Up, Up And Away!

no I am not talking about Superman, just the price of his ever increasing comics and artwork, two of the world's rarest pieces of comic art are set to be auctioned off for up to $1.4 million (£1million), Jerry Robinson was just 18 when he created the Joker, Batman's villainous psychopathic nemesis, He was among the pioneers of a new American art form that included Fred Ray, whose iconic 1942 comic book cover known as Superman Patriotic Shield sealed the superhero's status as the defender of 'Truth, Justice and the American Way.'

the two men worked side by side at DC Comics, but it was Robinson who had the wherewithal to save the original Superman 14 cover art depicting 'The Man of Steel' with a bold eagle perched on his shoulder in front of a U.S. shield, nearly 70 years later, Robinson is reluctantly parting with the two original artworks through the online auctioneer ComicConnect.com. the Superman cover is expected to bring up to $1 million (£618,408), while the Joker will secure more than $400,000 (£247,360), as Robinson said, 'ninety-nine point nine percent of the art ... doesn't exist any longer, publishers were there to make money, so to warehouse the hand-drawn black and white art was a waste of money,' another one of those 'if only' stories, imagine reading this and it was you that burnt all of those images all that time ago!