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Paul Pope Remembers Auctioned Page From Batman: Year 100

The motorcycle scene from Batman: Year 100 #4 went up for auction this week. Page twenty of the book was drawn by Paul Pope and was auctioned at ComicLink.com on August 29th and closed after 26 bids for $3,600.00. Pope drew the art on 19" X 24" board and used every inch as the art is full bleed plus it's signed and stamped by the artist. It's said very few of the pages for the series have gone into the art collecting market.

Pope won two Eisners for the series in 2007 "Best Limited Series" and "Best Writer/Artist". The story was something Pope was said to have been working on for a long time. A quote from pope at the time: "I wanted to present a new take on Batman, who is without a doubt a mythic figure in our pop-psyche. My Batman is not only totally science fiction, he's also a very physical superhero: he bleeds, he sweats, he eats. He's someone born into an overarching police state; someone with the body of David Beckham, the brain of Tesla, and the wealth of Howard Hughes… pretending to be Nosferatu."

When notified about the sale on twitter by Eddy Choi, Pope responded with the following tweets.

@Eddy_Choi I had dinner with Frank Miller the day I drew that. He looked at it, was quite for a minute, sat back and said…

— PULPHOPE (@PULPH0PE) August 30, 2013

@Eddy_Choi "When I think about Batman: Year One, all I can remember is needing to make rent."

— PULPHOPE (@PULPH0PE) August 30, 2013

@Eddy_Choi when I sold that page, all I could think about was making rent.

— PULPHOPE (@PULPH0PE) August 30, 2013

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