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Hal Foster - Original Comic Strip Art for Princ

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Hal Foster - Original Comic Strip Art for Princ
Hal Foster - Original Comic Strip Art for Prince Valiant Sunday dated 4-8-62 (King Features Syndicate, 1962). This lot features the art for the top and bottom panel tiers of this 1962 Sunday. Hal Foster drew the Prince Valiant pages quite large, and it was his common studio practice to cut the art pages between the panel borders of each of the three tiers. This made for ease of drawing during the inking stage, and also for handling the art in the production process. Often, Foster would cut individual panels out of his Sundays to give to his fans, so that acquiring a complete tier has become a bit of a coup. In addition to these five wonderful panels of art, this lot also includes the hand-painted color guides done in three tiers, the four paper printing plates, to be used by a newspaper for the four-color printing process, a full-sized black and white printer's proof, and a full-sized color proof of the Sunday. The art is in great condition, but there are some minor stains on panel two of tier one. The type captions are paste-on lettering, some of the captions are loose, and a missing line of type has slipped off of panel two of tier one. There is some minor glue-staining of the paste-on Prince Valiant logo. The overall size of the art paper is 11.5" x 25" with an image area of 11" x 22.75" on each of the two tiers. The overall size of the paper printing plates and the proof pages is 17.5" x 25" each. This is a wonderful Prince Valiant lot with images of Val, Arn, a gargoyle, horses, and a castle. This Sunday was done while Hal Foster was still at the height of his artistic powers, setting the illustration standards for this comic strip. Important notice: 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.