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Siegel House

October 13, 2008: Robert Erwin Helps Save Siegel House

Robert Erwin is the man who paid almost $50,000 on his own in purchasing items from the online auctions that were conducted to raise money to restore the Siegel house.

Newsarama.com caught up with Robert, who runs a computer game software development company called Pi Studios, to see what he planned to do with all the artwork and prizes he purchased...

    The drawing by Jim Lee of some lucky person with Superman ($14,101) will go to a friend, who will get to pose for it.

    The walk-on role on Heroes ($14,100) will go to an employee of Pi. They will have a raffle of interested workers and the winner gets the gig.

    The Brian Bendis auction item, drawing someone on a cover of Powers, ($5,850) will go to Pi Creative Director John Faulkenbury, "a huge Bendis fan." Likewise, some lucky Pi employee will get to name a character in Mark Millar's War Heroes, thanks to a $5,600 bid by Erwin.

    The Mike Mignola drawing of Hellboy ($4,550) wearing a Superman t-shirt will go to someone. I woould bet it will go to Erwin's son, a big Hellboy fan.

    The one piece Erwin is keeping for himself is the Supergirl drawing by Frank Cho ($7,500.) "I'm a big fan of Frank Cho," he said. "I think Frank is one of the most talented artists in the industry. I love Liberty Meadows, and all Frank's work. I have a Ms. Marvel piece he did that looks exactly like my ex-girlfriend."

Read the complete report posted at Newsarama.com.

Voice of America aired this segment about the effort to save Jerry Siegel's Cleveland home.



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