![]() ![]() Calvin, the owner of a lucky pair of rocket-ship underpants, would be proud to join that company.Ī second Calvin and Hobbes illustration, also from Salem's collection, sold Thursday for $120,000. Only one other original comic strip has ever realized $480,000: Alex Raymond's very first Flash Gordon, published on Jan. It shatters the previous Calvin and Hobbes auction record set in September, when Heritage sold a February 1992 hand-colored daily strip – signed by Watterson to his friend and Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau – for $216,000. This was only the second hand-colored Sunday strip by Watterson ever to appear at auction. 17-20 Comics & Comic Art Signature® Auction. ![]() This stunning work, from the collection of Watterson's late editor Lee Salem, sold during the first session of Heritage Auctions' Nov. That price also ties the record for the most valuable original newspaper strip ever sold at auction. Dallas – A hand-colored Calvin and Hobbes Sunday strip from May 24, 1987, sold for $480,000 at Heritage Auctions to set a new auction record for Bill Watterson and his beloved creations. ![]()
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