{"id":8952,"date":"2018-05-10T17:03:52","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T21:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/Life-Insurance-Blog\/?guid=4c193c2c0f0ed60147bdde3fe4a97b01"},"modified":"2018-05-10T17:03:52","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T21:03:52","slug":"death-dealer-painting-outshines-superman-comic-at-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2018\/05\/10\/death-dealer-painting-outshines-superman-comic-at-auction\/","title":{"rendered":"Death Dealer painting outshines Superman comic at auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO &#8212; Superman may be the Man of Steel, but he&#8217;s no Death Dealer.<\/p>\n<p>Comic books featuring the debuts of Superman, the Joker and Catwoman fetched hundreds of thousands of dollars at a Chicago auction Thursday, but the star was undoubtedly a painting by science fiction and fantasy artist Frank Frazetta.<\/p>\n<p>Heritage Auctions says Frazetta&#8217;s &#8220;Death Dealer 6&#8221; painting sold for a whopping $1,792,500 &#8212; a record for one of his paintings and three times the $600,000 it was expected to get.<\/p>\n<p>A 1938 Action Comics #1 in which Superman debuted sold for $573,600 &#8212; not the $650,000 the auction house thought it might go for but still a nice payday for the collector who bought it for $50,000 15 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>A Batman comic book from 1940 in which both the Joker and Catwoman debuted sold for $227,050.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO &mdash; Superman may be the Man of Steel, but he&rsquo;s no Death Dealer. Comic books featuring the debuts of Superman, the Joker and Catwoman fetched hundreds of thousands of dollars at a Chicago auction Thursday, but the star was undoubtedly a painting by science fiction and fantasy artist Frank Frazetta. Heritage Auctions says Frazetta&rsquo;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8952"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8954,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8952\/revisions\/8954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}