Stewart Berkowitz final prices 10/24/25

[A. Pennyworth]

From Heritage Auction website, screen grabs of final bids (includes buyers premium), probably have to download image to see in full (more items later)

[BiffPow]

Thanks for compiling this on one image, John. That’s valuable.

[mailalan]

Do we know where the items will be going, if any will be going to museums or into personal collections?

[Ben Bentley]

John, thank you so much for taking the time put this graphic together so quickly!

Myself, Mark Racop, Scott and the gang were able to pour over your graphic in person over the weekend. Your name came up multiple times over the weekend in the highest regard during the Message Board get together at Fiberglass Freaks museum this past weekend.

[Troy]

This breaks my heart all over again

[Ben Bentley]

This breaks my heart all over again

It never stopped… haha

But yeah, I looked again this morning and even 72hrs on and I’m still scratching my head at some of these outcomes.

[Chuck Williams]

While the auction is heartbreaking, I appreciate AP's compiling of all this info into one graphic!
It really helps this old , image reliant brain!

I think if they had sold these by the piece instead of dumping everything at once, they would have done higher numbers.

I also think we are seeing the aging out of collecting original 66 items.

[Ben Bentley]

I think if they had sold these by the piece instead of dumping everything at once, they would have done higher numbers.

To your great point about "dumping" (I mentioned this to the gang at the museum over the weekend) - this auction comes in the wake of Azarian, Comissar, Greg Jein and Ralph all having unloaded screen-used '66 items into the marketplace within the last five or six years. Arguably, I don't think this volume of TV Bat-Stuff has ever hit the market in such a condensed chunk of time.

I also think we are seeing the aging out of collecting original 66 items.

I'm playing the long-game... *twizzles mustache and cackles morbidly*

[mailalan]

I also think we are seeing the aging out of collecting original 66 items.

I agree with this. I was thinking the same thing a few days ago. I see the same phenomenon at G.I.Joe collector shows I go to. Most of the collectors of 1960's to 1970's G.I. Joe items are now in their 60's or 70's. The items they are paying hundreds or even thousands for today will, in a few years, be virtually worthless to younger generations that never played with them and have no sentimental memories of them.

I think the same applies to the Batman items we collect for the most part.

[AndyFish]

Nah fellas I've heard this over and over again with comics-- nobody collects Golden Age Comics because the people who bought them off the stands are all dead. Not true. Well, true they're dead, but there are still plenty of buyers. I go to dozens of shows a year and these young comic dealers love the history of the merch and they have young buyers who are interested in it-- I see it at shows and in auctions.

Old comics spiked like crazy during the pandemic, people had more money since the overlords told us we couldnt leave our houses (I was out crusing in my convertible everyday and had the roads to myself) and with that extra money they drove up prices on collectibles.

Well, prices on Silver and Bronze age comics (from the 60s- 80s) have corrected themselves leaving a lot of buyers underwater, but Golden Age Comics stayed essentially at the same level.

Batman The TV Series remains popular on streaming, and at a recent show I did-- I'm not making this up, I was at dinner and a young woman-- couldn't have been more than 23, was my waitress. On her order pad she had a 1966 Batman logo on it and I asked her about it and she said it's hands down her favorite version of Batman and she has a bunch of friends who do too.

So yeah, us older guys are scaling back as we move into fixed income levels and smaller houses (my house couldn't be any smaller or it would be a shed) but there are still younger fans and I think there always will be.

I think there was indeed a glut of this merchandise and when you pour it all into an auction that ends over a 2-3 day period that's a big strain even on deep pockets.

Currently there is a huge auction at Heritage for Universal Monsters stuff from the 60s and that couldn't get much hotter.