Dave Gibbons first Watchmen cover among latest Heritage Auctions art offerings

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There’s a host of art by British artists featured in the upcoming Heritage Auctions Comic Art Signature Auction, taking place over 21st – 23rd February 2019 in Dallas – and a number of covers created for early Marvel UK comics by American artists. Rubbing shoulders with Krazy Kat art by George Herriman, newspaper strips by AlexContinue reading Dave Gibbons first Watchmen cover among latest Heritage Auctions art offerings

G.I. Combat #280: "Prize Shot”, published by DC Comics in 1985

Comic Art Auction Spotlight: Sam Glanzman’s “Haunted Tank”

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Leave it to Sam Glanzman, championship realist among DC’s war-comics crew, to capture an essence of heroism-under-fire in the simplest of short-story vignettes for G.I. Combat #280. In this complete three-page Story, “Prize Shot”, published by DC Comics in 1985, a lull in combat finds a member of the Haunted Tank crew relaxing at aContinue reading Comic Art Auction Spotlight: Sam Glanzman’s “Haunted Tank”

Comics That Never Were: Bob Lubbers “Kemi of Ancient Egypt”

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Here’s an incredible “what might have been” item from American newspaper strip history. This is the original art by the brilliant artist Bob Lubbers, for a tryout Sunday comic strip, “Kemi of Ancient Egypt”, recently offered by Heritage Auctions. Designed specifically to look like other strips on the market of the time such as “PrinceContinue reading Comics That Never Were: Bob Lubbers “Kemi of Ancient Egypt”