All About MeWhat everyone should know about me
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Things I sell
Things I buy
Goldenage Horror Comics,
Goldenage Science Fiction Comics,
Goldenage Crime Comics,
Goldenage Adventure Comics,
1940's Film Noir Lobby Cards,
1950's Sci-fi Lobby Cards,
1930's Horror Lobby Cards,
Pre-1977 1-sht posters,
Pre-1950 insert posters. Vintage Hopalong Cassidy stuff,
Pre-1960 Non-Sports Gum Cards,
Movie Star Cigarette Cards,
Pre-1960 Character Toys,
Tin Litho Robots,
40's & 50's Hardboiled Detective HBK's,
Tin Litho Ray Guns,
Art Deco Statues,
Art Deco Furniture,
Pre-1950 Handpainted Swing Ties,
Screen used motion picture props,
20'S & 30'S Carnival Glass,
3X Vintage Silk Hawaiian Shirts,
Anything from the Ackermansion... Things I collect
see above... plus really anything that oozes coolness... primative edge weapons,
handmade 3rd world danced masks,
handturned pottery from 1000AD to present,
American Indian relics,
original comic pulp & illustrative art that turns me on,
certain rocks-crystals-gemstones,
Bronzes that excite me,
authenic Indian & Meso-american costumes,
Hula Girl-esque nic-nacs,
period sideshow-freak carnival items,
1890's to 1930's Science Fiction HBK's,
16mm film NOT available on video or DVD Languages spoken:
English, Spanish
InterestsHobbies
Favorite Books
Here's my favorite Hardback filled Bookcase of a dozen simular ones in my house...,
Grapes of Wrath,
Robin Hood,
I the Jury,
For Whom the Bell Tolls,
Point Blank,
Love's Lovely Counterfeit,
Kill a Mockingbird,
Princess of Mars,
Harryhausen's Film Fantasy Scrapbook,
Farewell My Lovely,
Spellbound,
Picture of Dorian Grey,
Slan,
Ivanhoe,
Foundation Trilogy,
The Big Kill,
Tarzan of the Apes,
Kiss Me Deadly,
She,
Film Architecture,
Treasure Island,
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream,
Stranger in a Strange Land,
Hollywood Babylon,
Fear & Loathing On the Campaign Trail,
Smithsonian Collection of Newspaper Comics,
Gone with the Wind,
Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde,
SlayGround,
Warlords of Mars,
Moby Dick,
Triplanetary,
Art of Noir,
Great Shark Hunt,
Lolita,
Dune,
The Shining,
Mirrormask,
Photo Journal Guide to Comic Books,
King Solomon's Mines,
Orphans of the Sky,
I Robot,
Film Posters of the Russian Avant Garde,
Son of Famous Monsters,
Green Eagle Score,
Robinson Crusoe,
Fountainhead,
Cujo Favorite Movies
King Kong 1933,
Adventures of Robin Hood,
Grapes of Wrath,
V,
The Thing,
Invasion of the Body Snatchers,
1984,
Fountainhead,
Them,
Night of the Living Dead,
Pan's Lab.,
Moby Dick,
Kiss Me Deadly,
Battle Royale,
High Sierra,
The Killer,
The Wasp's Nest,
Forbidden Planet,
Treasure of the Sierra Madre,
Pulp Fiction,
3:10 to Yuma,
Bad Day at Black Rock,
Fistful of Dollars,
When Worlds Collide,
Parallax View,
The Conversation,
Spy Smasher,
Slacker,
ChinaTown,
Shock Corridor,
2001,
Three Days of the Condor,
La Strada,
Repulsion,
Easy Rider,
Greystroke,
Road Warrior,
Paths of Glory,
Departed,
Fantasia,
All the President's Men,
Tin Drum,
Kill Bill,
Yojimbo,
Soldier Orange,
Das Boot,
Throne of Blood,
Third Man,
Aliens,
Tron,
THE NEW WORLD,
CHILDREN OF MEN,
THE GOOD SHEPHERD,
MUNICH,
THE DEPARTED,
APOCALYPTO,
CITY OF GOD,
MAN ON FIRE,
OLD BOY,
SYMPATHY FOR LADY VENGANCE,
and many others. Favorite Music/Bands
Mostly Sound Tracks,
over 2000 on CD,
500 on LP,
and a handful of 78 rpms including Disney's Pecos Bill,
and Gone With the Wind,
also collect Blues 78's,
Robert Johnson,
Gatemouth Brown,
Sleepy John Estes,
Blind Lemon Jefferson,
Muddy Waters,
Son House,
John Lee Hooker,
Billie Holiday,
Leadbelly,
Ella Fitzgerald,
W. C. Handy,
Cab Calloway,
Jelly Roll Morton,
Willie Dixon,
Mance Libscomb,
Big Mama Thornton,
Ivory Joe Hunter,
Roy Milton,
Lowell Funston,
Count Basie,
Jimmy Preston,
Hazel Scott,
Fats Waller,
Lightnin' Hopkins,
The Dominoes,
Johnny Bond,
Lil Green,
Fats Domino,
Pearl Bailey,
Roosevelt Sykes,
Lena Horne,
Elmore James,
B.B. King. Howlin' Wolf,
Etta James Favorite TV Shows
Heroes,
The Time Tunnel,
The Twilight Zone,
M Squad,
Outer Limits,
You are There,
Alfred Hitchcock Presents,
Route 66,
The Fugitive,
The Green Hornet,
