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Frazetta painted the clothes off Vampirella, sold the result for $3.1M

Ellsworth Toohey
Mar 04, 2026
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Vampirella/Heritage Auctions

In 1991, Frank Frazetta took a brush to one of the most famous paintings in horror-comics history and painted the clothes off the central figure. He’d done the original Vampirella #1 cover for Warren Publishing in 1969, knocking it out in a few hours, and it became the debut image of a character who’d endure for decades. But …

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