03/16/2007. NEW YORK.- The Dahesh Museum of Art presents Fantasy and Faith: The Art of Gustave Doré, on view through April 22, 2007. During the second half of the 19th century, Gustave Doré (1832-1883) was one of the world's most famous artists. He was, ...

03/15/2009. NEW YORK, NY.- John Dolmayan, drummer for System of a Down and owner of Torpedo Comics , has paid $317,200 for a copy of the first edition of Action Comics, the comic book from June of 1938 which is famous for having in its pages the debut of...

03/30/2010. ATLANTA, GA.- The Atlanta Contemporary Art Center is showing "Substitute Teacher", an exhibition co-curated by Regine Basha and Stuart Horodner, which includes twenty emerging and esta...

04/02/2010. VINELAND, NJ.- The dreams of thousands of toy collectors worldwide have come true since last March when Bertoia launched a semiannual series of auctions to disperse the renowned Donald Kaufman Collection. Last September when the hammer fell on...

12/16/2010. DALLAS, TX.- Heritage Auctions has announced that a newly discovered collection of more than 40,000 comic books, “The Savannah Collection,” spanning from 1958 to the present and valued ...

02/11/2011. NEW YORK, NY.- The Deutsche Bank Series at the Guggenheim: Found in Translation brings together eleven works by eleven artists that look to translation as both a model and a metaphor to c...

04/12/2011. LOS ANGELES (AP).- A valuable comic featuring the debut of Superman has re-surfaced in a storage locker, and police said Monday that it appears to be the same one stolen from Nicolas Cage more than a decade ago. The mint copy of Action Comi...

11/06/2012. DALLAS, TX.- Todd McFarlane’s bombastic original cover art featuring Spider-Man and the Red Skull from The Amazing Spider-Man #325, 1989, and the original hand-colored Bill Watterson Calvin & Hobbes artwork from Nov. 19, 1986 – the ...

01/21/2013. DALLAS, TX.- Heritage Auctions experienced its fourth straight year of record sales in 2012: more than $860 million, the highest tally yet for the world's third largest auction house and largest ...

07/21/2013. Franklin Street Works presents Kool-Aid Wino, a group exhibition curated by Brooklyn-based writer and critic Claire Barliant. The exhibition explores the foregrounding of mistakes and m...

11/28/2013. The first selections from the Don/Maggie Thompson Pedigree Collection hit a combined $835,384 to lead $5.8+ million in comic books and original comic art at Heritage Auctions. Every one of the 1,700 lot...

08/13/2014. A restored copy of Action Comics #1 (DC, 1938) CGC Apparent VF 8.0 realized $167,300 — one of the highest prices ever paid for a restored comic book — to take top honors in Heritage Auctions' ...

09/23/2015. Belgium has long been a leading exponent of the traditional printed comic book, but a recent exhibition of South Korean "webtoons" has caused soul-searching in the land of Tintin and The Smurfs. The animated online comics, which are wildly popular...

01/18/2023. No single comic was left on the spinner rack, nor a single work of art was left hanging on the gallery wall. And by the time Heritage Auctions’ completely sold-out Jan. 12-15 Comics & Comic Art Si...

05/27/2024. Don Perlin, a veteran comic book artist who, after decades in the industry, helped create the popular but nontraditional superheroes Moon Knight and Bloodshot, died May 14 in Jacksonville, Florida. He was 94. His death, in a nursing home, was conf...