Hake’s Soars to $2.2M with Star Wars, Comics & Collectible Grails

Hake’s March 25-26 auction of extraordinary rarities from across today’s most popular collecting categories rocketed to a lofty $2.2 million, with many new world records set along the way. Before the sale, Hake’s president, Alex Winter, had predicted the Star Wars original comic art would reach “a new level in the marketplace.” It did precisely that.The greatest prize in the comic book art category was Howard Chaykin’s (b. 1950-) original pen-and-ink page (Pag