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Paul S...my father was a cartoonist, dating back to the Golden Era of animation, so I naturally ended up with a lot of his own work plus the works of others. Some of this work ended up being cartoons that are well known, or the artists themselves went on to have revered names. That market is very similar to baseball cards.
BTW -- the all-too-cutesy picture I use here by my login name is actually cropped from the title card of a Paramount/Famous Studios cartoon my father did the animation design for, titled Abner the Baseball (1960-61). Probably some of you here might have seen it. It used to show up in reruns here and there. Abner is an anthropomorphic baseball character who describes Mantle's supposedly "longest home run." Berra is depicted too. Script was adapted/written from a routine by a long-ago comedian named Eddie Lawrence.