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Gill Fox - Police Comics #11 Cover Original Art (Quality, 1942).

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Gill Fox - Police Comics #11 Cover Original Art (Quality, 1942).
<B>Gill Fox - Police Comics #11 Cover Original Art (Quality, 1942).</B></I> The pliable Plastic Man emerges from a test tube to squirt a chemical in a mad scientist's eye. The image size of this gem is approximately 9" x 12", on 11.5" x 14.75" paper. The title logo is a replacement with white-out, otherwise the art is in Excellent condition. The character line-up running down the left edge is all original art, not stats, and it features superb portraits of The Spirit, Manhunter, #711, Chic Carter, and the Human Bomb. Fox's art shows the influence of his peers and close friends Jack Cole and Lou Fine. Fox's first cover for Quality was a Doll Man cover for <B>Feature Comics</B></I> #54 in March of 1942, and he soon followed it with this, his most renowned <B>Plastic Man</B></I> cover. In a recent interview he recalled, "I remember when Jack [Cole] brought in the first <B>Plastic Man</B></I> and we were all elated. It was something with a totally different look and thinking. Arnold recognized fairly quickly that he had a hit here." Gill Fox became an editor for Quality, and the editors did the early covers in-house. Fox would do a cover rough and then submit it to Everett "Busy" Arnold for approval. The covers were only about 10-15% larger than the reproduction size. Fox explained in a Jim Amash interview for <B>Alter-Ego</B></I>, "We had a lot of shields and titles, so it was different than the interior pages. They were made smaller for speed. That made them easier to color, which we did by codes." This is an opportunity to own a highly coveted piece of Golden Age history, and you'd do well to bid on this piece, even if you have to s-t-r-e-t-c-h your collecting budget a tad. <BR><BR><B>Important notice:</B> Heritage usually auctions material at the rate of 200-250 lots per hour. On some occasions eBay Live bid software or the Internet may not be able to keep up with the pace of the auction. We recommend placing a realistic absentee bid now as insurance to avoid disappointment. Occasionally the auctioneer may eliminate or reject an eBay Live bid, and the auctioneer may also reopen a lot after the close of the eBay live bidding (usually because we missed an audience bid), and may reject your bid even if it shows you as the winning bidder. By bidding via eBay Live, you agree that Heritage may award the lot to another bidder at its sole discretion under the circumstances described above or any other reasonable circumstances. Since eBay bids are not shown to us until we open the lot on the floor, we treat those bids just like floor bids. In most cases the floor responds before the eBay bid is presented to us, due to Internet lag time, so for consistency we have made it a policy that floor bids are always considered first over tie eBay live bids. Also please note that all Heritage lots purchased through eBay Live carry a 20% Buyer's Premium. Please make sure you read the Terms and Conditions before you bid.