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Bob Harvey
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Does anyone recognize this? Friend of a friend is looking to sell this "Frank Miller print," but I can't imagine what vintage it is or anything. Only the signature and some parts of the hand even look like Miller to me.

To be clear, I am not soliciting this for sale. Just felt bad that I couldn't ID it at all.
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Looks nothing like Frank's work to me.
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Matt Hawes
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Yeah, I don't think that is Frank Miller. Another Miller, maybe.
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Well, I was trying to give it the benefit of the doubt. Happy to take your word for it, though.
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looks like it could be a Drawing of Frank Miller?
There was an Editorial Cartoonist named Frank Miller who worked for the Des Moines Register.He won a Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in 1967 could be his work?
Even Amazon got them mixed up
https://www.amazon.com/Frank-Miller-Moines-Register/dp/B000K 1BRSI
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Close up on the signature might reveal which "Miller" did the print.
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Based on this early Miller work, I'm still in agreement with everyone. It just doesn't look like your friends print is Miller's work at all.
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OMFG.

I actually just read this page that I posted of Miller's old work. Read it.

My wife JUST told me this story (claiming it was a russian folktale) 2 hours ago before I ever read this post. There is no way in hell she has ever come across Twighlight Zone or comic books. 

My wife claims it was passed down from her grandmother to help on a class homework project. This was in Kazahkstan in 1976 (give or take 1 year). It was supposedly a family story, not yet shared. My wife wrote this up and got a good grade.

Does anyone know the origin of this tale??????? I just looked this up - This Twighlight Zone comic was published in 1978.

Did my wife's poor grandmother plagarise this for her grand daughter, taking credit for it? (Most likely). Or is it at all possible my wife is the originator of this yarn?

Twighlight Zone time man. The odds are of this coincidence are so astronomical, my brain is ready to explode.


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Jason Czeskleba
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 Robert Shepherd wrote:
Did my wife's poor grandmother plagarise this for her grand daughter, taking credit for it? (Most likely). Or is it at all possible my wife is the originator of this yarn?

Isn't it more likely that it really is an old folk tale, and the writer on the Twilight Zone issue simply adapted it for the comic?  I've never heard this particular story before, but variations on this idea seem pretty common in both folklore and literature.  It's not all that different from Chuck Jones' classic "Chow Hound" cartoon, or Mr. Creosote.
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I didn't know Elwood Blues packed any heat. 
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Robert Shepherd
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yep it could be a folk tale of course. I'm just amazed my wife didn't tell me a variant of the story, it was the same details - shiek, chefs, beheaddings, etc. 

Freaky day.
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Doesn't Miller always just sign his comics art "FM"?
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