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Vintage Run DMC Photograph (1980s Hip Hop photography)

1985

This is a vintage silver gelatin photo of either Stan Lee or John Romita (I believe it is Romita but I am not sure) overlayed with a comic strip in a surrealist style. John Romita is an American comic-book artist best known for his work on Marvel Comics' The Amazing Spider-Man and for co-creating the character The Punisher. He was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2002. He graduated from Manhattan's School of Industrial Art in 1947, having attended for three years after spending ninth grade at a Brooklyn junior high school Among his instructors were book illustrator Howard Simon and magazine illustrator Ben Clements, and his influences included comics artists Noel Sickles, Roy Crane, Milton Caniff, and later, Alex Toth and Carmine Infantino, as well as commercial illustrators Jon Whitcomb, Coby Whitmore, and Al Parker. Romita entered the comics industry in 1949 on the series Famous Funnies. "Steven Douglas up there was a benefactor to all young artists", Romita recalled. "The first story he gave me was a love story. It was terrible. All the women looked like emaciated men and he bought it, never criticized, and told me to keep working. He paid me two hundred dollars for it and never published it — and rightfully so". Romita was working at the New York City company Forbes Lithograph in 1949, earning $30 a week, when comic-book inker Lester Zakarin, a friend from high school whom he ran into on a subway train, offered him either $17 or $20 a page to pencil a 10-page story for him as uncredited ghost artist. "I thought, this is ridiculous! In two pages I can make more money than I usually make all week! So I ghosted it and then kept on ghosting for him", Romita recalled. "I think it was a 1920s mobster crime story". The work was for Marvel's 1940s forerunner, Timely Comics, which helped give Romita an opportunity to meet editor-in-chief and art director Stan Lee. Romita ghost-penciled for Zakarin on Trojan Comics' Crime-Smashers and other titles, eventually signing some "Zakarin and Romita". Romita went on to draw a wide variety of horror comics, war comics, romance comics and other genres for Atlas. His most prominent work for the company was the short-lived 1950s revival of Timely's hit character Captain America, in Young Men #24–28 (Dec. 1953 – July 1954) and Captain America #76–78 (May–Sept. 1954).[21] Additionally, Romita would render one of his first original characters, M-11 the Human Robot, in a five-page standalone science-fiction story in Menace #11 (May 1954). While not envisioned as an ongoing character, M-11 was resurrected decades later as a member of the super-hero team Agents of Atlas. He was the primary artist for one of the first series with a black star, "Waku, Prince of the Bantu" — created by writer Don Rico and artist Ogden Whitney in the omnibus title Jungle Tales #1 (Sept. 1954). The ongoing short feature starred an African chieftain in Africa, with no regularly featured Caucasian characters. Romita succeeded Whitney with issue #2 (Nov. 1954). In the mid-1950s, while continuing to freelance for Atlas, Romita did uncredited work for DC Comics before transitioning to work for DC exclusively in 1958. "I was following the DC [house] style", he recalled in 2002. "Frequently they had another artist do the first page of my stories. Eventually I became their romance cover...

This is a unique photographic work by Andy Warhol depicting blue jeans with hand-drawn designs in Sharpie marker by Keith Haring, Andy Warhol and Kenny Scharf. Image dimensions: 8 ...

This is a unique photographic work taken by Andy Warhol of Roy Halston Frowick, known as Halston, a fashion designer whose aesthetic made an impact on 1970s disco culture. Through de...

This is a unique photographic work by Andy Warhol of Roy Halston Frowick, known as Halston, a fashion designer whose aesthetic made an impact on 1970s disco culture. Through design, ...

This is a unique photographic work taken by Andy Warhol of unknown men in a pool on Fire Island in 1982. Stamped twice on the reverse by both The Estate of Andy Warhol and The Andy ...

Jerry Hall is a model and the former partner of Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones, with whom she has four children. “Even Andy, who was known for knowing sl...

This work is unique featuring dancers at Studio 54. Stamped twice on the reverse by both The Estate of Andy Warhol and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The Andy Warho...

Work comes with a Certificate of Provenance issued by Christie’s. Stamped on the verso by the Estate of the Artist and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Foundation num...

Work comes with a Certificate of Provenance issued by Christie’s. Framing done in black wood frame with optium plexiglass with photograph floating in the center, frame measurements ...

This is a unique photographic work taken by Andy Warhol. The phot was taken at the premiere party for "Bobby Deerfield" at Tavern on the Green in New York City on September 18, 1977. In attendance was Andy Warhol, Jed Johnson, Monique Van Vooren, Steve Rubell, Michael Goldstein, Susan Blond, Caroline Kennedy, Peter Beard, Grace Jones, Francesco Scavullo, Sean Byrnes, and Margrit Ramme. Caroline Bouvier Kennedy, the daughter of President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, is an American diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Japan from 2013 to 2017. Illustrated in The Andy Warhol Diaries...