Heritage Auctions Nov. 19 to 22 Comics and Comic Art Auction was one for the record books. By the time the four-day, $14.2 million event wrapped up, a few world records had been set in several categories. A copy of Detective Comics No. 27 sold for $1.5 million, the highest price ever realized for a Batman comic book. A sealed Pokmon First Edition Base Set Booster Box nearly doubled a recently set world record when it collected $360,000. And when it sold for $156,000, a sealed copy of the Super Mario Bros. 3 variant release toppled a previously set high score for a video game by more than $40,000. Considering how many years collectors have searched for a sealed copy of Super Mario Bros. 3 from the first production run, it comes as little surprise that this was the next game to topple the previous world record, says Heritage Auctions Video Game Director Valarie McLeckie. It should be noted, too, that Super Mario Bros. 3 didnt merely set a world record, but served as the centerpiece of the worlds first-ever million-dollar video-game auction. The Peanuts gang also got in on the action during the Comics and Comic Art event. A Charles Schulz strip from Nov. 17, 1950, only the 40th strip in the series run, and by far the oldest Heritage has ever offered, sold for $192,000, setting a record for the highest price ever paid for daily Peanuts panels. Snoopy, then a young pup, who, as it turns out, originally belonged to Shermy, was all bite in an auction worth barking about. As its exceedingly rare to see such an early-days Peanuts, we are thrilled but not altogether surprised to set the world record for a piece of Schulz art, says Matt Griffin, a consignment director in Heritages Comics and Comic Art department. The price realized proves the enduring appeal of Charles Schulzs work, which remains as beloved and essential today as it was 70 years ago. Almost 5,500 bidders participated in the four-day event that garnered worldwide attention even when it wasnt setting records. Indeed, renowned illustrator Jim Lee took to Twitter when his and inker Scott Williams iconic cover art for The Uncanny X-Men No. 268, featuring Captain America and Wolverine and Black Widow, sold for $300,000. Noted DC Comics publisher and Chief Creative Officer, This cover could have been yours for $650 back in 1990! Thats a 46,053 percent return on investment. The auction was thrilling from start to finish. Not only was the bidding fast and furious on almost every one of the nearly 1,800 lots offered, but Heritage introduced to the market some never-before-available and hardest-to-find items that sparked interest and attention. Among the biggest hits of the star-studded event were the following: Artist Douglas Shulers original art for the Magic: The Gathering Demonic Tutor card, sold for $168,000. This was one of five iconic offerings from the Len Osborne MTG collection making their respective debuts at auction. A seldom seen copy of Action Comics No. 7, graded CGC VG 4.0, sold for $144,000, almost twice the highest price listed in the most recent Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide for a modest-condition copy of Supermans second cover appearance. A nearly perfect CGC 9.8 Batman No. 181, from 1966, realized $90,000, the highest price ever paid for a Silver Age Dark Knight. This is perhaps partially due to charactor Poison Ivy, who makes her debut in this book. And Todd McFarlanes original art for page 17 from 1990s Amazing Spider-Man No. 328 brought $120,000 in its first public sale. This dazzling page, like Lees X-Men cover, came from the collection of Jeff Nason, who began buying original artwork when he was in high school and 30 years later decided to share them with the collecting community. Nasons was not the only formidable collection sold. The auction also included a part of Randy Lawrences headline-making, award-winning Alfred Pennyworth collection, most famous, until now, for having been stolen from a South Florida self-storage locker in January 2019. Lawrence spent nearly two years, almost entirely by himself, tracking down the purloined collection ranked among the finest in CGCs Batman registry. Once returned, Lawrence decided to consign the entirety of the collection to Heritage, which auctioned off 200 Golden Age titles from what is called the Alfred Pennyworth collection. Those books alone shattered pre-auction expectations by realizing more than $1 million, and there remain hundreds more Batman books to come from Lawrences collection in January and February events, including his Silver Age titles. Our expectations were high across the board, but every category of the auction brought some results that were double or triple what we thought we could reasonably expect, says Heritage Auctions Vice President Barry Sandoval. Its a great time to be a seller right now. For additional information, visit www.HA.com.