Dadaist Chess

In the previous post, What Is Dadaist Chess? (February 2025), I quoted from Wikipedia,

Dada or Dadaism was an anti-establishment art movement that developed in 1915 in the context of the Great War [aka WWI] and the earlier anti-art movement.

Adding that to an earlier post titled, Cubist Chess (February 2025; 'Marcel Duchamp plays cubist chess'), generates yet another view of Marcel Duchamp playing chess, shown below.

'Marcel Duchamp plays dadaist chess.'
AI Comic Factory

While those faces all look like Marcel Duchamp, where's the Dadaism? An even more fundamental question is how do you depict an 'anti-establishment / anti-art' movement? Our AI comic software is clearly struggling with the question.

One trick the software uses when lost for an appropriate image is to create a meaningless comic sequence, like the one shown in the upper left frame. Another trick is to put stuff on the wall, like the two frames on the right. Maybe the framed pictures relate to images well known to Dadaism. Then again, maybe not. What do I know?

Like the software, I'm clearly struggling here, so I'd better end this post now. • Next post in the series: Call me clueless.

More Fun Tops Eerie

First question: How much artwork has been featured in the long running series Top eBay Chess Items by Price (March 2010)? In last month's post, A Sammarinese Artist (February 2025), I wrote, 'I almost always go for any artwork', so there must have been plenty.

Second question: How much of that artwork has featured comic books? It turns out not to be so much, because I count exactly six posts.

The title of the item pictured below was 'MORE FUN COMICS #76 CGC VG 4.0; OW; Dr. Fate chess cover! Scarce!' It sold for 'US $1,350.00 or Best Offer', where that USD number looks to be close to the real price.

The description just repeated the title. Fortunately, there are resources elsewhere, like More Fun Comics Vol 1 76 (dc.fandom.com; 'DC database'). There we learn that this particular comic was published February 1942. If we go back to a post from almost two years ago, Eerie Tops Strange (May 2023), I noted,

'Strange Adventures #35' [...] sold for US $643.93 • 'Eerie Adventures' comic [...] was considerably more than the 'Strange Adventures' comic.

It looks like we've upped the ante again. For my take on comic book prices, see the first of the six 'Top eBay Chess Items' posts featuring a comic, Batman Plays Chess with the Joker (December 2011), especially the last paragraph.

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This month will see the 15th anniversary of 'Top eBay Chess Items by Price'. Am I looking forward to another 15 years? Hardly!