From Noah Fliesher at Heritage Auctions we learn that the original Frank Miller cover art for Daredevil No. 188 (1982), from near the end of Miller’s run on the title — the run that established him as a masterful new talent — sold for a world record public auction price of $101,575 on Friday, May 21, as part of Heritage Auctions’ $3.2+ million Signature Comics & Comic Art Auction. At another Signature sale earlier in May, a copy of Robert Crumb’s Zap No. 1, graded 9.4 (Near Mint on a 10-point scale), sold for $26,290, a new record for the underground book. Said Heritage operations director Barry Sandoval: “I don’t think it’s kicking off any trend in underground comics being a hot investment, but Zap No. 1 could be considered the underground equivalent of Action Comics No. 1.”
In other Frank Miller news, a “prequel” to the artist’s celebrated 300 is under construction. Entitled Xerxes, it is a much more ambitious tale. "The story will be the same heft as 300 but it covers a much, much greater span of time: it's 10 years, not three days," Miller told the L.A. Times. Dark Horse will begin releasing the six-issue tale next year. And if this series is as "awesome and compelling" as the first, Zack Snyder, director of the movie “300,” said he’d be interested in translating it to the big screen.
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