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Hal Foster Prince Valiant Sunday Comic Strip Original Art Dated 11-20-38 (King Features Syndicate, 1938)
This Sunday features Val's harrowing ordeal on an icy lake and his subsequent return to the castle. This strip is marked #93, making this an early Sunday strip for Foster and a true rarity. Complete Sundays from this early year are just about as beautiful as comic art gets. Hal Foster worked at a huge scale so he could put an amazing amount of work into the fine details of the artwork. Created in ink over graphite on two Bristol boards with a combined image area of 26" x 34". The boards are very toned with heavy edge wear and moderate handling wear. Boards are irregularly trimmed. Red keylines are faded on board. Logo is a printed paste-up. Overall in Very Good condition.

Amount: $80,000
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Single Series #20 Tarzan (United Features Syndicate, 1940) CGC FN+ 6.5 Off-white pages.
Open for bidding around 05/12/2026 Auction 122620

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Barry Smith - The Hand "Mandro" Comic Strip Prop Original Art (Warner Brothers, 1981)
Oliver Stone directed The Hand, produced by Edward Pressman, in 1980; a pulpy psychological potboiler starring Michael Caine as a successful comic strip artist who loses his drawing hand in a traffic accident. This massive comic strip illustration for "Mandro" is one of the pieces of prop art created by Barry Windsor-Smith, in a style that was somewhere south of Hal Foster's Prince Valiant and somewhat north of his own Conan the Barbarian artwork from Marvel comics. What's really interesting is that Edward Pressman was the producer who bought the movie rights to Robert E. Howard's Conan in 1975 after years of legal wrangling, and he employed Oliver Stone to write the screen treatment. Stone was a Robert E. Howard and Conan fan, along with Pressman, and even though his involvement in the film fell through (for starters, he set the movies in the far-flung future instead of the unforgotten epochs of history), Pressman did get Windsor-Smith to create some storyboards to use as a proof of concept. By 1980, the Conan movie was a going concern, and while Ron Cobb and William Stout did the production designs for the movie, Oliver Stone and Pressman found a way to use Windsor-Smith's barbarian art in a project, even if it was only Conan-adjacent. The resulting artwork is fantastic and clearly visible in the film. This massive, one-of-a-kind prop was created in ink over graphite on heavy illustration board with an image area of 27" x 18.5", Board is lightly toned with light handling and edge wear. Overall in Excellent condition.
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Amount: $25,000
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