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I see some Herriman influence in the current strip, Prickly City, though it's really, really poorly done and a complete waste of trees. Just goes to show you that it takes more than good influences to make a good strip.

 

 

Top left photo: Wilt Conine, and in the right-hand background Rick Payne, and lots of happy conventioneers.

Center left photo: Spanky McFarland just after his guest speech shaking hands with Robert A. Brown

Bottom left photo: comic dealer Randall Hawkins, far right; others unidentified

 

Top right photo: Charles Breakfield, Herb Dolf and "Manny" Sequin (sp?) displaying a comic that they're excited about.

Bottom right photo: Guy in the middle background was noted as being Jerry Hoffman; the dealer and fan in foreground are currently unidentified.

 

Manny Seguin had a huge collection of esoteric golden age titles which he painstakingly restored by filling in missing pieces with scotch tape and colored paper. He passed away about fifteen years ago and his collection was sold by Roy Bonario. Just a ton of cool publishers like Ace and Chesler and such that you don't normally see in a collection. They've been spread to the winds now, but if you have a book with really amateur piece replacement it is possible that Manny may have done it.

I remember Manny's son was set up at one of the Austin paper shows back in the mid-90s with a few of his dad's old comics (mostly Joe Palookas and Kerry Drakes as I recall.) He told me then that his parents had gotten divorced and his dad was pretty bad off with complications of diabetes and had had one or both of his feet amputated. Within a year, I heard from someone else of his passing.

 

I recognize that panel...

 

I own the original strip.

 

 

 

Unquestionably brilliant! Are these your originals?

 

Wow, Manny Seguin (with a g). I haven't thought about that guy in forever. He used to have a shop called Starbase One in San Antonio. His day job was as a cop, which is why he never put his phone number in his TBG ads. He ended up with really bad diabetes and died around 16+ years ago (I think--not exactly sure of the timeline). Great guy, though he did make some really cheesy early attempts at restoring comics.

 

Simply amazing what you can learn around these parts! A comic-restoring policeman - you couldnt make this stuff up!

When I lived in Germany during high school, I sent a friend back in SA $20 for A Kamandi 1, a Conan 1 and a Green Lantern 1. The Green Lantern 1 had some odd, sloppy restoration which I found out years later had been done by him. (It also turned out the comic had been stolen from him.)

Enjoyed it, Jeff.

The Oklahoma Alliance of Fandom Wintercon '76 follow-up...

 

cover:

 

 

The cover art attribution is sketchy (no pun intended), but my guess would be George Evens since the work looks professional and he was the guest artist at Wintercon '76.

 

 

1st photo: Roger Nelson, toy dealer.

2nd photo: Guests Spanky McFarland and George Evens

 

 

Top right photo: Charles Breakfield, Herb Dolf and "Manny" Sequin (sp?) displaying a comic that they're excited about.

Bottom right photo: Guy in the middle background was noted as being Jerry Hoffman; the dealer and fan in foreground are currently unidentified.

 

 

Wow, Manny Seguin (with a g). I haven't thought about that guy in forever. He used to have a shop called Starbase One in San Antonio. His day job was as a cop, which is why he never put his phone number in his TBG ads. He ended up with really bad diabetes and died around 16+ years ago (I think--not exactly sure of the timeline). Great guy, though he did make some really cheesy early attempts at restoring comics.

The film rooms were a fun part of shows in those days. I enjoyed watching the old sci-fi films and star trek bloopers etc in there with other fans. Shows were focused on fun and shared interest in a great hobby. The commercial aspect was not really much of a factor, at least for me it wasn't The panels were also a blast to attend.

 

My wife and I watched "The Rescuers" in the film room at the Houston Con in 1978 or 1979. It wasn't a fancy theater but we both enjoyed the movie. She liked the SciFi part of the convention, the Disney stuff and was/is a Star Trek Fan and I am the hopeless comic geek, BLB, old time radio and movie fan.

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I was at both of those. Houston 78 was my first major con--we were actually set up there selling.

