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The Leader attended the Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Con in Hunt Valley, Maryland 14 and 15 September 2017 and filed this photographic report for your enjoyment.

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First Day, 14 September 2017
Bryan Schemine
Bryan Schemine attends this show every year and always has the best motion picture and TV soundtrack albums and other interesting toys and pop culture items.
Bryan Schemine
Bryan with two 33 rpm record albums of 1960s era secret agents surrounded by the usual sexy babes: Matt Helm (Dean Martin) from The Silencers and James Bond (Sean Connery) from You Only Live Twice. It was fun to be a secret agent in the 1960s!
Bill McMahon
Bill McMahon setting up the booth he shares with another dealer, Stephen St. John.
Bill McMahon, Stephen St. John, Rick Payne
Here’s Bill and his partner Stephen posing with a print of a Superman movie serial poster while another dealer Rick Payne looks over their merchandise.
Brendan Faulkner
I see Brendan Faulkner of R&B Enterprises at this show and Pulpfest every year. He always has lots of rare movie memorablia and science fiction books. Here he is posing with an insert size movie poster of the movie South Of St. Louis starring Joel McCrea.

Brendan Faulkner
Brendan with two rare science fiction paperback books. Forbidden Planet 1967 for $25 is one of the paperback editions based on the big budget MGM movie from 1956. Dr. Cyclops 1976 for $15 was based on the Paramount 1940 movie.

Tony Albert
Tony Albert also always sets up at this show with nice pop culture collectibles including rare Walt Disney items. Tony is posing with a movie cell drawing of the monster from the Disney movie Fantasia. On his right are movie cell drawings from the Disney movie Pinocchio and others. Later in the day sold both these expensive items and I saw a big grin on his face as he was loading them onto a hand cart to carry out to the customer’s car.
Tony Albert
Tony with two 33 rpm vinyl record albums featuring covers with 1950s pinup model Bettie Page. The album at left is a German release from a few years ago. The album at right is from the 1960s and much harder to find. This is the first time I’ve seen it.
Tony Albert
Close up of the inside covers of the German album.

Chuck Rogers
Cowboy memorabilia dealer Chuck Rogers from Newnan, Georgia usually sets up at this show. I also used to see him at the Williamsburg Film Festival in Richmond, Virginia but that show is now extinct. Here’s Chuck with some John Wayne comic books and a window card from poster of the John Wayne film The Conqueror, 1956. Chuck told me he is thinking about retiring from the show circuit. I imagine he will sell his comic book inventory to fellow dealer Gene Carpenter but I told him I would like to buy all of his high grade movie magazines.

Jim Lewin
Here’s Jim Lewin with a revised hardcover book The World Encyclopedia Of Comics by Maurice Horn. I used to see ads for the first edition of this book in comic book fanzines in the 1970s but this is the first time I’ve actually seen this book and I was surprised at how large it is.
John Gunnison
John Gunnison is one of the big wheelers and dealers in the pulp magazine collecting world. I see him every year at Pulpfest and for the last two years he has been setting up at this show. John’s posing here with a catalog he published for the pulp collection of science fiction writer and collector Frank M. Robinson whose estate was liquidated a few years ago. Robinson had one of the largest if not the largest pulp collection in the world. John told me Robinson’s collection of the most desirable and famous pulp, Weird Tales was all high grade.
Keith Hurd
Keith Hurd of Hurd’s Outpost is a veteran autograph dealer that always attends this show and before it was cancelled, the Williamsburg Film Festival. Here is he is conferring with a customer over some rare and collectible autographs.
Larry Newman
Larry Newman specializes in movie promotional magazines. These type of magazines are not movie press books or kits but magazines that were sold in the lobbies of movie theaters while the movie was playing. They used to do things like that in the old days. Here’s Larry with a two movies I like and have on Blu Ray disc: Becket from 1964 starring Richard Burton and Peter O’Toole and The Agony And The Ecstasy from 1965 starring Charlton Heston and Rex Harrison.
Chick Veditz
Chick Veditz of Baltimore, Maryland with two rare bubble gum cards that were part of the merchandise boom in the 1950s derived from the Walt Disney TV mini-series about Davy Crockett. At left is Davy’s friend George Russel (played by Buddy Ebsen) and at right is Davy (played by Fess Parker) using his musket Ol’ Betsy to good effect against an Indian attacker. Let’s take a bigger look at Chick’s collectible card inventory in the photo below.
Chick Veditz
I imagine there may be card dealers with more inventory than Chick (I doubt it) but I’ve never seen a larger card display at a show than Chick’s.
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