The Russ Cochran Comic Art Auctions - a 30 years Retrospective 2 2

[ashrael]

I am actually surprised how high the prices were for small Frazetta sketches(relative to the other art).

 

$550 for a 5"x4" warrior Frazetta sketch, or $400 for an 8 page EC story?

[Unca Ben]

This is a great thread!

[Terry Doyle]

This is a great thread!

 

Thanks, I've still got lots more to post, so watch a part of our hobby's history unfold . . .

[Terry Doyle]

I am actually surprised how high the prices were for small Frazetta sketches(relative to the other art).

 

$550 for a 5"x4" warrior Frazetta sketch, or $400 for an 8 page EC story?

 

Remember this was an auction scenario (apart from any 'for direct sale' listings), so EC stories (or covers) carried minimum bids of $200, $400 or $800, depending on the calibre of the artist.

 

Prime Woody or Ingels art would commence at $800.

[Terry Doyle]

As an interlude, between posting catalog scans, here's my EC Art Auctions feature that ran in # 85 of Comic Book Marketplace, September 2001.

 

Russ Cochran had (at the time) recently took over as editor and was happy to use this piece that I'd submitted.

 

The writing's not very good, but it was penned out of enthusiasm.

 

Most of the art I possessed (at that time of writing) is no longer with me as my interest later shifted towards specializing in cover artworks.

 

[Terry Doyle]

 

Art Auction Catalog # 14 (June 15, 1983), comprising of 26 pages.

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I bought the George Evans story, 'Pearly to Dead', which I later traded-away to Mike Burkey for the cover art to Alarming Tales # 6 by John Severin (which I still have).

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Reminder . . . these are highlights, not complete contents of each catalog.

[MachoGrande]

That Wrightson list just blew my mind. Thanks again, Terry.

 

-Darren

[NightGallery1]

Some of those prices are mind-blowing.

 

If I were to take my pick of five items, I'd go with:

 

1. Frankenstein graveyard plate - Wrightson

2. Flash Gordon/Jungle Jim Sunday from 1939 - Alex Raymond

3. Shock Suspenstories #6 -Wood

4. Swamp Thing #1 cover - Wrightson

5. Tales from the Crypt #40 - Davis (sold for $1,512 in 1983, sold for $47,800 in 2009)

 

That Batman #229 cover by Adams is really sweet too, especially at $700.

Edited August 24, 2012 by NightGallery1