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#JIM LEE ART MASTER CHIEF MOVIE#
Lee said he couldn't recall how much he paid for the Kirby illustrations back in 1993 but that it was "definitely less than what it's estimated to be today." (Geller recalled that he got $8,000-$10,000 for the pair at the time.) Now that the real story of the " Canadian Caper" known, and has an Oscar-winning movie to prove it, Heritage estimates each piece will bring at least $10,000 - an amount close to twice what they would be worth without their historical cache. Still, they're incredible pieces of American history. The original ink-on-paper works-a 36.5-inch x 22.75-inch piece named "Planetary Control Room (Interior)" and a 22.25-inch x 17-inch piece named "Pavilions of Joy" (see above)-for sale through Heritage Auctions weren't physically used in the CIA operation because, according to Geller, Chambers only had copies of the art. On top of being the Publisher and Chief Creative Officer of DC Comics, hes also taking it upon himself to play the role of hero to brick and mortar comic shops struggling to survive an ever-growing stay at home mandate throughout America due to the coronavirus. I just thought it was a great example of his work." Jim Lee is more than just an iconic artist. "It didn't even matter to me where it came from or its origins. "I was pretty familiar with most of Jack's work from his days at Marvel -and at DC-but this jumped out at me because it was something I'd never seen before," Lee told WIRED. Lee originally wanted them simply because they were unique examples of Kirby's work, and it wasn't until he heard about the then-upcoming film Argo and read WIRED's story on the covert op that he realized exactly what he had. The incident inspired the real-life film Argo, which recently won an Academy Award for Best Picture, and the illustrations Lee bought were concept art for the film they used as a cover story. During the Iran hostage crisis in 1979-1981, the agency extracted six U.S diplomats from Iran by convincing authorities that they were actually part of a Canadian film crew scouting locations for a Lord of Light film, which CIA agent Tony Mendez renamed Argo. They were billed as concept art for an unmade film adaptation of Roger Zelazny's sci-fi novel Lord of Light, but what Lee didn't know-because the CIA had yet to declassify the information-was that the art also had connections to a covert CIA operation. Back in 1993, comics artist Jim Lee-now co-publisher of DC Entertainment-bought a couple obscure illustrations by legendary artist Jack Kirby in a Sotheby's auction.
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