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April 2020 Auction Ends Thursday, April 30th, 5pm Pacific

Auction closed on 4/30/2020. Final prices include buyers premium.

• Lot #1: Charles Schulz Original Hand-Drawn ''Peanuts'' Comic Strip From 1957 -- In this Christmas Strip, Charlie Brown and Violet Ponder the Meaning of a Snowfall

  

  Min Bid: $15,000

  Final Price: $20,625

• Lot #2: Chic Young Hand-Drawn ''Blondie'' Comic Strip From 1931 Titled ''On Your Mark'' -- Preparing to Meet the King

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $688

• Lot #4: Chic Young Hand-Drawn ''Blondie'' Comic Strip From 1931 Titled ''A Boy in Love'' -- Dagwood Professes His Love for Blondie

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $688

• Lot #5: Chic Young Hand-Drawn ''Blondie'' Comic Strip From 1931 Titled ''The Big News!'' -- Dagwood Is Crushed With a Wedding Announcement for Blondie & Another Man

  

  Min Bid: $600

  Final Price: $999

• Lot #9: Chic Young Hand-Drawn ''Blondie'' Comic Strip From 1932 Titled ''A Free Soul'' -- Dagwood Discovers His Marriage to Irma Isn't Valid

  

  Min Bid: $600

  Final Price: $825

• Lot #10: Chic Young Hand-Drawn ''Blondie'' Comic Strip From 1932 Titled ''Unexpected Company'' -- Dagwood Exclaims, ''It's Blondie!''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $756

• Lot #14: Chic Young Hand-Drawn ''Blondie'' Comic Strip From 1932 Titled ''A Boy in Love'' -- Dagwood Proposes to Blondie Before Getting Distracted by a Sandwich

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $1,344

• Lot #17: Chic Young Hand-Drawn ''Blondie'' Comic Strip From 1933 Titled ''Caught on the Draft'' -- Blondie & Dagwood's First Strip as a Married Couple at Home

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $756

• Lot #19: Chic Young Hand-Drawn ''Blondie'' Comic Strip From 1933 Titled ''Mrs. Rip Van Winkle'' -- The Very First Strip of Dagwood Sleeping on the Job

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $756

• Lot #20: Chic Young Hand-Drawn ''Blondie'' Comic Strip From 1933 Titled ''A Satisfied Customer'' -- Blondie & Dagwood Buy Furniture for Their New Home, Including a Bed That Dagwood Tests Out

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $756

• Lot #23: Chic Young Hand-Drawn ''Blondie'' Comic Strip From 1933 Titled ''A Free Soul'' -- The Bumsteads on Vacation

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $1,110

• Lot #29: Chic Young Hand-Drawn ''Blondie'' Comic Strip From 1934 Titled ''Men Are So Conceited!'' -- Blondie Makes a New Year's Resolution to be the ''Perfect Wife!''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $625

• Lot #30: Chic Young Hand-Drawn ''Blondie'' Comic Strip From 1934 Titled ''The Moth and the Flames'' -- Blondie Doesn't Take Any Chances With a Little Black Book

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $625

• Lot #34: Chic Young Hand-Drawn ''Blondie'' Comic Strip From 1934 Titled ''Hen-'Pecked''' -- Dagwood Races Out the Door to Catch His Bus

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $625

• Lot #35: Chic Young Hand-Drawn ''Blondie'' Sunday Comic Strip From 1934 -- The Bumsteads Realize an Instruction Booklet Doesn't Come With a New Baby

  

  Min Bid: $750

  Final Price: $1,374

• Lot #42: Chic Young Hand-Drawn ''Blondie'' Sunday Comic Strip From 1935 -- Dagwood Grabs a Midnight Snack

  

  Min Bid: $750

  Final Price: $938

• Lot #68: Chic Young Hand-Drawn ''Blondie'' Comic Strip From 1944 Titled ''Not a Foot to Stand On!'' -- Dagwood Does a Dance With the Vacuum Cleaner

  

  Min Bid: $200

  Final Price: $275

• Lot #71: Chic Young Hand-Drawn ''Blondie'' Comic Strip From 1944 Titled ''Sofa Solo!'' -- Daisy Tries to Sneak a Nap with Dagwood

  

  Min Bid: $200

  Final Price: $250

• Lot #72: Chic Young Hand-Drawn ''Blondie'' Comic Strip From 1945 Titled ''Give Her a Shave and a Haircut!'' -- Cookie Is Tired of Being a Girl

  

  Min Bid: $200

  Final Price: $334

• Lot #73: Chic Young Hand-Drawn ''Blondie'' Comic Strip From 1945 Titled ''Well, Mow Me Down!'' -- Alexander Can't Wait to Grow Up

  

  Min Bid: $200

  Final Price: $250

• Lot #75: Chic Young Hand-Drawn ''Blondie'' Comic Strip From 1945 Titled ''Hike and Seek!'' -- Dagwood Breaks the Fourth Wall in This Fun Strip

  

