# Hank Ketcham - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-30T20:59:13.429Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 33
- Lots with prices: 22
- First auction date: 2008-09-15
- Latest auction date: 2025-11-02
- Median realised price: $125
- Price range: $20 to $1,400

## Market Takeaway
Hank Ketcham has 33 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $125. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 3 sales. These metrics reflect recorded public auction results and may not include private transactions or every premium outlier sale.

## How To Read This Data
- Use median \($125\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($90 to $530\) as the middle 50% of recorded sales.
- Auction prices can include buyer premiums or fees depending on house reporting, so compare on a like\-for\-like basis.
- Condition, provenance, size, and attribution confidence can move final value materially versus median comps.

## Price Bands
- Under $1,000: 90.9% (20 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 9.1% (2 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 3
- Previous 12 months sales: 6
- Recent 12 months median: $70
- Previous 12 months median: $225
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-11-02
- Days since latest sale: 179
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- RR Auction: 6 lots
- Locati LLC: 5 lots
- Finarte: 4 lots
- Helmuth Stone: 4 lots
- Material Culture: 2 lots
- Midnight Sun Antique Auction: 2 lots
- Sloans & Kenyon: 2 lots
- Bill Hood & Sons Arts & Antiques Auctions: 1 lots
- Florida Estate Sales Inc.: 1 lots
- Goldberg Coins & Collectibles: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-11-02 | Hank Ketcham \- Original Dennis the Menace Comic | Helmuth Stone | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-hank-ketcham-original-dennis-the-menace-comic-249-c-99023d15f7
2. 2025-02-11 | Hank Ketcham \(1920\-2001\) 2 Dennis The Menace Comics | Material Culture | $225
3. 2025-02-11 | Hank Ketcham \(1920\-2001\) Dennis the Menace Daily | Material Culture | $1,400
4. 2025-07-17 | HANK KETCHAM \(American cartoonist, 1920\-2001\). Original cartoon of Dennis the Menace, inscribed "Cheers to Miss Nora!", signed and date | Sloans & Kenyon | $70
5. 2025-05-16 | HANK KETCHAM \(American cartoonist, 1920\-2001\). Original cartoon of Dennis the Menace, inscribed "Cheers to Miss Nora!", signed and date | Sloans & Kenyon | N/A
6. 2024-12-17 | Hank Ketcham \- Original Dennis the Menace Comic | Helmuth Stone | N/A
7. 2024-10-15 | Hank Ketcham \- Original Dennis the Menace Comic | Helmuth Stone | N/A
8. 2024-06-16 | Hank Ketcham \- Original Dennis the Menace Comic | Helmuth Stone | N/A
9. 2024-05-10 | Hank Ketcham \- Dennis the Menace, 1975 | Finarte | N/A
10. 2023-11-18 | Hank Ketcham \- Dennis the Menace, 1973 | Finarte | N/A
11. 2022-05-07 | Hank Ketcham \- Dennis the Menace, 1973 | Finarte | N/A
12. 2021-11-27 | Hank Ketcham \- Dennis the Menace, 1975 | Finarte | N/A
13. 2021-10-16 | HANK KETCHAM & JAY NORTH SIGNED PHOTOS | Florida Estate Sales Inc. | $20
14. 2019-02-18 | Hank Ketcham \(American 1920 \- 2001\) Two Dennis the Menace Drafts | Locati LLC | $225
15. 2019-01-21 | Hank Ketcham \(American 1920 \- 2001\) Two Dennis the Menace Drafts | Locati LLC | $125
16. 2019-01-21 | Hank Ketcham \(American 1920 \- 2001\) Two Dennis the Menace Drafts | Locati LLC | $125
17. 2019-01-21 | Hank Ketcham \(American 1920 \- 2001\) Sketch | Locati LLC | $40
18. 2018-12-17 | Hank Ketcham \(American 1920 \- 2001\) Two Dennis the Menace Drafts | Locati LLC | N/A
19. 2016-02-14 | HANK KETCHAM \(CA, 1920\-2001\) "Dennis the Menace", Sunday Comic Strip Original Art dated 7/26/1970, india ink on illustration board, with applique printed title block, dated at bottom, consisting of thirteen frames tel... | Thomaston Place Auction Galleries | $400
20. 2016-01-31 | 20 Dennis the Menace Posters. 1985 | Poster Auctions International Inc | $1,000
21. 2015-12-11 | Hank Ketcham “Dennis the Menace” panel 10/31/58. | Profiles in History | $600
22. 2015-06-02 | Hank Ketcham \(American 1920 \- 2001\) Dennis the Menace Comic ink on paper, 9" x 6" | Bill Hood & Sons Arts & Antiques Auctions | $800
23. 2015-05-09 | HANK KETCHAM \(cartoonist\) AUTOGRAPHED SKETCH | Midnight Sun Antique Auction | $60
24. 2015-05-09 | HANK KETCHAM \(Cartoonist\) AUTOGRAPHED SKETCH | Midnight Sun Antique Auction | $90

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