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Good morning. Original art by Jim Lee and Frank Miller changed hands at auction this week, while DC Studios leadership gets clarity ahead of a potential mega-merger. Separately, Mad Cave and Kadokawa are both expanding their catalogs.
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An original Jim Lee cover for X-Men #6 and multiple Frank Miller Daredevil pages sold at auction this week for hundreds of thousands of dollars, according to Bleeding Cool. The sales represent fresh price points for top-tier original art from two of the most collected runs in modern superhero comics.
The X-Men #6 cover is from Lee's landmark early-1990s run on the title with Chris Claremont, a period that produced some of the highest-selling single issues in comic history and remains a blue-chip collecting vertical. The Frank Miller Daredevil pages come from his celebrated run that redefined the character and established the Hell's Kitchen vigilante as a street-level noir property.
Original art from both creators has consistently commanded six-figure sums over the past decade. Lee splash pages and covers from his X-Men tenure routinely break $100,000, while Miller's Daredevil work - particularly pages featuring Elektra or Kingpin - has set records in the original-art category. The auction house and specific hammer prices were not disclosed in the initial reports.
Why it matters: Original art has become a parallel blue-chip market to graded keys, with institutional buyers and private collectors treating marquee pages as fine-art assets. These sales extend the documented price history for Lee and Miller work, giving future consignors and buyers clearer comp data. For collectors, the continued strength of 1980s and early-1990s superhero art signals that nostalgia-driven demand has staying power even as younger cohorts enter the market with different taste profiles.
Why it matters: Original art has become a parallel blue-chip market to graded keys, with institutional buyers and private collectors treating marquee pages as fine-art assets. These sales extend the documented price history for Lee and Miller work, giving future consignors and buyers clearer comp data.
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Skydance acquires DC Studios, comics viewed as IP generator Bleeding Cool reports that Skydance's acquisition of DC Studios positions DC Comics primarily as an intellectual-property generator for film and television projects. The move comes amid ongoing consolidation in the entertainment industry, with parent company Warner Bros. facing a potential $111 billion merger with Paramount. James Gunn and Peter Safran are confirmed to remain as DC Studios leadership. Read at source (Bleeding Cool) →
Kadokawa's BookWalker adds Ecomix webtoons and manhwa Kadokawa's BookWalker platform announced a partnership with Korean publisher Ecomix Media to distribute webtoons and manhwa starting October 1st, according to The Comics Beat. The deal expands BookWalker's catalog beyond its traditional Japanese manga library and reflects the platform's push to compete with dedicated webtoon apps. Ecomix Media titles will be available in multiple languages. Read at source (The Comics Beat) →
Mad Cave to publish three Comixology Originals in print Mad Cave Studios is bringing three Comixology Originals to physical graphic-novel format in 2027: The 99 Legs, Exorcism Island, and The Adventures of Ulysses Monarch, The Comics Beat reports. The move continues the trend of digital-first titles migrating to print after the shutdown of Amazon's Comixology Originals program. Mad Cave has previously published several former Comixology exclusives. Read at source (The Comics Beat) →
Alan Moore's Albion gets deluxe hardcover reissue Alan Moore's Albion is receiving a deluxe hardcover edition, with a signing event scheduled at Forbidden Planet in Liverpool, Bleeding Cool reports. The comic, which Moore co-created with Leah Moore and Shane Oakley, was originally published in 2005-2006 and featured British comic characters from IPC Media's archives. The reissue marks one of the few Moore projects to receive a premium repackaging in recent years. Read at source (Bleeding Cool) →
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