Last week, I told you how my wife was selling her copies of Amazing Fantasy #15 and Amazing Adventures #1 so that in the far-flung future, we won’t be reduced to eating cat food. But … what if your tastes run more to original art?

Then how about the wonderful Green Lantern page below, drawn by Gil Kane and Sid Greene, which not only features an encounter between the Silver and Golden Age incarnations of the character—but is signed by Martin Nodell, who created Green Lantern back in 1940!

The page was published in Green Lantern #61 (June 1968), and if you’d like it to be yours, head on over to Heritage Auctions.

Presented for your consideration …

The oil painting below of the Green Lantern by pop artist Mel Ramos, just one of his many superhero images, was sold at auction on May 13, 2008 for $600,000.

You can find further details of the transaction here.

Meanwhile, the following drawing, by Martin Nodell, the man who actually created the Green Lantern in 1940 and who died two years ago at age 91, was sold at auction on September 16, 2007 for … (pause for dramatic effect) …$77.68.

Which means the world would have us believe that the Ramos has a value 7,723 times that of the Nodell.

Don’t believe the world.

I don’t know about you, but as for me—

I know which one of these two is the better drawing, which has more inherent meaning, and which one, given the chance, I’d rather own, even if price were no object.

And, as you might guess, I’ve never been a fan of the comic-book swipes of Roy Lichtenstein either.