Cool Binger cover. All these years later, the buyer of this piece is finally revealed! What took you so long to post it, Brian?

Beautiful! Walter is a perfect example of why America dominated mid 1950's illustration. There were so many highly skilled illustrators in those days that even ones as skilled as Walter still feel by the wayside and became relatively unknown, even to illustration fans.

Very fun and whimsical! Man, I just love 1950's imagery. Sigh....

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!

Yup, really like the composition. DeMers was one of the many great illustrators working in the slicks during the mid 20th century!

Elvgren's charcoal prelims are gorgeous, this one included, and actually offer far more value for the dollar than his finished pinup paintings. Very nice!

I've never heard of him either. Nice though. Has a bit of an H.J. Ward thing going on....

Neat Darrel Greene cover for Wake Up Dead!

Yeah, I can imagine. The scan itself clearly shows just how vivid the paint is!

The sex queens of Paris? What's not to like!? You got the best panel of the cover, Brian, natch!

Another nice piece added to the hobby's preemminent George Gross collector. Congrats, John!

Ah, I should've known it was you who got this! Congrats, man!

That's a lovely piece, Tom!

Cool page! I like this one much better than your first one.

Wow, that is absolutely KILLER! Such an amazing and classic Science Fiction film and poster, congratulations!

This is an Earl Mayan cover. Such a bloody shame about the condition, for obvious reasons, but perhaps doubly so given that Mayan covers so rarely turn up.

Congrats on another lovely John Walter piece.

This is an absolutely wonderous Batman splash from my favorite Batman era! Don Newton was a great penciler, with his strengths being his great storytelling, which leads the eye around from panel to panel seamlessly, very solid anatomy and spotting his blacks wonderfully to make for great composition. Newton did NOT have anything about his actual line that stood out, though, so he was actually the perfect type of penciler to have a highly stylized inker working with him. During the early 80's, the Bat books had some of the most beautiful finished art of any title ever published, and regardless of whether it was Newton, Hoberg, or even the legendary Gene Colan penciling the books, the one common denominator and the singlemost reason for the books having that delicious and hugely atmospheric look, was that the stupendous Alfredo Alcala was the embellisher. He was the glue that held the look of the books together regardless of changing pencilers, and more than anyone else, is responsible for the final overall look of those books. So kudos to both men, whose work is dearly missed, and kudos to you, Larry, for owning such an incredible piece of the Batman mythos!

That's a great little vintage prelim, Ted!