Hi
Coming close to 30 years ago, I started collecting original artwork via Russ Cochran's Comic Art Auctions.
As a progression to my passion for the EC comic books which, at the time, Russ was in the process of reprinting via his hardback library sets, I decided to seek out some of the original artworks (being sold on behalf of Bill Gaines).
As Russ reprinted an EC title, Gaines would then release all of that title's OA for sale, via auction.
To participate in the EC art auctions, you had to subscribe to Russ's Art Auction catalogs.
With nearly 3 decade's worth of Cochran Art catalogs behind me, I thought it might be a fun idea to look back on some of the highlights from those publications.
What will follow is a selection of pages that I think might be of interest to other OA collectors on this forum.
I would always pencil in the hammer prices, so as well as a visual record of what was sold, I also have sales prices duly noted.
First up are selected pages from Russ's September 15, 1982 Art Auction.
I bought Lot # 13, Al Feldstein's 8 page story art for "7 Year Old Genius!", from WEIRD FANTASY # 7, for the sum of $484.
I later traded-away this story . . .