Deadpool is breaking box office records, but now he’s getting ready to break another record: most valuable cover art. is raising the bar for the box office, shattering records left and right to become “ .” But the Merc With a Mouth is stepping out into over ventures—his next stop: the auction block.
The original line art for in New Mutants #98, penciled and inked by , has hit the auction block. is hosting the auction, with an asking price of $7.5 million.
If that price makes your eyes bulge, it should. If it sells for the asking price, this cover featuring the first appearance of Deadpool will become the most valuable piece of comic art ever sold at auction. THE original artwork penciled and inked for the cover of New Mutants No.
98, which introduced aka Marvel Comics’ Merc With a Mouth. The asking price: $7.5 million.
If it sells, it would become the single most valuable piece of original comic book art...
Heritage lists several other high-profile comic book art auctions. The highest to date is an featuring art by industry legend Frank Frazetta, which sold for $5.4 million.
The Deadpool cover would make Marvel’s biggest entry on the list of most valuable comic art ever sold. A of Amazing Spider-Man #328’s cover sold for $657,250. New Mutants #98 is a landmark Marvel Comics issue.
It featured the first appearance of Deadpool and Domino and the first hints towards Cable’s true identity as the son of Cyclops and Jean Grey. It’s also the beginning of the end fo.