Steve Fastner and Rich Larson. Heads Up, Little Black Book Vol. 2, September 1979. Mixed media on board. 18.875 x 13.125...

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Steve Fastner and Rich Larson
Heads Up, Little Black Book Vol. 2, September 1979
Mixed media on board
18.875 x 13.125 in.
Signed and dated lower right

On FastnerandLarson.com, Steve Fastner states:

"This painting was done in September 1979 for Bob Selvig, a local comics dealer who moved to California to work at the American Comic Book Company. This was a few weeks before we started working on the Marvel Super Heroes Portfolios for SQP.

I had a photo taken of the painting before I sent it to Bob, and that version appeared in our Little Black Book Vol.2.

A few years later, Bob contacted us and said the painting had gotten some water damage, mostly on the foreground girl's legs. I think Bob came up with the idea of painting the girl's legs as if she were wearing black leggings, and Rich added some details to a few other areas also.

Bob thought the retouched version was an improvement.

I saw the painting appear in an ad in Comic Book Price Guide for the American Comic Book Company some time later, but I can't recall which year, and I've been looking for that book ever since.

We titled it "Heads Up" for the book, but it's unofficial title is Penis Monster, which I came up with in a moment of inspiration.

We forgot to photograph the repaired version before sending it back out into the world (or maybe we did, but misplaced the film; it was 40 years ago -- we can't remember what we had for lunch yesterday.) So the reconstituted "Head's Up" has remained one of a handful of our images that we have no digital record of.

Then, just a few weeks ago, the most recent owner of the painting got in touch via email, to ask about the publishing history of the image, and included a jpeg."

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