The Four Color Media Monitor

The Art Newspaper reports that art drafts of Deadpool's first appearance are now selling big on the speculator market auction, the very problematic platform that led to a disaster for the comics market in the 1990s:

The original artwork for a page from the comic book New Mutants No. 98, in which the character of Deadpool made his first appearance, did not quite break records but it came very close.

Over 5700 people bid in the comic art sale through Heritage Auctions, with the winner grabbing this historical page 14 for a cool $960,000. Interest in the character is high thanks to the $1.3bn blockbuster Deadpool v Wolverine, which was released in cinemas this year. [...]

The New Mutants page is the second most valuable page of comic art ever sold at auction, with the top spot taken by page 25 from 1984's Secret Wars No. 8, drawn by Mike Zeck. This tells the origin story of Spider-Man’s black costume, which sold at Heritage Auctions for $3.4m in 2022.

Once again, because of a movie, something so otherwise overrated makes big money, even though it'll likely be shut away in vaults between getting traded all around, and despite Rob Liefeld's art being so dreadful and derivative. One can only wonder how long it'll be before some of the worst-illustrated anatomy drawings Liefeld turned out will turn up at auctions, and then, if anybody buys those drawings in spite of all that, it'll really make the market look like a joke.

Labels: dreadful artists, marvel comics, msm propaganda, sales, X-Men