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Al Plastino's Statement & Plea Re the Supes #170 Kennedy Splash

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markseifert

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Just ran across this on twitter. From Al Plastino on facebook:

 

https://www.facebook.com/al.plastino?hc_location=timeline

 

I will explain how relevant this is soon. Someone has my pride and joy that was supposed to be in the Kennedy Memorial Library. Don't understand how this could have happened.

 

PLease help if you can. The art I donated and thought for all these years was being housed at the Kennedy library at Harvard is now being auctioned off on the anniversary of Kennedy's assassination. And now I am finding out that the art may have never made it to the library. The archivists tell me there are no records of it ever being received. I asked for the art back and they will not give it to me. I asked for the consigner's name and they will not tell me that either. They tell me I have no rights to my work and that it is too late to get it back.

 

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revat

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This is crazy, hopefully a lawyer/fan here on the boards can help him out.

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Jimmy Linguini

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I don't get it?

If it was being housed at the Kennedy library at Harvard then why is he holding the art with a $20K price tag on it.

 

Yes, lets talk about the price tag for a second.

 

Notice to the right of the number figure. Looks like it reads "$20,000 and up".

 

Its also VERY VERY VERY possible that Heritage went to him at the show and asked for pictures of him with the piece with Al not really understanding what was happening with the piece.

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comix4fun

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There's got to be some documentation regarding the donation, etc., right?

 

The museum not having a record of the donation doesn't mean it wasn't donated and someone there moved it along.

 

I know that other museums have taken in donations and later sold those items.

 

I need more details.

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We have received some questions about this art today, so we figured one of us should come on here and address this.

 

This art was sold in the 1993 Sotheby’s comic auction, so it has been in collectors’ hands at least since that time. We have no reason to believe our consignor (One we have known for many years and who has an excellent track record with us) does not have the right to sell the piece, and nobody has shown us any evidence that he doesn’t. Whether it was ever in possession of a museum we don’t know, but as many collectors know, museums de-accession pieces all the time.

 

As to how the photo of Al with the art came about:

As many of you already know, all of us in the comics dept., in addition to just working there, are huge comic fans. One of our employees was chatting with Al as a fan at the New York Comic Con, and Al expressed interest in seeing the art, so we brought it for him to look at. That’s when someone from the Hero Initiative snapped a few pictures.

 

We’re all very sorry to hear that Al Plastino never got the art back from DC, but we all know the sad realities of the comic publishing business back in those days. Heck, it’s one of the reasons I am on the board of the Hero Initiative and the reason Heritage helps support them.

 

Hope this helps clear things up a bit,

-Steve

 

 

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Jimmy Linguini

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We have received some questions about this art today, so we figured one of us should come on here and address this.

 

This art was sold in the 1993 Sotheby’s comic auction, so it has been in collectors’ hands at least since that time. We have no reason to believe our consignor (One we have known for many years and who has an excellent track record with us) does not have the right to sell the piece, and nobody has shown us any evidence that he doesn’t. Whether it was ever in possession of a museum we don’t know, but as many collectors know, museums de-accession pieces all the time.

 

As to how the photo of Al with the art came about:

As many of you already know, all of us in the comics dept., in addition to just working there, are huge comic fans. One of our employees was chatting with Al as a fan at the New York Comic Con, and Al expressed interest in seeing the art, so we brought it for him to look at. That’s when someone from the Hero Initiative snapped a few pictures.

 

We’re all very sorry to hear that Al Plastino never got the art back from DC, but we all know the sad realities of the comic publishing business back in those days. Heck, it’s one of the reasons I am on the board of the Hero Initiative and the reason Heritage helps support them.

 

Hope this helps clear things up a bit,

-Steve

 

 

Could you do me a favour and comment on this?

 

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Its mainly the bottom editors note that I'm most interested in.

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comix4fun

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Wow, so the Sotheby's sale created a BFP for value and all owners from that time take title free and clear of any claim. It looks like Al's going to have to talk to Sotheby's, probably get a court order to see who the consignor was and work his way back from there.

 

 

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Doc McCoy

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Nice catch. I wonder what happened.

 

Well, it wouldn't be the first time one of the big two publishers wasn't honest with one of their artists. I would have to think Al was basing his belief off of what he was told by his editor there at DC since it actually appeared in the comic book. I'd be interested on what someone there had to say about it. :gossip:

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