John Lennon ORIGINAL PORTRAIT ART GENE DAY Beatles 1971 Bitter Green B&W Signed
REAL ART PORTRAIT OF JOHN BY GENE DAY. JOHN LENNON, OF THE BEATLES, SINGING!
THE RENDERING OF JOHN IS SPOT ON, ILLUSTRATED BY HAND IN THE EARLY SEVENTIES BY THE LEGENDARY GENE DAY, WHO DREW MANY ISSUES OF SHANG-CHI, MASTER OF KUNG-FU, AND STAR WARS, AND MARVEL TEAM-UP, AND LOTS OF OTHER FAMOUS MARVEL COMICS. HE WAS A MENTOR TO DAVE SIM AND WORKED ON SIM'S "OKTOBERFEST COMIX", ALONG WITH VARIOUS OTHER UNDERGROUND COMIX INCLUDING "OUT OF THE DEPTHS" AND "STAR REACH" AND "IMAGINE" AND "DARK FANTASY". HE ALSO DID MANY SALACIOUS SUPERNATURAL, SCI-FI, AND GORE-THEMED PIN-UPS, INCLUDING BACK COVERS, FOR OLD HORROR MAGAZINES INCLUDING PSYCHO, NIGHTMARE, AND ORB, AND HE ALSO CONTRIBUTED HIS STRIKING ARTWORK TO PLENTY OF FANZINES INCLUDING BITTER GREEN ALONG WITH ILLUSTRATING ROLE PLAYING GAMES BACK IN THE BRONZE-AGE. THIS MESMERIZING MASTERPIECE WOULD APPEAL TO ANY FAN OF THE INFLUENTIAL LEADER.
THIS COULD BE THE CENTERPIECE OF A LENNON COLLECTION, AND THE ARTIST SIGNED IT AT UPPER RIGHT. Original Pin-Up Art, possibly for a page of BITTER GREEN #5, an old fanzine/ comic-magazine, without any word balloons or pasteovers, making it an awesome stand-alone work of art, worthy of prominent display in an advanced collection, or storage for posterity and investment. Excellent use of intricate detail work. GREAT SHADING AND ATTENTION TO DETAIL. Hand drawn artwork by DAY, the talent and proficiency is clearly evident, this is a real showpiece!
Some of you long-term collectors have dealt with us in the pre-bay years through our many ads in C. And Combo and Wizard and C. It's in nice shape, with some slight aging and edge wear, but that's confined to the blank outer edges; the paper itself remains very clean and supple and well preserved. Please examine all of the pictures, one shows it with a random comic for scale but of course no comics are included, you only get the original art piece. KEY COMICS IS ALWAYS DEALING IN COMICS & ART!