Black Cat’s Debut Leads Heritage’s January Comics & Comic Art Auction
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Al Milgrom, The Amazing Spider-Man #194 cover with Black Cat's first appearance
Al Milgrom’s original cover art for The Amazing Spider-Man No. 194 which introduced Black Cat in 1979 goes under the hammer for the first time in Heritage Auctions' January 9 -12 Comics & Comic Art sale.
Milgrom, who’d previously worked on Captain Marvel and the Guardians of the Galaxy stories for Marvel Presents, was responsible for more than 1,000 covers during his tenures at DC (including the All-Star Comics revival, Weird War Tales and Batman) and Marvel.
Other highlights include:
- Jack Kirby and Mike Royer’s cover of 1978’s graphic novel The Silver Surfer (often known as The Silver Surfer: The Ultimate Cosmic Experience)
- Kirby and Joe Sinnott’s splash page from 1969’s Fantastic Four No. 83, an Inhumans tale Shall Man Survive?
- an original 'Marvel Masterwork Pin-Up' featuring the Man Without Fear walking a highwire in Daredevil No. 5 in which Wally Wood (as Wallace Wood) was introduced as the title’s new artist in collaboration with writer Stan Lee
- a page from Frank Miller's Daredevil No. 166, in which the Man Without Fear tangles with Gladiator
- Detective Comics No. 38 from 1940, the book in which Robin made his debut
