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| I first met Tony Albert two years ago at this show which he has been using to sell off his private collection. Two years ago he had a collection of 1950s Davy Crockett trading cards and this year he had this rare Davy Crockett "Jailer's Keys And Handcuffs." Asking price: $85. |
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| A few days ago at the Baltimore Comic Con I bought the 1966 white cover Playboy's Little Annie Fanny softcover book. Here's Tony with the second edition from 1972 with the green cover. His copy is in a little better condition than mine but his asking price of $60 was a bit too steep for me to upgrade my copy. |
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| Here's Brendan Faulkner of R&B Enterprises with two neat Boris Karloff items. Two years ago at this show he was showing off a rare H.P. Lovecraft magazine. This year he was offering something even rarer: a 1932 German 8 page movie program brochure for the Boris Karloff film Frankenstein. Asking price: $1500. I also liked seeing Brendan's copy of this 1966 issue of Life magazine about Karloff's 80th birthday. My family subscribed to Life in the 1960s and I remember us having that issue. |
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| Close-up of Brendan's Frankenstein brochure. |
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| Robb Versandi of Toys Around The Clock always has a good selection of rare toys on display. Here's Robb with a 1988 set of the cast members of the 1950s TV show I Love Lucy with Ricky, Lucy, Fred and Ethel. Asking price: $400. |
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| I first met James Turiello of New Jersey at last year's show. I was impressed with his colorful background; he was taught to swim by Tarzan and Flash Gordon actor Buster Crabbe, and his mother Rose Turiello was the model for the "Miss Liberty" torch holding statue that appears at the beginning of all Columbia Pictures movies. This year James told me that the Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Con's promoter, Martin Grams, Jr., is considering writing a book about James's mother. James said there is some confusion about Columbia admitting that his mother served as its logo model land James wants to set the record straight. James also told me he's still working on his Marilyn Monroe book Marilyn Monroe: The Quest for an Oscar. I thought writers weren't usualy noted for their manual dexterity but apparently James is an exception. He's holding here a intricately detailed and accurate model he built of the fishing boat the Orca. That was the boat owned by Robert Shaw used for the shark hunt in the 1976 movie Jaws. James said it took him over 240 hours to construct this model. His asking price is only $1250, about $5.20 per hour of work, less than the minimum wage. |
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| Rick Payne always has some of the most interesting toys and collectibles. I was delighted to hear that he had recently acquired ten high grade copies of the digest size Avon Fantasy Reader known for their flamboyant cover art and reprinted stories from the famous pulp magazine Weird Tales. I have had a few copies in lesser condition of these digests before but I had never seen ten different ones before in such nice shape. I don't buy much at the shows anymore but I wanted these Avon Fantasy Reader magazines. Rick sold them all to me the next day for $200. |
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| Close-up of ten Avon Fantasy Reader digest magazines. Formerly and briefly the property of Rick Payne. Now and forever owned by your narrator the Leader and not to be seen for sale again. |
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| Charles Miller (Chuck) is a literary science fiction expert. He was 50% of the now extinct Underwood-Miller publishing company that specialized in science fiction and fantasy books. I used to talk to him at the comic book and collector shows in the Washington D.C. and Baltimore areas back in the late 1990s. Chuck doesn't bring too much of real interest to this show but I'm sure he's got better stuff squirreled away back home. Here he's holding a 1946 hardcover book of horror stories with an introduction by Boris Karloff. Asking price: $25. |
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| Art Harvey & Connie Stevens |
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Her'es Art Harvey showing Connie Stevens one of her old movie posters. Art Harvey from New Jersey is my favorite movie photo and poster dealer that I buy from every year at this show and sometimes at Chiller Theater. This year after the Dealer's Room closed I was hanging around Art's table and he told me the famous 1960s actresses Connie Stevens and Piper Laurie were coming by soon to maybe buy from him some of their old publicity photos. So I waited for them with Art and quietly took what photos I could, without using my flash like I normally prefer. |
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| Art Harvey & Connie Stevens |
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| Here's Art and Connie pondering over more of her 1960s photos and posters. |
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| Art Harvey & Connie Stevens |
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| Art adding up Connie's tab. Art told me she bought about $135 worth of stuff from him. |
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| Art Harvey & Piper Laurie |
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| Here's Art Harvey pointing out to Piper Laurie (black sweater) one of her old movie posters. Connie Stevens is in the foreground looking over Art's photos. I've never seen any Connie Stevens's movies but I did enjoy Piper Laurie in the Paul Newman movie The Hustler, 1961. I mentioned to Piper's assistant that I thought Piper did a good job playing Magda Goebbels in the HBO TV movie The Bunker, 1981 about the last days of Adolf Hitler. |
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| Art Harvey & Piper Laurie |
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| Art Harvey showing Piper Laurie some of her 1960s publicity photos with Connie Stevens looking on. The man at left in the purple shirt is Mel Simons who is a freelance radio announcer from Boston. He interviewed Connie and Piper on stage and then brought them over to buy some stuff from Art. I'm making note of Mel here because he made some favorable comments about the Clifford D. Simak City shirt I was wearing. |
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| Art Harvey & Piper Laurie |
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| Piper Laurie considering one of Art's photos of her. The lady on Piper's left is her assistant. Movie stars, even former stars, always have assistants you know. |
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| Robert J. Lentz & Piper Laurie |
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| Robert J. Lentz is a movie expert with three books to his credit about Gloria Grahame, Lee Marvin and Korean War films. He helps out Art Harvey at the shows. Robert's wearing a cool looking Lost In Space shirt. Check out Robert's movie reviews on his website Filmbobbery.com. |
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| Art Harvey & Piper Laurie |
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| After Piper was done buying from Art I asked her to pose for one photo with him. The color and focus looks better in this photo because I was able to use my flash.
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