Any chance you're coming through San Antonio, Jeff?

And now for something completely different

 

More "in transit" GA, Larson, goodness headed my way

 

 

Now THAT is a cool book.

 

Thanks Big Bob!

 

I've been having a whale of a good time lately collecting anything that looks cool

 

Bet it cost you a bunch of clams.

 

A mere bag of shells

 

you guys are all a bunch of pike rs.

 

You always have to post something, don't ya? You're so Shellfish.

 

watch yourself PAL; get off my case or you'll need an orthopedic sturgeon.

You'll roe the day you threatened us!

 

HA! they'll NEVER find me gillty.

I don't like what I'm herring here.

In the words of my dear friend XavierLogan:

 

I love me some in transit golden age

 

Thanks for the effort you're putting into turning all these up. You've found a wealth of new material in this area.

Ditto. I always enjoy seeing the new pics in this thread. (thumbs u

They are fun. (thumbs u

Indubitably.

i'm glad people enjoy the pics. while some people collect pictures of comics, i collect pictures with comics. pics will vary in quality but they all are comic strip or comic book related. i have a few more pics to post in the coming weeks as time permits. i try to sort by theme or location but i can't seem to categorize this pic.

 

have you ever been forced to wear something you didn't like by a parent or adult for a photo? at john bear jr's 11th birthday on nov 26 1922, kids wear hats with comic strip characters. some of the characters are mutt & jeff, maggie & jiggs, harebreath harry, boob ncnutt and andy gump. unlike the 1951 school pic, none of these kids look happy. try to guess who's the birthday boy. (do i really have to wear this dumb hat??)

 

Great picture! I think this may have been one of those games where they don't know who's on their own hat, and have to try to guess based on how the others are talking to them.

Two from Dallas thanks to Weird Paper (thumbs u

 

This one is awesome!

Now that's a former book of mine that I do remember. Nice copy. (thumbs u

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I bought it from Metropolis.

Not surprising... books get around. And this may not be that copy, but it really looks a lot like it. Great comic, either way.

I sold an original owner copy of this book to Jeff (Theagenes on the board) a few years back, and I was wondering if this was that one. I figured he'd see the post and respond. This really, really looks like that copy -- paper quality, staple color, cover colors, etc.

First of all I want to say hi to everyone!

 

Here is what I bought this weekend after looking at it for 1 year!!!

 

Now it's mine!

 

Krusty007

Hey Theagenes, is that my old OO copy?

Very nice pickup!

 

A white-paged, highest graded copy of an Atlas horror book for under Guide? Did I mention that it also happens to be from the White Mountain collection? Who says you can't find deals on eBay?

 

I bought my copy from Adam Strange.

Great convention pics! (thumbs u

I was at the '78 and '79 shows, but, alas, could find myself in none of those photos, although one dealer room photo looked like it was taken from the vantage of our table.

A novel beloved by one segment of our society and reviled by another. Ten percent into it, it honestly reads like a piece of cr@p.

This should be in hand by the end of the week. Not a splash, but it is an end page, which is pretty cool to me

 

 

Nice Bill. Now that you have that, you can sell me your Dr. Fate page.

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Just added this marvelous Frank Cho cover for Hellboy's Weird Tales #6. Hellboy, apes, a sparsely-clad Cho babe... what more does a cover need?

 

http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=745848&GSub=111234

 

I can resist anything but temptation. I picked these up from MYNAMEISLEGION on the for sale forum.

 

FC 189 is the second appearance of Uncle Scrooge (I think - is that right?)

 

I've never read Malayalaya - I'm going in with low expectations, but sometimes the non-Barks stories are good. I really like the 'Fabulous Fiddlesticks' story, but not so much ones like 'The Crocodile Collector'.

 

 

 

 

Now I have to find nice copies of FC199 and 238.

 

I must confess, there was a 199 from that same original owner collection as those two. I became attached to it -- probably my favorite DD cover, and ended up keeping it for myself.

 

Here are some shots of a little collection I picked up today