  Min Bid: $200

  Final Price: $275

• Lot #79: Chic Young Hand-Drawn ''Blondie'' Comic Strip From 1951 Titled ''The Case Calls for X-Rays!'' -- Dagwood's Midnight Snack Attack

  

  Min Bid: $200

  Final Price: $275

• Lot #80: ''Bringing Up Father'' Comic Strip Hand-Drawn by George McManus

  

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: $500

• Lot #81: Lot of 6 ''Colonel Potterby and the Duchess'' Sunday Comic Strips From 1938-1942 by Chic Young -- Includes ''Blondie'' Baby Dumpling Paper Doll & Costumes

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $625

• Lot #82: Superman Illustration Hand-Drawn by Curt Swan -- Measures 11.5'' x 16.5''

  

  Min Bid: $750

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #83: Lot of 4 ''Family Foursome'' Sunday Comic Strips From the 1930s by Chic Young -- Includes ''Blondie'' ''Play Money''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $688

• Lot #84: Lot of 4 ''Family Foursome'' Sunday Comic Strips From the 1930s by Chic Young -- Includes Blondie Paper Doll & Costumes

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $1,479

• Lot #85: ''Red Ryder'' Comic Strip Hand-Drawn by Fred Harman From 1947

  

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: $313

• Lot #86: ''Hi and Lois'' Sunday Comic Strip, Gifted by Mort Walker to ''Blondie'' Writer Dean Young -- Last Panel Shows Hi Saying ''I'll bet this never happened to Dagwood!''

  

  Min Bid: $300

  Final Price: $666

• Lot #88: ''The Heart of Juliet Jones'' 1969 Comic Strip Hand-Drawn & Signed by Stan Drake

  

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #90: Collection of 18 Sketches by Sheldon Mayer -- Circa Early 1930s at the Beginning of Mayer's Professional Career

  

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Final Price: $3,125

• Lot #92: Early Sheldon Mayer Sketch, Circa Early 1930s

  

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: $500

• Lot #97: Sheldon Mayer Comic Sketch Circa Early 1930s, Pre-Scribbly Strip for ''Why Big Brothers Leave Home''

  

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: $500

• Lot #100: Sheldon Mayer Comic Art From Unpublished Strip ''And How's Your Folks?'', Circa Early to Mid-1930s

  

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: $500

• Lot #103: Early Sheldon Mayer Sketch, Circa Early to Mid-1930s

  

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: $500

• Lot #105: Sheldon Mayer Sketchbook & Diary From 1935-1937 With Over 65 Pages of Sketches & 70 Pages of Writing -- Mayer Recounts His Early Career Selling ''Scribbly'', Being Sued by His Former Boss & More

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $9,279

• Lot #106: Sheldon Mayer Personally Owned Comic Items -- Including the Very First Issue of ''New Comics'' #1 From December 1935, With the First Appearance of Both Mr. Weed & Blimp -- Plus His High School Comic

  

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: $500

• Lot #107: Sheldon Mayer Artwork With His Characters Talking to Him, Imploring Him to Get Them Jobs at a Newspaper in the Funnies Section -- Colorful Artwork Measures 10'' x 14''

  

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: $2,106

• Lot #110: Sheldon Mayer Hand-Drawn 1944 Calendar -- The Year His Two Children Were Born Who Inspired ''Sugar and Spike''

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #112: Sheldon Mayer Original Hand-Drawn ''The Three Mouseketeers'' Draft -- Minus Saves Fatsy & Patsy From the Rooster!

  

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: $500

• Lot #113: Original Artwork by Sheldon Mayer, Drawn for a ''Sugar and Spike'' Animated Film -- 26 Panels of Original Art

  

  Min Bid: $2,600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #114: Sheldon Mayer Original Hand-Drawn ''Sugar and Spike'' Comic Book -- 18 Pages From the April-May 1957 Issue #7

  

  Min Bid: $1,800

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #115: Sheldon Mayer Original Hand-Drawn ''Sugar and Spike'' Comic Book -- 10 Pages From the August 1957 Issue #9 Where the Two Toddlers Discover Mirrors

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $10,208

• Lot #116: Sheldon Mayer Original Hand-Drawn ''Sugar and Spike'' Comic Book -- Complete Issue of 24 Pages From the September 1957 Issue #10 -- Sugar and Spike Try to Figure Out the Telephone & More Adventures

  

  Min Bid: $2,400

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #119: Sheldon Mayer Original Hand-Drawn ''Sugar and Spike'' Comic Book -- Complete Issue of 26 Pages From the February 1958 Issue #13 -- The Duo's First Snowball Fight, Discovering the Yo-Yo & Sledding

  

  Min Bid: $2,600

  Final Price: $16,444

• Lot #122: Sheldon Mayer Original Hand-Drawn ''Sugar and Spike'' Comic Book -- Complete Issue of 26 Pages From the June 1958 Issue #16 -- How Sugar & Spike Met, Batman Costume for Spike & Appearance by Scribbly!

