Artwork Board No. 1 - Captain Scarlet struggling in swamp, reaching for a creeper with his left hand

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RON EMBLETON: THE VERY IMPORTANT GROUP OF ARTWORK BOARDS FOR THE END TITLE SEQUENCE OF THE TELEVISION SERIES 'CAPTAIN SCARLET AND THE MYSTERONS', PRODUCED BY REG HILL, EXECUTIVE PRODUCTION BY GERRY ANDERSON, TO BE OFFERED IN TEN LOTS RON EMBLETON Ron Embleton was a highly talented comic-strip artist, regarded as the definitive portrayer of Captain Scarlet. He worked for Express Weekly from 1956 to 1961, working on other titles until 1965 when he moved from the Eagle to TV Century 21. There he illustrated 67 of the first 71 Stingray strips and later produced work on Captain Scarlet, for which he executed this artwork and the first 17 strips in TV Century 21. He left the comic in early 1968, moving from strip work to illustrations for Look And Learn and educational artwork for Ladybird Books, although he continued to produce illustrations for items of Gerry Anderson merchandise. From 1973 until his death in 1988 at the age of 57 he did comic strips for adult magazines. Executed in gouache and bodycolour or gouache, watercolour and bodycolour on Daler Board, with acetate leaf and cartridge-paper guard sheet --each apx. 56cm. x 37cm. overall. The condition and colouring of the image area of each board is very good, but as commercial artwork, the edges of the boards have been pinned for rostrum camera work. The tape holding the boards and guards together has become brittle with age and in some cases has been overlaid with parcel tape. Each image was used for two sets of credits in the end title sequence and the acetate sheets are marked in chinagraph pencil with one large and one small cropping guide and numbered from 1 to 20. The paper guards are marked A1, A2, B1, B2 and so on to J19, J20.

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Artwork Board No. 1 - Captain Scarlet struggling in swamp, reaching for a creeper with his left hand
with original red card folio, used for storing artwork, with taped-on sheet of paper Elstree (now detached), addressed in felt-tip pen 'Reg Hill, Century 21, Slough, 1 Pkg. D***(paper torn away), with, roneoed typescript on reverse 'Official Order Form, From: Bamore Film Productions Ltd', from Peter di Palma to George Humphries & Co Ltd about film stock for 'The Saint' Series IV

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