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Comiczeichner, Illustrator, b. 1895 - d. 1962

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        • Dick Calkins “Buck Rogers” letter & drawing of “Buck”.
          Dec. 11, 2015

          Dick Calkins “Buck Rogers” letter & drawing of “Buck”.

          Est: $400 - $600

          93. Dick Calkins “Buck Rogers” letter and colored inked drawing of “Buck”. (1937) Accomplished in pen, ink and gouache on 8.5 x 11 in. artists’ leaf. Color images are virtually unknown from this period. Very rare, indeed! A little light staining in a few areas. $400 - $600

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        • DICK CALKINS (1895-1962) BUCK ROGERS, PALLADIAN SPACE PIRATES | Dick Calkins (1895-1962)
          Oct. 24, 2015

          DICK CALKINS (1895-1962) BUCK ROGERS, PALLADIAN SPACE PIRATES | Dick Calkins (1895-1962)

          Est: €4,000 - €5,000

          (Strip n° 745 de Series II, strips 699 to 899) Un strip  de Buck Rogers, cet ancien pilote de l’armée américaine qui se réveille au XXVème siècle après un profond coma. Dans les années trente, cette série quotidienne installe le premier héros de science-fiction en bande dessinée. Les originaux de ces années d’or sont rares et très recherchés. Le dessin tout en finesse de Dick Calkins se construit essentiellement sur les hachures, à la manière des illustrateurs-graveurs du siècle précédent, chose peu courante chez les Américains.

          Sotheby's
        • Dick Calkins - Buck Rogers
          Jun. 06, 2014

          Dick Calkins - Buck Rogers

          Est: €4,000 - €8,000

          Strip #663, 1931. Pencil and ink on thin cardboard. Cm 41,5x12. Signed.

          Little Nemo
        • DICK CALKINS. Buck Rogers partial daily comic strip. "The Myserious [sic] Mongol, True to Form Kept a Stony Silence."
          Jan. 23, 2014

          DICK CALKINS. Buck Rogers partial daily comic strip. "The Myserious [sic] Mongol, True to Form Kept a Stony Silence."

          Est: $1,000 - $1,500

          DICK CALKINS. Buck Rogers partial daily comic strip. "The Myserious [sic] Mongol, True to Form Kept a Stony Silence." From the Meeting the Mongols series depicting the Mysterious Mongol confessing under electrono-hypnotic influence to knowledge of Om-Ka-Zoril and Morke-Ka Lono's "super powered ray projector." Ink and some watercolor. 419x625 mm; 6 1/2x24 5/8 inches, sheet. Contains crossed-out and panel overlay revisions, white out, and pencil corrections. Signed "Lt. Dick Calkins-Air Corps Res. 99" in last panel and in thick red ink: "Compliments of Buck Rogers, Phil Nowlan / Dick Calkins." Circa 1929.

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        • Dick Calkins Typed Letter Signed Featuring Five Color Drawings -- ''...Don't let this Buck Rogers business fool you. About all I get is a lot of publicity, while the syndicate gets the gravy...''
          Jul. 23, 2013

          Dick Calkins Typed Letter Signed Featuring Five Color Drawings -- ''...Don't let this Buck Rogers business fool you. About all I get is a lot of publicity, while the syndicate gets the gravy...''

