I worked at the publisher so that helped getting it authorized. The other helpful factor was that a collector, who knows the original artist, came forward and showed Wata some samples of the artwork, which was very gracious of him (I didn't ask he just did it as we've been talking awhile and he knew that I had this alternate cover submitted). Otherwise, yea, it would of been tough to get authentication, which I why I sent it in the first place.