Comics and Animation News: John Byrne Art, Mile High Pedigree Comics

Comics and Animation News [Read this newsletter online]( [Heritage Auctions]( [Comics and Animation News]( In This Issue: • [Sunday Internet Auction](#spotlight) • [Marie Severin (1929-2018), RIP](#collector-a) • [Jawing About Steve Holland, Part 3](#collector-b) • [Website Tips: Create a Wantlist from a Search](#tips) • [Around Heritage Auctions](#around-1) • [Cover of the Week: "Worst Archer of the Year" Awards](#week) • [Current Auctions](#current) September 5, 2018 []Sunday Internet Auction [Sunday Internet Comics Auction]( Auction Ends: September 9, 2018 Live Session at 6:00 PM CT [Our Sunday auction has eight pieces of comic art by the great John Byrne.]( [More than 30 Mile High pedigree copies are in this week's auction!]( [And we've got eight L.B. Cole covers.]( [John Byrne and Mike Machlan Avengers West Coast #48 Story Page 22 Original Art (Marvel, 1989)]( An early appearance of the Great Lakes Avengers. [Gunsmoke #5 Mile High Pedigree (Western, 1949) CGC NM 9.4 Off-white to white pages]( Cover art by future horror specialist Graham Ingels. [Suspense Comics #7 (Continental Magazines, 1944) CGC VG+ 4.5 White pages]( Suspense Comics #7, featuring Mr. Nobody. Highlights of this week's auction include: [Startling Comics #49 (Better Publications, 1948) CGC GD 2.0 Off-white pages]( Startling Comics #49 (Better Publications, 1948) CGC GD 2.0 Off-white pages Overstreet "classic" Alex Schomburg airbrushed robot cover. Hal Sherman art. Overstreet 2018 GD 2.0 value = $975. CGC census 8/18: 3 in 2.0, 90 higher. [View]( [Green Lantern #1 (DC, 1960) CGC VF- 7.5 Off-white pages]( Green Lantern #1 (DC, 1960) CGC VF- 7.5 Off-white pages Green Lantern's origin is retold and the Guardians of the Universe make their first appearance. Gil Kane cover and art. Murphy Anderson art. Overstreet 2018 VF 8.0 value = $4,200. CGC census 8/18: 33 in 7.5, 66 higher. [View]( [Top Cat TC and Benny Publicity Cel and Master Painted Background Setup (Hanna-Barbera, c. 1960s)]( Top Cat TC and Benny Publicity Cel and Master Painted Background Setup (Hanna-Barbera, c. 1960s) Benny the Ball gives Top Cat a shoe shine (on his bare foot, no less), in this extremely cool hand-painted 12 field production cel. These are full-figure images, sized at 4.75" and 2.75". The H-B background is hand-painted (using gouache) for this piece, as the shadows under the two figures show, making for quite a setup for TC fans! Fine overall condition. [View]( [The Amazing Spider-Man #28 (Marvel, 1965) CGC VF/NM 9.0 White pages]( The Amazing Spider-Man #28 (Marvel, 1965) CGC VF/NM 9.0 White pages Origin and first appearance of the Molten Man. Peter Parker graduates from high school. Steve Ditko cover and art. Overstreet 2018 VF/NM 9.0 value = $1,734; NM- 9.2 value = $2,700. CGC census 8/18: 54 in 9.0, 40 higher. [View]( [Neal Adams and Nick Cardy Teen Titans #21 Story Page 4 Robin, Wonder Girl, Speedy, Kid Flash, Hawk, and Dove Original Art (DC, 1969)]( Neal Adams and Nick Cardy Teen Titans #21 Story Page 4 Robin, Wonder Girl, Speedy, Kid Flash, Hawk, and Dove Original Art (DC, 1969) Neal Adams wrote and penciled the tale "Citadel of Fear", which was then inked by Nick Cardy. Hawk saves Wonder Girl on this page, but still manages to get into it with the equally hot-headed Speedy. Kid Flash is in the background of the last panel. Created in ink over graphite on Bristol board with an image area of 10" x 15". Production hole punched in the top and bottom margins, with some production tape in the last panel. In overall Excellent condition. [View]( [Jim Aparo Aquaman #55 Story Page 3 Original Art (DC, 1971)]( Jim Aparo Aquaman #55 Story Page 3 Original Art (DC, 1971) Aquaman submerges himself into the microscopic world of Mera's rings to save a mysterious girl from the enslavement of super-intellectuals. Produced in ink and Zipatone over graphite on Bristol board with an image area of 10" x 15". In Excellent condition. [View]( [Wizards Elinore Production Cel Setup with Key Master Background (Ralph Bakshi, 1977)]( Wizards Elinore Production Cel Setup with Key Master Background (Ralph Bakshi, 1977) A tense scene unfolds as a kidnapped Elinore, with both arms trapped in stone, is about to be attacked by a green-skinned, red-eyed reptilian creature. Yikes! This is an original hand-painted 5-cel setup with matching Key Master painted background. One cel is a line art background overlay. Elinore's figure