          Est: -

          Dick Calkins hand-illustrated typed letter signed. Letter on the famed ''Buck Rogers'' cartoonist's personal stationery is dated 27 March 1947. Colorfully illustrated with five detailed drawings, lengthy letter is addressed to Elmer Staggs in Tuscon, Arizona, and is written to suggest an exaggerated cowboy dialect: ''Dere mr. Staggs, yure letter was brought in to the post this morning by a half-breed five arrers sticking into him. He must of had a tough time gettin thru the dude ranch country, as I here them dudes are on the warpath again. But he made it, and I was sure glad to get the letter. The mail up here is some irregular of late on account of the whizzer that blew up a few days ago, and that white stuff is all over the ground again...This country ain't fit for an injun to live in, let alone a white man. I ben here for fifty-two years and have reached that conclusion...Don't let this Buck Rogers business fool you. About all I get is a lot of publicity, while the syndicate gets the gravy. I am going to pack up the covered wagon and head for wide-open spaces where I don't have to wear a white shirt except maybe on Sundays for a while. I'm just a poor boy from the country...One of our neighbors had a brother who got scalped in Willcox, Arizona. the barber didn't know when to quit with the clippers...we spent 1940-41 in California, but I don't like California. Too artificial. My main point is to be where I can get on a plane and come East...Best regards, [signed] Dick Calkins''. Calkins then handwrites, ''PS - You can blame Claffin for this letter!'' 3pp. letter on 2 sheets measures 8.5'' x 11''. Faint toning, creasing and some staple punctures and paper loss to upper left corners, else near fine.

          Nate D Sanders Auctions
        • CALKINS Richard (1898-1962)
          May. 05, 2012

          CALKINS Richard (1898-1962)

          Est: €500 - €700

          CALKINS Richard (1898-1962) BUCK ROGERS Encre de Chine et trame de gris pour le strip 78 publié en 1944, titré 'Too much competition'. 18 x 56,5 cm.

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        • Autograph - Dick Calkins
          Jan. 12, 2011

          Autograph - Dick Calkins

          Est: $200 - $400

          Artist (1895-1962), best known as the first person to draw the Buck Rogers comic strip, beginning in 1929. Fabulous hand-illustrated TLS, three pages both sides, 8.5 x 11, March 27, 1947. Uniquely presented correspondence to Elmer Staffs of Tucson as Calkins describes a trip to Phoenix and Tucson during the 1930s, illustrating his story along the way. Cartoons include those of a barber scalping his customer, covered wagons, and old cowpokes. In part (grammar and spelling retained): "Yure letter was brought in to the post this morning by a half-bred with five arrers sticking into him. He must of had a tough time gettin thru the dude ranch country, ans I here them dudes are on the warpath again. But he made it, and I was sure glad to get the letter. The mail up here is some irregular of late on account of the whizzer that blew up a few days ago, and that white stuff is all over the ground again. This country ain't fit for an injun to live in, let alone a white man. I ben here for fiftytwo years and have reached that conclusion...Steve Claflin told me about you, and I was going to write you, but you got off the first shot before I could pull my typewriter out of the holster. I gotta fild the front sight off that typewriter some day or quite wearin' it...Don't let this Buck Rogers business fool you. About all I get is a lot of publicity, while the syndicate gets the gravy. I am going to pack up the covered wagon and head for the wide-open spaces were I don't have to wear a white shirt except maybe on Sundays...There's some nic country between Willxo and Safford, on that road that runs from Bonita to Safford, where you cross a stream. Unfortunately, there isn't any house there, and we can't live in a tree (although from this letter you probably think that's where I generally hang out)." He has added the handwritten postscript, "You can blame Clafins for this letter!" According to the consignor, the pages have been deacified by a conservator. In fine condition, with staple holes and an area of paper loss at the upper left corner, a few spots of staining, and show-through from type and drawings on opposing sides.Though perhaps best-remembered for bringing the swashbuckling adventures of Buck Rogers to life in comic strips and, in the process, popularizing space exploration in literature and pulp fiction, Calkins also had a quick wit-a talent on display in this letter. Recounting an Old West tale, Calkins takes on the persona reminiscent of a grizzled prospector to assure the recipient that "yure letter was brought in to the post this morning by a half-bred with five arrers sticking into him" while lamenting that the life of a cartoonist is not particularly a wealthy one: "Don't let this Buck Rogers business foll you. About all I get is a lot of publicity, while the syndicate gets the gravy." All of this seasoned with Calkins' unique illustrations. A brilliantly created, one-of-a-kind piece.

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