Quite a piece…

Sold For: US $37,000.00 Seller: romitaman ( 1014 )

Description:

MEAT LOAF RECORD ALBUM COVER PAINTING (1979)

Media Type: Painting
Art Type: Cover

Artist(s): Bernie Wrightson (all)

WOW! Just feast your eyes on not only the "LARGEST" but arguably the best actual painting Bernie Wrightson ever created! (Not pen and ink with watercolors dropped in as he did on most of his color pieces)…And this masterpiece is most likely the largest painting he EVER CREATED, with an actual art image measuring…31 by 31 inches, and it's framed beautifully! Bernie Wrightson had some HUGE shoes to fill as he was following up Richard Corben's CLASSIC painting cover to the WIDELY successful "Bat Out Of Hell" record album cover painting. THIS record album painting ALSO features the same blond haired "CONAN-LIKE" character from the BAT OUT OF HELL record album cover, but this cover also features 3 beautiful nude women riding on the MONSTER MOTORCYCLE with the Conan-like character as they ride on top of the water while one of the nude women and the male character hold a HUGE banner which I of course reads: "MEAT LOAF" which is promoting the DEAD RINGER record album! So what we ultimately have here is the actual record album cover to meat loaf's second LP album entitled "DEAD RINGER!!" As far as size…….This amazing HUGE piece is close to 1 1/2 to twice the size of anything Wrightson has ever drawn of any significance!…and the quality is far superior…. This is arguably the best Wrightson painting EVER! RUMOR has it that meat loaf bought this painting directly from Wrightson. Meatloaf supposedly sold it when he went bankrupt in the early 80's and the collector who bought it from him had it since then….This painting was done around 1979 about the same time as the Frankenstein plates….But the album got delayed and didn't appear on record stands until 1981. In terms of technique, it's arguably the best painting he ever did….keep in mind… this was done for an "LP cover" for one of the biggest rock artists of THAT time! If you want to own a TRUE piece of Bernie Wrightson, AND "MUSIC" history…….. You REALLY shouldn't pass up this most AMAZING PAINTING! ALL HIGH end pieces of art, including this one, are able to be purchased with VERY fair time payment plan options, and trades are always considered towards this and any other pieces of art on my site here! Just send me an email and we can try to work something out.

George Perez Batman 439 Cover Art (Nightwing)

Description:

This is the original artwork for one of George Perez's most detailed covers, which is saying a lot!!! This cover features Nightwing hanging from a tower with Batman's shadow in the background. Perez Batman covers never come up for sale, so don't pass on this opportunity to add it to your collection.

****This was featured as Plate Six in the George Perez Portfolio. This is the original art, it is not a copy.*****

Published: September 1989

Pencils: George Perez

Inks: George Perez

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Sold For: $20,601.00 Seller: jscomics ( 38486 )

Description:

Okay, let's try this again!. Those of you who collect or deal in high end Original Comic Art will recognize this auction. That's a lot of ebayers, based on the 6,000+ page views this auction received last time it ran. For the few who managed to miss that listing, do an Advanced Search for ebay item number 140394301664. It closed on April 4, 2010. The winning bid was $38,050.00. This seemed like a relative bargain, given that many predicted it would end up between $50,000 and $100,000, based on the fact that almost no key Timely pages have been sold in the last 20 years, and those that did sell went for mostly astronomical prices. However, the winning bidder informed us he would not be able to complete the purchase at his winning bid price. This item generated an unprecedented level of Message Board comments in the 10 days it ran, running up to 20 entire pages of comments on one site. Among the opinions expressed, including by some recognized experts, was that this page, while undeniably a Timely Original page, may have had little or no contribution by Jack Kirby. Not everyone expressed this opinion, but it appears to have caused a number of bidders to bid more cautiously than would be the case if the item had been declared 100% Jack Kirby art by all the experts. The winning bidder apparently didn't become aware of all these comments until after the auction had closed. It was after reading the comments that he informed us that due to the uncertainty over exactly who drew and inked this page, he would not be able to complete the purchase.

