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| Wayne Ehrmann of Zeno's Books in Chesapeake, VA is where the Leader buys most of his newly released hardcover books and magazines about comic books. Here's Wayne's lovely booth attendant and the Leader's favorite comic con babe, Sunny Stoudemiere as Alice In Wonderland, posing with what Wayne says is the first Star Wars movie poster. |
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| On Sunday, Sunny Stoudemiere changed into her Ravager costume. Ravager appears in the DC comic book Teen Titans. Sunny makes all of her own costumes. Here she's holding Wayne's copies of the first two paperback books from the 1960s based on Marvel comic book characters: Captain America The Great Gold Steal and The Avengers Battle the Earth-Wrecker. These copies are nicer than the Leader's who bought these books new back in the day and would make suitable upgrades, but Wayne's prices on the books prevent that for now. |
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| Wayne Ehrmann of Zeno's Books photographing Sunny Stoudemiere with a model dressed in a Star Trek uniform. |
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| Wayne Ehrmann of Zeno's Books photographing two models dressed as characters from the animated cartoon TV series Venture Brothers: Nikki DeVita as Dr. Mrs. Monarch and Tabby DeVita as Molotov Cocktease. |
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| Beyond Comics usually has the biggest and best comic character statues at the show. Here's a huge Destroyer statue. The Destroyer was a Marvel comics villain who first appeared in Journey Into Mystery #118 in 1965 and was in the first Thor movie, 2011. |
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| Scarlet Witch was a Marvel comics villain who first appeared in The X-Men #4 in 1964. |
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| Annihilus was a Marvel comics villain who first appeared in Fantastic Four Annual #6, 1968. |
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| Beschara Maalouf of Nostalgia Investments always has the best Silver Age original art at the Baltimore Con. |
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| Marvel and DC Silver and Bronze age art of Batman, Fantastic Four, Iron Man, Captain America and a splash page from one of the Leader's favorite type of stories - the pre-Marvel sci-fi / fantasy stories - "I Speak of the Haunted House" with art by Steve Ditko. |
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| At far right an EC horror comic story. In the center is a rare item, apparently the original art to the stationery kit pages that were included in 1965 Marvel fan club The Merry Marvel Marching Society. |
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| Pin-up page of the Spider-Man villain The Crime-Master from Amazing Spider-Man Annual #2, 1965. Art by Steve Ditko. |
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| And the best is saved for last: Stefanie Wills holding the Hulk story splash page from Tales To Astonish #69, 1965. Art by Jack Kirby. The Leader just loves these 1960s Astonish Hulk stories! |
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| Anthony Snyder of Anthony's Comic Book Art had a nice display of original art. I've never seem him at the Baltimore Con before. |
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| Anthony Snyder posing with his best Marvel Silver Age original art, the splash page to The X-Men #4, 1964. |
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| Anthony Snyder posing with two nice pages of Wally Wood art from Sally Forth, the nudie comic strip Wood did for military newspapers. |
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| Bob Cook also had some interesting original art. I like this 1970s era Warren Publications poster of their b&w horror magazine Creepy. The poster art is by Frank Frazetta and is from the cover of Creepy 10, 1966. The story art was by Steve Ditko. |
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| Bob has a knack for finding weird, esoteric collectibles. Here is with a rare set of Russ Cochran EC reprint comics from 1987 still in the original retailer package. Bob and I used to set up close to each other at the monthly Tyson's Corner comic book show in Northern Virginia in the late 1990s. He doesn't do many shows anymore. |
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| ComicLink is a leading internet auction company for old comic books. They always have the best audio-visual displays at the show. Here's owner Douglas Gillock (on phone) with his assistant surrounded by all their fancy equipment. |
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| Closeup of CGC graded 2.0 Superman #1, 1939 from ComicLink's video display. |
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| Metropolis Collectibles of New York City is one of the oldest and biggest rare comic book dealers in the country. This is the first time they have set up at the Baltimore Con. |
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| Robert Reynolds showing off the type of rare inventory Metropolis is famous for, a Batman #100, 1956 and Detective Comics #1, 1937. Robert was kind enough to help out the Leader on his visit to Metropolis in 2012. |
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| IDW Publishing is one of my favorite publishers of reprinted vintage comic books. Their books are usually larger and have better production values than many other publishers. Here's Kate Henning showing off two recent deluxe editions of Wally Wood and Al Feldstein hardcover books with slipcases. I bought the Feldstein book for $125 but the Wood book costs $175 so the strategy now is to wait for IDW to release some copies to Diamond Distributors so I can order it from Zeno's Books who gives me a 30% discount. I'm still trying to buy off of ebay IDW's fabulous but out of print Wally Wood Artists Edition. |
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| Dirk Wood and Kahill Schweitzer showing off one of their massive Artists Edition books. This is one of a number of them devoted to EC comic books. |
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| Here's the legendary artist Frank Frazetta's granddaughter Daniella Frazetta setting up at the Baltimore Con for the first time. I talked with her and asked how to get permission to take photos at the Frazetta Museum in Pennsylvania when it is scheduled to reopen in 2014. Daniella said it would probably be ok to do that but I had to get her Uncle Frank's permission. The Leader plans to do just that. |
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