Ten artworks showing Stan Lee on the covers of his comic books and signed by the late Marvel superhero creator go up for blockchain auction on Wednesday, with winning bidders getting the physical as well as digital versions of the canvases.
Pop artist Rob Prior began working with the man behind, among others, Spider-Man, Iron Man and Black Panther in 2017 on тАЬThe Legacy Collection: Portraits of Stan LeeтАЭ, and depicts him as his famed characters or in cameo images.
A portrait of Stan Lee wearing the Wolverine costume is seen in this undated handout image. (ROB PRIOR тАУ MOGUL PRODUCTIONS/Handout via REUTERS).
Prior, who is ambidextrous, produced 95 large canvas paintings showing Lee, who also made walk-on appearances in film adaptations of his books, on covers from Marvel and the Golden Age of comics.
The works are each signed by Lee, who died in 2018, aged 95.
тАЬStanтАЩs favourite thing in the world was cameosтАж and what better way to put a tribute together for him than have him be the cameos in all of his favourite comic books,тАЭ Prior told Reuters.
A black and white portrait of Stan Lee with four characters in colour are seen in this undated handout image. (ROB PRIOR тАУ MOGUL PRODUCTIONS/Handout via REUTERS).
Mogul Productions, a film and entertainment marketplace for non-fungible tokens, is putting ten of the works up for auction as NFTs starting 5 p.m. PT Wednesday (0000 GMT Thursday). The sale will run for 48 hours.
тАЬYou can have the NFT right in front of you, display it and all of that but to have the original and then look at where he signed it, I think is important,тАЭ Prior said.
тАЬSo I wanted to make sure that the buyer had both.тАЭPrior said Lee had also signed blank canvases for future characters.
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