That brings us to this relisting. This page is offered this time with NO RESERVE PRICE! Whatever it sells for this time, IT WILL BE SOLD! We make no guarantee other than it is the ORIGINAL ART to TIMELY CAPTAIN AMERICA #6, MEET THE FANG, PAGE 8. We will leave it to you to determine the artist(s). Virtually every published work listing the works of Jack Kirby credits him with EVERY page of Captain America #s 1 through 10. This includes The Jack Kirby Treasury Volume 1 (edited by Greg Theakston), The Marvel Masterworks Resource Page and many others. An email to Harry Mendryk at the Jack Kirby Museum produced the following comment concerning this page – "…I have been too busy to make a careful study of the art but I did come to some conclusions. The page without Cap looks like Kirby pencils. [This last sentence refers to a second page from Captain America #6 we listed that did NOT feature Cap or Bucky.] The Cap page [meaning the one in this auction] is more difficult but I AM CERTAIN THAT BUCKY IN THE UPPER RIGHT CORNER WAS DRAWN BY KIRBY. Inking is a much more difficult issue. Joe Simon was running the Timely bullpen and he employed a number of artists to help with the inking. Covers and splashes were likely to have significant contributions from either Jack or Joe or both but story art was likely to get little direct inking from either; generally nothing more than touchups." For those of you not familiar with Harry Mendryk or the Jack Kirby Museum, by all means do a search for them. There is a wealth of material available.

So at least one expert, whose experience and depth of knowledge are second to none, confirms that at least ONE panel from this page was definitely drawn by Kirby. But do your own research, form your own conclusions, and bid accordingly. Insured shipping is free in the United States.

For those few who managed to miss the last listing of this page, the original auction description is included below. We include it again here as it lists some interesting details on the provenance, condition, size and other details of the page.

This auction is for nothing less than the most significant piece of Jack Kirby Original Art to reach the market in at least 20 years. From the pages of Captain America #6, Timely Comics, 1941, this very recently discovered lost Kirby Original is Page 8, the penultimate page from "Meet The Fang – Arch Fiend of the Orient". To call the action on this page spectacular would be understating it. Cap and Bucky are both nearly beheaded. But they recover and turn the tables, in action that can't be contained by the panels, with arms and legs spilling into 2 panels, almost 3. This story was reprinted in the easy to find Fantasy Masterpieces #6. We will include a free copy of that issue as a bonus. In searching through auction archives to find something to compare this to, we came up empty. We didn't find a single Kirby Timely page. The only thing we saw of a similar magnitude was a Bill Everett Sub-Mariner page from Marvel Comics #1, 1939 which sold for over $86,000 5 years ago. All the significant reports we saw of Kirby Originals were from the Silver Age: a splash page from Tales to Astonish #27 sold for $65,000 in 2002. An interior page from X-men #1 went for $54,000 in 2008. Even Fantastic Four pages from the late 60's sold for big prices – a page from FF 63 sold for $23,000, and a page from FF 55 sold for$39,000. We normally list auctions with no Reserve Price, but for this very special item we have set a very reasonable, modest Reserve. This Reserve Price will NOT be revealed, the auction will NOT be ended early, and it will NOT be sold off ebay. If the Reserve Price is not met, it is likely we will relist this page at some future date with No Reserve. But don't wait, get it now.

Just a few words on where this piece came from. In 1941, a young man worked at Lewis Artists' Materials, a store in Manhattan about 3 blocks from the Timely Studios. Part of his job was to make regular deliveries of illustration boards and other Art supplies to the Timely Studios. He did this at least once a week, possibly more often. The people at Timely got to know him and apparently liked him. At some point they asked him if he would like to have 2 pages of Captain America Original art. He gladly accepted, but didn't think it a big deal. 69 years later, his grandson was helping him clean out his home in upstate New York. He had long since forgotten that he had the 2 Kirby pages, and when the grandson found them, he gave them to the grandson as a gift. Neither realized exactly what they were or who the artist was. That brings us to this auction. The back of the other Kirby page that's up for auction now, ending 5 minutes before this page, shows the Lewis Artists' Materials store logo on the back of the illustration board. The back of both boards also shows the Timely Comics, inc. stamp.

