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Artist unknowingly uses comics worth £20,000 for sculpture
An artist who made a papier-mache sculpture from comics he found in a skip has found they could have been sold for about £20,000.
Comic fan Steve Eyre told artist Andrew Vickers the pages pasted to a leg were from a first edition of The Avengers.
Mr Eyre said the 1963 release, along with other rare comics used to create the artwork were worth thousands.
The sculpture, called Paperboy, was created for an exhibition at Sheffield gallery the S1 Artspace.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-23203033
Comic fan Steve Eyre told artist Andrew Vickers the pages pasted to a leg were from a first edition of The Avengers.
Mr Eyre said the 1963 release, along with other rare comics used to create the artwork were worth thousands.
The sculpture, called Paperboy, was created for an exhibition at Sheffield gallery the S1 Artspace.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-23203033
"It would have been cheaper to use marble". The artist is laughing about it, though.
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Seriously...if you found a bunch of comic books in a Dumpster, wouldn't you check 'em out on the Internet to see if they were valuable?
Big 
for that artist.
