"SANDMAN MYSTERY THEATRE" #17 PUBLICITY ORIGINAL ART BY GUY DAVIS.
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Item Description
"Sandman Mystery Theatre" was a Vertigo comic book series published between 1993 and 1999, retelling the adventures of The Sandman, a vigilante whose main weapon is a gun that fires sleeping gas, originally created by DC Comics in the Golden Age. Offered here is 12x19" artboard (w/worn vellum overlay) featuring mixed media original art w/screentone accents by frequent "Sandman Mystery Theatre" artist Guy Davis. Art depicts Sandman (Wesley Dodds) wearing gas mask and holding his gas gun as whip-wielding villain The Scorpion looms in bkg. Dodds' girlfriend and confidant Dian Belmont appears at lower right w/The Scorpion's alter ego Terrence Pritchard behind her. Top margin has handwritten "Sandman Mystery Theatre: The Scorpion" pencil notation, and this art was used for promotional purposes in a retailers' sales catalog to promote "The Scorpion" storyline that ran through "Sandman Mystery Theatre" #17-20 in 1994. Davis has signed at bottom right of art and again below in margin. Art is Exc.
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