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It would be Criminal not to show your CRIME comics!
Surfing Alien replied to Robot Man's topic in Golden Age Comic Books
It's ambiguous for sure! She may be a hostage now but she coulda been a moll yesterday... those were tough times if you ratted out! -
Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention 2018
Surfing Alien replied to PopKulture's topic in Golden Age Comic Books
Thanks so much for this. It's really jealousy-making lol. So much cool stuff. There used to be some booths like this at the Fred Greenberg shows in NYC, with paperbacks, digests, pulps and hardbacks. I once picked up a signed Arkham 1st Ed. of Ray Bradbury's Dark Carnival in a nice DJ for $30 there - those were the days. You can never go wrong with "dollar" Popular Librarys... or cool books at the ten dollar 'limit" either. The cons around here are "Mega" types, all toys and cosplay and a few comic dealers. I'm pretty much limited to ebay these days, where there are still many bargain paperbacks and digests to be had if you dig around but it would be nice to go to a show and smell old paper again , rather than eau de sweaty cosplayer. -
It was nice to hear he's still open and to read all those nice reviews on Yelp. They mirror my experience when I lived in NYC. I swung a lot of deals with Roger back in the day, including lots of books he sold on consignment for me. He always cared about and engaged - in a playful, not a pushy way - every customer who walked in that door. There was a time that I couldn't get over there for many months, probably close to a year and he still had my box of stuff and listed what had sold and was mainly glad that nothing bad had happened to me. I too had the pleasure of having an afternoon beer there and getting in that geeky "who was on what team when" banter that was ever present. That kind of genuineness, I suspect, is the reason he has made it and kept it old school in a brutally expensive environment that has eaten up virtually all of the old bricks and mortar comic and used book shops that used to be all over the Village.
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Rogers Time Machine was pretty much the last Old School Comic Shop I can remember in NYC - meaning a place with bins and bins of back silver & bronze. Bought many a bargain there in the 90's and early 00's Roger was always a stand up guy who would let you hang around the shop, talk comics and haggle with you
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Back to the paperbacks - Ace hit the ground running with "Marijuana, music and murder" in their first offering "Too Hot For Hell"... Covers were by Norman Saunders - the flip side was "The Grinning Gismo" featuring a gun moll in lingerie cover to round out a classic double bill. Wish I had a better copy...
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Most distinctive GA artists?
Surfing Alien replied to OdinsSecrets's topic in Golden Age Comic Books
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Pennies for Gold.... I missed this when it just happened or it'd be mine... Never see this so nice. When the Top of the Hobby is a hunnerd or two.... https://www.ebay.com/itm/NAKED-ON-ROLLER-SKATES-By-MAXWELL-BODENHEIM-1949-DIVERSEY-PAPERBACK-SLEAZE-GGA/142677504123?hash=item21383df07b:g:52IAAOSwLnladPI6
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It would be Criminal not to show your CRIME comics!
Surfing Alien replied to Robot Man's topic in Golden Age Comic Books
When Biro was good, he was very very good, but when he was bad, he was horrid. I think this is the top of his powers re composition, Gun Moll etc etc...