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The_Wolverine

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  1. 4 hours ago, shadroch said:

    Wow.  When I had it, it had a large stain and was missing some the lettering.  

    We sold my Moms house in 2016. I wonder if it was somehow  left behind. 

    Auction states logo is damaged and an overlay was made to go over the original artwork. Looks like this was possibly left behind at your mother's home. It's a major coincidence it appears two years after you sell your mother's home. Someone found it and knew what it was to create an overlay for the logo. 

  2. 54 minutes ago, shadroch said:

    My father did not approve of me reading or collecting comics. He had a very low opinion of them.  So when I saw the cover of Daredevil 111 for sale in NYC the week before Christmas in 1978 , I mentioned it as something I would like to get for Christmas but had zero expectations. Christmas comes and when it seems all the presents have been handed out, my Dad " finds" another one and it is the DD cover. My mom had convinced him to drive into the city and buy it from Peter Koch. 

    My Father died on December 28th. 

    I had the cover framed and displayed it wherever I lived for the next decade. In 1988-89, I sold my shop and moved to Puerto Rico. On one of my frequent visits back to NY, I visit my old shop and am shocked to see the cover to DD 111 on display and for sale. I grab the owner and tell him that this is mine and was never intended to be part of the sale of the shop. In fact, I had no idea it was even there. We go back and forth and I end up buying the cover at a discounted price, but not cheap enough that I remained friends with the guy. 

    I take the framed cover to my Moms house, remind her of what it is and put it in an old shipping trunk where I had a lot of stuff. 

    Ten or more years go by and I'm over my moms house when I notice the trunk has been moved. I mean to ask about it but I forget. A few months go by and I'm over my sisters house when she points out her newest reclamation project- she'd taken the old trunk that was maybe 100 years old and re-finished it. I ask her about all the stuff inside but she tells me when she opened it, the stuff on top had mold so she threw it all away.

    Not only was the art the first Marvel Cover OA that I ever had, but it was one of my favorites and it was the last thing my Dad ever gave me. 

     

     

     

     

    https://hakes.com/Auction/ItemDetail/219894/DAREDEVIL-111-COMIC-BOOK-COVER-ORIGINAL-ART-BY-RON-WILSON

    Looks like your sister's story doesn't add up or someone rescued it from the garbage. I hope it's the latter. It recently sold in March 2018.