SUPERMAN EARLY GREETING CARD ORIGINAL ART.
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Winning Bid:
$603.75
(Includes 15% Buyer's Premium)
Bidding Ended:
Thursday, March 17, 2016 9:00:00 AM (20 Minute Clock Begins At Thursday, March 17, 2016 9:00:00 AM)
Item Description
8.5x11" thin artboard has 7x8" overall image area in India ink w/air-brushing. Art features great scene of policeman looking through fence while another emerges from manhole to call out as police dog sniffs around. Upper right features image of Superman peering at them, as if he is bending down actual corner of the card. This art was used for a girl's Fifth Birthday card, w/unused area for text at upper left. The Superman figure was most likely drawn by a member of the Joe Shuster Studio staff at DC Comics while the rest of the art is by the regular card company artist. Final product card (included in this lot) was printed in 1940, which is only a year after "Superman" #1 hit newsstands in the Summer of 1939. Art has editorial notation in blue pencil at right and artboard has trace of lt. dust soiling w/thumbprint at upper right corner, but art remains Exc. overall. Production card features metal spring tail for dog and has penciled name on back of card. Fine. Superman greeting card original art is scarce, this being a wonderful example. Franco Toscanini Collection.
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