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Winter Market Report 2025JUDGE DREDD ARTWORK: £5,400 – X-MEN #1: £3,850
Our Judge Dredd artwork had been stored away, crucially out of the light, for 43 years. The vendor’s father worked in the art dept. at Fleetway House in London and took his teen-age son to the office where after a brief chat, a relatively unknown artist, Ron Smith, reached beside his desk and gave the young man this artwork as a gift. It had been kept in its original brown wrapping paper all these years eventually seeing the light once more at auction. Our research discovered that it was the full page, back cover illustration for 2000AD prog 294 from 1982. We then bought a copy on eBay for £15 which was included in the lot. 30 bids drove the price up and it was finally knocked down for £5,400. We would suggest that this is the only time that the Judge has ever been knocked down.
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