Heritage Auctions Live

The last of my comic art auctions are now live at Heritage. Bid on my stuff.

http://comics.HA.com/c/search.zx?saleNo=121302&collection=49&type=friend-consignorlive-notice&FC=0

New Comics and Comic Art on Heritage

I just keep finding stuff.  A new batch of stuff is now up on Heritage, bidding starts January 6th, 2013 and closes January 13th, 2013.  Bid on my cool stuff, time for new homes.  Featuring the very first Peanuts comic book (bet you didn't even know there was a Peanuts comic book).

A couple of fantastic Bill Sienkiewicz sketches of Elektra and Warlock

A truly fantastic full color custom illustration of Usagi Yojimbo by Stan Sakai

A lovely drawing of Mercy St. Clair aka Trekker by Ron Randall (nice to see this comic is back after many many years).

A great color illustration of Max from Sam and Max by Steve Purcell

A striking sketch of Dagger from Marvel's Cloak and Dagger by Art Adams (one of the greatest comic artists of all time in my opinion).

and a complete 6-page story from a golden age funny animal comic called Dover the Bird.

OMFG! I Can't Believe This Sold For This Much!!

I'm still reeling from this sale at Heritage, my Love and Rockets page just sold for more than $20,000!  Wish I had bought more of them way back in 1989... Thank you Jaime Hernandez for making such memorable and beloved characters, and selling me this piece of art so many years ago.

More Items up for Auction!

I've posted a bunch more items on the various auction sites.  I've got some CGC Peanuts comics on the ComicLink site starting on Oct 8, two nice pieces of animation on Howard Lowery's auction site this week, and a fantastic Jaime Hernandez page from Love and Rockets from 1987 up on Heritage, which starts accepting bids in late October.  Bid on my stuff!

Selling Everything but the Kitchen Sink!

As some of you may have heard on my other blog or through various social networking sites, I've been cleaning house and selling off everything that we don't have room for or just don't need/want any more.  I've currently got auctions running on both eBay and Heritage.  Check them out if you like movie posters and original comic book art.

RIP Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury passed away at the age of 91.  The man was a sci-fi GOD.  I had the pleasure of meeting him several times while I was growing up in Southern California, mostly at the dearly departed A Change of Hobbit bookstore in Santa Monica. 

My high school English teacher was good friends with him, and would always arrange a visit when her science fiction book club made the trek from Torrance to Santa Monica.

Haggis is ok, but ...

Back from our fabulous trip to Scotland, where much fun and great food was had.  We even had haggis, and despite its less than appetizing description, it is quite good.  But, when we saw these potato chips for sale, that's where I draw the line.

Disneyland Hotel Room Service Fold Out Menu

The last of my menus :-(  This is a really weird one, but weird = = cool.  A Disneyland Hotel room service menu.  Now that in and of itself would not be that interesting, except for the format:  It is a penta-fold menu, folded 5 times accordion-style, making this thing huge at 15x27 fully unfolded!  I love the art of Goofy with winged feet delivering your meal.

I could probably date this better than 1960s or 1970s based on the list of other restaurants at the hotel, but I don't have any ready reference material to do it, so if anyone can date this for me, feel free!

The list of items available is quite impressive, I'd love to see bottles of Disneyland Hotel Label scotch, bourbon, gin, vodka and rum.  Bet there's no character art on those labels.

eBay listing

1970 Disneyland Blue Bayou Menu

This is a rare menu, from the Blue Bayou restaurant in New Orleans Square.  I've seen some of these from later years (1980s and 1990s), but the previous owner was kind enough to date this 1970 on the inside.

This is a large menu, approximately 9x13.  I love the color of this menu, a color that I always associate with the Haunted Mansion rather than Pirates.  Nice to see that my favorite Monte Cristo was available even in 1970.  Who knows, I probably ate one in the summer of that year.

eBay listing

Disneyland Hills Brother's Coffee House Menu

This is a great vintage Disneyland menu, from the Hills Brother's Coffee House.  I don't really have any memories of this restaurant, we probably never went there when I was a kid since we stayed at the hotel and would generally have breakfast there.

Great red color on this menu, kinda like the Carnation menu from earlier, but this has a full page ad for Hills Bros coffee inside since there was nowhere near enough menu items to fill up the inside.  Again, this is a full sized menu, approximately 8x10, so larger than the Carnation menu.

It is difficult to date this menu with any accuracy, but at least we can ballpark it by the map of Disneyland on the back.  The monorail is present, but we still have old Tomorrowland, so sometime between 1959-1966 would be my guess.

eBay listing