size is 7.25" tall. Very Good condition with minor handling wear. [View]( [Walt Simonson and Bob Wiacek X-Factor #26 Story Page 20 Original Art (Marvel, 1988)]( Walt Simonson and Bob Wiacek X-Factor #26 Story Page 20 Original Art (Marvel, 1988) Scott Summers, determined to avenge the death of Maddie, finds himself in the arming embrace of Jean Grey, in this hot and heavy panel page created in ink over graphite on Bristol board with an image area of 10" x 15". The top margin is irregularly trimmed and there's a whiteout text correction in Panel 3, otherwise, in Excellent condition. [View]( [Craig Flessel Detective Comics #13 Cover Re-Creation Original Art (1994)]( Craig Flessel Detective Comics #13 Cover Re-Creation Original Art (1994) Batman was still over a year away from revolutionizing Detective Comics when Flessel delivered the gripping cover for issue #13 in 1938. In reconstructing that image for the present painting, Flessel retained both the spirit and the letter of the basic artwork while adding tones and textures and lending more expressive features to both the bad guy and the menaced policeman. Where the 1938 coloring job would have been performed by hired technicians, Flessel was in full command of the palette for the re-creation. He rewarded the opportunity with layers of free-flowing watercolors (using an extremely wet brush), and he augmented the black brushstrokes with crosshatching from a felt marker (a device that had not existed during the 1930s). Ink and watercolors over graphite on illustration board. Image area, 11" x 15.5", framed to 17.5" 22.25". Excellent condition. [View]( [Bill Sienkiewicz - Batman and Catwoman Illustration Original Art (2006)]( Bill Sienkiewicz - Batman and Catwoman Illustration Original Art (2006) Batman and Catwoman relax with a Tiger and Lion. Rendered in ink over graphite on board with an image area of 16.5" x 16.5". There's an art correction of the lion's head in the bottom center. Signed and in Excellent condition. [View]( Our MyHeritage: [MyBids]( feature makes tracking your favorite items easier than ever. Just a reminder...our Sunday Internet Comics, Animation, and Art Auctions end with a Live Session at 6:00 PM CT. [Browse the entire auction here](. [Back to Top](#top) []Marie Severin (1929-2018), RIP [collectora-img1] Here are four of my favorite Marie Severin covers. She didn't do many covers that were completely her own, as she worked in Production and often her talents were used to make other people's covers look even better. She handled alterations on too many covers to count, and was a fantastic colorist. Having worked at EC Comics in the 1950s, her caricature and parody skills were on a par with Mad magazine at its strongest point. She learned from the best. And she was one of them. Godspeed, Marie. - Weldon Adams, Heritage Auctions [Back to Top](#top) []Jawing About Steve Holland, Part 3 On a few previous occasions we have commented on the ubiquity of that strong-jawed cover model Steve Holland (perhaps best known from [James Bama's Doc Savage paperback covers](. You couldn't miss his face on the paperback racks in the 1960s and early 1970s, but in browsing this week's comic auction we found a couple of shots of him from 1949. [Romantic Western #1 Mile High Pedigree (Fawcett Publications, 1949) CGC VF+ 8.5 White pages]( [Romantic Western #2 Mile High Pedigree (Fawcett Publications, 1950) CGC VF 8.0 White pages]( These are from the covers of [Romantic Western #1]( and [Romantic Western #2]( and we're auctioning the Mile High copies of both in this week's auction. [Back to Top](#top) []Website Tips: Create a Wantlist from a Search With our new My Wantlist feature, we now offer the ability to save any search you make on the Heritage site exactly as you made it! [Website Tips 1] Perform any search on the Heritage website, exactly as you would normally. Use the left side of the page to refine your search as you see fit. For coins, you can include grades, designations such as DMPL or BN, grading services, and even things like whether the coin is available with a CAC sticker. To save your search, click on the "Create Wantlist" button immediately above the beginning of the search results on the page. You will see an overlay that looks something like this: [Website Tips 2] Here you are trying to save a search for 1883-CC Morgan dollars in MS67 and with a regular CAC sticker. Review your selections to make sure they are what you want. A new feature in My Wantlist