eBay Auction for Superman creator Joe Shuster ACTION COMICS #16 Recreation
PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Publication
Date: May 15, 2012
Larry Shell Announces eBay Auction for Superman creator Joe Shuster ACTION COMICS #16 Original
Longtime eBay seller, Larry Shell, whose seller name is sheltone, and specializes in Original Comic Artwork is offering a most unique piece in his one and only auction this week on eBay!
A full-color original by legendary Superman creator, Joe Shuster — a recreation of the image from the cover of ACTION COMICS #16 (December, 1938).
Beginning with Action Comics #19, Superman appeared on the cover of all future issues of the title. A copy of the original comic, in NM- Condition, is valued at $14,500…….more than this One of a Kind original by his creator is starting at!
Drawn in 1983, this is one of only a very few cover recreations that Shuster did and is 100% his work. The art measures a large 15” x 20” in size and is beautifully rendered in lead and colored pencils, which give the image the soft quality of pastels.
Joseph “Joe” Shuster (July 10, 1914 – July 30, 1992) was a Canadian comic book artist who is best known for co-creating the DC Comics character Superman, with writer Jerry Siegel, first published in Action Comics #1 (June 1938). He grew up in Cleveland, Ohio. Shuster was involved in a number of legal battles concerning the ownership of the Superman character, eventually gaining recognition for his part in its creation. Shuster died in Los Angeles, California in 1992.
The auction will run on eBay, the online auction website, from Tuesday, May 15th at 9pm EST through Sunday, May 20th at 9pm EST.
The best offer received wins the art. If the only offer at the close of the auction is for minimum bid listed, then that person will get the art. Bids will be accepted from anywhere in the world.
Any interested bidders who would like to be emailed a reminder the day before the auction ends, should email the seller and let him know.
Additional information and photographs of the artwork are available on the auction listing located at the following link:
http://qurls.com?i=51086
For questions email the seller at sheltone55@yahoo.com before the close of the auction.
Top 10: Avengers Members
Top 10: Avengers Members by Jerry Whitworth
Avengers by George Perez
The Avengers are Marvel Comics’ premier team of heroes (though the X-Men and Fantastic Four could also meet criteria for this claim, with the idea in mind several from both groups have been members of the Avengers) combining together the best of the society of super-heroes that protect Earth from alien invasions, the folly of man’s science, mystical threats from beyond, and evil given birth upon Earth itself. Threats like the Kree, Skrull, Ultron, Kang, Dr. Doom, Thanos, Count Nefaria, and the Masters of Evil have traded blows with these heroes only for time and again these guardians to come out on top. Listed below are those considered the best of the many heroes to count themselves among the Avengers.
Flipgeeks report the Death of Tony DeZuniga
As I learned from ComicArt-L, Tony DeZuniga has died.
See the news story here:
http://flipgeeks.com/pinoy-komiks-dc-marvel-etc/filipino-comics-legend-tony-dezuniga-has-passed-away/
Condolences going out from our entire Comic Art Community.
When I was a kid, Tony’s style as one I’d always “follow.” Anything with his name on it was heaven for me.
Recently, when I learned he was in the hospital, I purchased this pin-up from Tina to help with expenses. I was so sadly happy to see it come to me today in the mail:
Jonah Hex
Check back with FlipGeeks for updates. I see they have posted about a Wake.
T
Arena Comics Launches Superhero-schizophrenic Splitsville During HeroesCon 2012
Arena Comics Launches Superhero-schizophrenic Splitsville During HeroesCon 2012
Heroes Con 2012 Variant
For Immediate Release
Atlanta, GA, USA May 10, 2012
Arena Comics is launching their first exciting new title Splitsville at HeroesCon 2012 which is being held on June 21-23 2012 in the Charlotte Convention Center in Charlotte, NC.
Written by Ben Fisher and penciled by Kevin Stokes, the first issue of Splitsville will be released in a beautiful special edition hardcover packed with extras, including sketches, pin-ups, and script samples. Don’t miss out on the book Broken Frontier calls “startlingly unique,” “razor-sharp” and “delightfully wicked!”
Splitsville is a 3 issue mini-series, which will sport a HeroesCon 30th Anniversary Variant cover, limited to 200 copies. Splitsville will be solicited via Diamond in months to come.
Splitsville
Words: Ben Fisher
Art: Kevin Stokes
Inks: Adam Markiewicz
Colors: Tony Washington
ARCANA: May Newsletter, New Books, Intrinsic, & Arcanaverse!
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Make It So: Wonder Woman the Movie
Make It So: Wonder Woman the Movie by Jerry Whitworth
Wonder Woman
Christopher Nolan’s critically acclaimed Batman film trilogy will come to an end in July and Bryan Singer’s love letter to Richard Donner’s Superman films is being rebooted to make way for a new vision from Zack Snyder (famous for adapting comics like 300 and Watchmen to film). Comic book movies are big business and has been a wild success for Marvel Studios culminating into May’s release of the Avengers so it would make sense for DC Comics to complete the trinity and bring Wonder Woman to film (though, instead we got Ryan Reynolds as Green Lantern). With the hit-or-miss nature of the film industry today and the losses studios have eaten from a decline in people watching their product in theaters, Hollywood has developed a fear of certain conventions that teeter on superstitious. One such fear is having an action film with a female lead. However, if the success of the Hunger Games is any indication, people will go to a movie as long as they have some investment or interest in the material. And Wonder Woman’s no stranger to live action, starring in a popular television series in the 1970s with Miss World USA Lynda Carter as the titular character (a recent treatment by David E. Kelley tried to resurrect the character on television before his concept was panned). So, lets take a look at what is a must for a live action Wonder Woman.
The Comic Book Industry: Creator Rights or Wrongs?
The Comic Book Industry: Creator Rights or Wrongs? by Jerry Whitworth
From Krakow to Krypton
The American comic book industry was largely built from anti-Semitism. The United States (the Americas in general) started from one people imposing their will on other people, Europeans came to the Western hemisphere’s prominent continents and claimed the land therein for their native nations, often pushing out or killing natives that opposed them. This continued on throughout its history, with the prevalence of slavery and minority rights that have since legally made those of different skin color equal but the struggle remains today between people and their differences (skin color, religion, sexual-orientation, economic class, etc). A hatred that continues to fester today is that against the Jews, a hatred since ancient times when the Egyptians held them as slaves and later when Europeans saw them as unscrupulous money lenders and Christians and Muslims held their own special contempt for them. The United States of America, founded as an independent nation with the freedom to practice whatever religion you believed in, made it illegal to hate someone for having different beliefs, but that didn’t stop people from discriminating despite this fact. Jews, regardless of their skill or ability, were often the target of being blacklisted from work. It was often the case you would have a Jewish businessman hire almost exclusively Jewish workers, under the idea of looking out for their own people, but likely more prevalent with a knowledge it would mean cheap labor. Jewish publishers like Maxwell Charles Gaines, better known as M.C. Gaines (formerly Max Ginzberg), Martin Goodman, and Harry Donenfeld founded companies like All-American Publications, Timely Comics, and National Periodical Publications, respectively. Donenfeld, a salesman turned printer, founded National with Jack Liebowitz and was compared to a gangster in Gerard Jones’ Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters, and the Birth of the Comic Book (2005) for his aggressive approach to business, promising clients the world and bullying his employees to get what he wanted.
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