The top price in the auction, which had a total take over $24 million, was the $2.4 million paid for the Frank Miller and Lynn Varley cover to The Dark Knight Returns #1 (see “Heritage Auctions ‘The Dark Knight Returns’ Cover Art”).
Other key books auctioned were:
- Detective Comics #29 CGC 8.5 at $276,000
- Fantastic Four #1 CGC 9.0 at $420,000
- Fantastic Four #1 CGC 8.5 at $240,000
- Fantastic Four #5 CGC 9.4 at $162,000
- Amazing Spider-Man #677 Dell’Otto variant cover edition CGC 9.8 at $43,200 (record price for a book from the 2000s)
- Amazing Fantasy CGC 7.5 at $216,000
- X-Men #1 (1963) CGC 9.2 at $204,000
- Superman #1 (CGC 1.5 at $198,600
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1 signed CGC 9.8 $192,000
