Raising around $11m including premiums, a November 15-17 comics and comic art sale held by Heritage Auctions (20% buyer’s premium) in Dallas included many of the usual super-hero star turns – but this time the big seller was something rather different.
Acquired at $500,000 (£390,625) by the newly created, Belgian-based Philippe Boon Foundation for Narrative Graphic Arts was the original eight-page artwork for Master Race. This was a feature that appeared in Impact #1, a short-lived EC publication of 1955.
Presenting “…the first major representation of the Holocaust in the history of graphic narrative…, Master Race is one of the world masterworks” of that genre, said Daniel Spindler of the Boon Foundation after the sale.