Todd McFarlane Batman Cover Headlines Comic Art Auction
Todd McFarlane's Batman
A selection of original comic art including important covers of the Golden Age as well as modern classics such as Todd McFarlane’s 1988 landmark cover of Batman No. 423 goes under the hammer on October 17 at Heritage Auctions.
The items come from the collection of the late Keif Fromm who concentrated on Golden Age comic art.
His Batman cover was McFarlane’s only cover for the Caped Crusader’s namesake title and shows Batman shielding a frightened young woman within his flowing cape, bats swirling overhead in the moonlight. His interior work is also represented in the auction including Page 20 of Detective Comics No. 578 from the previous year in which Batman disposes of Joe Chill’s gun, the weapon that ended the lives of his parents.
Other sale highlights include:
- the original Captain Marvel Jr. 'V for Victory' Master Comics No. 27 (1942) cover art by Mac Raboy
- C. C. Beck’s cover of Whiz Comics No. 19 from July 1941 (“Captain Marvel Crushes the Tiger-Shark!”)
- Hit Comics No. 5 Red Bee original cover art from 1940 by Lou Fine
- Frank Frazetta's original cover art for The Ghost Rider No. 5 from 1951 featuring Ghost Rider
- an original 1960 Charles Schulz Peanuts daily strip featuring Lucy and Linus discussing a Charlie Brown presidential candidacy
