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Metro had one or two when last I checked, but they weren't cheap. Edit: Looks like they're gone.

I thought I saw an ad for those bound volumes somewhere and found it in a Single Series comics. I didn't know there was a Comics on Parade one!

Tip Top Annual??? I don't think I'm familiar with that one. Well, people call them "annuals" but they aren't really. I mean the bound reprint volumes that were sold at the World's Fair.

Ditto! These are very cool, Rich! The Tarzan print is the same image use for the rare Tip Top Annual.

Awesome stuff guys!

Great books Pat!

Strategically placed shadow.

Very nice group shot! Love the black borders!

Ditto. Heading to Amazon right now!

Score!

Hope everyone had a great Christmas and holiday and I hope that Santa was good to you all! Somehow he knew how much I love Alex Raymond. Good Ol' St. Nick!

Wonderful!

Great pick up! Very cool book. (thumbs u Thank you I'm soo happy Ivan, congratulations. This is a very rare and important book. First minority superhero. First Nedor. Tough tough gem. No doubt. That is super cool!

Pat, your paperback collection is amazing and it's really starting to tempt me. But the last thing I need is another area to collect!

A fleeting glimpse of the collector in his native habitat! I'm always watching. Great collection. Do you have a gallery on comicartfans.com? he does Weird Paper Roger's collection is mind-blowing!

And I should mention, BangZoom and Red Fury both got name-dropped in the footnotes as they very graciously provided some scans of the WT letter columns that we needed. Thanks guys!

Okay, time for another shameless plug. One of the main reasons I was on that weird westerns panel at Worldcon was because I just had an article I co-authored with REH biographer Mark Finn called "Vaqueros and Vampires in the Pulps: Robert E. Howard and the Dawn of the Undead West" published in the new essay collection Undead in the West II: They Just Keep Coming (Scarecrow Press). It's a fun book on weird westerns with an introduction by William Nolan (Logan's Run) discussing Max Brand's proto-weird westerns in the pulps and chapters on Joe R. Lansdale, Stephen King's Gunslinger, GA weird western comics like Ghost Rider and Space Western, etc. Check it out if you're into this sort of thing. http://www.amazon.com/Undead-West-II-They-Coming/dp/0810892642

Not this time. I was broke from the cost of attending. It was well worth it though. A great experience.

A fleeting glimpse of the collector in his native habitat! I'm always watching. Roger was the best host ever! Thank you so much! Sorry I don't have better pics. Maybe when Patrice sees this he can post some too.

Love those covers!

Cool.

Anyway it was quite an experience. I'd love to hear some stories about the earlier Worldcons. From what I've heard the ones in the 60s and 70s were crazy.

And speaking of drinking... The after parties! Hanging with George: Drinking with the hound: And I even got to hold Josh Whedon's Hugo award for the Avengers. Thank god I didn't drop it in my drunken state.

San Antonio was a lot of fun. We had to make sure our imported Frenchman got to ride in the back of a pickup truck. The REH gang besieging the Alamo. Even the margaritas are huge in Texas.

I was on a ton of panels. This one is the Weird Westerns panel, with (right to left) REH scholar Rusty Burke, me, author Scott Cupp, Joe R. lansdale, and some other dude. This was another REH panel but I forget which. Boxing maybe? With REH biographer Mark Finn, me, and Patrice (Xaltotun).