{"id":5424,"date":"2008-05-17T22:21:04","date_gmt":"2008-05-18T02:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=5424"},"modified":"2012-02-03T21:36:53","modified_gmt":"2012-02-04T02:36:53","slug":"no-evil-may-escape-my-sight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2008\/05\/17\/no-evil-may-escape-my-sight\/","title":{"rendered":"No evil may escape my sight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Presented for your consideration &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>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. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/GreenLanternMelRamos.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/GreenLanternMelRamos-243x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"GreenLanternMelRamos\" width=\"243\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/GreenLanternMelRamos-243x300.jpg 243w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/GreenLanternMelRamos.jpeg 486w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 243px) 100vw, 243px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bonhams.com\/cgi-bin\/public.sh\/pubweb\/publicSite.r?sContinent=USA&amp;screen=lotdetailsNoFlash&amp;iSaleItemNo=3900084&amp;iSaleNo=16143&amp;iSaleSectionNo=1\" target=\"_blank\">You can find further details of the transaction here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the  following drawing, by Martin Nodell, the man who actually <i>created<\/i> the Green Lantern in 1940 and who died two years ago at age 91, was <a href=\"http:\/\/comics.ha.com\/common\/view_item.php?Sale_No=17093&amp;Lot_No=16089&amp;src=pr\" target=\"_blank\">sold at auction on September 16, 2007<\/a> for &#8230; (pause for dramatic effect) &#8230;$77.68.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/GreenLanternMartinNodell.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/GreenLanternMartinNodell-193x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"GreenLanternMartinNodell\" width=\"193\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/GreenLanternMartinNodell-193x300.jpg 193w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/GreenLanternMartinNodell.jpeg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 193px) 100vw, 193px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Which means the world would have us believe that the Ramos has a value 7,723 times that of the Nodell.<\/p>\n<p><i>Don&#8217;t believe the world.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know about you, but as for me&#151;<\/p>\n<p>I know which one of these two is the better drawing, which has more inherent meaning, and which one, given the chance, I&#8217;d rather own, even if price were no object.<\/p>\n<p>And, as you might guess, I&#8217;ve never been a fan of the comic-book swipes of Roy Lichtenstein either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presented for your consideration &#8230; 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[154,155,125],"class_list":["post-5424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-green-lantern","tag-martin-nodell","tag-roy-lichtenstein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}