DC Entertainment announced today that it acquired Al Plastino’s art from his 1964 "Superman’s Mission for President Kennedy" story and donated it to the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston, as the recently deceased artist had intended.
 
The art had gone astray sometime in the intervening decades between when it was drawn in 1963 and this fall, when it turned up turned up for private auction (and was on promotional display at New York Comic Con) to coincide with the 50th anniversary of President Kennedy’s assassination.  Plastino believed the art had been donated to the museum decades ago, and prior to his death in November was suing Heritage Auctions, seeking disclosure of the private seller’s name (see "RIP Al Plastino").  The Heritage seller had purchased the art at a 1993 Sotherby’s auction for $5,000.
 
DC stated that they had acquired and donated the art "[a]s a tribute to honor (Plastino) and preserve his artistic legacy," fulfilling one of the artist’s final wishes.
 
Plastino’s wife and children responded, "We are extremely grateful to DC Entertainment for ensuring that the original art... will be preserved as part of his artistic legacy and as a tribute to President Kennedy.  This art was always very, very special to Al and our whole family and it would have meant a great deal to Al to know that DC Entertainment stepped in to make this possible."