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| View of the Festival's dealer's room |
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| Another view of the Festival's dealer's room |
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| One of The Leader's favorite comic book dealers is Gene Carpenter of All American Comics. Gene is behind his table wearing a green shirt and red cap in the upper left corner. |
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| The Leader enjoyed Terry Moore's bad girl role in the 1957 movie Peyton Place and was eager to get her autograph. Terry informed the Leader that she also played the bad girl Venus in the 1966 Batman TV show. |
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| Western comic book and poster dealer Chuck Rogers |
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| Chuck is showing off a insert poster for one of his favorite Western movies, The Gunfighter, with Gregory Peck. |
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| Ed Pippin with Solar Guard Academy display |
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| The Leader likes Western movies but he prefers science fiction movies so he was pleased some of the cadets of the Solar Guard set up at the Festival. Here's Cadet Ed Pippin with their display. |
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| Cadet Pippin showing off another side of the Solar Guard's display |
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| Solar Guard Cadet Mike Turco |
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| Cadet Turco posing with a large reconstruction of a X*RC rocket cockpit that he built himself. Mike said he built it based on a 1964 toy premium from the Nestle company associated with one its sponsored TV shows. The Leader loves complicated space technology and was very impressed. |
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| Another view of the Solar Guard display showing 1950s science fiction TV shows and toys. |
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| Here are two collectors doing exactly what you are supposed to do at these nostalgia shows, examining merchandise and talking shop. |
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| Gary Williams Jr. holding Colt .45 pistols |
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| Here's one tough hombre riding herd on law and order at the Festival. Gary is a leather and buckle craftsman who makes leather gun belts and holsters and metal exact replicas of Colt firearms. The Leader usually prefers high tech modern weaponry but he was charmed and intrigued by these primitive but effective examples of 19th Century weapons. He is grateful to Gary for letting him handle them. |
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| The pistol in Gary's right hand is a replica of the Colt 1851 Navy Conversion. The other pistol is a replica of the Colt 1873 Cattleman with the shorter 5" barrel. |
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| Tom Nolan was as a child actor who starred in the 1958 TV Western series Buckskin. As an adult he wrote biographies of band leader Artie Shaw and detective author Ross Macdonald |
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| Tom Nolan with Gene Carpenter |
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| The Leader imagines comic book dealer Gene may be helping Buckskin TV series actor Tom run down a copy of one or both of the two Buckskin comic books from 1959 - 1960. |
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| Here's noted popular culture author Martin Grams showing off his latest book, Science Fiction Theater from the 1950s TV series. The Leader purchased and enjoyed Marty's definitive Twilight Zone book and Marty informs us that he has a contract with the company that owns the Irwin Allen archives to write four books over the next few years on the Irwin Allen TV shows of the 1960s. The first book on the Time Tunnel is finished and will be on sale at Marty's show the Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention in August 2012. The Time Tunnel TV stars James Darren and Robert Colbert will be on hand also. The Leader plans to be there. |
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| Motion picture fan magazines |
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| 1960s Western TV series poster The High Chaparral with cast members including Leif Erickson, Linda Cristal, Cameron Mitchell with some autographs. |
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| Lone Ranger poster with autographs of the actors who played him in the 1950s TV series, Clayton Moore and John Hart. |
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| Autographs of John Wayne with photo from The Big Trail and John Wayne and James Stewart from The Shootist. These are two of the Leader's favorite actors and he would like to have bought these but was dismayed by the price tag. |
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| Display by author David Rothel showing actors Vincent Price, George Takei from Star Trek, Lloyd Bridges from Sea Hunt, Gordon Scott as Tarzan. |
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