Most expensive comic book cover sold at auction

Cover art for a special edition of Tintin in America sold for a price of 1.3 million Euros (£1m; $1.6m) to an anonymous bidder at an auction event held by the Paris-based auction house Artcurial in June 2012. The art, made in 1932 by Tintin creator Hergé (the pen name for the Belgian Georges Remi), depicts the young journalist Tintin in cowboy attire eating with his dog Snowy as some Native Americans creeps up behind him. The same piece of artwork, which was created in Indian ink and gouache, sold for just 764,000 euros when it last came up for sale in 2008. A spokesman for the successful bidder said at the time “If he’d have been able to get it for less I think he (the bidder) would have been happy. The aim was not to beat a record; the aim was to obtain the work, before anything else… You don’t come here to beat the world record, to spend money, that doesn’t make any sense.”

According to press reports the cover is one of only five remaining ink and gouache originals by Herge. Only two of which are in private hands.

Tintin in America has featured a number of covers over the years.

Tintin made his debut in Le Petit Vingtième, the children’s supplement of the Belgian Newspaper Le Vingtième Siecle, in 1929 with the first episode of Tintin in the land of the Soviets.

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History of Auctioneering

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Ernest C. Freund First inductee into the WAA Hall of Fame

Country: United States
Year: 1979
Date: June 26
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Youngest auctioneer (male)

Darron Blankenship (USA, b.9 April 1970) became certified as an auctioneer on 17 August 1984, aged 14 years 99 days.

Country: United States
Year: 1984
Date: August 17
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WAA 38th Annual Convention

Holiday Inn in La Crosse, WI

Country: United States
Year: 1988
Date: June 7
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WAA 40th Anniversary Celebration

Seminars on Bankruptcy, heavy construction, & collector car auctions

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Year: 1990
Date: June 13
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WAA 41st Annual Convention

Midway Motor Lodge, Eau Claire, WI

Country: United States
Year: 1991
Date: June 11
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WAA 42nd Annual Convention

Don Q Inn in Dodgeville, WI

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Year: 1992
Date: June 9
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1993 WAA Annual Convention

WAA 43nd Annual Convention, Papa’s Place in Baraboo, WI

Country: United States
Year: 1993
Date: June 8
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1994 WAA Annual Convention

Best Western Hudson House Inn, Hudson, WI

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Year: 1994
Date: June 13
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First Annual State Champion Auctioneer Contest

Crown Plaza Madison

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Year: 2000
Date: January 17
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First Woman (Carol Miller) to win Auctioneer Championship

Country: United States
Year: 2010
Date: August 11
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