A Frank Frazetta painting created for a movie poster sold at $1.75 million, and comic cover art by Neal Adams gaveled at $1.5 million in the latest Heritage Comic Art Signature Auction. The 1972 Frazetta painting for the U.S. release of Italian film Luana, which was also used for the cover of the Ballantine Books novelization and a short story in Vampirella, brought in $1.75 million.
A second Frazetta painting, The Moon Men, created for the cover of the Ace edition of the Edgar Rice Burroughs novel, sold for $718,750. Both Frazetta paintings were from the Howard Lowery Fantasy and Science Fiction collection. Three other less significant Frazetta pieces from the same collection sold for a combined $512.500 in the auction.
The Adams art was for the cover of Superman #233; it depicted Superman breaking free of chains as Kryptonite across the earth was transformed into iron, freeing him from the one material to which he was vulnerable. This is the record price for a work by Adams, and the highest ever for a pencil-and-ink comic cover original.Source: ICv2
