“Maybe it should come as no surprise, ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ is easily one of the most beloved comics of all time,” says Todd Hignite, Heritage Auctions’ vice president, to Artnet’s Richard Whiddington. The first “Flash Gordon,” created by American cartoonist Alex Raymond and published on January 7, 1934, also sold for $480,000 in 2020. It also tied the record for most valuable original newspaper strip ever sold at auction. The comic strip broke the previous “Calvin and Hobbes” auction record, which was set in September when a February 1992 hand-colored daily strip sold for $216,000. Now, one lucky fan can revisit the comic strip’s magic again and again: An unnamed buyer purchased a hand-colored “Calvin and Hobbes” Sunday strip that ran on May 24, 1987 for $480,000 during Heritage Auctions’ Comics & Comic Art Signature sale, the auction house revealed in a statement. The final strip of “Calvin and Hobbes” ran in 1995, and as animation writer Charles Solomon said on NPR a decade later, they left behind a hole that “no strip has been able to fill.” From the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, newspaper readers around the world followed the antics-and surprisingly poignant musings-of 6-year-old Calvin and his anthropomorphic tiger best friend, Hobbes, in Bill Watterson’s beloved daily comic strip.
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