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Bernie Wrightson House of Mystery #1 Paperback Cover Original Art (Warner Books, 1972)....

2010 August Signature Comics & Comic Art Auction #7023

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Bernie Wrightson House of Mystery #1 Paperback Cover Original Art (Warner Books, 1972). Bernie Wrightson, a key founding member of the legendary art group, the Studio, was in peak form for this Bronze Age cover illustration. This "terror-iffic" scene was created for the 1973 Warner Books collection of eight spine-tingling Jack Oleck prose stories. We've noted it before, and we must emphasize it again, such a stunningly staged illustration as this must be viewed in person to fully experience the delicate color transitions found here -- no printed image could hope to capture its magnificent range of hues. For a Wrightson fan-addict, it just doesn't get better than this. This masterwork has an overall size of 14.5" x 22", and the art is in Excellent condition.

Wrightson, Bernie:Bernie Wrightson (American, b. 1948): was raised in Baltimore Maryland. In 1968, Wrightson became an editorial cartoonist at the Baltimore Sun. Soon afterwards he was offered work by DC Comics and he moved to New York. In 1969, his first professional work was published in House of Mystery #179 and in 1970 his first work for Marvel Comics was published in Chamber of Darkness #7. In 1971, with writer Len Wein, Wrightson co-created Swamp Thing for DC. He left DC in 1974 to work at Warren Publishing, for whose black-and-white horror comics magazines he produced a series of original work as well as adaptations of stories by H. P. Lovecraft and Edgar Allan Poe. From 1976 to 1978 Wrightson, along with Barry Smith, Jeff Jones and Michael W. Kaluta, were partners in a venture known as The Studio. In 1979, the definitive book about Bernie Wrightson, A Look Back, was published. Wrightson spent seven years drawing approximately 50 pen-and-ink illustrations to accompany an edition of Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein, which the artist considers among his most personal work. Wrightson drew the poster for the Stephen King-penned horror film Creepshow, as well as illustrating the comic book adaptation of the film. This led to several other collaborations with King, including illustrations for the novella "Cycle of the Werewolf," the restored edition of King's apocalyptic horror epic, The Stand, and art for the hardcover editions of From a Buick 8 and Dark Tower V. Wrightson has contributed album covers for a number of bands, including Meat Loaf. The "Captain Sternn" segment of the animated film Heavy Metal is based on the character created by Wrightson for his award-winning short comic series of the same name. He's worked on Spider-Man, Batman, and The Punisher, and provided painted covers for the DC comics Nevermore and Toe Tags, among many others. His illustrations attract thousands of fans and have led him to work in film. As a conceptual artist, he has worked on many movies, including Ghostbusters, The Faculty, Galaxy Quest, Spider-Man, George Romero's Land of the Dead, and The Mist. Today, Wrightson works on film designs and on his own pet projects, including comic books, and character designs for animation .

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