Original Dark Knight Returns Page Sells for $448,125!

Originally Posted by Highlights

The iconic splash page of Batman and Robin from The Dark Knight Returns #3 , penciled by Frank Miller and inked by Klaus Janson, sold at Heritage Auctions just moments ago for a record $448,125.
That’s the largest amount ever paid at public auction for any piece of original artwork from an American comic book. The sale surpassed the expectations of virtually all experienced observers by a huge margin.
The public record for an American comic book cover was set last year with the $380,000 sale of the cover of EC title Weird Fantasy #29 by Frank Frazetta.
The previous record for a piece of interior American comic art was also set last year by the pivotal splash page from Amazing Spider-Man #50, the famous “Spider-Man No More!” story, written by Stan Lee and drawn by John Romita Sr, which sold for $88,500 as reported by Bleeding Cool last year.
Giving that some additional perspective, it of course blows away previous amounts paid for any post-1980 American comic art. Bleeding Cool reported that Watchmen #1 page 1 artwork by Dave Gibbons went for $33,460 this past November, and we also reported the sale of Frank Miller’s cover to Daredevil #188 for $101,575 last year.