You wouldn’t think with everything going on in the economy people would have the ducats to dish out for original comic art, but apparently that’s not the case. This article even seems to mildly insinuate that it’s eclipsing back issue collecting…

And while the market for back issues is well established, more and more collectors are turning their attention to the hand-drawn covers and interior pages that make up a comic book. This original art has become the focus of auctions with sales in the five and six figures. It’s a surprising turn of events for work that in the early days of the industry, was considered so unimportant that it was used to sop up ink or spilled coffee, given away to fans or even destroyed outright.

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