  

  Min Bid: $2,600

  Final Price: $19,899

• Lot #123: Sheldon Mayer Original Hand-Drawn ''Sugar and Spike'' Comic Book -- 27 Pages From the August 1958 Issue #17 -- The First Appearance of Little Arthur!

  

  Min Bid: $2,700

  Final Price: $14,113

• Lot #125: Sheldon Mayer Original Hand-Drawn ''Sugar and Spike'' Comic Book -- 26 Pages From the February-March 1959 Issue #21

  

  Min Bid: $2,600

  Final Price: $16,444

• Lot #128: Sheldon Mayer Original Hand-Drawn ''Sugar and Spike'' Comic Book -- Complete Issue of 26 Pages From the October-November 1959 Issue #25

  

  Min Bid: $2,600

  Final Price: $5,760

• Lot #130: Sheldon Mayer Original Hand-Drawn ''Sugar and Spike'' Comic Book -- Complete Issue of 28 Pages From the February-March 1960 Issue #27 -- Valentine's Day Theme

  

  Min Bid: $2,800

  Final Price: $6,201

• Lot #132: Sheldon Mayer Original ''Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer'' Cover Artwork for ''The Best of DC #4'' Published 1979

  

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: $3,021

• Lot #133: Berenice Abbott 17'' x 14.75'' Photograph of ''Apple, Supersight''

  

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: $500

• Lot #135: Berenice Abbott 15.25'' x 19'' Photograph of ''Leaf, Supersight''

  

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: $500

• Lot #136: Berenice Abbott 15.75'' x 19.75'' Photograph of ''Collision of Two Balls''

  

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: $889

• Lot #137: Berenice Abbott Signed 14'' x 11'' Photograph of ''Yuban Warehouse, Brooklyn''

  

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: $550

• Lot #138: Berenice Abbott 19.25'' x 15.25'' Photograph of a Spindly Tree Branch -- One of Abbott's Rarer Images

  

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: $500

• Lot #141: Berenice Abbott Signed 14'' x 11'' Photograph of ''Blossom Restaurant, 103 Bowery between Grand and Hester Streets''

  

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: $500

• Lot #151: Berenice Abbott Signed Photo Mat of Her Portrait of Peggy Guggenheim With Her Dog -- Measures 16'' x 20''

  

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: $500

• Lot #154: Berenice Abbott Signed Photo Mat of Her Famous Portrait of James Joyce -- Measures 16'' x 20''

  

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: $1,305

• Lot #155: Berenice Abbott Signed Photo Mat of Her Portrait of Marie Laurencin -- Measures 16'' x 20''

  

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #158: Berenice Abbott Signed Photo Mat of Her Portrait of Fellow Documentary Photographer Eugene Atget -- Measures 16'' x 20''

  

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #159: Berenice Abbott Signed Photo Mat of Her Portrait of Rene Crevel -- Measures 16'' x 20''

  

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #171: Berenice Abbott Signed Photo Mat of Her Portrait of Jane Heap -- Measures 16'' x 20''

  

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #178: Robert Crumb ''The Conspiracy Stomp'' First Printing Poster From 1969

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $625

• Lot #182: Rare Bob Marley 8'' x 10'' Signed Photo, Signed ''All the Best / Bob Marley'' Without Inscription -- With Roger Epperson COA

  

  Min Bid: $8,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #183: Tupac Shakur Signed Cassette Tape Cover for ''Dear Mama''

  

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: $2,269

• Lot #185: Rare Letter Signed by Pianist Glenn Gould

  

  Min Bid: $750

  Final Price: $1,031

• Lot #186: BAFTA Award Statue Cast in Solid Bronze

  

  Min Bid: $4,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #188: Walt Disney Letter Signed From 1963 -- ''...My time, almost entirely, is devoted to the production of motion pictures here at the studio...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: $2,269

• Lot #189: 1919 World Series Program for the First Game -- With a Centerfold Photo of the Infamous ''Black Sox'' Team

  

  Min Bid: $800

  Final Price: $1,613

• Lot #191: Andrew Jackson Land Grant Signed as President

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $625

• Lot #192: Lot of 15 Presidential & Historical Signatures -- Including 2 by Abraham Lincoln, 2 by U.S. Grant, 3 by James Madison, 2 by James K. Polk, 1 by Andrew Jackson & More

  

  Min Bid: $7,500

  Final Price: $9,375

• Lot #194: Theodore Roosevelt Signed Limited First Edition of ''African Game Trails'' -- Both Volumes Present in Original Leather Bindings

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: $1,250

• Lot #202: Fabric Swatch From the Wright Flyer, Flown at Kitty Hawk During the First Flight on 17 December 1903 -- Encapsulated by CAG

  

  Min Bid: $4,900

  Final Price: $6,125

• Lot #203: Sam Houston Signed Land Grant as Governor of Texas From 1860

  

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: $1,875

• Lot #215: George Patton Signed 8'' x 9.5'' Photo, Showing His Famous Ivory Pistol Holstered -- With COA From University Archives

  

  Min Bid: $4,000

  Final Price: $5,000