Carl Barks' 1974 painting "The Sport of Tycoons," which features the iconic image of Scrooge McDuck swimming in his gold-filled vault, sold at auction last week for a record $262,900.

The painting is based on Barks' often-reprinted 1952 tale "Only a Poor Old Man," the first story in which Scrooge was the main character (in which, while swimming in his money bin, he says, "I love to dive around in it like a porpoise, and burrow through it like a gopher, and toss it up and let it hit me on the head!"). "The Sport of Tycoons" debuted in print in 1981's The Fine Art of Walt Disney's Donald Duck by Carl Barks.

The piece, part of the Kerby Confer Collection, was accompanied by the Heritage Auctions sales of two other Barks originals -- "Sheriff of Bullet Valley" ($107,550), and "McDuck of Duckburg" ($101,575).

The auction also saw Jerry Robinson's original cover art for 1942's Detective Comics #67, the first Penguin cover, fetch $239,000, which Heritage dubs the second-highest price for a piece of American comic-book art.