About Barry Sandoval

In addition to managing Heritage's Comics division, which sells some $20 million worth of comics and original comic art each year, Barry helps evaluate collections and helps write and research catalog descriptions of high-profile lots. He recently won the CGC grading contest held at Wizard World Chicago. He is an advisor to the Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide.

About Heritage Auctions

Heritage Auction Galleries is the largest collectibles auctioneer and third largest auction house in the world. The firm owns the record for highest price paid for a comic book at auction, $1.075 million for a copy of the first Batman comic, Detective Comics #27. Heritage Auctions has made national headlines as the exclusive auctioneer of a number of private archives, including The Nicolas Cage Collection, which anchored a $5.2 million auction in 2002, and the $1.8 million Davis Crippen Collection. Heritage has been chosen as auctioneer by Stan Lee, Joe Kubert, and other artists and writers, as well as institutions such as Mad Magazine, Playboy, and Random House.