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| Outside the hotel's entrance is Tony Alexander's Gotham Supercar aka The Batmobile. This model is 1 of 5, all built by Tony. Here's Tony giving a customer his $10.00 worth of thrills from sitting in the Batmobile. |
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| Tony Alexander's Batman collectibles |
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| Another view of the Batmobile with some of Tony's Batman collectibles. |
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| Movie memorabilia dealer Art Harvey's display of posters and photos took up half the first floor dealer's room. Here's Art with one of his rarest items, a 1960s Ocean's 11 poster from Belgium. 2 years ago the Leader bought a nice 300 Spartans window card from Art. This year he fixed up the Leader with Jimmy Stewart and Charlton Heston with a half-sheet The FBI Story and some movie publicity photos from Rear Window, Bend Of The River, The Man From Laramie, The Omega Man. |
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| Some of Art Harvey's movie stills |
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| Art has thousands of movie publicity photos. Here are some with Marilyn Monroe, Lucille Ball, Susan Hayward, Farrah-Fawcett, Linda Carter. |
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| Here are some customers looking through Art Harvey's movie posters with some James Bond movie posters displayed in the background. |
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| Here are some customers looking at Art Harvey's insert size Western movie posters. Inserts are 14" x 36." The 2 men sitting down at far left are part of a radio crew that was broadcasting the Nostalgia Con events over the internet. |
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| Ed Wood, Dark Shadows, James Bond, Bruce Lee posters |
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| Some of Art Harvey's one-sheet posters. One-sheets are the standard 27" x 41" size. |
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| Charles F. Miller with Dell Mapback The Cavegirl |
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| Here's rare book dealer and science fiction expert Charles Miller with a paperback Dell Mapback edition of The Cavegirl by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Miller was 50% of the noted sci-fi & fantasy speciality book publisher Underwood-Miller 1976-1994. Chuck Miller and the Leader go back a long way. I used to read Chuck's "Year In Review" sci-fi book articles in the trade journal Comic Buyer's Guide aka CBG in the 1980s. As a comic book and magazine dealer in 1997 - 1998 I saw Chuck frequently at the Tyson's Corner comic show in Wash. D.C. and some of the Baltimore collectibles shows. Chuck bought a cheap Adam Bedside Reader magazine from me once at a show circa 1998. The magazine was full of nobody pulp authors that normally Chuck wouldn't bother with so why did he buy it? I figured Chuck knew it had a famous author under a pseudonym but didn't feel obliged to tell me. |
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| Charles F. Miller with Gorgo & Dracula |
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| Chuck with 2 rare paperbacks Dracula 1947 and the movie tie-in Gorgo 1961. The Leader has been searching in vain for many years for a mint condition Gorgo paperback. |
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| This Hulk model kit is a recent reproduction of the original mid 1960s kit from the Aurora Plastics Company. The Leader had the original Aurora kit (also the Captain America kit) back in the day and would like to have them back but probably couldn't afford today's collector prices. |
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| Famous Monsters Of Filmland mailing envelope |
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| Now here is something extremely rare. Rick Payne is showing off a 1960s era subscription mailing envelope for Famous Monsters Of Filmland. The price is $100.00. |
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| The main dealer's room was downstairs and was full of dealer's with interesting movie memorablia. The celebrity guests were also located here. The DVD movies in the foreground are from Olden Radio owned by Jerry Randlolph. |
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| Jerry Randolph's science fiction DVDs |
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| Jerry Randolph's DVD movies, some of which are the Leader's favorite science fiction movies: The War Of The Worlds, The Time Machine, First Men In The Moon, Panic In The Year Zero. |
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| Jerry Randolph's science fiction DVDs |
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| Some more of the Leader's favorite movies: When World's Collide and Them. |
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| Magazine dealer Brendan Faulkner with a rare 1973 magazine The Normal Lovecraft. The Leader inquired about the unusual title and was told the magazine was published to demonstrate that H.P. Lovecraft wasn't as weird and crazy as popularly believed. On Brendan's display wall is a run of one of the best monster fan magazines Fantastic Monsters Of The Films published by Paul Blaisdell and Bob Burns. Also a few issues of a James Warren / Forrest Ackerman magazine Spaceman including the 1965 Yearbook with the Wally Wood cover. |
