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Pop artist Rob Prior began working with the man
behind, among others, Spider-Man, Iron Man and Black Panther in
2017 on "The Legacy Collection: Portraits of Stan Lee", and
depicts him as his famed characters or in cameo images.
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.
"Stan's favourite thing in the world was cameos... and what
better way to put a tribute together for him than have him be
the cameos in all of his favourite comic books," Prior told
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.
"You 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," Prior said.
"So I wanted to make sure that the buyer had both."
Prior said Lee had also signed blank canvases for future
characters.
(Reporting by Marie-Louise Gumuchian; editing by John
Stonestreet)
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