{"id":38560,"date":"2021-03-09T10:53:02","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T08:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=38560"},"modified":"2025-08-30T05:25:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T02:25:35","slug":"former-dc-comics-artist-sells-wonder-woman-nft-for-1-85-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/former-dc-comics-artist-sells-wonder-woman-nft-for-1-85-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Former DC Comics artist sells Wonder Woman NFT for $1.85 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former DC Comics artist Jos\u00e9 Delbo, together with crypto artists Hackatao, earned $1.85 million from the sale of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) featuring Wonder Woman.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">DROPS LAST WEEK WERE \ud83d\udd25!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jose_Delbo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Jose_Delbo<\/a> x <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Hackatao?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Hackatao<\/a> totalled $1,850,000 USD<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/katyarrington?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@katyarrington<\/a> totalled $160,000 USD<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AnnaDreamBrush?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AnnaDreamBrush<\/a> totalled $242,000 USD<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to all artists and collectors!<\/p>\n<p>All Drops happen here \ud83d\udc47\ud83d\udc47<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LSnoYY6GcY\">https:\/\/t.co\/LSnoYY6GcY<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NFT?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NFT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MakersPlace (@makersplaceco) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/makersplaceco\/status\/1368266885335150592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 6, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nOver four days, the artists put up for auction 914 NFTs from the &#8220;Heroines&#8221; collection. Each token contained one of seven images dedicated to the fight for women&apos;s rights and opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>The most expensive piece sold was &#8220;Weight of the World&#8221;. The illustration shows Wonder Woman bearing the Earth on her shoulders, and it sold for 148.888 ETH (about $271,000 at the time of writing).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_127327\" style=\"width: 695px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-127327\" class=\"size-full wp-image-127327\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-432.png\" alt=\"Former DC Comics artist sells Wonder Woman NFT for $1.85 million\" width=\"685\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-432.png 685w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-432-300x188.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 685px) 100vw, 685px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-127327\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The painting &#8220;Weight of the World&#8221;. Data: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jose_delbo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jose Delbo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The 87-year-old Argentine artist Jos\u00e9 Delbo illustrated Wonder Woman comics from 1976 to 1981. He also worked on Batman and Transformers publications.<\/p>\n<p>All proceeds from the NFT sale were donated by the artists to Girls Who Code, a group working to close the gender gap in technology.<\/p>\n<p>In early February, actress Lindsay Lohan sold the NFT Lightning <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/lindsay-lohan-sells-bitcoin-nft-at-auction-price-tops-70000\">for $70,000<\/a>. The popular <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/nyan-cat-meme-animation-sells-for-300-eth-at-foundation-auction\">meme GIF of Nyan Cat was sold<\/a> for 300 ETH. In early March, singer Grimes <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/grimes-sells-nft-collection-of-unreleased-music-for-6-million\">earned<\/a> about $6m from her NFT collection.<\/p>\n<p>Charlie Lee <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/litecoin-creator-likens-nft-craze-to-the-2017-ico-boom\">compared<\/a> the popularity of NFTs to the ICO boom of 2017 and the altcoin craze of 2013. Earlier he <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/litecoin-creator-predicts-nft-crash\">predicted the collapse of NFTs<\/a> due to &#8220;zero cost of their creation&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"WXRcmACu6w\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/nfts-as-a-new-class-of-virtual-assets-a-first-look-part-one\">NFT as a new class of virtual assets: first look (part one)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u00abNFT \u043a\u0430\u043a \u043d\u043e\u0432\u044b\u0439 \u043a\u043b\u0430\u0441\u0441 \u0432\u0438\u0440\u0442\u0443\u0430\u043b\u044c\u043d\u044b\u0445 \u0430\u043a\u0442\u0438\u0432\u043e\u0432: \u043f\u0435\u0440\u0432\u044b\u0439 \u0432\u0437\u0433\u043b\u044f\u0434 (\u0447\u0430\u0441\u0442\u044c \u043f\u0435\u0440\u0432\u0430\u044f)\u00bb \u2014 ForkLog\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/exclusive\/nft-kak-novyj-klass-virtualnyh-aktivov-pervyj-vzglyad-chast-pervaya\/embed#?secret=UVHcvoaoqi#?secret=WXRcmACu6w\" data-secret=\"WXRcmACu6w\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On March 6, the founder of Twitter, Jack Dorsey <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/jack-dorsey-puts-his-first-tweet-up-for-sale-justin-sun-offers-2-million\">put up for sale<\/a> his first tweet as an NFT. Bids rose to $2 million within 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, an NFT copy of Banksy&apos;s burned painting titled &#8220;Morons&#8221; sold on OpenSea <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/nft-copy-of-burned-banksy-painting-sells-for-228-eth\">for 228.69 ETH<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> &mdash; the full news stream, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog<\/a> &mdash; the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former DC Comics artist Jos\u00e9 Delbo, together with crypto artists Hackatao, earned $1.85 million from the sale of non-fungible tokens featuring Wonder Woman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[526,1331,1213],"class_list":["post-38560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-auction","tag-culture-and-art","tag-nft"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"25","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38562,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38560\/revisions\/38562"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}