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[Tri-Color Brian]

On 12/30/2021 at 6:56 PM, Robot Man said:

Thanks for the tip. I will have to pull it out and reread it again. Here is my copy. Picked out of the $2.00 boxes at Cherokee Books in the late 1960's. @Tri-ColorBrian. I got lots of my PCH there back in the day. 

You was smarter than me...

[The Black Hand ®]

On 12/30/2021 at 5:56 PM, Robot Man said:

Thanks for the tip. I will have to pull it out and reread it again. Here is my copy. Picked out of the $2.00 boxes at Cherokee Books in the late 1960's. @Tri-ColorBrian. I got lots of my PCH there back in the day. 

I bought an Action 3 at Cherokee Books in the 60's for full retail. $25.00. Around a vg/fine. Traded it for a bunch of stupid books to an older, savvier collector who hounded me day and night to get it.

[Robot Man]

What a store huh? I got so many books from 50 cents to $2.00 in those boxes in the hall.

I remember Burt Blum pulling out a nice copy of Action #1 and telling me it was $300. Might as well have been a million at the time…

[Robot Man]

On 12/30/2021 at 6:06 PM, Tri-ColorBrian said:

You was smarter than me...

No, just bought what I liked. None of those dopey Superman comics for me! 

[Paul © ® ⚽️💙™]

On 12/31/2021 at 2:10 AM, The Black Hand ® said:

Traded it for a bunch of stupid books to an older, savvier collector who hounded me day and night to get it.

That should have been your first clue. 

[The Black Hand ®]

On 12/30/2021 at 6:25 PM, G-G © ® ™ said:

That should have been your first clue. 

What can I say. I'm a dummy. Oddly enough, one of the books I got in the trade and later sold, I required 20 years ago. A pep 34. It was a fluke getting it back, so it's been a keeper. 

[fifties]

On 12/30/2021 at 5:56 PM, Robot Man said:

Thanks for the tip. I will have to pull it out and reread it again. Here is my copy. Picked out of the $2.00 boxes at Cherokee Books in the late 1960's. @Tri-ColorBrian. I got lots of my PCH there back in the day. 

 

I didn't come across Cherokee Books until 1972, when I was employed at Motown Records, in an office building at Sunset and Cahuenga.  went in there one lunch hour and asked if they had any old horror comic books.  He pulled out a small cardboard box and told me they were two bucks apiece.  All PCH, mostly Atlas, no EC's, but did score a Mister Mystery 12, along with everything else I could afford, I think about 20 bucks worth.  When I went back again a few weeks later, he was all out.

[Robot Man]

On 12/30/2021 at 7:38 PM, fifties said:

I didn't come across Cherokee Books until 1972, when I was employed at Motown Records, in an office building at Sunset and Cahuenga.  went in there one lunch hour and asked if they had any old horror comic books.  He pulled out a small cardboard box and told me they were two bucks apiece.  All PCH, mostly Atlas, no EC's, but did score a Mister Mystery 12, along with everything else I could afford, I think about 20 bucks worth.  When I went back again a few weeks later, he was all out.

That could have been me…

My dad took me there in the mid ‘60’s before I could drive. PCH were a buck apiece. ECs were $5-8 each in in the inner room. Later, when I could drive, I made a trip there once a month from Pasadena. I bought stacks of dollar PCH and other books from the boxes in the hall. Still have most of them. 

It was a wonderful area with Cherokee, Collector’s Book Store and best of all, Bond Street Books where I eventually got my More Fun #52 there. 

[comicjack]

On 12/31/2021 at 11:20 AM, Robot Man said:

That could have been me…

My dad took me there in the mid ‘60’s before I could drive. PCH were a buck apiece. ECs were $5-8 each in in the inner room. Later, when I could drive, I made a trip there once a month from Pasadena. I bought stacks of dollar PCH and other books from the boxes in the hall. Still have most of them. 

It was a wonderful area with Cherokee, Collector’s Book Store and best of all, Bond Street Books where I eventually got my More Fun #52 there. 

can we please go back to those days 

[Robot Man]

The "Inner Sanctum" of Cherokee Books. With Burt Blum and early legendary LA collector Rick Durell (wearing tie). 

[Robot Man]

Collector's Book Store

Top photo is of Leonard Brown with a recent probably walk in find.

Bottom photo is Malcom Willitis pulling Bats out of a drawer in the bank vault in back. 

[thewritestuff]

On 12/31/2021 at 12:30 PM, Robot Man said:

The "Inner Sanctum" of Cherokee Books. With Burt Blum and early legendary LA collector Rick Durell (wearing tie). 

This just confirms that I was born in the wrong era! Wow!

[Robot Man]

Newspaper article about Rick Durell. One of the biggest and deep pocketed collectors in LA in the 1960's. He had several copies of all the big keys. It is rumored that when he died, a notable figure in the hobby fleeced his widow out of his collection. 

Funny how books like the first Famous Funnies and first Flash Gordon, Prince Valiant and Tarzan were valued as much as Action #1 back then. 

 

[Funnybooks]

Thanks for sharing these photos and the stories..would love to hear more..

 

[Robot Man]

On 12/31/2021 at 10:14 AM, Funnybooks said:

Thanks for sharing these photos and the stories..would love to hear more..

 

You bet it was a wonderful time to be a budding collector. Long before real "comic book stores" and the internet. I know there are quite a few old time LA collectors who could chime in here. @Tri-ColorBrian @fifties @Yellow Kid @Hap Hazard and probably more...

[The Black Hand ®]

I remember the second floor having a lot of goodies.

[Tri-Color Brian]

On 12/31/2021 at 9:20 AM, Robot Man said:

 

 ECs were $2.50-$8 each in in the inner room.

 

Fixed that for ya. Yer memory is gettin' cloudy.  Have you been talking to the Shadow or something?

[Tri-Color Brian]

On 12/31/2021 at 10:33 AM, Robot Man said:

Collector's Book Store

Top photo is of Leonard Brown with a recent probably walk in find.

Bottom photo is Malcom Willitis pulling Bats out of a drawer in the bank vault in back. 

1st photo is from their original store on Wilcox, 2nd pic is from the old bank they moved into on Hollywood Bl. 

I got thrown out of both stores for being a "kid that always wanted a deal"...  Plus, I never had "big" money to spend...Nobody loves you when you're 13 and poor...

And...they were more expensive than Burt at Cherokee.  They charged me a whole $10 for this Superman...

Edited December 31, 2021 by Tri-ColorBrian

[Tri-Color Brian]

The only ECs I bought at Cherokee were the old Mad comics, but when I discovered the horror and sci-fi issues around 1972 I picked up quite a few from some guy that lived in the Hollywood area in 1973.  I was directed to him by Steve Edrington at Bond Street Books.  About a year later I met a collector that lived in the San Fernando valley.  He sold me this Weird Science for $5 because it was wavy due to moisture damage.  I've flattened it out mostly, but it still could use a good press...

 

 

Edited December 31, 2021 by Tri-ColorBrian

[manetteska]

Thanks to a couple big sales I was able to make some nice additions to the PC this year.