A piece of comic book history has a new owner. The original drawing used for the first published magazine cover to feature Hergé’s Tintin sold for over $1.12 million at auction on Saturday, Heritage Auctions has announced. Part of a sale of European Comic Art held in Dallas, Texas, held over the weekend, the illustration is one of the few known privately owned cover drawings signed by the Belgian cartoonist—the vast majority are held by the Museé Hergé in Louvain-la-Neuve, near Brussels—and also one of the oldest, dating back to 1930. Neither the winning bidder or the previous owner has been identified.
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