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Frank Miller Dark Knight illo sets record

Frank Miller Batman Drawing Sets World's Record at Heritage Auction. The 1986 “Dark Knight Returns” Issue #3, Page 10 Splash Art auctioned at $448,125.00 USD to become the single most valuable piece of American comic art to ever sell; eclipses the previous record of $380K for the Frank Frazetta cover to Weird Fantasy #29.

The Heritage Auction page about the Frank Miller Batman artwork is here.

Comic Book Money

Original page July 19, 2011

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American Comic Book Chronicles: 1965-69 Hardcover from TwoMorrows – AMAZON

Overstreet Price Guide 2022-2023

Amazing Spider-Man by Ditko and Lee from Penguin Classics

"But you merely adopted comic book collecting; I was born in it, molded by it. I didn't see my first graded book until I was already a man, by then it was nothing to me but plastic and dreams" – Aaron Meyers Twitter

Review: Quantumania – A bloated, over-written production

Roy Lichtenstein and the comic books he cribbed from

The classic three-act storytelling technique

What is the largest American comic book ever published?

The largest American comic book ever printed is Cerebus the Aardvark #0 by Dave Sim published by Aardvark-Vanaheim in 1992. The comic book measures 3 feet by 2 feet (36"X24" i.e., 610 x 914 mm), with fold-out pages that extend to an even larger size. The comic book was produced in a limited edition of only 3,000 copies.

The largest comic book yet published?

Attack On Titan, as checked by Guinness World Records, is measured at 39.3 inches (1,000 millimetres) for length, and 27.6 inches (703 millimetres) for width, giving it a total area of 1,089.5 inches (7,030 square centimetres) with a weight of 31.31 pounds (13.75 kilograms).

This doesn't include the book cover, which is 39.7 inches (1,010 millimetres) in height and 28.11 inches (714 millimetres) wide.

Review: Weird Mystery #4, Jan-Feb 1973

Here come the AI comic books – Comics Beat

Artificial intelligence (AI) art generators like Midjourney, DALL-E and Stable Diffusion have recently advanced in leaps and bounds..... Current peculiarities to comics with AI art include: Inconsistent faces, bodies, props, and clothing (although grassroots communities and tutorials have sprung up where comic creators swap tips on major challenges like achieving character consistency...

The trauma of artificial intelligence artwork is affecting every area of the artwork industry, and comic books are no different. The gimmick part of AI is understandable: what's bizarre, good, bad or just plain new has a chance of grabbing attention and being a viable market in the industry of image-making.

But the AI phenomenon goes well beyond that because it fuses together all that attention-getting plus the general obsession of the modern world with technology, implies any person with a computer and access to AI could theoretically start generating great art. Does this mean AI could be on the cusp of rather boldly marching into the house of already existing employed and livelihood earning artists and burning the place down around their heads? More on AI the Artificial Art

Alley Oop cartoonist Jack Bender has died

Jan 15, 2023: Story at WCF Courier

Bender, a Waterloo native who gained national prominence for drawing and inking the beloved time-traveling caveman comic strip Alley Oop, died Jan. 5 in Tulsa, Okla., from complications of dementia.He was 91.

The Marvel Movie Schedule List

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
May 5, 2023

The Marvels
November 19, 2023

Armor Wars
TBA

Captain America: New World Order
May 3, 2024

Thunderbolts
July 26, 2024

Blade
September 6, 2024

Deadpool 3
November 8, 2024

Fantastic Four
February 14, 2025

Nova
TBA

Avengers: The Kang Dynasty
May 2, 2025

Avengers: Secret Wars
May 1, 2026

Short Review: She-Hulk, Attorney-at-Law

Black Adam film review

The original Christopher Reeve Superman Costume auctions for $350,000 – MSN People Magazine

The reality of Marvel's Reality Stones is that they're really expensive – Los Angeles Times - MSN

Comic Book Movie Money March 24, 2023 numbers

Films playing worldwide

Shazam Fury O' the Gods at $70,204,638 worldwide earnings [Production budget of estimated at $100 million].

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania at $464,158,254 worldwide earnings [Production budget of estimated at $200 million].

Avatard The Way O' Water at $2,304,591,255 worldwide earnings [Production budget of estimated between $250-$400 million].

Compare with recent films:

Black Panther Wakanda Forever at $858,795,093 worldwide earnings [Production budget of $200 million].

Everything Everywhere All at Once at $107,366,679 worldwide earnings [Production budget of $25 million].

Black Adam at $392,952,111 worldwide earnings [Production budget of $195 million].

Thor: Love and Thunder at $760,745,764 worldwide earnings [Production budget of $250 million].

Doctor Strange II: Madness of the Multiverse ended with $954,863,075 worldwide earnings [Production budget of $200 million].

Morbius ended with $163,865,530 worldwide earnings [Production budget of $75 million].

Spider-Man No Way Home ended with $1,901,231,491 worldwide earnings [Production budget of $200 million].

The Batman ended with $770,345,583 worldwide earnings [Production budget of $180 million].

Data from BoxOfficeMojo and production budget information from Wikipedia.

The Origin of the Superman-Batman Team - review of World's Finest #94, May-June 1958, art by Dick Sprang

Review The Green Knight 2021

Alan Moore's Revenge – Deconstruction wrecks the DC Universe

Deconstructing Stan Lee

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Guide to collecting comic book art - Dec 1, 2021, MSN News

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