Book Guy

Here is a picture of a piece of vintage original art. The artist is Albert William Severy. He was an Oakland based artist born in 1906. Googling him produce minimal information. I assume this is a piece he did for practice-either a copy of an ADVENTURE cover or maybe something he did to try his hand out in the genre. His signature is on the painting and his name and address on the verso. Does anybody here recognize a specific ADVENTURE cover he copied? Did he do Pulp or commercial art work that you know about? Google does not indicate that he did, but I'm not a Pulp Specialist so maybe someone else recognizes the name. The piece came from the East Bay in the SF Bay Area, which makes sense as that is where Severy was born. I have another piece of mystery art that I'll try and get up later today or tomorrow. Thanks for any input. GK

They do turn a hideous faded-yet-dark-brown! I've seen it a lot in books. And sometimes the ink spreads out on the paper making the signature 'blobby'. Finally, the ink often passes entirely through the paper and stains further pages. It can take 10-20 years for this to happen fully. I've wondered if this might turn out to be a very big problem in the future. Who will want to buy a slabbed AF 15 for 6 figures if you know if you were to crack it open there might be ghosts of the signature on the first two or three pages! However there are many times where there isn't a problem with sharpie and felt pen signatures-maybe something having to do with different papers or different chemical compositions for the ink, so who knows. Any Comic I've ever gotten signed I've gotten signed on the first interior page and with a ball point pen. No problems with this method.

It's a cover I really like. Chaos...Destruction...EXTREME forced perspective! I have 3 copies, all about VG, ALL with Marvel Chipping! I've never seen a top notch copy until this thread. Unfortunately the 'prototype' angle has pushed a nice copy out of my reach should I ever even encounter one!

Major League Baseball is going to have problems getting umpires if they continue at this rate!

They had two LPs. This and HPL II. They did a cover of HIGH FLYING BIRD that I liked, as I recall.

As I was reading this thread my copy arrived at the front door! I bought it from Bud Plant. It was packed 'box-within-abox-within-a-box' so no damage at all! GK