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    Are this at least legitimate Bob Kane ghosts?

    in Original Comic Art

    Posted

    ooof $32k+ for 8 fake pieces yikes

    there's a story linked from Bob Kane's wikipedia entry: https://web.archive.org/web/20090523105715/http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2007_03_15.html#013103

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    Bob had gotten to the point where he never drew anything. Never drew anything on the Batman comics, anyway. [Sheldon] Moldoff was ghosting them all and when he didn't, someone else did. The only thing I think Bob ever drew was when we'd be out somewhere, in a restaurant or someplace, and a pretty girl would come over to him and say, "Are you really the man who draws Batman?" Then he could whip out a little sketch for her, a big sketch if she was wearing something low-cut and would bend over to watch him draw.

    One day I'm over at his house to discuss this newspaper strip idea we had and he's talking about who we might get to draw it. I was going to write it and we were going to get someone else to draw it. I'm not sure what he was going to do on it except sign his name. I said to him, "Bob, isn't it disappointing to you that you don't draw any more? You were once such a great artist." He wasn't but you had to talk to Bob that way.

    He said, "Oh, no. Let me show you something." He took me into a little room in his house. It was his studio. I didn't even know he still had a studio. It was all set up with easels and things and there were paintings, paintings of clowns. You know the kind. Like the ones Red Skelton used to do. Just these insipid portraits of clowns, all signed very large, "Bob Kane." He was so proud of them. He said, "These are the paintings that are going to make me in the world of art. Batman was a big deal in one world and these paintings will soon be in every gallery in the world." He thought the Louvre was going to take down the Mona Lisa to put up his clown paintings. I didn't have the heart to tell him.

    So a few months later, I'm up at DC and I ran into Eddie Herron. Eddie was another writer up there and we got to talking and Bob's name came up. Eddie said, "Did you hear? Bob's getting sued by one of his ghost artists."

    I said, "How is that possible? Shelly Moldoff's suing Bob? But they had a clear deal. Shelly knew he wasn't going to get credit or anything..."

    Eddie said, "No, not Shelly." Bob was being sued by the person who'd painted the clowns for him...

     

    Pedigree trying to sell art now?

    in Original Comic Art

    Posted

    1 hour ago, rotembk said:

    No, now the information is accurate enough such that a buyer wouldn't be able to argue they were, to put it bluntly, defrauded (and the fact someone got Ron Lim to sign the piece at some point after the previous sale doesn't help). And just in case it wasn't obvious, my issue is with the seller, not you.

    I didn't notice that Lim signed it now...ugh

    (yeh, it's not my sale - I'm the one complaining about the dishonest tactics so I don't think anyone would have a problem)

    1 hour ago, Ironmandrd said:

    I'm confused.  If this cover is inks over a copy of pencils (blue line) then how is the Ebay description now corrected or accurate?

    hmm...looks like he changed it back to say "Pencil and ink on Marvel Bristol board!"

    :whatthe:

    WANTED: Ron Lim - Silver Surfer covers & splashes, Cap America, & other Marvel

    in Original Comic Art Marketplace

    Posted · Edited by Twanj

    I'm still on the lookout for PUBLISHED Marvel Original Art (mid 1980s - early 1990s, no color guides etc) by these guys:

    RON LIM (mostly Silver Surfer #19 - #65 covers, splashes, DPS, & other great pages, Captain America, but some others)

    Jim Lee

    McFarlane

    Art Adams

    Silvestri: Wolverine and X-Men

    BWS

    Keown, Purves: Hulk

    Liefeld

    Alan Davis: Excalibur

    Larsen

    Kirby (later stuff)

     

    not interested in commissions or color guides or other unpublished work.

    What is the mark up?

    in Original Comic Art

    Posted

    2-3x

    from things I have seen sold at Heritage or CL then pop up on dealer's sites.

    2 hours ago, Panelfan1 said:

    Before I had made that deal I thought markups were slimmer for new aquisitions (art that the dealer just got in)

    I think you might be able to make more of a bargaining deal if the art has been in stock longer & not sold. unless you're saying that they may raise the price if it doesn't sell, which also does happen. :(

    Advice needed - providing original art for commercial purposes

    in Original Comic Art

    Posted

    The Artist Edition's has an agreement with the owners of the copyright of the material (which would be different from the owners of the physical art) that gives them reproduction rights.

    The owners of the physical art may be given an Artist Edition as a thank you, but that's not payment, it's more of a courtesy.

    The only thing you have to sell is the physical art.

    (I AM NOT A LAWYER...) :)