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Solomon CramerThe Wagner strip was bought out of Halper/Sotheby's by Steve Verkman somewhere in the low $80s.
I bought it out of his subsequent auction for about $91k.
I gave it away in a promotion on Shop @ Home in 2000 or 2001 I believe, over the XMas season. I may still have some of the promo pieces we used, I think the drawing was the end of January or February 1.
If I remember correctly, some woman in the south won it.
It was then consigned (though I have no idea if it exchanged hands in between) to Mastro, which sold it for about $70-80k if I remember - I know the buyer, was actually talking to him when he bought it, so can confirm it definately sold there. Whether it's changed hands since that night, I can't say, but I doubt it.
I do remember noting that Verkman's auction brough the most of the three sales (in other words, I was the king sucker!)
I took it out of the holder, and looked at it pretty closely. I wasn't looking for anything out of the ordinary, but I certainly didn't have any questions about it being pasted together at the time.