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The Leader attended Chiller Theater on 27 and 28 April 2013. He had a publicity photo of the TV series The Green Hornet he needed actor Van Williams to sign. Mostly he wanted to see his favorite movie poster and photo dealer Art Harvey from New Jersey. The Leader also enjoyed seeing his old friend Mike Pierce of Monsters Among Us.

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Van Williams
Van Williams played in several 1960s TV series including Bourbon Street Blues, Surfside 6, 77 Sunset Strip . He is best known for his starring role in the one season series The Green Hornet 1966. His co-star was the then unknown karate expert Bruce Lee who went on to become more famous around the world than Mr. Williams.
Van Williams
A few years ago I uncovered a large collection of movie and TV publicity photos with the network info sheets still attached. One of them was of the The Green Hornet TV series. I've been waiting ever since for Van Williams to appear at a show to get him to sign it for me.
Gort
The Day The Earth Stood Still from 1952 is my favorite science fiction film and surprisingly I haven't yet bought this statue of the omnipotent robot Gort from the film. I need to do that one of these days.
The Incredible Hulk
This is a modern version of the circa 1966 Aurora model kit of the Marvel comic book character the Incredible Hulk. I had this model and the Aurora models of the two other Marvel characters, Spider-Man and Captain America. They didn't survive the 1960s and I can't afford to replace them today.
Giant Ant from Them
The 1954 film Them about ants turned into giants by radioactive fallout is another of my favorite science fiction movies. This is the only model based on the movie I've seen. From Alternative Images Productions.
Giant Ant from Them
Frankenstein's Monster
From Alternative Images Productions.
Dejah Thoris
This model isn't identified but I was told by a fan that it is the Martian princess Dejah Thoris. She was John Carter's girlfriend in the Martian series of novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs. She didn't handle an ax in the books or the recent Walt Disney movie. From Alternative Images Productions.
Monsters and sexy babes in Daniel Fay's booth
Dealer Daniel Fay had the best display of sexy women statues at the show.
Daniel Fay's booth
From left to right: Elivra Mistress of the Dark, Vamprirella (back row), tall blonde from 1996 film Mars Attacks, Little Annie Fannie from the Playboy magazine comic strip, Lilly Munster from the 1960s TV series The Munsters (far right).
Little Annie Fannie
Two versions of Little Annie Fannie
Barbara Eden
Barbara Eden as Jeannie from the 1960s TV series I Dream Of Jeannie. In Daniels Fay's booth.
Barbara Eden
Godzilla
In Donald James's booth.
Monster dolls
Lots of familiar faces here including the Cyclops from 7th Voyage of Sinbad, Noseratu the Vampyre, the Phantom of the Opera, Linda Blair from The Exorcist, Lon Chaney Sr., the Wolfman, the Creature from the Black Lagoon, the Wicked Witch of the West, the Frankenstein Monster, Vincent Price, the Invisible Man.
Chris Kiszka with Jaws
Chris Kiska has the world's largest collection of collectibles in the world from the 1976 film Jaws. He only charges $5.00 to take your picture with the shark.
Stan Kiszka with Jaws
Stan Kiszka is Chris's father. Stan told me that while an employee of Navy Armor in Jersey City he helped design and build the speargun used by Robert Shaw in the movie Jaws. When the movie was finished Stan gave the speargun t his nine year old son Chris which started him down the road to becoming the world's foremost Jaws movie collector. Stan told me he was attended the world premiere of Jaws in Manhattan two weeks before the general release of the film.
Cory Glaberson
Cory Glaberson owner of Reel Art Collectibles in Berwyn, Illinois with a nice condition one-sheet on linen back of the Alfred Hitchcock 1960 movie Psycho.
Cory Glaberson
Cory Glaberson with some of his cool movie posters including Creature From The Black Lagoon and Godzilla both from 1954.
Keith B. Hurd
Keith Hurd is a autograph dealer from Cortland, Ohio. I saw him last at the Williamsburg Film Festival in Virginia in March 2013. Here he's showing off two autographs of the horror movie icons Peter Lorre and Boris Karloff.
Bill Dickson
Bill Dickson a.k.a. Monster Bill holding one of his rubber masks. This one is of the alien vegetable monster played by James Arness in the 1951 movie The Thing from Another World. Bill told me he was featured a few weeks ago showing off a rare Aurora model kit of The Bride of Frankenstein on the TV series The Comic Book Men.
Bill Dickson
Bill Dickson wielding a replica of the broadsword used by Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 1982 film Conan the Barbarian
Creature from the Black Lagoon
Bill Dickson's 6' tall movie prop of the Creature from the Black Lagoon. Bill sold this at the show on for $1200.