. Should you later auction catalog, and a treasured reference work for students, decide to sell your property listed in a Heritage scholars and collectors. Such an elaborate presentation will appraisal, all fees will be rebated in full or on a On average, HA.com receives 75,000+ visits per day. no doubt make you proud and ensure your legacy for years to prorated basis against the seller’s commissions. (Source: SimilarWeb.com) come. Heritage Auctions employs the top talent in the appraisal business to give you the best possible information on the value of your collection. WORLDWIDE MARKETING REACH — NEAL ADAMS BATMAN #251 COVER Our auctions are events watched by the world. Previous The Joker Original Art (DC, 1973) MULTIPLE VENUES TO SOLD for $600,000 auctions have generated national and international press November 2019 coverage on major TV, radio, newspaper and Internet news ACCOMMODATE YOUR ENTIRE outlets. Every year we spend $20+ million dollars marketing COLLECTION — We realize that most our consignors’ items to a worldwide audience. collections include a variety of material, from the rare and valuable to the more common. For Marketing campaigns begin with press releases to a variety this reason, Heritage Auctions has established of news organizations announcing important consignments multiple selling venues, several with low lot and significant highlights, followed by advertisements in trade minimums, so that we can likely handle the publications and mainstream press. Updates and targeted entirety of your consignment, rather than “cherry messaging are also regularly distributed to interested buyers. picking” the best material and leaving you with Heritage Auctions boasts more than 3.1 million collectors in the rest, as many auction houses are renowned our customer database, more than 1.4 million of which – in for doing. 195 countries worldwide – are online bidder-members on HA.com. All of this exposure means more money for each Heritage’s Signature® auctions are for the most MyBids lets every bidder track and research lots. piece you consign! valuable material in your collection. These HERITAGE SIGNATURE® AUCTIONS items are spotlighted in our full-color illustrated are among the biggest events in the comic book hobby. catalogs, which are sent to our best buyers. Signature® auctions consist of exciting live floor sessions in which bidders from all over the world compete for your treasures in person, over the phone and through HERITAGE Live!® BILL WATTERSON CALVIN AND HOBBES HAND-COLORED SUNDAY COMIC STRIP ORIGINAL ART (Universal Press Syndicate, 1986) TOP-FLIGHT MATERIAL that’s consigned to us is MyConsignments keeps consignors abreast of their SOLD for $203,150 featured in our full-color catalogs that are distributed to bid status. November 2012 thousands of bidders worldwide. 4 5 PROFESSIONALISM WHAT OUR CLIENTS SAY “Far as I’m concerned, the real Heritage Auctions’ fine reputation is not a matter of chance. It reflects our The real measure of any business’s success is what its customers say superheroes are the great guys relentless drive to always improve our services. Innovation is a Heritage about it. Here are just a few comments from past Heritage clients: at Heritage. I really lucked out when I met ’em ’cause they got trademark, seen in every element of our auction process from policy to me prices that exceeded my technology. We combine this with a strong corporate ethic, uncompromising “I was thrilled to find a comic book from my adolescence that I thought I’d lost -- a wildest expectations, plus it was a real kick to work with them. integrity, transparency and old-fashioned customer service. That’s why we well-read copy of Amazing Fantasy #15. It’s been 50 years (gulp!) since I collected comics, so my only impulse was to find the best price at auction for this collector’s I don’t want this to sound like are the third largest auction house in the world, with $873+ million in sales in item that I could manage. A still-active collector friend pointed me to Heritage, so I a TV commercial but, so help 2020. We’ve sold and fully settled more than 336,000 consignments, on time sent a message about my find to them via their website. I don’t think five minutes me Spidey, there’s no one I’d rather entrust with my collection. and in full. had gone by before Matt Griffin, comics consignment manager at Heritage, called me back to express HA’s interest in handling my auction.