I’ve noticed this too. I got burned by them on an Archie annual cover that
was initially listed as by DeCarlo and then changed after the fact to say
‘attributed’. This was a few years ago.
I’ve since gotten a bit better at identifying art by DeCarlo rather than
trusting them and I 100% mistrust the attributed designation.
For me ‘Dan DeCarlo (attributed)’ is now a proxy for ‘unknown Archie
artist’.
On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 9:37 AM Bill Morrison <bill.littlegreenman@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
I’ve noticed a disturbing trend in auctions of Archie art at Heritage.--
Several lots have listed "Dan DeCarlo (Attributed)” as the artist when the
art is clearly by another artist and shows no sign of Dan even touching it.
I’ve emailed Heritage about these errors but to no avail. I’m wondering if
they have someone in-house who does the attributions of art, or are they
just taking the word of the person who’s putting the art up for auction? It
seems like someone, whether Heritage or the seller, is trying to drive up
sale prices on art by lesser artists.
https://comics.ha.com/itm/original-comic-art/complete-story/dan-decarlo-attributed-reggie-s-wise-guy-jokes-15-complete-1-page-story-heave-peeve-ori/a/122102-13411.s?type=lotlink--bidnotice-tracked-dailystatus
