{"id":7073083,"date":"2026-10-02T16:20:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T16:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7073083"},"modified":"2026-10-02T16:20:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T16:20:15","slug":"jim-lee-dc-original-comic-art-for-charity-auctions-31-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7073083","title":{"rendered":"Jim Lee DC Original Comic Art for Charity \u2013 auctions 31-40"},"content":{"rendered":"


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You\u2019re reading the 4th part in a series of articles analyzing Jim Lee\u2019s Original Comic Art Charity Auctions for Comic Book stores in need during the Covid-19 pandemic. Auction #40 has just ended, so we\u2019re ready for an overview of auctions #31-40.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re new here and want to start from the beginning here\u2019s part One:<\/p>\n

Jim Lee original art for charity 1-10<\/a>,<\/h4>\n

part Two:<\/p>\n

Jim Lee original art for charity 11-20<\/a>.<\/h4>\n

And part Three:<\/p>\n

Jim Lee Original Art for charity 21-30.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

And if you want to follow the live auctions here\u2019s a link to:<\/p>\n

Jim\u2019s eBay page.<\/a><\/h4>\n

(And before we start, if you\u2019re a comic art collector, why don\u2019t you subscribe to the Original Comic Art Tips newsletter? A weekly dose of auction results analysis and new auctions highlights. Just go to the homepage<\/a>, or if you want to read the latest issue click on the Archive button in the upper menu.)<\/em><\/p>\n

What will happen now?<\/h4>\n

These are the last 10 \u201cheadsketches\u201d, but as you can guess they\u2019re not all headsketches, we\u2019ll see a bust, two waist-up figures and two full figures (with #40 Raven, being a full illustration).<\/p>\n

Jim Lee himself annouced on his social profiles that \u201cSketches 41-50 may be a little different than the rest as I try some mixed media.\u201d<\/em> and \u201cThis ends the \u201cheadshots\u201d guiding principle for sketches 21-40.The next ten 41-50 will be mixed media and very different and experimental. Maybe a painted on canvas piece? Then the final 10 51-60 will return to the original style and approach that started this whole crazy campaign! Curious to see what I come up with? Me too\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

But he forgot to tell us if these will still be headsketches or not. Well judging from #41 (Brainiac<\/a> being auctioned now) they will.
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Time for Charts.<\/h4>\n

Let\u2019s see the first chart for auctions 31-40. #34 Ace the Bat-Hound (and Batman) was sold for $20,100, it sets a new record for exactly $1k over #28, Death, but the other 9 pieces performed less than we\u2019re used to, with only 2 sketches going over $10k. At the same time no one went for less than $5k, (there were three between #21-30).<\/p>\n

Sketch #34 contained the first depiction of a regular Batman (alternate versions\/costumes of Batman were already drawn), and as you could expect, it was exactly what fans were waiting for taking it to more than $20k.<\/p>\n

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In the second chart we see that the total raised by Jim Lee alone for charity (not counting the many pieces donated by his colleagues) is now at $ with $200k already sent to store owners in need.<\/p>\n

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