LOS ANGELES, May 6, 2020 – The Sheldon Mayer collections featuring “Sugar and Spike” comic strips was auctioned for $284,452 last Thursday by Nate D. Sanders Auctions.
The highest price realized was an Original “Scribbly” artwork from September 1939, which sold for $29,845. These iconic four pages of Scribbly appeared as four complete stories in the #6 issue, chronicling Scribbly Jibbet’s journey of getting hired as a 13 1/2 year old boy cartoonist, a storyline based on Mayer’s own experiences in the comic book industry during the early 1930s.
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