You Asked for It,
60 Minutes,
Naked City,
The Untouchables,
The Addams Family,
Have Gun will Travel,
The Grey Ghost,
CSI,
Myth Busters,
Wanted Dead or Alive,
Turner Classic Movies,
Carnivale,
Johnny Yuma the Rebel,
AMC Movies,
The Sopranos,
Walt Disney's Zorro,
Walt Disney's Robin Hood,
Wild Wild West Some Favorite Things in Our Family's Collections
George Pal's Director's Chair & Leather Script Bag, Original Arm Chair from 1st Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Original Gas Bomb from 33 Kong, a Group of Original Paintings from the Ackermansion, Style A 1-sht from 33 Kong, Issues 1-23 of Mad, 1st HBK Printing of Poe's The Raven, Original 1-sht for Karloff's The Raven, Lord of the Rings Adv. 1-sht Autographed by 40 of the Cast & Crew, Donald Duck #1, Original Production Art Old Witch from Snow White, Sheet Music for the Third Man Theme signed by Orsen Welles & Joseph Cotton, Bud Westmore's Make-up Kit, Screen used Weapon Props from 30's Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hellboy's compass for finding the Living Dead, One of the Original Chronos Devices, Original Insert from Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman, Fantastic Four #48 49 & 50, Uncle Forry's Original Ticket to Chaney's Hunchback of Notre Dame, All Winners #1, Chaney's Make-up Box Circa 19-teens, Over 30 HBK Sci-Fi Books inscribed to 4E Ackerman, 1-sht Atom Man Vs Superman, Wrightson Oil Painting
Business InformationHistory/background
I sat up at most of the original comic cons back in 1969-1976 but I NO longer sell. Some of my BEST FINDS... 3 sets A. Spiderman 1-20 absolutely Mint, unread, perfect plus in the same condition 20 copies each 1-10 CaptAmerica, 1-10 Ironman, 1-10 Submariner, 1-10 Nick Fury, and 20 copies Ironman/Submariner 1 ALL for $500. Longhorn DriveIn find of 10,000 pieces of movie paper from 1948-70 for $85 including 5 1shts each of Forbidden Planet, Day Eath Stood Still, Some Like It Hot, Rebel Without Cause, King Kong 52 release, When Worlds Collide, Kiss Me Deadly, White Heat, Kiss of Death, etc. Ritz Theatre find... for $300 Betty Boop 1sht, King Kong 33 1sht, Bride of Frankenstein 1/2sht, I Walk With Zombie 1sht, Silly Sym. 1sht, plus 50 more. Citywide Garage Sale find... 600+ original production Cels plus many pencils for $1100. including many major Warner Bros., Walter Landz and Disney pieces. Booksail Find... 50 Terrytoon 1shts at $5 ea. EC find... Complete EC comic collection for $300
When in the Biz my best customers included...
Bob & Stella Morehead, Ed Neal, Frank Kozak, Kirby McDaniel, Bob Beerbolm, Phil Seuling, Bruce Webster, Bob Magnusson, Chuck Rozanski, Bruce Hamilton, Bill & Sally Wallace, Harper Bros., Bruce Hershenson, Comic Book John, Jerry Bails, Earl Blair, Manny Seguin, Gene Arnold, Doug Haines, Anthony F. Smith, Burrel Rowe, Irving Bigman, Larry Herndon, Bob Wayne, Terry Stroud, Robert Brown, Mark Wilson, Ken Stribling, Bud Plant, Alan Levine, Don Newton, Ron Moore, Russ Cochran, Ken Kruger, and Forrest J. Ackerman. Sadly a big chunk of these great passionate dealer-collectors are no longer around.
Things I sold in the old days explains why I quit
Marvel 1, Metropolis 1sht, Karloff's The Mummy 1/2sheet, Batman 1, complete run All Star, Forbidden Planet 1sht 1/2sht insert window card, Creature from Black Lagoon 1sht 1/2sht insert window card, Whiz 2, Fight 1, Planet 1, Jungle 1, Capt Marvel Adventures 1, Complete run of Spy Smasher, 1sht All Quiet On Western Front, Lugosi's Dracula 1/2sheet twice, Fantastic Four 1 at least 30 times, Famous Funnies 1, World's Finest 1, Reform School Girl 1, Third Man 1sht, Tobor the Great 3sht, The Thing from Another World 3Sht, Reefer Madness 1sht, Playboy 1, complete run of ALL EC Horror Fantasy & Sci-Fi titles a single sale, Harlow's Hell's Angels 1sht, Rain 1sht, Victory 1, Banner 1, Flag 1, Human Torch 2, Amazing Fantasy 15 at least 20 times, Flash Gordon serial 1sht, Spy Smasher serial 1sht, CaptMarvel serial 1sht, CaptMidnight serial 1sht, CaptAmerica serial 1sht, March of Comics 4, USA 1, Mystic 1, BlueBeetle 1, Blackhawk 9, Police 1, Detective 1, Funnies 1, WOW 1, God Nose #1 1st Print