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Cool Creature artwork amongst your update, Roger. Funnily enough, I'm getting in a full-size Creature head within the next couple of weeks . . .

Now removed from CAF. Hopefully, Hans is now challenging the seller on its authenticity . . .

I'm no Schulz expert, but there's a lot of hesitation in the brush-strokes. Even if the artist's abilities were affected by the ravages of old age, I'd expect the simple part of the signature to be swiftly and confidently executed.

A total of 52 artworks are currently available, with all but a few currently offered at a 10% discount on listed prices until the end of October 2017 . . . http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryDetail.asp?GCat=1865

ADVENTURES INTO THE UNKNOWN unpublished cover by Ken Bald (circa 1952) . . .

BATTLE STORIES # 10 cover, 1950s . . .

MODESTY BLAISE pencilled tryout strip by Frank Hampson (pre-dating the first published daily) . . .

THUNDERBIRDS by Frank Bellamy from the UK's TV21 magazine, 1960s . . .

WARFRONT # 15 cover by Lee Elias, early 1950s . . .

TRIGAN EMPIRE by Don Lawrence . . .

UNEARTHLY SPECTACULARS # 2 cover by Joe Simon & Jack Sparling, 1960s . . .

DAN DARE cover by Don Harley from a 1957 edition of the UK's Eagle magazine . . .

DANGER # 7 cover by Don Heck, 1954 . . .

KING SOLOMON'S MINES unpublished double-page-spread episode by Frank Bellamy . . .

John Severin MARINES IN ACTION # 14 cover from the 1950s (when Marvel was called Atlas) . . .

EAGLES FLY HIGH 1960s cover painting for the UK's War Picture Library series . . .

Johnny Craig CRIME PATROL # 13 cover from the 1940s, EC comics . . .

Johnny Craig GUNFIGHTER # 6 cover from the 1940s, EC comics . . .

Pat Broderick/John Higgins huge promotional painting from 1986 heralding the appearance of the CHARLTON ACTION LINE under the DC banner . . .

Mike Mayhew in published PULSE # 2 cover . . .

A little over a week to go with 10% discount offered on all artworks, excepting several covers currently on consignment with Romitaman . . . CAF For Sale Gallery at: http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryDetail.asp?GCat=1865 Some sample offerings to follow . . .

Yesterday's visitor (who hand-delivered the aforementioned Hammer Films campaign artwork) sent me some photographs relating to my AT THE EARTH'S CORE painting. I was of the belief that the art was created specifically for the Australian campaign. Wrong! Although the artwork did, indeed, see print as the Australian daybill poster . . . it was initially created for the UK press-book campaign circulated to cinema managers.

Actually, the former owner of SCENT drove down to my place yesterday afternoon to deliver the artwork in person (he was about an hour's drive away). The guy actually knew Chantrell and had visited him numerous times, so I got to hear some great stories about the artist. Whenever Chantrell was employed to create movie artworks, the client only bought reproduction rights - so all artworks got returned to him. A lot of the best stuff got snapped-up years ago by savvy collectors . . . which ties-into my previous point that if you do the leg-work and make the connections, it can sometimes pay big dividends when you hook-up with the right people . . . and can also work out cheaper than sitting round waiting for the next Heritage auction feeding-frenzy when collectors are forced to compete with one another. Not criticizing . . . just opining. The SCENT artwork got offered to me at cost price (of 20 years ago!). How cool is that? Great price, great art and a memorable afternoon spent conversing with a like-minded collector who had great stories to tell. Anyways, I'm not trying to convert anyone Just sharing an interest . . .

No, sadly not. I just posted the (Hammer campaign) artworks as they were never intended for general release so will be unseen by most people here. They were only every created to secure financial backing for proposed movie productions. The only Hammer Films piece I got in this week was Chantrell's campaign artwork for the unmade Horror/Science-Fiction film, A SCENT OF NEW-MOWN HAY, which I uploaded onto my CAF yesterday: http://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1429066 This particular painting was locked-away in a private collection for twenty years. Thanks to the old-fashioned way of collecting, in which we used to do the leg-work and network with other collectors (as in pre-internet days), I established contact with the owner and consequently got offered the Chantrell Hammer art at a very reasonable asking price.

THE DEVIL RIDES OUT (which made it to production) . . .