A page of original Tintin artwork from Herge's Explorers on the Moon has sold for $1.6m at Artcurial in Paris.
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The piece had originally been valued at up to $956,880.
It's the latest in a string of high-profile auctions of Herge art. Last year a double page spread from King Ottaker's Sceptre made $1.7m.
The comic book art record is $3.4m, held by a set of Herge illustrations used as the inside cover in a series of Tintin books published between 1937 and 1958.
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