As part of its efforts to better serve the collecting community, Dallas-based Heritage Auctions is now offering a new direct sale platform, the Comic Books and Comic Art Boutique. The auction house is also running its latest International Signature Auction this weekend, featuring original Asterix, Dave Gibbons and Trigan Empire artworks.
The Comic Books and Comic Art Boutique is a curated selection to complement the company’s industry-leading auctions. Spanning the Golden Age to the contemporary, these treasures are offered publicly from Heritage for a fixed price for the first time, available to be shipped immediately from the auction house’s Dallas headquarters.
The Comic Books and Comic Art Boutique is not Heritage’s first foray into direct sales related to the hobby, merely a newly curated public format for the significant private sales the department has been facilitating for years.
Frank Frazetta Death Dealer 6 Painting Original Art (1990)
Previous examples include the December 2025 $1.95 million sale of Frank Frazetta’s Death Dealer 6 and a recent $13 million transaction, one of the largest private comics sales ever recorded, comprising a Batman No. 1 CGC 9.4, the highest-graded known copy, for $6 million, alongside the second highest-graded copy of Superman No. 1, a CGC 8.5 Mile High pedigree copy, for $7 million.
Batman #1 (DC, 1940) CGC NM 9.4 White pages
Offered alongside Heritage’s industry-leading Comic Books and Comic Art online auctions, the boutique page simplifies the path for direct sales with an intuitive, easily navigated online resource for immediate purchases. Initial offerings range from the complete story original artwork for Marvel’s Sgt. Fury No. 5 to the 1939 Marvel Comics No. 1 October Copy to original Charles Schulz Peanuts weekday and Sunday strip artwork.
Charles Schulz Peanuts Daily Comic Strip Original Art dated 30th October 1969 (United Feature Syndicate, 1969)
Arthur Adams Arthur Adams 2025 Sketchbook “Asgardian Wars” Storm and the New Mutants Portfolio Plate Illustration Original Art (Essential Sequential, 2025)
“As the leading worldwide Comics and Comic Art auction house, we constantly strive to increase the cultural visibility and appreciation of this great artform that we all love, not only through record-setting prices at auction, but exhibitions in our galleries, displays at conventions around the world, helping facilitate museum exhibition loans and advising collectors on every aspect of their collecting,” says Todd Hignite, Executive Vice President and Global Head of Comic Art.
“We’re proud of the trust shown from our worldwide collector base generated by our commitment to all aspects of comics and their history, and this direct sale service is one more important resource we’re proud to introduce to our community.”
The selection will be regularly updated, and Heritage welcomes clients with questions about any of the offerings or who are thinking of selling comparable material to contact Heritage by email.
Latest International Signature Auction offers Asterix, Dave Gibbons and Trigan Empire
Heritage Auctions is the largest fine art and collectibles auction house founded in the United States, and the world’s largest collectibles auctioneer. Heritage maintains offices in New York, Dallas, Beverly Hills, Chicago, Palm Beach, London, Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels, Munich, Geneva, Hong Kong and Tokyo.
Albert Uderzo Astérix Les Lauriers de César #18 Cover Original Art (Dargaud, 1972)
This weekend sees the finale of its latest International Comic Art Signature Auction, #7473, (18 – 19th April) which includes Albert Uderzo’s original cover art for Asterix and the Laurel Wreath, first published in French as Les Lauriers de César, bidding currently at $200,000;“Major Fatal, The Airtight Garage of Jerry Cornelius” Splash by Jean Giraud (Moebius) for Métal Hurlant #40, 1979; and the first Johnny Comet Sunday comic strip art, dated 2nd February 1952. It’s a dynamic showcase of Frank Frazetta’s masterful flair for drama and motion set one dark and stormy night at a sleepy roadside petrol station.
Jean Giraud (Moebius), “Major Fatal, The Airtight Garage of Jerry Cornelius” Splash Page 4. Original Art (Métal Hurlant #40, 1979)
Boris Vallejo, The Web Of Wizardry Paperback Cover Painting Original Art (Del Rey, 1978)
Book art includes a stunning Boris Vallejo Paperback Cover Painting for The Web Of Wizardry by Juanita Coulson, published by Del Rey in 1978. Painted at the height of the artist’s ascent as the dominant force in heroic fantasy illustration, this dramatic composition captures the visceral energy and mythic grandeur that defined the golden age of paperback cover art. There are also several stunning artworks on offer by the brilliant Spanish artist, Sanjulián (Manuel Pérez Clemente).
Dave Gibbons and John Higgins Watchmen (French Edition) #4 Nite Owl Cover Painting Original Art (DC/Zenda, 1987)
British comic art includes Dave Gibbons and John Higgins cover for the French edition of Watchmen #4; two pages from “Tales of the Trigan Empire” for Look and Learn by Don Lawrence; a page of “Blackbow The Cheyenne” by Frank Humphris for Eagle Volume 6 No. 28 (1958); and Neal Sutton‘s art for the cover of Doctor Who Classic Comics Issue 14, published by Marvel UK in 1993.
A page from the Trigan Empire story “The Puppet Emperor”, by Don Lawrence for Look and Learn (1970)
An original page for “The Trigan Empire” by Don Lawrence (1971)
Blackbow The Cheyenne by Frank Humphris For Eagle Volume 6 No. 28, 1955
Neal Sutton’s Doctor Who Classics Comics Issue 14 Cover Painting Original Art (Marvel UK, 1993). The full early lineage of the Doctor, united in one frame
There are also two covers by Doctor Who and now fine equestrian artist Mick Austin; the cover of 2000AD Prog 882 published in 1994, and a Spider-Man and Black Widow artwork produced in 1984, possibly for Marvel UK. Plus, a Spectacular Spider-man cover by Richard Elson.
Mick Austin 2000AD Prog 882 Cover Original Art (Fleetway Editions, 1994)
Mick Austin – Spider-Man and the Black Widow Illustration (1984), possibly a Marvel UK commission?
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Richard Elson Spectacular Spider-Man Adventures #7 Cover Original Art (Marvel UK, 1995)
The Steel Claw Title Page Original Art (Valiant, 1966), by Jesus Blasco
“The Incredible Adventure of Janus Stark”, art by Francisco Solano Lopez, for an unknown issue of Valiant
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Look out, too, for page of “The Steel Claw” by Jesus Blasco, and a “Janus Stark” page by Francisco Solano Lopez.
• Check out this latest International Comic Art Signature Auction, #7473, (18 – 19th April 2026)
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