{"id":2151,"date":"2009-11-18T10:08:38","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T17:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/11\/kuberts-gallery-of-heroes\/"},"modified":"2009-11-18T10:08:38","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T17:08:38","slug":"kuberts-gallery-of-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2009\/11\/18\/kuberts-gallery-of-heroes\/","title":{"rendered":"Kubert’s Gallery of Heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"

from The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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A Gallery of Heroes, Up for Sale<\/nyt_headline><\/h1>\n

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By GEORGE GENE GUSTINES<\/p>\n

Joe Kubert, a comic book artist since 1938, has little interest in the accumulated work of his last seven decades; his focus is on new projects, he said recently.<\/p>\n

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But comic book fans who feel differently about this celebrated illustrator will have a chance to peruse and even own some of that older work this week, when 18 covers and interior pages, published from the 1940s to 1990, are put up for sale.<\/p>\n

Mr. Kubert, 83, has turned over a large trove of his original work to Heritage Auctions in Dallas, which will hold the first of several auctions, live and online, on Friday.<\/p>\n

\u201cJoe\u2019s obviously one of the very small handful of great artists that has worked in comics over the last 50-plus years,\u201d said Todd Hignite, a consignment director for Heritage who specializes in original comic art. Mr. Hignite searched through Mr. Kubert\u2019s home, business office and storage space in northern New Jersey to amass the selection.<\/p>\n

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