is the Wantlist Nickname. By default, the nickname is the keyword you used on a search. However, you can change it to anything you want, such as 1883-CC MS67, or CAC Superb Gem, or Fred, or anything else. This allows you to easily identify the search as you see fit. There is no requirement to have a nickname on a wantlist search; it is for your ease of identification only. Once you are satisfied with your search, click "Create Wantlist", and the search will be saved for you. You will receive emails on the wantlist – if you want to receive them – when matches become available for bidding or immediate purchase. Some selections on the left side of the search results cannot be saved as a part of a wantlist; these mostly have to do with individual auctions or current prices. In other words, you can't save a search for a 1883-CC dollar from the September 2018 Long Beach auction because the September 2018 Long Beach auction will not happen again after September 2018. [Back to Top](#top) []Around Heritage Auctions Three Rare High-Spots Featured in September Books Auction By [Zachary Stacy](mailto:zacharys@ha.com) Without question, I consider the biggest perk of my job to be never knowing what might be waiting for me on my desk each morning. Most days are filled with handling relatively routine material. "Relatively" because, due to the nature of what we offer, every week includes several books that would be right at home in a booth at even the most prestigious international book fairs. Once or twice a year, however, a consignment includes something really remarkable, something I didn't know existed that then burrows deep under my skin and stays with me the throughout an auction's entire lifespan. I'm attached to these items partially because of their innate appeal, sure, but mostly because I have no delusions about the probability of ever seeing another copy (I'd say that probability is zero, but there's always the slim chance a well-publicized auction result brings to light additional copies). And this is strictly referring to printed matter, ignoring things that are unique, such as manuscripts or association copies. Putting together our upcoming auction, September 13's [Rare Books & Maps Signature Auction #6193]( was a slightly different experience than previous auctions. At 342 lots, it is the smallest catalog auction the department has ever assembled, but it includes three lots that fit the criteria I mentioned above (for me, more than any previous auction since assuming my current role in the department at the end of 2015), three lots I've contemplated every day since they were first brought to my attention. They are John Tiebout's re-issue of the first edition of [The Federalist Papers]( with new title-pages (New York: 1799); Jean Théodore Descourtilz's [Oiseaux brillans du Brésil]( (Paris: 1834), the scarcest bird book of the Americas; and John Thomson's photobook [Foochow and the River Min]( (London: 1873). [[Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay]. The Federalist: A Collection of Essays]( The original appearance of The Federalist Papers as essays in New York newspapers in 1787 and 1788 helped ensure the ratification of the United States Constitution, making their printing among the most important publishing events in U.S. history. Their significance lead to the first collected edition, printed and sold by J. and A. M'Lean in 1788. In this durable, collectible format, numerous copies of have survived, as many editions whose importance is immediately apparent often do (Heritage has sold three complete sets and several single volumes). The unsold copies of the 1788 edition were re-issued in 1799 with new title-pages printed by John Tiebout, but unlike copies with a 1788 title-page, the re-issue is seldom seen and its scarcity frequently referenced. Henry B. Dawson dedicated a paragraph to his futile attempts to find a copy in his introduction to the 1863 Scribner's edition of The Federalist. Paul Leicester Ford in Bibliotheca Hamiltoniana calls it "the scarcest edition." More recently, in the Fall auction guide by [Fine Books and Collections Magazine]( Americana collector Michael Zinman notes: "Goodspeed in Boston listed it in their Catalogue in the 1920s and noted that it was the only one that they had ever seen. No other copy has surfaced in the trade, except for this one (offered in September) and a loose volume two that I happen to have in my collection." [J[ean] T[héodore] Descourtilz. [Oiseaux