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| Collector Tony Albert showing off his rare and expensive Topps Orange Back Davy Crockett card set from 1956. |
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| Johnny Weissmuller as Tarzan |
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| Robb Versandi owner of Toys Around The Clock with his Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan statue sculpted by Ray Santoleri. Only 15 of these were made so the price is $500.00. |
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| Robb Versandi with his Robert The Robot model from the Ideal Toy Corporation. It looks brand new but it is an original from the 1950s. |
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| Some of Robb Versandi's Batman and Robin collectibles |
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| Larry specializes in movie program books. The Leader enjoyed talking to him at length about 1950s and 1960s movies based on ancient history and was impressed with his knowledge of the movies and the actual history, including one of the Leader's favorite historical eras, the Punic Wars. Larry is holding program books from 2 of the Leader's favorite ancient history movies, Quo Vadis and Sampson And Delilah. |
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| Batman, Wizard Of Oz, Creature From The Black Lagoon |
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| Here'a a nice display of reproduction posters of The Wizard Of Oz and Creature From The Black Lagoon and a poster of Batman, Robin, and Catwoman signed by Adam West, Burt Ward and Lee Meriwether for $300.00. Also posters of Marilyn Monroe, Rita Hayworth. |
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| Creature From The Black Lagoon |
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| Closeup of poster Creature From The Black Lagoon signed by Julia Adams and Richard Carlson for $300.00. |
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| Ron Ely is best known from his 1966 Tarzan TV series and the 1975 movie Doc Savage: The Man Of Bronze. I talked to him briefly in the hotel lobby the first night of the show and asked him about 2 old TV shows I had seen him in; a 1960s episode of Thriller and a 1970s episode of Marcus Welby M.D. He remembered the details of each. The next day I got him to sign a photo for me from his Tarzan TV show. I found Mr. Ely to be an urbane, polished gentleman. However I'm 6'3" tall and it is slightly disconcerting to have to look up at a man who is taller than you. |
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| Movie posters from Ron Ely's best known personas, Tarzan and Doc Savage. |
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| Martin Grams Jr. with Time Tunnel book |
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| Martin Grams Jr. is an expert on old time radio and television shows and has written several books on those subjects. He is also the promoter of the Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Con. The Leader purchased Marty's definitive Twilight Zone book at the Con 2 years ago and last saw him at the Williamsburg Film Festival in March 2012. Marty has a contract to write books on the Irwin Allen produced 1960s science fiction TV shows. He finished his Time Tunnel book in time for this year's show and autographed a copy for the Leader. Marty says he is working on a book about the Cheyenne TV show and plans to have star Clint Walker at the Nostalgia Con next year. |
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| The stars of the 1960s TV series The Time Tunnel, James Darren and Robert Colbert, made a rare joint appearance at this year's Nostalgia Con. The Leader bought Martin Grams Jr.'s new book about the show and then obtained autographs in the book by Mr. Darren and Mr. Colbert. Now, when is Lee Meriwether going to be available? |
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| Veteran comic book dealer Gene Carpenter of All American Comics does about 40 shows a year and the Leader documents as many of them as possible. Here's Gene regaling his customers with some of his vast inventory of vintage comic books. |
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| Gene Carpenter with Marilyn Monroe comic book |
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| Almost no comic book is to rare or esoteric to escape Gene Carpenter's inventory. Here's Gene showing off Sweethearts #119 from 1953 based on the movie Don't Bother To Knock starring Marilyn Monroe and Richard Widmark. This is the only old comic book with a Marilyn Monroe photo cover. |
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| Monster Bash promo poster |
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| Here's a poster advertising another monster memorablia show, Monster Bash, coming up in Pittsburgh in 2013. Will Marty Grams be there? Will Gene Carpenter be there? Will the Leader be there? Let's wait and see. |
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