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$20,000 Worth Of Comics Destroyed To Make A Sculpture

Here's the listing from the Heroes: Ordinary Becomes Extraordinary exhibition at s1 Artspace in Sheffield.

Stoneface Sculpture – Andrew Vickers will display a piece of his latest work, 'The Paper Boy', inspired by the artist's fascination with the mystical and made from a rare collection of recycled comic books. His work embarks on a change from his usual media of natural stone, using metals and reclaimed stuffs, but revisits the familiar female form in the unveiling of a new sculpture 'Earth', and a reworking of 'Naked', a stone sculpture war memorial re-displayed on canvas in digital print form, alongside a number of more recognisable superhero facades, timelessly captured in stone.

The comics in question? Worth over £20,000. The BBC reports;

Mr Eyre owns the World Of Superheroes shop in Sheffield.

On discovering the valuable comics glued to the chicken wire frame, he said: "First of all I thought 'Fantastic' as, visually, it is a beautiful thing, but then as I walked round it, certainly on the inside right leg, there was a cover of Avengers number one.

"I've got a copy of that, which was published in 1963, that is worth well over £10,000.

"Then I started looking and there are six comics on this that together would be worth, even in the condition you can see, £20,000.

"It would have been cheaper for Andrew to make this out of Italian marble because the raw materials that have gone in to it I could have sold for a lot more than he is going to sell this statue for."

The comics were thrown away and found in a skip/dumpster by the artist….

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