All Sparkle City this week.

Detective Comics #31 CGC 4.0 All-time Classic Cover 3rd Batman Cover OW/WHITE

Classic Cover indeed. One of the best covers of all time, without question.

Detective Comics #35 CGC 4.0 Classic Hypodermic Needle Bondage Cover Batman DC

What an intense run 27-40 is. Key books everywhere, classic covers everywhere… The best collectible run, in my opinion.

Marvel Mystery Comics 3 CGC 9.0 Highest Graded Larson Copy OW/WHITE Timely

Just to break up the Detectives…

Detective Comics #29 CGC 4.5 2nd Batman Cover 1st Dr. Death DC Golden Age

3rd Batman. No big deal.

Detective Comics #1 CGC 3.0 SCARCE KEY DC Golden Age Schuster & Flessel Art

Who doesn't love this cover?

Tales of Suspense #39 CGC 9.2 1st Iron Man ow/white pages

Sold For:$72,100.00 Seller: sparklecitycomics (43337)

Description:

*Last CGC 9.2 sold for $56,763* 1st appearance of Iron Man. Only 14 examples grade higher. Stunning crisp example of this early marvel key. Nearly perfect centering, beautiful newsstand color and fresh off-white to white pages. This showstopper is poised to set a record . Looks as sharp as any 9.4 copy we have seen.

The Book:

Tales of Suspense #39 CGC 9.2 1st Iron Man ow/white pages

When going through eBay for this post, the top lots were dominated by books from the saginaw collection. This one will be the top lot and will break into the all time ebay comic sales list.

Journey Into Mystery #89 CGC 9.4 OW/White Origin Thor Classic Cover

Classic cover, indeed. I haven't bought any JIM books in a long time, but whenever I see this I feel like I should reverse that trend.

Human Torch 4 (#3) CGC 8.5 VF+ Rockford Pedigree Timely

Filter has all the eBay gems.

star wars 1 35 cent variant vf/nm

I wonder what the buy it now price was.

GARY FRANK, BATMAN Splash Original Comic Art. Superman

Gary Frank brings the texture.

X-men #138 page 10 by John Byrne and Terry Austin

Well, how about that? A very cool page for an X-Men fan in general and… it's Byrne!

Phil Noto Superman Lois Lane Heroes Con 2006 Painting

Crummy photo, but knowing Noto that thing must shine in person.

Action Comics #85 CGC 9.2 Universal Grade June 1945

Want listed! What great cover dialog.

Swamp Thing #28 Alan Moore & McManus. GREAT!

What a bad-ass page this is. It's a great image of Swamp thing and it's penned by Moore.

ORIGINAL ART Neil Gaiman/Mike Dringenberg SANDMAN 1990

Sandman took about a year to take off. After that first year the buzz was basically deafening. At this point the book had found its voice and the arc format that would take it through to the end of the run. Classic stuff.

Jimmy Cheung – New Avengers #42 pg 15 FULL PAGE SPLASH

That's a ridiculous splash page right there. Jimmy Cheung is great and everything he's got is going into that splash.

AMAZING MAN #5 "1939". PGX 8.0 (R) NICE! Noted as RARE.

Cool, book. Someone buy it and get it out of that PGX holder.

STRANGE ADVENTURES #1 1950 Photo Cvr Atomic Bomb O/W

I'm a sucker for this book. You know this.

ORIGINAL ART Gene Colan DAREDEVIL Black Widow 1979

What a great page. From near the end of Colan's run on the book this page still shows everything Colan could bring to a page. What a great talent.

BPRD 1946 HELLBOY Original Cover Art by Mike Mignola

I'm always going to post a nice Mignola page. I'm a sucker for his work.

THE MIGHTY THOR 3 PAGE 22 BY OLIVIER COIPEL!

Take a peek above…

Jon J. Muth Moonshadow Watercolor Page – Gorgeous!!!

Some part of me still thinks off painted art as "new." I have co-workers younger than this painted art…

CAPTAIN AMERICA COMICS #1 Golden Age Comic Book GD 2.0

For real? A raw Captain America #1? Fun times.

Avengers 12.1 cover art Hitch Spider-man Wolverine Thor

Hitch is bad-ass. You know this.

KENT WILLIAMS original PUNISHER painting art

I don't think I've ever seen this image.

TALES OF SUSPENSE #39 VF/NM 9.0 *1ST IRON MAN*

Sold For:$14,500.00 Seller: robojo33 (3321)

Description:

This listing is for a Tales of Suspense #39 in immaculate VF/NM condition with off-white to white pages, featuring the first appearance and origin of Iron Man.

It's a different VF/NM #39 than the two I've previously listed and sold last month.

The comic is clean, complete, and has no tape, repairs, or restoration of any kind.

The Book:

Jack Kirby Original Art Fantastic Four # 70 page 8 1968

I love the "Torch flying at the camera" shot.

MIKE MIGNOLA Original Art DRACULA issue 2 p9 SIGNED

No one does black and white like Mignola. He's a master.

Fantastic Four Annual 1 CGC 9.4 white Spider-Man Silver

Annuals don't get their just due, I think. Some of them are very cool.

Alex Toth

Alex Toth art on eBay. NEED I SAY MORE.

Superman Splash Page by Leinil Yu

I've always been a fan. One of my favorite inking samples from back when I did that stuff was over his pencils.

1974 JIM STARLIN CAPTAIN MARVEL #30 PG. 23 COMIC ART

You know I love Starlin's Marvel cosmic comics. I'll always share.

Ashley Wood – Popbot Original Painting

Ash Wood is so much fun. His art is great.

Ed McGuinness! Iron Man! She-Hulk! Hulk! Shield! Wow!

Dynamic! It's not even an action page but Ed McGuiness just does dynamic in his sleep.

All Select #11 Blonde Phantom Cover High Grade- Timely

Always a favorite book.

Avengers #93 CGC 9.4 Neal Adams Marvel Captain America

Another favorite and I don't feature enough bronze age books here. Rectified.

Amazing Fantasy #15 and Amazing Spider-man 1 CGC 6.0

Sold For: $15,000 Seller: azemon ( 13 )

Description:

Amazing Fantasy #15 and Amazing Spider-man 1 CGC 6.0

Amazing Fantasy #15 is Graded 6.0 by CGC

The Amazing Spider-man 1 is a Signature Series Graded 6.0 by CGC

The Amazing Spider-man 1 is signed by Stan Lee

Both are Unrestored

The Book: