The original artwork from Superman #75 is hitting public auction for the first time in over 30 years.
ComicConnect is offering 26 pieces from the 1992 issue. That's 25 interior pages plus the cover. Dan Jurgens pencils, Brett Breeding inks. Every piece starts at $1. No reserve. 15% buyer's premium. Bidding opens March 19 at noon ET and closes April 12.
This is the Death of Superman. The book that sold 6 million copies and generated $30 million in first-day revenue. The top-selling comic of 1992. Now the art is coming out.
How the Art Got Here
Dan Jurgens sold a batch of pages shortly after publication in 1993. One buyer paid $28,000 total. That buyer later resold the lot for $200,000. Same collector has held it since. This is the first time the art has been publicly available in three decades.
The offering includes the iconic cover art, the collector's edition poster, the triple gatefold splash pages (pages 25, 27, 28), and the final splash page. These aren't preparatory sketches. This is the finished ink-on-board art that went to print for one of the most significant comic events of the 1990s.
Why This Matters Now
Original comic art is running hot. Heritage just closed a $27.5 million comics auction in early March. For the first time in Heritage's history, five lots cleared $1 million.
The top lot was a painting. Frank Frazetta's Vampirella #1 cover sold for $3.125 million. A John Romita Sr. cover for Amazing Spider-Man #84 set a new record at $656,250. Joe Shuster's Action Comics #21 cover hit $1 million.
The Death of Superman art isn't Golden Age. But it is culturally significant. Superman #75 moved more copies in 1992 than any other single issue that year. The story crossed over into mainstream news coverage. Non-collectors bought it. Investors bought it. Speculators bought it. Copies still flood the secondary market today.
But there is only one set of original art.
The Context Around This Sale
ComicConnect isn't running this auction in a vacuum. Heritage is simultaneously hosting a Horror Comics auction. ComicLink has an 8,000-lot focused auction live right now. The market is deep at the moment.
The original art market has different economics than the graded comics market. There are 6 million copies of Superman #75 in circulation. Most are worth less than $5. But the 26 pieces of finished art that created that issue exist once. Scarcity drives price at the top end.
This is the same math that pushed a Frazetta painting above most Golden Age keys. The same reason a Romita cover set a new record. One buyer. One piece. No substitutes.
What $1 Starting Bids Mean
ComicConnect is betting that collector demand will drive the final price without artificial floors. No reserve pricing means the market sets the value. It also means every piece will sell.
The risk is minimal. Auction houses don't float $1 no-reserve sales on weak material. They float them when they know competitive bidding will escalate quickly. Given the current trajectory of original art and the cultural weight of Superman #75, that's a safe assumption.
The Numbers to Watch
Superman #75 generated $30 million on its first day in 1992. Over 6 million copies sold. The book became a cultural moment that extended beyond the hobby. Now the original art is being offered as 26 individual lots, each starting at $1.
The buyer who paid $28,000 in 1993 saw the value climb to $200,000. That collector has held for three decades. At auction, the new buyer profile could include Golden Age collectors pivoting into Modern Age keys, museum buyers, or high-net-worth fans who lived through the event in real time.
March 19, noon ET. The auction opens. By April 12, the market will have spoken.
