Art Day, DEMON WITH A GLASS HAND, Marshall Rogers! 0

[The Voord]

I'm a big fan of the early 1960s science-fiction TV show, THE OUTER LIMITS, and my favorite episode is 'Demon With a Glass Hand', written by the late great Harlan Ellison.

During the mid-1980s Marshall Rogers was tasked with bringing Ellison's sparkling teleplay to life as a graphic novel for DC.  For the most part, Rogers stayed faithful to Ellison's original shooting -script - though there are some slight changes (having compared the graphic novel to Ellison's shooting -script contained in HE's Brain Movies Volume One).

About six years ago I was lucky enough to purchase the cover prelim along with five interior pages, four of which Felix Lu kindly offered to me.

Several weeks ago Brian Peck, remembering I was a fan of the story, gave me the heads-up on some interior pages coming up for auction.

Of the group of three pages coming up for auction at the same time, Monday just gone, I managed to win pages 40 and 41 - which happened to be one of my favorite action sequences from the graphic novel adaptation.  Page 40 features the hero of the story Mr Trent destroying the Kyben time-mirror . . . and page 41 has some nice shots of the interior of the Bradbury Building in dowtown Los Angeles  (where Demon was filmed).  I've visited the Bradbury several times on trips to LA and it's a remarkable building  Parts of Blade Runner and countless other TV shows and movies have been filmed there.

The two pages I won have been paid for and are awaiting shipping.  I see no reason why I shouldn't upload them onto my CAF, 

A couple of small images and links to larger scans on my CAF (where other pages can be viewed for those of you interested enough to take a look):

Demon With a Glass Hand - page 40, in Terry Doyle's 8. DEMON WITH A GLASS HAND Comic Art Gallery Room (comicartfans.com)

Demon With a Glass Hand - page 41, in Terry Doyle's 8. DEMON WITH A GLASS HAND Comic Art Gallery Room (comicartfans.com)

And here's a photo of the interior of the Bradbury Building (with my friend Lloyd Braddy in the checked shirt):

[mtlevy1]

Are you trying to put the entire story back together?

[jjonahjameson11]

3 hours ago, The Voord said:

I'm a big fan of the early 1960s science-fiction TV show, THE OUTER LIMITS, and my favorite episode is 'Demon With a Glass Hand', written by the late great Harlan Ellison.

During the mid-1980s Marshall Rogers was tasked with bringing Ellison's sparkling teleplay to life as a graphic novel for DC.  For the most part, Rogers stayed faithful to Ellison's original shooting --script - though there are some slight changes (having compared the graphic novel to Ellison's shooting --script contained in HE's Brain Movies Volume One).

About six years ago I was lucky enough to purchase the cover prelim along with five interior pages, four of which Felix Lu kindly offered to me.

Several weeks ago Brian Peck, remembering I was a fan of the story, gave me the heads-up on some interior pages coming up for auction.

Of the group of three pages coming up for auction at the same time, Monday just gone, I managed to win pages 40 and 41 - which happened to be one of my favorite action sequences from the graphic novel adaptation.  Page 40 features the hero of the story Mr Trent destroying the Kyben time-mirror . . . and page 41 has some nice shots of the interior of the Bradbury Building in dowtown Los Angeles  (where Demon was filmed).  I've visited the Bradbury several times on trips to LA and it's a remarkable building  Parts of Blade Runner and countless other TV shows and movies have been filmed there.

The two pages I won have been paid for and are awaiting shipping.  I see no reason why I shouldn't upload them onto my CAF, 

A couple of small images and links to larger scans on my CAF (where other pages can be viewed for those of you interested enough to take a look):

Demon With a Glass Hand - page 40, in Terry Doyle's 8. DEMON WITH A GLASS HAND Comic Art Gallery Room (comicartfans.com)

Demon With a Glass Hand - page 41, in Terry Doyle's 8. DEMON WITH A GLASS HAND Comic Art Gallery Room (comicartfans.com)

And here's a photo of the interior of the Bradbury Building (with my friend Lloyd Braddy in the checked shirt):

Glad to see that you were able to add some more pages to your collection!  I tried to put the book together many years ago, but after a few years of trying, I decided to focus on other pursuits.

Good luck with the quest for more pages!

[The Voord]

2 hours ago, mtlevy1 said:

Are you trying to put the entire story back together?

Oh, gawd, no.  Just trying to put-together a selection of representative examples.

[The Voord]

1 hour ago, jjonahjameson11 said:

Glad to see that you were able to add some more pages to your collection!  I tried to put the book together many years ago, but after a few years of trying, I decided to focus on other pursuits.

Good luck with the quest for more pages!

Thanks!

[Taylor G]

DOA with Edmond O'Brien also had some key scenes shot in the Bradbury. 

It's an amazing building.  Only in America would such an iconic building in the popular culture have a Subway shop on the ground floor.  But at least it isn't falling apart like it was when they filmed Blade Runner.  

