AF15 interiors - Library of Congress

[NoMan]

Just finished visiting their website and the donor is anonymous. Has there been any speculation as to who that donor was?

 

Thanks.

[jaybuck43]

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[NoMan]

Why wouldn't Stan take credit for it? He's the showman

[Funnyslover]

but not female

G'nite

[vodou]

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[Funnyslover]

but on the other hand, notice references to "he could do what he liked with it"

 

http://comicsdc.blogspot.fr/2008/04/spider-man-1-original-artwork-given-to.html

 

G'nite

[Mephisto]

Anonymous is Ted Danson.

[porcupine48]

Cheers!?

 

[jaybuck43]

but on the other hand, notice references to "he could do what he liked with it"

 

http://comicsdc.blogspot.fr/2008/04/spider-man-1-original-artwork-given-to.html

 

G'nite

 

Steve Ditko is not a property attorney. If the artwork was removed from Marvel's offices without authorization, and they were trying to recover it, title did not pass when "gifted" to the individual. Then he cannot do with it as he likes.

[r100comics]

Anonymous is Ted Danson.

 

[Timely]

I was told it was probably Marie Severine.

[zhamlau]

Yeah, pretty sure it was Marie Severin. Heard it from many sources who have been dealing in art since the 70s and 80s that she donated it.

[jaybuck43]

Yeah, pretty sure it was Marie Severin. Heard it from many sources who have been dealing in art since the 70s and 80s that she donated it.

 

The problem with Sevrin is that the donation was done in 2008, 6 months after she suffered a debilitating stroke. It's possible that John made the donation on her behalf but I'm just curious how she would have had the pages in the first place. AF 15 is not on Irene's inventory, so Marvel did not have it in the warehouse in 1980.

 

Lee makes the most sense, as he is the only person who could have made something that important disappear from the offices and not worried about getting caught.

[Fred Chamberlain]

Geez.... just had a thought. I wonder what the tax write-off on that artwork would be...

[SquareChaos]

Whoever did it, I'm glad they did.

[MB1952]

Whoever did it, I'm glad they did.

 

agree.

[jaybuck43]

Geez.... just had a thought. I wonder what the tax write-off on that artwork would be...

 

I would assume somewhere in the vicinity of 3 million dollars, in 2008.

[zhamlau]

What is odd is that she was out of comics at that time. I think its possible she picked it up as the part of her work doing promotional work for marvel since she handled a lot of that in the 70s.

[chromium]

I went to DC to have a look at the pages not too long after they were donated, I asked Sarah Duke, the curator if it was Marie Severin as I also though it was here because of her ties to Ditko. I also suspected it was here because of the fact there are only a few comic pages in the Library and some of them were drawn by Marien no Kirby, no Buscema...I figured Marie donated them together with the Ditko pages...

But the lady told me she couldn't deny or confirm if it was Marie and to the best of her knowledge Marie had never donated any art to the museum...

But my fellow collectors with me thought she was blowing smoke up our arses.

 

We talked a bit about the Marvel inventory and the stacks of missing pages and she had also heard the story of Gil Kane and the stacks of disappearing art from the Marvel offices