We couldn't find a definitive answer on who inked this page. The possibilities are Syd Shores, Al Avison, Al Gabriele, or Kirby himself. We saw reports which said that Kirby's normal procedure was to give the pencilled pages to one of those 3, then apply finishing touches or make corrections himself.

Below are a large number of scans and photographs, of various sizes. There are probably more than necessary, but we thought we'd show them all anyway. Take your time. Overall, this page is in excellent condition – only minor blunting at the corners but no creases and no marks to the image area other than those made by Kirby or the Timely production staff. The color is excellent, only very minor soiling near the edges. Check the scans below. The board measures a huge 15" X 20", the image area measures 13 1/2" X 18 1/2".

Winning bid: US $8,306.00 Seller: comiconart!! ( 3187 )

Description:

Condition: excellent – archivally framed

COMMENTS: This is a fantastic original painted cover by modern master James Jean! Over the course of his landmark seven year run as the cover artist for Fables, James amassed an impressive FIVE consecutive Eisner Awards for Best Cover Artist, as well as countless other awards and accolades. Since ending his run on Fables with the cover to Fables 81, James has devoted his time to persuing a career in fine art. Judging by his sold out solo show "Kindling" at Jonathan Levine Gallery in January of 2009, and his recent exhibition of new work at the Giant Robot anniversary show at the Japanese American National Museum, it's clear to see that James wastes no time in rising to the top!

This particular cover is a fully painted piece for the penultimate issue of "The Good Prince"! Created at the beginning of his final year on Fables, this piece is an excellent indication of the direction in which James would be heading. With similar subject matter, and executed in a similar style to the work exhibited in his first solo fine art show, this piece deftly bridges the gap between comic art and contemporary fine art. The painting itself measures 15" x 22", acrylic on Rives BFK, and the painting has been archivally framed next to a full-size giclee print of the final published artwork, also signed and dated by James Jean. It truly does not get much better than this!

For more art by this and other artists, please check out my other auctions. Thanks!

I am happy to combine shipping on multiple wins and website purchases!

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Winning bid: US $18,100.00 Seller: russcochrancomicart ( 945 )

Description:

Hal Foster, Tarzan, 7/10/1932, Original Sunday Comic Strip

Harold R. Foster, Tarzan Sunday, 7/10/1932, "Through the Top of the Jungle", matted and framed. This might be the best Foster Tarzan original known to exist. It contains all the elements you want to see in a Tarzan Sunday page: action, adventure, apes and family. Tarzan gets away from the gorillas by diving into the water and swimming underwater. He escapes, but one of the apes has Tarzan's son Korak on a high cliff and throws him to the ground below. The last panel shows Tarzan saving his own son.

This is also the earliest Foster Tarzan complete page known to exist, and one of only a few from 1932. It is also one of only three known pages where Tarzan wears his over-the-shoulder leopard skin. On Sept. 25, 1932, Tarzan appears for the first time in the new abbrevriated outfit, to match Johnny Weissmuller's loin cloth in the 1932 movie Tarzan the Ape Man.

If there is a better Hal Foster Tarzan in existence, I haven't seen it. This one has it all. The Tarzan pages of this period and the next year, 1933, were inspirational to young comic artists like Frank Frazetta, Wally Wood, Al Williamson, Joe Kubert, Jack Kirby, and so many others. Foster wrote the book, and this original is page one of the book.

The piece has been professionally cleaned and mounted on archival board.

