Hake’s Auctions closed its March 24-25 Premier Auction at $1.9 million across more than 1,400 lots, with a Golden Age Captain America comic and a mint-condition Star Wars figure leading a weekend of record-setting pop-culture bids.

Key Points

• Hake’s Premier Auction #246 totaled $1.9 million over two nights in late March
• A 1941 Captain America Comics #1 sold for $71,554, the auction’s overall top lot
• A 1978 Kenner Star Wars Jawa figure with a “vinyl cape” sold for $55,152
• Several lots set new world-record prices for their categories
• Political memorabilia and G.I. Joe pieces also cracked the top ten results

The sale’s marquee item was a copy of Captain America Comics #1 from March 1941, graded CGC 4.0 and featuring Jack Kirby’s cover art of the star-spangled hero punching Adolf Hitler. It sold for $71,554, according to Hake’s own auction results as reported through the release covering the sale.

Star Wars collectors pushed just as hard. A 1978 Kenner Jawa action figure in the scarce “vinyl cape” variety, graded AFA 95 Mint on an unpunched card, brought $55,152 — the highest price Hake’s says it has ever realized for that specific toy, according to the auction house’s release on the results. A Hungarian bootleg Boba Fett figure tied to Return of the Jedi added another $25,726 to the Star Wars total.

The results extended beyond franchise toys. A Sears-exclusive, Canada-only G.I. Joe Cobra Combat Set graded AFA 80 sold for $31,129, while a set of early-1930s political items — including a Cox & Roosevelt 1920 campaign button and a 1936 “Re-Elect Roosevelt” poster — brought $45,578 and $44,428, respectively, rounding out the auction’s top results, per the same release.

“Each night brought impressive results with spirited bidding that saw several lots set new world record prices,” said Kelly McClain, Hake’s general manager, in comments included in the auction house’s press materials distributed through Auction Daily. Hake’s, headquartered in York, Pennsylvania, was founded in 1967 as what it describes as the first pop-culture auction house in the U.S., and today handles categories ranging from comic books and movie posters to political buttons and sports memorabilia across regular sales.

The Jawa figure’s result is a useful yardstick for how far graded vintage toy pricing has climbed. Kenner’s original 1978 Star Wars line included a handful of packaging and paint variations that collectors barely blinked at in the 1980s, when the figures sold for a couple of dollars apiece on department-store pegs. A near-flawless, unpunched example with the rarer vinyl cape is now a five-figure object, and the auction’s release notes it as the best price Hake’s has recorded for the toy to date.

The $1.9 million weekend underscores how deep the market for vintage toys and comics has grown — pieces that once sold for pocket change at drugstore checkout counters are now competing with campaign memorabilia and comic-book grails for top billing at a single sale.