{"id":84,"date":"2005-07-24T01:59:34","date_gmt":"2005-07-24T05:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harrymccracken.com\/hgr\/?p=84"},"modified":"2005-07-24T01:59:34","modified_gmt":"2005-07-24T05:59:34","slug":"a-lulu-of-an-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/24\/a-lulu-of-an-auction\/","title":{"rendered":"A Lulu of an Auction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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I’ve said it before, and I’m sure I’ll say it again: Heritage Comics<\/a> runs the neatest auctions of original comic art around. Even if you never bid on anything, its site is a joy to browse through. Among the current offerings is Marge’s very first Little Lulu<\/em> panel<\/a> from the Saturday Evening Post<\/em>. Everyone talks about how brilliant John Stanley was–and rightfully so–but Marge was a wonderful cartoonist in her own right. (Someone ought to do an article on The Lost Marge someday–I have an issue or two of the old, old Life <\/em>magazine with her illustrated prose pieces, which are about–gasp!–grownups.)<\/p>\n

Also up at the moment are numerous early Blondie <\/em>dailies, including one from the famous hunger strike sequence<\/a>, several Segar Thimble Theater<\/em> strips including this one with the Sea Hag<\/a>, and three Herriman Krazy Kats <\/em>(here’s one of them<\/a>). This Batman <\/em>cover by Fred Ray and Jerry Robinson<\/a> is nothing to sneeze at, either. And I’m just scratching the surface here.<\/p>\n

If the stuff there at the moment were a museum, it would be as good a comics museum as I’ve ever seen. Pay it a visit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve said it before, and I’m sure I’ll say it again: Heritage Comics runs the neatest auctions of original comic art around. Even if you never bid on anything, its site is a joy to browse through. Among the current offerings is Marge’s very first Little Lulu panel from the Saturday Evening Post. Everyone talks … Continue reading “A Lulu of an Auction”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}