a story about the cover to Action Comics #419

[hayfamzone-migration]

I owned this iconic cover artwork for twenty years before selling it in 2006. I discovered this past week that my buyer has since then significantly altered the artwork. Would you have done what he did? I invite you to read "An Improvement?" on my blog.

 

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[AKA Rick]

...ummm, I'd probably have done the exact reverse of how it was altered, and kept the orignal artwork with no background, made a stat of that, kept the original intact, then placed the stat of the original on the background, whether a new stat or an original stat of the New York skyline, and all of the other paste-ups, but retained maintaining the original artwork in the original condition.

 

Altering the original is sort of like putting spinner rims on a '67 Mustang.

[PokerKid]

...ummm, I'd probably have done the exact reverse of how it was altered, and kept the orignal artwork with no background, made a stat of that, kept the original intact, then placed the stat of the original on the background, whether a new stat or an original stat of the New York skyline, and all of the other paste-ups, but retained maintaining the original artwork in the original condition.

 

 

I like having the image with the background, however I agree that doing the stat of the Superman and putting it over the photo - as DC did when printing the comic - would be my preference. I would then display them together.

[t3quila]

I had missed his collection on CAF, amazing covers, shame about what he did to that one, but wow what a collection.

[hayfamzone-migration]

This afternoon I received an email from David Mandel about this cover, and he explained that he DID NOT permanently alter the artwork. I have added an update with more details over at http://www.hayfamzone.com

[t3quila]

Time to put down the pitchforks then.

[Mephisto]

I assumed it was on an overlay all along.

[tb]

I assumed it was on an overlay all along.

 

as did I.

 

That gentleman (David) easily has one of the most impressive CAF pages, IMO

 

+2. I took it to be an overlay after reading the first blog: altering the art as it was suggested just didn't seem like something a serious collector of original art could make themselves do. Aside from that, I did enjoy reading this and other blogs on the site.

[hayfamzone-migration]

Thank you for your kind words about The Hayfamzone Blog. Most of my posts are not about original artwork but whenever one is I will be certain to put up a notification on this board.