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Lee Elias - Color Progressive Proofs for Black

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Comics Start Price:1.00 USD Estimated At:1.00 - 1,000,000.00 USD
Lee Elias - Color Progressive Proofs for Black
Lee Elias - Color Progressive Proofs for Black Cat Mystery #49 Cover (Harvey, 1954). Here's a rare chance to see one of Harvey's great horror comic covers as it goes through the four-color printing process, step by step. This is a complete set of printer's proofs, prepared as a means of color control, for the notorious Lee Elias "Clean as a Whistle" front cover to Black Cat Mystery #49. Each process color is included - magenta (red), cyan (blue), yellow, and black, as well as combinations of yellow and magenta and yellow-magenta-cyan. These are all printed on standard comic cover stock, and bound with a heavy cover sheet from Koppel Photo Engravers in New Haven, Connecticut. These items rarely turn up on the collector's market, as most were trashed after publication, but here's a near-perfect example from a very desirable cover. 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.