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1957 Batwoman Sketches by Dick Sprang

Artist: Dick Sprang (All)

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Title:	1957 Batwoman Sketches by Dick Sprang
Artist:	Dick Sprang (All)
Media Type:	Pencil
Art Type:	Prelim
For Sale Status:	For Sale, please make offer or inquire
Views:	2,613
Likes on CAF:	0 1
Favorited on CAF:	2
Comments:	2
Added to Site:	4/3/2008
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Here's a twofer for my collection. I had really wanted both a genuine silver age Batwoman piece and something by Dick Sprang. I bought this from Ike Wilson, Dick Sprang's last agent and the agent for his estate. This is a 13.5" by 15" sheet of penciled drawings of Batwoman on tracing paper. Except for the incomplete picture second from the left on top, every one of these matches a drawing of Batwoman as she appeared in some panel of World's Finest #90, October 1957 story The Super-Batwoman, her third ever appearance. They are oriented higgly piggly relative to how they appear on the pages and the one at the top left corner is flipped horizontally, but their relative sizes match those on the page and are what they would be in a twice up original.

The only explanation I can come up with is that Sprang did these and fitted them on the page any way he could in preparation of drawing them on the panels via a light table. I considered the possibility that he traced them later, but rejected that idea because: 1) There would be no reason to do that. 2) It is unlikely he would get the opportunity. He drew his pages on a deadline, whereupon they would go to the inker, who would forward them to DC, who would photograph and shred them.

This might be the only piece of Dick Sprang Batwoman production artwork surviving from the 1950's.

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	Robert Plunkett
Joined:	October 2003
Last Login:	December 2024
Country:	UNITED STATES
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Anthony F
Member Since 2004

Posted on 4/6/2008

Great addition! Those are some sweet vintage Sprang images!

Lee Laska
Member Since 2006

Posted on 5/1/2008

Wonderful historic piece. Congrats

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