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07-05-2007, 11:24 AM
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Look out for #1. Don't step in #2 either.
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The lore about the early marvel days is they used to just throw the original art away after the plates were struck, or just go out on the street and give pages away to kids! 
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07-05-2007, 11:57 AM
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Cosmic Painter
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Statuesque Fellow
The lore about the early marvel days is they used to just throw the original art away after the plates were struck, or just go out on the street and give pages away to kids! |
Sadly that goes for allmost everything back in the day. My parents could have retired long ago if they kept their comic collections. They had everything and my father even had multples of the first superman comic.
but noooooooo they threw all that stuff out long time ago.......... 
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07-05-2007, 12:23 PM
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Phoenix
Join Date: Sep 2006
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Yeah, My Dad used to tell me about his complete run of the Old Doc Savage Pulp Magazines he had as a child. He left all of them in a backyard tent and some other kid lifted them. A complete run.......I shudder to think.
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07-05-2007, 04:51 PM
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Death is hereditary.
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It is amazing to see such beautiful art from that era, and more incredible is the fact they were to be trashed. I heard they did the same with the Disney & WB cartoon cels.
Reminds of that Seinfeld episode when Kramer found Merv Griffin's stage set in the dumpster, and Seinfeld could not stop playing with the mint action figures.
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07-05-2007, 05:34 PM
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Phoenix
Join Date: Sep 2006
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Same thing with the Pulp Magazine cover art from the 30, 40, and 50's. I read in Robert Lesser's PULP ART that some collector once found janitors in the basement of a NYC publishing building just stuffing cover art into the furnace. They were told to burn it. The publishers so no reason to keep it. This guy saved what he could but thousands of those beautiful pulp covers were just destroyed. 'Till they invent a time machine they're lost.
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07-05-2007, 05:40 PM
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My Better Is Better Than Your Better
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frickin sweet
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