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Strange Tales 89 Cover OA!
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drdonaldblake1

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http://www.comicartads.com/content/strange-tales-89-cover

 

$6075 in 1994!

 

great to know it exists

 

what would it fetch today at auction?

 

i hope this hasnt been posted before, the comicartads site is really cool- you can see what OA exists...................if only i had been buying it in the 90's!!!

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1 hour ago, drdonaldblake1 said:

maybe a collector or OA dealer who used CBG?

 

the site is really interesting...............alot of stuff from Mitch Itkowicz CBG ads, is Mitch still in the hobby?

 

Yes Mitch is on the CGC Board.  Lee B. I believe has this in his archive of items for sale/sold over the last 30+ years.

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15 minutes ago, marktom said:

Unless that's one of the worst copy/scans I've ever seen, there's no way that's the original cover.

In 1993-1994 Jack Kirby and Ayers made a recreation of the cover. In August 2008 the recreation came up for sale again  (I don't believe it reached the reserve)as it originally sold at Sotheby's I believe. It could be that pic is of the recreation cover.

STRANGE TALES #89 COVER RECREATION - THE AUCTION HAS ENDED

THE ULTIMATE KIRBY MONSTER COVER!

Current Bid: * $9,900
Number Of Bids: 29 history.gif

 
 
Primary Artist Name: JACK KIRBY
Secondary Artist Name:  AYERS
Condition: EXCELLENT
Year: 1993
End Date: 8/29/2008 9:36:00 PM
ComicLink Comments:
FIN FANG FOOM, the greatest of all Marvel monsters, reigns supreme in this superb cover art recreation by the men who drew the original -- Jack Kirby and Ayers. Executed in the Winter of 1993-94, this piece brought the two masters back together to create an exact duplicate of the most memorable and beloved cover of Marvel's "Pre-Hero" period. Jack Kirby and Ayers were two of the guiding forces behind Marvel's groundbreaking comic books of the Silver Age. Fin Fang Foom is the most prominent and popular of the horde of giant monsters that inhabited the pages of Strange Tales before Marvel launched its landmark line of superheroes in the early 1960s.

Jack Kirby passed away in February of 1994, so this was certainly one of the very last pieces that he undertook. Kirby and Ayers signed the image at the bottom, but Rosalind Kirby, Jack's widow, signed in his stead on the certificate which is attached to the back of the mat (see image below). This piece is as close as you can come to the original and it presents beautifully with a whopping 14" x 21" image area. In addition to being even larger than standard "twice up", it has a clean, solid surface, free of the paste-ups and corrections often found on cover art. This is truly a prestige piece and it would certainly serve as an anchor in just about any Pre-Hero Marvel art collection.

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8 hours ago, grapeape said:

In 1993-1994 Jack Kirby and Ayers made a recreation of the cover. In August 2008 the recreation came up for sale again  (I don't believe it reached the reserve)as it originally sold at Sotheby's I believe. It could be that pic is of the recreation cover.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

I think that too because we can see in the bottom of the ad the kind of signatures Kirby (at the left) and Ayers (at the right) did on these recreations (source : https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1417814) . The missing CCA stamp is probably an hint too ?

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9 hours ago, drdonaldblake1 said:

http://www.comicartads.com/content/strange-tales-89-cover

 

$6075 in 1994!

 

great to know it exists

 

what would it fetch today at auction?

 

i hope this hasnt been posted before, the comicartads site is really cool- you can see what OA exists...................if only i had been buying it in the 90's!!!

Thanks for the kind words Dr. Donald!  It is likely that this Strange Tales #89 cover was one of the recreations offered in the June 1994 Sotheby's auction.  These recreations have been a source of controversy.  To get one take on the recreations, you could read this (offered without comment on my part): https://ohdannyboy.blogspot.com/2011/10/original-art-stories-mystery-of-jack.html

Other pieces of art from the June 1994 Sotheby's auction, including pages from a lot of all 20 of the Conan #1 interior pages (which sold for $11,500 at Sotheby's) appeared for sale by Lewis McDermott in Comic Buyer's Guide in the 12/23/94 issue:

http://www.comicartads.com/content/conan-1-page-2

http://www.comicartads.com/content/conan-1-page-3

So maybe Lewis McDermott was one of the earlier "Flip-of-the-Day" honorees.  I don't know much about Lewis, but his son Mark has posted on the boards in past years, also on the topic of Barry Smith Conan original art.  It must run in the family.

And speaking of www.comicartads.com and covers, I just did a count, and I have now posted about 950 old ads for cover art to my website, with more to come.  Enjoy!  Cheers, Lee

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Yeah, it's one of the 1994 Sotheby's recreations. The only pre-hero cover art known to have survived is for the issues where they reprintd the splash as the cover, like Tales to Astonish 34, Monster at my Window. There's a rumor that Journey into Mystery 80 popped up 25 years ago but I haven't heard that confirmed.

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36 minutes ago, The Voord said:

Conspiracy-theory-guy would have (needlessly) soiled his panties reading the opening comment of this thread . . . :bigsmile:

To be filed under 'F, for False Alarm . . .

And Depends stock...crashes.

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11 hours ago, Lee B. said:

Thanks for the kind words Dr. Donald!  It is likely that this Strange Tales #89 cover was one of the recreations offered in the June 1994 Sotheby's auction.  These recreations have been a source of controversy.  To get one take on the recreations, you could read this (offered without comment on my part): https://ohdannyboy.blogspot.com/2011/10/original-art-stories-mystery-of-jack.html

Other pieces of art from the June 1994 Sotheby's auction, including pages from a lot of all 20 of the Conan #1 interior pages (which sold for $11,500 at Sotheby's) appeared for sale by Lewis McDermott in Comic Buyer's Guide in the 12/23/94 issue:

http://www.comicartads.com/content/conan-1-page-2

http://www.comicartads.com/content/conan-1-page-3

So maybe Lewis McDermott was one of the earlier "Flip-of-the-Day" honorees.  I don't know much about Lewis, but his son Mark has posted on the boards in past years, also on the topic of Barry Smith Conan original art.  It must run in the family.

And speaking of www.comicartads.com and covers, I just did a count, and I have now posted about 950 old ads for cover art to my website, with more to come.  Enjoy!  Cheers, Lee

hey Lee, great to see you are on the boards!  when did you start your site and i assume you are comic and OA collector too?

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2 hours ago, exitmusicblue said:

You may want to edit the title via the first post for posterity.

Why should anyone else avoid the initial shock ??? and keyboard involuntarily sprayed with coffee that we all experienced?

I vote leave it as is :headbang:

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