Terry Doyle

Gasp !!!!

 

The stuff went for peanuts compared to what it sells for today.

Yes, but you also have to take into consideration how the hammer prices related to a person's wage at the time.

The auctions were four times a year. I would be working overtime to beuild up funds for bidding. My budget usually went to around $1,000 spends per auction.

Great stuff Terry...so cool you saved them all these years. I've seen some at (boardie) Cryptkeeper's... he told me he used to send Russ letters from France with bids on certain pages after he got the catalogs.

Most of the time I would e-mail my bids in via letter (from the UK).

If something was particularly important to me, I would phone in on occasion.

Terry, can you explain the auction procedure? Were bids mailed in? Phoned in?

 

Thanks,

Darren

Hi Darren

I'll do better than that, I'll scan a page where Russ explains the auction procedure.

These are fantastic. The next catalog contains Kurtzman's "Corpse on the Imjin" correct? This is gonna sting a little.

Yes, that is correct. I bid on that story (one of Kurtzman's best), but lost out. I'll scan highlights from auction # 12 during the course of today.

Incredible prices. This was the real beginning of our hobby. Russ deserves a lot of credit for organizing these and establishing the market for Frazetta, Wood, Herriman, Raymond, Foster, and others...

 

 

Rob

Thanks, Rob, I hope this will prove an interesting and worthwhile thread.

I will add anecdotes, wherever appropriate, along the way.

Where's a time machine when you need it? Thanks for posting, it's cool!

You're welcome, Ferran.

I'll be back tomorrow with highlights from Russ's # 12 Auction Catalog . . .

Cover to the # 11 Art Auction Catalog, which comprised of 24 pages.

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 . . .

Very cool! I've been thinking about adding one of his to my collection.

Thanks, I picked this up on eBay last week for a mere £75.

Yesterday, I did a web search and saw a European dealer offering pages from the same series for 450 Euros!

New in this morning . . . a painted interior page (from 2000AD) by British artist, Kev Walker:

Detail 1

Detail 2

These images don't really do Kev's art justice (attention to detail is fantastic and the page appears to have been painted at printed size, as it's quite small).

Although I'm mostly into pre-1970s comic-strips, sometimes I can't help but be impressed by artists whose work I know little or nothing about.

Reminiscent of Richard Corben's Warren art . . .

I don't know what could be misunderstood about lifting panels almost line for line.

 

 

You beat me to it . . .

 

See my post #5687804 on page 26 for starters.

 

Maybe this will help guide some people to the progression of gamesmanship and running dialog at hand within the found object, popular culture, and banality.

 

Wikipedia actually does a decent job here.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Duchamp

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Found_objects

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hamilton_%28artist%29

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_Art

"Pop art is aimed to employ images of popular as opposed to elitist culture in art, emphasizing the banal or kitschy elements of any given culture, most often through the use of irony. It is also associated with the artists' use of mechanical means of reproduction or rendering techniques."

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Lichtenstein

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitch

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Koons

 

Already seen all that stuff, thanks.

 

But have you seen these works?

 

London's Hayward Gallery will gather together 50 ''invisible'' works by leading figures such as Andy Warhol, Yves Klein and Yoko Ono for its display of works you cannot actually see.

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturenews/9274597/Empty-plinth-and-blank-piece-of-paper-to-feature-in-exhibition-of-invisible-art.html

Oh, yes, I see invisible artworks all the time. Might even have some for sale, if you're interested?

PM off-list for availability and prices . . . currently offering 'buy one, get ten free' deals and will throw-in free shipping.

And if it's Yoko Ono you like (one of the contibutors to the exhibition you highlight), here's a link to her singing:

Some people, here, might even enjoy this? Whatever floats your boat, I suppose

New in within the past couple of days . . .

Splash page from a 1960s (UK) story, "The Spider vs. the Sinister Seven" by Reg Bunn.

Interestingly, Superman creator Jerry Siegel scripted this serial.

Missing the logo (which I can live with), but featuring Bunn's delicate line-work and use of white-out as an effect.

The Spider always reminded me of the Sub-Mariner in the looks dept.

I don't know what could be misunderstood about lifting panels almost line for line.

 

 

You beat me to it . . .

 

See my post #5687804 on page 26 for starters.

 

Maybe this will help guide some people to the progression of gamesmanship and running dialog at hand within the found object, popular culture, and banality.

 

Wikipedia actually does a decent job here.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Duchamp

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Found_objects

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hamilton_%28artist%29

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_Art

"Pop art is aimed to employ images of popular as opposed to elitist culture in art, emphasizing the banal or kitschy elements of any given culture, most often through the use of irony. It is also associated with the artists' use of mechanical means of reproduction or rendering techniques."

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Lichtenstein

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitch

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Koons

 

Already seen all that stuff, thanks.

 

So which section confused you the most

Your arrogance.

I don't know what could be misunderstood about lifting panels almost line for line.

 

 

You beat me to it . . .

 

See my post #5687804 on page 26 for starters.

 

Maybe this will help guide some people to the progression of gamesmanship and running dialog at hand within the found object, popular culture, and banality.

 

Wikipedia actually does a decent job here.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Duchamp

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Found_objects

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hamilton_%28artist%29

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_Art

"Pop art is aimed to employ images of popular as opposed to elitist culture in art, emphasizing the banal or kitschy elements of any given culture, most often through the use of irony. It is also associated with the artists' use of mechanical means of reproduction or rendering techniques."

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Lichtenstein

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitch

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Koons

Already seen all that stuff, thanks.

I don't know what could be misunderstood about lifting panels almost line for line.

 

You beat me to it . . .

Ditko's take . . . sorry about the lousy scan . . .

(love the soup can )

It all down to opinion anyway . . .

 

 

And marketing...don't forget the all powerful influence of effective marketing.

 

 

Yep . . . maybe some of the used-car-salesmen moved in to the fine art business?

 

 

 

What was the old line about Leo Castelli? "He could sell 2 Beer Cans if he wanted to"

 

Then Jasper Johns made a sculpture of 2 beer cans, called Painted Broze (Ale Cans), and sure enough...Castelli sold it.

 

Yeah, fact is often stranger (and funnier) than fiction!

Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK

Visited this place most weekends well in to my late teens.

I spent many, may hours studying near-enough EVERYTHING.

Please don't tell me how I should educate myself, etc, etc, ad nauseum . . .