The surrounding Bunker Hill area is also the sight of some of the greatest noir films, including Act of Violence and Criss Cross.

[The Voord]

11 hours ago, Taylor G said:

DOA with Edmond O'Brien also had some key scenes shot in the Bradbury. 

It's an amazing building.  Only in America would such an iconic building in the popular culture have a Subway shop on the ground floor.  But at least it isn't falling apart like it was when they filmed Blade Runner.  

The surrounding Bunker Hill area is also the sight of some of the greatest noir films, including Act of Violence and Criss Cross.

Ha, ha, ha, yeah, I've snacked in that Subway!  There's also a huge painting of Anthony Quinn on one of the walls of a building opposite the Bradbury (look at the parked cars in the foreground to get the scale of the thing) . . . 

 

[Taylor G]

Yeah, the famous "Pope of Broadway" mural (the original Victor Clothing is long gone), it was restored by the artist a few years ago.

It reminds me of this Bowie mural in Jersey City.

[Nexus]

Fantastic pickups, Terry...congrats. I don't monitor auctions as closely as I used to, so would have missed these entirely if a fellow collector hadn't alerted me to them (thanks J!). I was shocked at how these pages went. But they were all excellent examples. Presumably same consignor for this batch of pages showing up. Every page in the book is gorgeous work by Rogers...but this guy got some really prime ones.

Wonder if it was Harlan? Heard he had a few pages...

[The Voord]

37 minutes ago, Nexus said:

Fantastic pickups, Terry...congrats. I don't monitor auctions as closely as I used to, so would have missed these entirely if a fellow collector hadn't alerted me to them (thanks J!). I was shocked at how these pages went. But they were all excellent examples. Presumably same consignor for this batch of pages showing up. Every page in the book is gorgeous work by Rogers...but this guy got some really prime ones.

Wonder if it was Harlan? Heard he had a few pages...

Thanks, Felix.  Yeah, I too suspect that these pages may well have come from Harlan's estate.  

[The Voord]

Update!  I've now won two more pages in today's closing auction.

Page 6, which ties into the opening of the televised episode as. after the control voice narration. Mr Trent appears delivering his opening lines of, "I was born ten days ago":

Demon With a Glass Hand - page 6, in Terry Doyle's 8. DEMON WITH A GLASS HAND Comic Art Gallery Room (comicartfans.com)

. . . and page 43, which jumps a beat (I'm missing page 42) and continues on from my previous won two-page sequence.

Demon With a Glass Hand - page 43, in Terry Doyle's 8. DEMON WITH A GLASS HAND Comic Art Gallery Room (comicartfans.com)

Couldn't be any happier with four good wins out of six pages offered thus far!

 

 

 

Edited June 15, 2021 by The Voord

[Brian Peck]

The climatic page where he finds out he is an android went for $4K today.

 

[The Voord]

3 hours ago, Brian Peck said:

The climatic page where he finds out he is an android went for $4K today.

 

Yeah, I was surprised by that number.

[The Voord]

Final win from the recent Heritage auctions:

Demon With a Glass Hand - page 13, in Terry Doyle's 8. DEMON WITH A GLASS HAND Comic Art Gallery Room (comicartfans.com)

Of the nine pages offered by Heritage in recent weeks, I managed to snag five pages.  Some prime examples re-surfaced and I'm now at ten interior pages plus the cover prelim (a good chunk of the graphic novel).  It was always on my wish list to have a good range of representative examples from the book, rather than try to put it all back together (which was never going to happen) and I'm now more than content on that score.

Congrats to other buyers, if they're on these forums, and thanks again to Brian Peck who gave me the heads-up on these offerings.

[The Voord]

First off . . . Terry Doyle here (formally known as The Voord).  I recently lost my log-in information following a computer re-boot that wiped out saved passwords.  When I tried having info sent to me by CGC they came up with an avatar I once created but didn't use!  So now I'm Qarlo!  Sorry about the confusion.

These past several months have been a busy time on the 'Demon With a Glass Hand' OA front, with a batch of 14 pages being offered by Heritage at a rate of 1 per week.  The consignor's on these boards but I don't really think it's my place to name names!

Of the 14 pages being offered by Heritage, I managed to secure a total of 11, which is a great result for me!  Missed out on the page 2 as I got the auction date mixed up and didn't really put up much of a fight for pages 23 and 24.

This time round, prices were not as severe, which enabled me to acquire more examples than I originally thought likely.  Good end to 2021 for me.

Link to my CAF 'Demon With a Glass Hand' gallery where you can see the cover prelim and 21 interior pages:

6. DEMON WITH A GLASS HAND - Terry Doyle's Original Comic Art Gallery at ComicArtFans.com

[rsonenthal]

Congrats Terry!  I was wondering if the same person was scooping up all of those pages.  Glad to see they're going to a good home!

Ron