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Lee Meriwether I enjoyed talking with Lee Meriwether who was featured in the 1960s Time Tunnel TV show which I like. She is best known for playing Catwoman on Batman and for co-starring with Buddy Ebsen in Barnaby Jones. She signed a rare original photo for me from 4-D Man which also featured another actor I like, Robert Lansing.	Julia Adams & friend Julia Adams was a 1950s movie star best known from The Creature From The Black Lagoon 1954. The only movie I have with her on DVD is Bend Of The River, 1952. She enjoyed looking at the original photo I had from that movie for her to sign.	Mike Pierce of Monsters Among Us. Mike Pierce is one of the leading monster magazine and pop culture magazine dealers in the country. He is a.k.a. Dynamite Mike due to his robust personality which enables him to set up at 30 to 40 years a year. I first met Mike at a collector show around Washington D.C. in the mid 1990s and was impressed with the scope of his magazine inventory. Later I set up at a show as as a dealer circa 1998 in Lansing, Michigan that Mike was also set up at and we went to dinner and breakfast together. He bought enough stuff from me to pay for my trip. I've seen him at other Chiller and collector shows over the years since then.
Mike Pierce Mike Pierce showing off a rare record album featuring a Bettie Page jacket. Estimated value: $100.00.	Mike Pierce's display wall Mike had the best popular culture magazine inventory at the show. That's also the case at every show he attends I'm pretty sure.	Art Harvey with Dinosarus window card Art Harvey is my favorite movie poster and photo dealer. I buy from him every year at the Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Con in Hunt Valley, Maryland. I bought several movie photos from him at this show including some from The Lost World, The Battle Of The Bulge, The Illustrated Man. Also Art had two original photos still with the network info sheets from my favorite TV show The Twilight Zone. My goal is to get at least one original photo from each Twilight Zone episode so Art and I have a long road ahead of us.
Cory Glaberson of Reel Art Collectibles Cory Glaberson from Illinois is one of my favorite dealers at Chiller. He always has interesting movie posters and other pop culture items. At Chiller about three years ago I bought from Cory three pieces of original art done for a monster magazine depicting iconic science fiction and horror movie characters. I had the one with Bela Lugosi as Dracula framed for my poster gallery.	Beatles Rooftop Concert The Beatles last public performance was an un-announced performance on top of the Apple Studios building in London in 1969. If some event develops a cult following its only a matter of time until somebody commemorates it with a statue.	Beatles Rooftop Concert
monster statue I thought the best resin statues at the show were from Alternative Images Productions.	King Kong King Kong battling the Tyrannosaurus Rex from the 1933 movie King Kong. Statue from Alternative Images Productions.	EC and Famous Monsters paperbacks Rare paperbacks which reprinted material from the magazine Famous Monsters Of Filmland and the 1950s EC comic books.
H.P. Lovecraft paperbacks These are among the rarest of collectible paperback books.	Cookie with his Yvonne DeCarlo painting Cookie of the Rock N' Roll Art School is the artist. Yvonne DeCarlo as Lily Munster from the 1960s TV series The Muesters is depicted in the painting.	Jaws For $5.00 you could get you picture made with the Great White shark from the movie Jaws. The owner of the shark is the world's biggest Jaws collector, Chris Kiszka.
Godzilla The biggest and best Godzilla statue at the show.	Vampirella The highlight of comic book dealer Mike Carbonaro's table was this rare 1960s era 6' tall Vampirella door poster from Warren Publishing Company. Mike always has cool stuff like this.	Marissa Jade Lovely Marissa Jade posing with her comic book and calendar collectibles. Lot's of models are featured in calendars, but not many of them are the star of their own comic book.
Robot Commando I always save the best for last. When I was kid in 1965 I got one of these incredible Robot Commando toys for Christmas. Mine has long since been lost to the ravages of time but I'm always thrilled on those rare occasions when I get to see another one. Estimated value: $350.00.