Okay, it WAS for sale some fifty years ago. Don't know the price on the Fritz paint'n, but Berni's definitive Nightmaster for $75 was an amazeballs bargain. Of course, if I'd seen it at the time, I woulda immediately thought "or, I could buy 500 comics," which is currently about all I have, so it would've been a big Pasadena
I remember thinking the same thing with original art. I bought a couple at 10 each back in, oh, the 70s, and thought...interesting, but eh. Of course, now, ... Not just because these things are so expensive, but they are great works in their own right, white out and corrections galore!
ReplyDeleteTrue all that! As usual, I jest, but in reality, onea my great regrets about this whole she-bang is not having any original art. I'll often droll over the Artists Editions or things that go up for auction, and I really kick myself for not taking Kirby up on his offer of him drawing anyone I wanted for $35 the one time I met him
DeleteI have the issue of Cohran's Graphic Gallery with that Frazetta for sale. In 1975 it was going for $3500.
ReplyDeleteShade more than the $75 for Wrightson's Nightmaster. Not great at math, but if I extrapolate my comic currency, I think that's like 23,000 comics
DeleteI DO own a small amount of originals, but lately the prices are absurd. I bought most of mine 10 to 15 years or so ago. The least I paid was 25, for Joe Staton, and the most was 315 for an unpublished George Tuska painting. I have basically given up on owning any of the old timers, but if you ever attend a convention with Gordon Purcell in attendance, his work is reasonably priced, and he is an amazingly good draftsman, and a wonderful human being.
ReplyDeleteSad to say I've never been to a convention and will probably never make one. When I met Jack and Roz, it was in a comic shop in Boulder, and they were visiting a nephew who was attending CU
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