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| Your narrator, the Leader |
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The Leader attended the Baltimore Comic Con 22 and 23 September 2017 and filed this photographic report for your enjoyment. |
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| Legendary DC Comics artist from the 1970s Neal Adams signing autographs for a fan. It appears Mr. Adams makes much of living from doing comic shows these days as I see him at just about every comic show I attend. |
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| Neal Adams drawing a sketch for a young fan. It’s good to see young boys like this with an interest in Silver and Bronze Age comic book artists. Maybe when he and his friends get older they can keep the prices on comic books from those eras propped up so we old timers can sell our collections at top dollar. |
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| Randolph Hoppe & Lisa Hoppe |
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| This is the first time the Jack Kirby Museum has set up at this show. I asked one of the owners Randloph Hoppe where it was and he told me as of now there is no building where you can go view Kirby artwork. The "museum" is a storage unit in Hoboken, NJ where Randolph stores lots of Kirby prints and memorabilia. It was a pleasure talking to a fellow Kirby fan like Randolph and I hope one day there will be a real Kirby Museum open to the public. |
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| Randolph with the recently published softcover book Kirby100 from TwoMorrows Publishing (publisher of the magazine The Jack Kirby Collector). The book features Kirby art with commentary from lots of comic artists on how they were influenced and inspired by Jack Kirby. The large art print in front of Randloph is a reproduction to the cover of the Marvel comic The Avengers #16, 1964. |
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| Mike Stevens of the York, Pennsylvania auction house Hake’s Americana & Collectibles. Mike is showing off some advertising for an upcoming big Star Wars auction. Hake’s is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. |
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| Mike showing off the big auction price Hake's got in 2013 for the original art to the cover of the DC comic Action Comics #309, 1963 featuring President John F. Kennedy. |
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| Anthony Pollutra of Geppi’s Entertainment Museum which is located on Camden Yards near the Baltimore Convention Center where the Baltimore Comic Con is held. I went to this wonderful popular culture museum when it first opened in 2007 and have been back a few times since. Here are the photos I took on my visit in 2012. If you are comic book or old movie fan especially you need to visit this place at least once before you die. |
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| Anthony Snyder of Anthony’s Comic Book Art had the biggest exhibit as usual for original comic book art at this show. Here he is posing with an original page from the Marvel comic The Avengers #31, 1966. This nice page drawn by Marvel stalwart Don Heck can be yours for only $3,500. |
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| Anthony Snyder’s lovely assistant Shannon Miller with a pinup page from the Marvel comic Linda Carter, Student Nurse, 1962 with art by Al Hartley. Hartley did lots of the art on Marvel’s comics like Millie The Model, Patsy & Hedy and so forth. Asking price is $175. |
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| Jon Cohen of Beyond Comics always has the best variety of comic related statues at this show. He brings this giant Hulk statue to draw people to his booth but he tells me it isn’t for sale for any reasonable price. |
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| Shelton Drum of Heroes Aren’t Hard To Find promotes the largest comic book convention in the Southeast part of the United States: HeroesCon held in Charlotte, North Carolina since 1982. Promoting that show and possessing a huge inventory of vintage comic books makes Shelton in my estimation the kingpin of Southern comic book dealers. |
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| Shelton with two Atlas (Marvel) Silver Age comics Showgirls #1 and #4, 1957. The cover art on both comics is by famous “good girl” artist Dan DeCarlo best known for drawing Archie comic books. DeCarlo also drew much spicer (than Betty & Veronica) girlie cartoons for the Humorama digest size magazines which were another part of the publishing empire of Martin Goodman, publisher of Marvel Comics. |
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| “Spooky” Shelton with a rare Atlas comic, Suspense #14, 1952 featuring not one but two hypodermic needles. |
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| Janae White & Lewis Forro |
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| Janae White signaling her displeasure at the Leader’s unwelcome advances. You'd think she would have more respect for somebody with the coolest pre-Marvel Kirby/Ditko shirt in the whole wide world. |
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