{"id":6806,"date":"2012-07-02T21:47:29","date_gmt":"2012-07-03T01:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=6806"},"modified":"2012-07-02T21:47:29","modified_gmt":"2012-07-03T01:47:29","slug":"so-by-how-much-more-did-the-world-end-up-loving-wally-wood-over-bernard-krigstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2012\/07\/02\/so-by-how-much-more-did-the-world-end-up-loving-wally-wood-over-bernard-krigstein\/","title":{"rendered":"So by how much more did the world end up loving Wally Wood over Bernard Krigstein?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few weeks ago<\/a>, I was bemoaning the fact that the world seemed to have forgotten EC Comics artist Bernard Krigstein, a thought brought about by two (then ongoing) Heritage original art auctions of complete comics adaptations of Ray Bradbury short stories. <\/p>\n

\u201cMars is Heaven!\u201d illustrated by Wally Wood was expected to bring in between $30,000 and $50,000, while \u201cThe Flying Machine\u201d by Krigstein was estimated to go for anywhere from $7,000 to $9,000. This imbalance seemed odd to me, not only because Krigstein was once held in such high regard, but also because Bradbury considered \u201cThe Flying Machine\u201d to be “the single finest piece of art-drawing I\u2019ve seen in years.” Not that I have anything against Wally Wood, you understand, it’s just that until I saw those predictions, I’d assumed the two artists were held in equal regard.<\/p>\n

Now that the auctions are over, though, I’m feeling a little better about it all.<\/p>\n

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So how’d those auctions turn out?<\/p>\n

\u201cMars is Heaven!\u201d sold for $54,687.50<\/a>, and \u201cThe Flying Machine\u201d went for $27,500<\/a>. Which means that while Heritage, at least based on its initial estimates, predicted that the world would value Wood over Krigstein by a ratio of approximately 5-1, the actual ratio turned out to be 2-1.<\/p>\n

Because of that, and taking into account that Bradbury’s \u201cMars is Heaven!\u201d is a far more beloved story (even though I always preferred \u201cThe Flying Machine\u201d), I’m much less miffed on behalf of Krigstein.<\/p>\n

(And if all this now piques your interest in his unique style, and you’d like to see more, check out <\/a>this post-EC tale “The Desert Rat,” which manages to cram 73 panels into a single 4 page Stan Lee-scripted story!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few weeks ago, I was bemoaning the fact that the world seemed to have forgotten EC Comics artist Bernard Krigstein, a thought brought about by two (then ongoing) Heritage original art auctions of complete comics adaptations of Ray Bradbury short stories. \u201cMars is Heaven!\u201d illustrated by Wally Wood was expected to bring in between […]<\/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":[208,18,205,19,206],"class_list":["post-6806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bernard-krigstein","tag-comics","tag-ec-comics","tag-stan-lee","tag-wally-wood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6806","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=6806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}