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Barry Smith - The Hand "Mandro" Comic Strip Prop Original Art (Warner Brothers, 1981)
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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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