brillans du Brésil]( Bibliographer Rubens Borba de Moraes said of Descourtilz's Oiseaux brillans du Brésil, "This book is so rare that I had begun to doubt its existence," before he finally tracked one down in the Teyler Museum in Haarlem. When I opened the upcoming copy for the first time, noticing it lacked a title-page (none issued), I assumed I was looking at a defective copy of Descourtilz's Ornithologie Brésilienne (Rio de Janeiro: 1852-1856), but it didn't take long to realize that these were exceptional hand-colored lithographs (not chromos), there were twelve additional prints, and that I was holding something truly special. Only a small handful of copies have ever surfaced, with known copies in the Teyler as well as in the Natural History Museum (Rothschild Collection) in London. Only two auction records appear in American Book Prices Current (none in Rare Book Hub). Moreover, I've grown attached to some of the birds that have been in our custody, especially the Courlis Rouge, and will miss them once they find a new home in September. [J[ohn]. Thomson. Foochow and the River Min]( The earliest known surviving photograph, Nicéphore Niépce's View from the Window at Le Gras, is dated 1826 or 1827. Within fifty years of the medium's inception, in 1873, that a work of such staggering ambition and skill as John Thomson's Foochow and the River Min was conceived, let alone completed, is mindboggling. A crew traveled rural areas of China with all the plates, chemicals and cumbersome equipment required to take eighty photographs, each of them stunning. Then Thomson used a printing process (carbon prints) that Parr and Badger describe as "labour-intensive as photographic printmaking" in The Photobook I . He reportedly made just forty-six copies, primarily for foreign residents of Foochow. While this is the sixth copy to come to auction in the past thirty years, by the nature of how few were produced (and how many fewer survived), it is an uncommon pleasure to handle a copy. Even with the condition on this specific copy leaving something to be desired, the prospect of finding another, for most collectors, appears somewhat grim. One thing I've learned about the value of books is that, in a vacuum, rarity tends to affect it the least. Rarity in the marketplace can, however, dramatically affect the prices realized for known and desirable, but seldom seen, lots. In order for something to perform well at auction people need to know they want it or at least be able to easily understand its merit and how it would fit in their collection. The ideal situation for an auction house is two, or more, collectors (private or public) with a space already reserved on the shelf for a book they have little hope of a second chance in procuring. I imagine there are several subject specialists and advanced collectors who have shelf space waiting (or that will be quickly cleared after the catalog mails in the coming weeks) for the highlighted lots, and I can only imagine the thrill of a seasoned collector procuring one after a decades-long hunt. There are a select few of the books that I've handled—or even just seen—since entering the book trade five years ago that are now embedded in my consciousness. Each will serve as a point of reference for all the related material that will follow. The lots listed above are, without a doubt, three of those books, and I consider it a privilege to have served as their custodian, however briefly. [More information about Historical Auctions]( [Back to Top](#top) []Cover of the Week: "Worst Archer of the Year" Awards We have three nominees for the worst archer of the year. Representing Timely, [Oscar #4:]( [Oscar Comics #4 Mile High Pedigree (Timely, 1947) CGC VF- 7.5 Off-white to white pages]( Representing United Feature Syndicate, [United Comics #12:]( [United Comics #12 Fritzi Ritz (United Features Syndicate, 1950) CGC FN- 5.5 Off-white to white pages]( Representing Ace Periodicals, [Hap Hazard Comics #19]( [Hap Hazard Comics #19 (Ace, 1948) CGC VG 4.0 Off-white to white pages]( And the winner is... [Fritzi Ritz in United Comics #12]( who managed to miss repeatedly from the shortest distance. [United Comics #12 Fritzi Ritz (United Features Syndicate, 1950) CGC FN- 5.5 Off-white to white pages]( Actually the winner is you, the bidder, since all three of these are in this week's auction. Just click the links above for a closer look at each. 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