# Mort Walker - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T14:02:25.694Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 40
- Lots with prices: 32
- First auction date: 2009-05-10
- Latest auction date: 2025-05-09
- Median realised price: $225
- Price range: $40 to $1,000

## Market Takeaway
Mort Walker has 40 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $225. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 1 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 \($225\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($80 to $320\) 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: 96.9% (31 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 3.1% (1 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 2
- Recent 12 months median: $1,000
- Previous 12 months median: $200
- Median shift: 100%
- Latest sale date: 2025-05-09
- Days since latest sale: 355
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Finarte: 7 lots
- Swann Auction Galleries: 6 lots
- RR Auction: 3 lots
- Alexander Historical Auctions LLC: 2 lots
- Butterscotch Auction Gallery LLC: 2 lots
- GWS Auctions: 2 lots
- Grant Zahajko Auctions, LLC: 2 lots
- Litchfield Auctions: 2 lots
- Bradford's: 1 lots
- DejaVu Estate Sales & Auctions: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-05-09 | Mort Walker \- Beetle Bailey, 1975 | Finarte | €1,000
2. 2025-03-07 | Mort Walker \- Beetle Bailey, 70s | Finarte | €300
3. 2024-11-12 | Mort Walker "Beetle Bailey" Signed Sketch Photo Frame | Joe R. Pyle Complete Auction & Realty LLC | $200
4. 2023-12-14 | MORT WALKER \(1923\-2018\) ORIGINAL BEETLE BAILEY | Westport Auction | $60
5. 2023-11-18 | Mort Walker \- Boner's Ark, 1969 | Finarte | N/A
6. 2023-11-18 | Mort Walker \- Beetle Bailey, 70's | Finarte | €500
7. 2023-05-20 | Mort Walker \- Beetle Bailey, 09/11/1975 | Finarte | N/A
8. 2023-05-20 | Mort Walker \- Beetle Bailey, 19/02/1964 | Finarte | €550
9. 2022-10-22 | Mort Walker \- Beetle Bailey, 1961 | Finarte | €750
10. 2022-03-26 | Mort Walker "Beetle Bailey" Daily Comic Strip Art | GWS Auctions | $375
11. 2022-02-23 | MORT WALKER \- MISS BUXLEY \- COLOR PRINT | Litchfield Auctions | $175
12. 2022-02-23 | MORT WALKER \- DIK BROWNE HI & LOIS; BEETLE BAILEY | Litchfield Auctions | N/A
13. 2021-12-16 | MORT WALKER \(1923\-2018\) Group of three illustrations. \[COMICS / BEETLE BAILEY\] | Swann Auction Galleries | N/A
14. 2021-06-24 | MORT WALKER \(1923\-2018\) "Let's Go, Beetle!" \[COMICS / BEETLE BAILEY\] | Swann Auction Galleries | $500
15. 2021-06-24 | MORT WALKER \(1923\-2018\) & DIK BROWNE \(1917\-1989\) "Strike, You're Out!" \[COMICS / HI AND LOIS / BASEBALL\] | Swann Auction Galleries | $312
16. 2021-06-24 | MORT WALKER \(1923\-2018\) \[signing as ADDISON\] "I hope he doesn't go off to that obedience school..." \[COMICS / BONERS ARK\] | Swann Auction Galleries | $100
17. 2021-06-24 | MORT WALKER \(1923\-2018\) "Do you think that's some kind of a trick? \[COMICS / BEETLE BAILEY\] | Swann Auction Galleries | $275
18. 2021-06-24 | MORT WALKER \(1923\-2018\) \[signing as ADDISON\] "In case he ever slips he wants to be ready." \[COMICS / BONERS ARK\] | Swann Auction Galleries | $195
19. 2021-06-17 | Mort Walker Signed, Numbered Litho Miss Buxley | Grant Zahajko Auctions, LLC | $175
20. 2021-05-17 | MORT WALKER "BEETLE BAILEY" ORIGINAL COMIC COMP | DejaVu Estate Sales & Auctions | $80
21. 2021-04-11 | MORT WALKER "BEETLE BAILEY" COMIC STRIP LITHOGRAPH | Bradford's | $140
22. 2020-08-26 | Mort Walker \(1923\-2018\) Beetle Bailey AP Sculpture | Hill Auction Gallery | $375
23. 2020-07-05 | Mort Walker \(B. 1923\) "Beetle Bailey Comic" | Helmuth Stone | $225 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-mort-walker-b-1923-beetle-bailey-comic-240-c-15046cf9fd
24. 2020-06-30 | MORT WALKER \(AMERICAN, 1923\-2018\) BEETLE BAILEY COMIC STRIP Ink and pencil on paper: 17 x 11 1/2 in. \(sight\) | Potomack Company | $225

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