Original Dan Graves Art for First DFG Comic Sells for $50,000 on Internet!

By Bob Barnes
DFG ONLINE Staff Reporter

Word has just arrived at the DFG Corporate Head Office that the long-lost original artwork for the cover of Spy Comics Vol. 1, No. 1 (Nov/Dec 1981), the first DFG Comic, has surfaced. Not only has the artwork, which was once thought destroyed, been found but it has sold in an internet auction for a record-setting sum for DFG original art! "Never has a Dan Graves original fetched such a sum," commented DFG Vice-President and Co-Publisher Darryl Andrews, "This is absolutely remarkable, if not somewhat surprising!" According to official DFG historian, Prof. Montague R. Schoedel, the artwork went missing sometime around 1984/85 when DFG was preparing to relaunch its entire line. "Dan Graves believed that it had been shredded by a careless office worker, but it is now clear that it was stolen," commented Prof. Schoedel. The seller, who remains anonymous made the following public statement: "I had no idea the work was stolen. I bought it in good faith from a reputable antiquities dealer in a Cairo street market in the early nineties and have been waiting for the right moment to sell it. I can, in no way, be held responsible for its disappearance." DFG legal counsel, Sir Milton Goldfarbstein, LLB, PhD, QC, KG, is currently investigating DFG's legal options. Chief Augustus Smith is reported to have reopened the "missing cover" file. DFG President and Co-Publisher Dan Graves has been fairly philosophical about the whole thing, though, making the following statement, "I'm just happy that it's been found. I could have used the 50 grand, though."