Batman #121 Daniel Johnston Austin Books Exclusive Portfolio (Choose Your Color)

Description: This listing is for a limited edition portfolio including three comic books. Each Portfolio includes a full set of three comics with covers by Daniel Johnston, is limited in production, and exclusive to Austin Books! Portfolio is GF Smith Colorway 130 lb FSC Certified. Final product may vary slightly in appearance from the photos. Eight different color ways were produced and sold through retail partners involved with the production of the portfolios. Each are hand-numbered and limited to the following quantities: 500 Purple (Austin Books Edition)500 Bright Red (Hi How Are You dot com Edition)250 Racing Green (The Contemporary Austin Edition)250 Slate (Electric Lady Studios Edition)250 Pink (Guzu Gallery Edition)250 Smoke Grey (Austin Books Edition250 Marrs Green (Austin Books Edition)250 Mandarin Orange (Austin Books Edition) Included in each are three versions of Batman #121 available nowhere else, with different covers by the late singer, song-writer, and visual artist. Collected inside are a Batman cover, a Superman Cover, and a New Gods cover. These three images were selected by the artist's representative, Electric Lady Studios, approved by the Daniel Johnston Estate, and published by DC for Austin Books in conjunction with The Contemporary Austin's retrospective Daniel Johnston: I Live My Broken Dreams, which was on view at The Contemporary Austin in Texas through March 20, 2022. Also available in this listing is the single Batman #121 Batman comic, limited in production to 3000. This item varies slightly from the same book in the portfolio. See the photo comparing the two. The single issue has the DC Comics logo and issue number. The one in the portfolio does not. --------------------------- Contents of all three books are the same. Only the covers differ. Solicitation Copy: BATMAN #121DC Comics (W) Joshua Williamson, Karl Kerschl (A) Jorge Molina, Karl Kerschl (CA) Daniel Johnston The deadly conclusion to the "Abyss" arc as Lex Luthor’s dangerous master plan for Batman Inc. is revealed. And an old ally returns to pull the lost Batman out of Abyss’s darkness and a new member of Batman Inc. rises! In the final chapter of "They Make Great Pets," Maps finds the missing piece to the shocking and deadly mystery...with a little help from Batman! 40pgs _________________________________ About Daniel Johnston and this project: Daniel Johnston’s art and music have featured globally in films, commercials, museums, and galleries, but it’s in Austin, Texas where he has become most ingrained in local culture. It is, after all, the city where in 1985 he excitedly shoved himself in front of MTV’s cameras to gain a national audience and where today his drawings and music displaying heroic victory and quiet heartache are proudly on display at the downtown art museum, The Contemporary Austin. The exhibition’s curator, Robin K. Williams, noticed a letter Johnston had written in the 1990s or 2000s addressed to his friend Marie Javins, now Editor-in-Chief at DC, requesting her help getting his artwork into comics. “I thought the letter was strange and touching,” says Williams, “because he was already an internationally successful musician when he wrote it. When I asked Marie about it, she said, ‘Daniel had two loves, music and art, and always wanted to be a comic book artist.’ This gave her the beautiful idea to finally make this happen through his favorite comic shop.”

Price: 19.99 USD

Location: Austin, Texas

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