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The Leader attended the Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Con in Hunt Valley, Maryland on 19 and 20 September 2013. This is the Leader's favorite show of the year. His pleasure at attending this year's show was greatly enhanced from being accompanied by his friend Jack Price of Suffolk, VA, a dedicated collector of John Wayne memorablia. The Leader approves of those type of people. The Leader was also delighted to see an old friend at the show, comic book collector George Mihalik whom he has known since the late 1990s. The Leader also approves of comic book collectors.

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Main Dealers' Room Downstairs This show is growing and a few new dealers are added every year. There are more dealers upstairs on the main floor of the Hunt Valley Inn hotel where the con is held.	Main Dealers' Room Downstairs Another view of the downstairs main dealers' room.	Ed Asner Mary Tyler Moore's 1970s TV show newsroom managing editor Lou Grant signing autographs.
Julie Newmar Julie Newmar is best remembered as the Catwoman on the 1960s TV show Batman. She was charging $30.00 for an autograph and she did't have any photos from her appearance on a 1960s Star Trek episode I liked, so I had to pass on getting her autograph. The Con's other big name female star Mamie Van Doren cancelled at the last minute and is rescheduled for next year.	Wes Shank Wes Shank is the top authority on the 1958 cult science fiction film The Blob. His table had the real Blob silicone prop and other props from the movie.	Wes Shank Wes posing with his book From Silicone To The Screen and a bucket with the original silicone Blob. He told me he obtained all his Blob movie props many years ago from the film's director Irvin Yeaworth.
Wes Shank A real movie theater was used as a location but when the movie makers needed to show the Blob in front of the theater they used a photograph of the theater as a backdrop with the Blob placed in front. Here is that photograph used in the movie.	Capt. Chuck's Comics Capt. Chuck's Comics had a big display of hardcover books, comic books and toys.	Capt. Chuck's Comics Capt. Chuck with a D.C. science fiction comic book Strange Adventures #10 and the E.C. comic Crime SuspenStories #1, both from the 1950s.
Capt. Chuck's Comics Here are the types of hardcover books the Leader likes. He has all the books shown on the top shelf.	Toys Around The Clock Robb Versandi of Toys Around The Clock in St. Petersburg, FL had his usual nice display of popular culture toys.	Toys Around The Clock Robb Versandi with what an articulated action figure of Tarzan. Robb says this is the only action figure ever authorized by Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc.
Toys Around The Clock Two sex icons, Jessica Rabbit from the 1980s and Betty Boop from the 1930s.	Rick Payne Rick Payne always has a nice display of vintage popular culture items.	Rick Payne Rick with a paperback book The Martian Chronicles with a cover the Leader has never seen before, a Lone Ranger statue and a Tom Corbett Space Cadet thermos.