Hake’s sails past expectations with record-setting $2.2M sale of original Star Wars comic book and animation art, rare action figures, political and other pop culture treasures
High-fliers included Luke Skywalker Double-Telescoping Lightsaber action figure, $84,370; Howard Chaykin Star Wars #1 comic book art, $80,475; circa-1840 Harrison/Tyler stoneware bank, $53,970
YORK, Pa. – Hake’s March 25-26 auction of extraordinary rarities from across today’s most popular collecting categories rocketed to a lofty $2.2 million, with many new world records set along the way. Prior to the sale, Hake’s president, Alex Winter, had predicted the Star Wars original comic art would reach “a new level in the marketplace.” It did exactly that.
The greatest prize in the comic book art category was Howard Chaykin’s (b. 1950-) original pen-and-ink page (Page 16) from Star Wars #1, the first of six issues in a series published by Marvel in July 1977 as a print adaptation of the film Star Wars: A New Hope. The page’s seven panels represented two pivotal scenes from the film, with Darth Vader appearing in four of them; and an immediately-recognizable vehicle, the Jawas’ Sand-Crawler, in another. Significantly, the comic book’s text closely paralleled the movie’s dialogue. Undeniably one of the most important examples of Star Wars art from any era or publisher to r… Read More
