DC Comics Publisher Jim Lee & Friends Raise Over $700K In 9 Weeks With 90 Art Auctions To Help Comic Book Shops Hurt By Covid-19 Coronavirus Pandemic!

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DC Comics Publisher Jim Lee and Friends Raise Over $700K In 9 Weeks With 90 Art Auctions To Help Comic Book Shops Hurt By Covid-19 Coronavirus Pandemic!

Jim Lee has completed 46 of 60 promised art pieces; that’s 14 more days of Jim Lee art. It will be over 60 days just not consecutive days/ On top of that he’s been able to have artist peers contribute to support struggling local comic book stores.

Click on the summaries below to see final amount for each auction. The total raised on the first 90 closed auctions are $689,325.23

At press time there were 3 additional auctions that had yet to close with bids of $13,287 so far in total.

Combining those pending auctions, which are “minimum” successful bids, the total would be $702,612.23.

Wow. Great effort by Jim Lee and friends plus, naturally, the successful bidders.

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