Heritage Auctions closed out September with a four-day comics bonanza that brought in a combined $18,174,129 across two signature auctions in Dallas. The September 24–26 Comics Signature Auction totaled $8,425,785, while the September 25–27 Comic Art Signature Auction added $9,748,344, confirming the steady strength of high-grade Golden Age material and blue-chip original art. The headline lot was a CGC 9.0 copy of Captain America No. 1 (1941), the standout of the Merrimack Valley Collection — a recently discovered trove of Golden Age comics kept by an original owner in a cardboard box for some 75 to 80 years. It realized $716,750, a result that delighted specialists given the collection's humble storage conditions. Heritage vice president Aaron White noted that the condition of books stored that long was "stunning" and that collectors had rewarded top-condition foundational issues. The comic-art session was led by Jerry Robinson's original cover art for Detective Comics No. 68 (1942), featuring Two-Face's first cover appearance and second appearance overall, which brought $475,000. Frank Miller's legendary late-1970s and early-1980s run on Daredevil prompted fierce bidding: the page of Elektra's first story appearance (Daredevil No. 168, 1981) landed $450,000; the hand-colored title page of the same issue, colored by Steve Oliff shortly before his work on Akira, sold for $106,250; page 35 of No. 181, depicting Daredevil's rooftop showdown with Bullseye after Elektra's death, hit $325,000; and the first appearance of the Kingpin on page 8 of No. 170 brought $231,250. A surprise came from Gary Larson: original art from his 1985 Far Side strip about socially insecure clowns sold for $112,500, more than doubling the previous Far Side record of $51,600. Together, the two auctions showed a market in which provenance, condition and cultural resonance continue to push prices for the most iconic comics and their original art.