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Strictly Grade A Kirby Fourth World, Demon, Kamandi pages can top 3K, and also '70s Cap pages.

I'm not sure what the exact wording ought to be, but you can't just call it a Janson page. Miller fully composed it.

With respect to auction houses misleading buyers, I've seen enough mistakes in the other direction to think that these are just businesses handling product, with employees of various levels of expertise doing their best and not probably caring quite as much as some of us.

I don't recall seeing any pages or cover from Mister Miracle 9, which is one of the pivotal 4th World stories. Anyone know if the issue is intact?

Went to Washington, D.C. yesterday to catch the last weekend of the Roy Lichtenstein retrospective before it moves to London. It was astoundingly good, and I'm not just saying that to antagonize Chris, Terry, et. al. My non-comic fan friends who also saw the show were hugely impressed as well - "I never knew that he had such a broad range of work" was probably what most people thought - the "Chinese landscapes" he did late in his career were amazing. If he had never done a single comic book painting, he would have been known for his other work (especially his pre-comic Pop Art, his mid-60s landscapes and his '70s artist homages) and would still retain his place in the pantheon of great Modern artists. The comic paintings were spectacular; the audio guide played clips of Lichtenstein praising the source material in lectures/interviews, but, frankly, trying to frame the source material as being "the real artists" like Barsalou does while in the presence of Lichtenstein's genius just struck me as more than faintly ludicrous. Just on artistic merit alone, with bragging rights and monetary value removed from the equation, I'd still rather own one of Lichtenstein's romance comic paintings over ANY piece of actual comic book art (just as I'd rather own a Warhol over the actual production art for the Campbell's Tomato Soup can label ). Oh yeah, I said it.

Banksy has done quite a bit of this, quite amusingly.

I do think that is the sound of opportunity knocking...

 

and the key words were all there for a search, so it wasn't really hidden treasure more than something that we were all oblivious to knowing about.

 

Thanks for posting this, now I'm searching eBay all weekend for needles in a haystack for burried treasure

 

Is the hunt on for Lichtenstein-source originals? It does make you wonder if any of the other original comic art is out there...

There was a Wally Wood aviation war page a while back, possibly on Comiclink(?). The description said it was the basis for a RL piece & gave the title. I hunted the internets in vain looking for the painting but came up empty. The page sold for a normal price, not to me.