{"id":13693,"date":"2015-10-26T18:09:24","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T22:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=13693"},"modified":"2025-10-22T12:50:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T16:50:02","slug":"missing-batman-painting-expected-to-fetch-100000-at-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=13693","title":{"rendered":"A Pile of Comic Books for a Unknown Artist&#8217;s Batman Painting &#8211; Who Got the Better Deal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2015\/z102615melramos_batman.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"696\" \/><br \/>\nIn <strong>1962<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Bill Steinfelt<\/strong> agreed to trade <strong>Mel Ramos<\/strong> a pile of old comic books for the painting above.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You&#8217;re probably thinking, man, I wonder what those comics would be worth today?\u00a0 A lot, right?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Perhaps you should be thinking what that painting was worth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 1962 painting titled <em>&#8220;A Sinister Figure Lurks in the Dark&#8221;<\/em> was sold by Heritage Auctions in 2015.\u00a0\u00a0It was bought by a Dallas collector who wishes to remain anonymous.\u00a0 The winning bid was $173,000.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mel Ramos created about 50 comic book and superhero paintings early in his career.\u00a0 Bill Steinfelt was lucky to get one.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1962,\u00a0Bill Steinfelt agreed to trade Mel Ramos a pile of old comic books for the painting above. You&#8217;re probably<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[58,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-comics","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13693"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40329,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13693\/revisions\/40329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}