Here's the image:

Winning bid: US $38,050.00 Seller: jscomics ( 38167 )

Description:

This auction is for nothing less than the most significant piece of Jack Kirby Original Art to reach the market in at least 20 years. From the pages of Captain America #6, Timely Comics, 1941, this very recently discovered lost Kirby Original is Page 8, the penultimate page from "Meet The Fang – Arch Fiend of the Orient". To call the action on this page spectacular would be understating it. Cap and Bucky are both nearly beheaded. But they recover and turn the tables, in action that can't be contained by the panels, with arms and legs spilling into 2 panels, almost 3. This story was reprinted in the easy to find Fantasy Masterpieces #6. We will include a free copy of that issue as a bonus. In searching through auction archives to find something to compare this to, we came up empty. We didn't find a single Kirby Timely page. The only thing we saw of a similar magnitude was a Bill Everett Sub-Mariner page from Marvel Comics #1, 1939 which sold for over $86,000 5 years ago. All the significant reports we saw of Kirby Originals were from the Silver Age: a splash page from Tales to Astonish #27 sold for $65,000 in 2002. An interior page from X-men #1 went for $54,000 in 2008. Even Fantastic Four pages from the late 60's sold for big prices – a page from FF 63 sold for $23,000, and a page from FF 55 sold for$39,000. We normally list auctions with no Reserve Price, but for this very special item we have set a very reasonable, modest Reserve. This Reserve Price will NOT be revealed, the auction will NOT be ended early, and it will NOT be sold off ebay. If the Reserve Price is not met, it is likely we will relist this page at some future date with No Reserve. But don't wait, get it now.

Just a few words on where this piece came from. In 1941, a young man worked at Lewis Artists' Materials, a store in Manhattan about 3 blocks from the Timely Studios. Part of his job was to make regular deliveries of illustration boards and other Art supplies to the Timely Studios. He did this at least once a week, possibly more often. The people at Timely got to know him and apparently liked him. At some point they asked him if he would like to have 2 pages of Captain America Original art. He gladly accepted, but didn't think it a big deal. 69 years later, his grandson was helping him clean out his home in upstate New York. He had long since forgotten that he had the 2 Kirby pages, and when the grandson found them, he gave them to the grandson as a gift. Neither realized exactly what they were or who the artist was. That brings us to this auction. The back of the other Kirby page that's up for auction now, ending 5 minutes before this page, shows the Lewis Artists' Materials store logo on the back of the illustration board. The back of both boards also shows the Timely Comics, inc. stamp.

We couldn't find a definitive answer on who inked this page. The possibilities are Syd Shores, Al Avison, Al Gabriele, or Kirby himself. We saw reports which said that Kirby's normal procedure was to give the pencilled pages to one of those 3, then apply finishing touches or make corrections himself. Perhaps some of you will know just by looking. Any comments from experts will be appreciated.

Below are a large number of scans and photographs, of various sizes. There are probably more than necessary, but we thought we'd show them all anyway. Take your time. Overall, this page is in excellent condition – only minor blunting at the corners but no creases and no marks to the image area other than those made by Kirby or the Timely production staff. The color is excellent, only very minor soiling near the edges. Check the scans below. The board measures a huge 15" X 20", the image area measures 13 1/2" X 18 1/2".

And the page:

Sold For: US $15,000.00 Seller: kirbyart ( 3 )

From the Kirby family – this is the Marvel 1976 Bicentennial cover. It is signed by Jack in the lower left corner. The piece has your usual white out and pencil mark notes around the edges, but overall it is in good shape. Size of the cover is app. 10*14. It will be shipped in its current black mat, sliver frame. For further questions, please email me anytime.

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Winning bid: US $8,000.00 Seller: brianhowardart ( 725 )

Description:

Absolutely gorgeous page of Original Comic Art from X-Men #61. This is a great battle page featuring Sauron and the X-Men team. Sauron pages are very hard to come by and this is a wonderful example. Stunning artwork by the legendary, Neal Adams. This is truly a grail piece for any collector. Page is in very good condition and measures approx. 11" X 17"

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Winning bid: US $16,389.36 Seller: swing_daddy ( 343 )

Description:

This is an 11×17 (roughly) George Perez pen and ink original cover drawing from an issue of Justice League of America. As you can see, the page is a little dirty around the edges. It was this way when I got it, I imagine it got handled a bit.

As you can also see, the pieces was personalized, but it is not in a place where you could not white it out or cover it up if you choose to.

It's a nice piece with a lot of characters on it, kind of a Perez specialty. Not sure what issue this was from.

Ships via USPS. If you want a more expensive delivery than standard or would like insurance please let me know and I will quote it.

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