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| Jason Hamlin's table had the only piece of Silver Age original art by Jack Kirby at the show. A pre-Marvel fantasy story page from Journey Into Mystery #77, 1962. |
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| Here's a nice Spider-Man one-of-a-kind handmade collage made from comic book panels cut from the comic books. It caught my attention since it has many samples of Steve Ditko art. |
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| Donald Jones, Guy Rose, Dave Weaver. |
I've known Dave Weaver for about 20 years. He is the longtime owner of Bender's Books & Cards in Hampton, Virginia. He doesn't set up at comic shows too often. The last show I saw him at was the Virginia Comic Con in Richmond in 2012 which was probably the last show he did. At that show he had a complete set of the 1950s notorious "Mars Attacks" card set. I visited his store after the show and bought it for $2,000.
The magazine Heidi Saha Dave is holding is a Warren Publishing magazine printed on pulp paper with only b&w photos about a person I've never heard of. And so I was flabbergasted when Dave told me the price: $650. According to the internet, only 500 copies were made in 1973 to be distributed at a convention to help exploit the underage teenage model Heidi Saha. Her parents and publisher James Warren had her traipsing around conventions in those days dressed in sexy Sheena the Jungle Girl and Vampirella costumes. That was back in the old days when most people still thought presenting an underage girl as an object of sexual desire was unacceptable. For more information on why Heidi Saha may still command big money, here's an old link to a CGC comic forum page about Heidi by Angelique Trouvere who was also a Vampirella model in the early 1970s. I chose Angelique's essay out of the many on the internet about Heidi since I'm partial to her; I bought her Star Trek convention photos about a year ago at auction. Maybe I should dig them out and see If I have any of Heidi?
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| Donald Jones, Julio Crespo, Guy Rose. |
I last saw Guy and his associates at their booth at the Virginia Comic Con 9 May. They weren't set up as dealers at this Tidewater Comicon show but were using Dave's booth as base of operations to scavenge and plunder. Julio and I have a possible deal pending on his old science fiction paperback book collection. They didn't stay long. Guy told me he had to leave about 1:30 p.m. since his wife wanted to visit our famous nearby Virginia Beach boardwalk. (According to female logic, beach boardwalks are more important than comic books. Go figure.)
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| Here's Dave with two unusual items. These are b&w magazines published in Great Britain in 1967 that reprinted older Marvel Comics stories. I had never seen them before. |
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| Rick Fortenberry is a veteran comic collector and dealer. He and David Hinson promote the Charlotte Comic Con in North Carolina that has been running for several years. I sometimes see Rick at the Virginia Comic Con in Richmond. I'm glad he was able to make it to Virginia Beach for our big show. Here he's counting the cash flow with his assistant Danny. This was early in the first day of the two day show so it looks like Rick was well on track for a successful show. |
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| Rick Fortenberry with a book from his personal collection, Thunda #1, 1952, the only comic book entirely drawn by Frank Frazetta. |
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| I had never met Dave Buckley of KPR Comics before but Guy Rose introduced me to him at this show. Here's Dave with the first appearance of Henry Pym in Tales To Astonish #27, 1962 several months before he got his superhero costume in #35 and became Ant-Man. Out of the dozens of scientists populating the pre-Marvel monster and sci-fi stories in those days, only Henry was plucked out to become a superhero in the ensuing Marvel Age of Comics. Also, Tales To Astonish #44, 1963 with the first appearance of Henry's girlfriend the Wasp. Ant-Man is making his big budget Marvel movie debut in July 2015 so let's see how he does. It's customary to buy up all the early appearances of a comic character right before his movie debut to speculate on so give Dave a call. |
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| Here's Dave with three nice old 10 cent cover price Batman comics: #s 81, 121, 139. |
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| Gerald Hogan is the long time owner of Trilogy Comics in Virginia Beach. Gerald told me he doesn't set up at many comic book shows anymore, but mostly only anime shows. He set up as a dealer at this one since it was in his backyard and was two days long. He's asking $900 for this copy of Adventure #247, 1958 featuring the first Legion Of Super-Heroes. |
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| I last saw Mark Overby of Black Dog Collectables at the Virginia Conic Con in Richmond 9 May. I'm glad he was able to make it to our Virginia Beach show. |
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| I've known Harry Hopkins of Fandata since the mid 1980s when we were both in the U.S. Air Force and stationed at Norton, A.F.B. in San Bernardino, California. I met him at the San Diego Con and later visited him at his home to buy some Silver Age Marvel comics. I see him frequently at the Virginia Comic Con in Richmond and other shows in the area. |
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| Harry with a nice copy of an expensive book, Superman #146, 1961. |
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Jeff Harper of Jeff Harper Productions for me had the most interesting booth at the show. He had the largest collection of Edgar Rice Burroughs 1960s paperbacks I have ever seen in one place. I read many of the Burroughs's Tarzan, Martian, Venus, Pellucidar series Ace paperbacks when I was a kid in the 1960s. Like everybody else I was attracted by the book covers painted by Frank Frazetta and Roy Krenkel.
The Port Of Peril is by Burroughs imitator Otis Aldebert Kline. Jeff told me that Burroughs sued Kline for copyright infringement. I asked Jeff why since Burroughs had many imitators. Why did he single out Kline? Jeff said that Kline was especially egregious; he used the exact same plots and just changed the names of the characters. The paperback Tarzan And The Silver Globe was one of several Tarzan books put out by a schlock publisher in the mid 1960s with Tarzan stories attributed to a writer named "Barton Werper." They were unauthorized by the Edgar Rice Burroughs estate and were sued by the estate. These books are very rare. I had never heard of them myself until paperback expert Gerald Hogan of Trilogy Comics told me about them several years ago. I had never seen one until Jeff brought some to this show. |
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| Closeup of Tarzan And The Silver Globe. You're not going to find one of these at a yard sale or used bookstore. If you want one, call Jeff. |
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| Here's Jeff with two copies of the paperback Edgar Rice Burroughs Master Of Adventure by Richard Lupoff. The one of the left is the first edition from 1968. I read this book when I was a kid and still have it tucked away. Yes, the Frazetta cover is part of what sucked me in. I had never seen the one on the right which is a later reprint with another Frazetta cover. I asked Jeff about the more elaborate two volume set Edgar Rice Burroughs The Man Who Created Tarzan by Irwin Porges from 1975 which I saw in a bookstore way back when and have regretted not buying ever since. Jeff said he had one in his collection but it wasn't for sale. I've been thinking about doing a photo essay at the University of Louisville in Kentucky which houses the largest collection of Edgar Rice Burroughs books and memorabalia in the world. Jeff said he had been there and confirmed that there is lots of stuff on display that you can photograph, so maybe one of these days... |
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| Here's Mrs. Harper with The Swordsman Of Mars, an Otis Aldebert Kline imitation of John Carter of Mars. On the right is a Burroughs paperback with cover art by Roy Krenkel. |
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| Your humble narrator in the clutches of the blue eyed Thing! |
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