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Famous/weird/bizarre buyers?
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Bunky Brian

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Since you asked, here is what I can recall right now-

 

John K (Ren and Stimpy) bought some 50s humor at SDCC in the early 90s

 

Kirk Hammett (Metalica) Famous Monsters in the late 80s

 

Reggie Jackson bought some GA Sups at a LAC fairgrounds card show in the early 90s

 

Rick Springfield (yes, THAT Rick S-Jesse's Girl) bought a Aurora Chamber of Horrors Guillotine in the early 90s

 

Glenn Danzig Bought a Blonde Phantom a couple years ago at SDCC

 

Steve Bissette bought something off ebay a couple years ago

 

John D from System of course

 

Mark Hammil bought ECs in the late 80s at the Ambasador

 

Billy Mumy bought ECs as well

 

Kevin (Prometheus Productions) bought a bunch o' monster stuff over the years

 

Don Rosa bought some comics at SDCC 2/3 years ago

 

G.A.tor bought some slabbed high grade early Bats before I knew who G.A.tor was!

 

 

 

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boatfund

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Back in my ebay days:

 

Sold a Reagan's Raiders #1 to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library

 

Set of Dalgoda to Jan Strnad - nothing like an artist having to buy his own books

 

When I was buying a lot of comics in bulk I found a Superman annual from the 60s that

had the original owners name written in it. It was Shelton Drum, the owner of Heroes Aren't Hard to Find. I emailed him if he would like the comic once again and gave it to him at the next Heroes Con. It was pretty beat but the covers were still attached and he really had written his name in it when he was young. I would write my name in all my comics when I was young so it was kindof cool to find someone else's name that I recognized (though I really wish it had been one of my old comics).

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Bookery

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-- sold a copy of Percy Crosby's "Skippy's Own Book of Comics" to his daughter.

 

-- Al Feldstein stopped in the store, but didn't buy anything.

 

-- Harlan Ellison shopped at our show booth.

 

-- gave David Prowse a one-sheet poster depicting him in "Frankenstein and the Monster From Hell" when he did a signing in our store.

 

-- Mad-TV's Pat Kilbane opened a shop in competition with us for awhile.

 

-- Kyle Hotz was at one time a regular customer.

 

-- Dave Chappelle used to shop here on occasion.

 

-- Butch "Eddie Munster" Patrick's been in.

 

-- one of my ex-employee's married a famous porn actress and they've both been in (she's retired from the biz, so I won't name her without permission).

 

-- Jim Steranko bought a copy of my pulp guide.

 

-- purchased underground artist Jim Osborne's personal collection.

 

-- used to have a file customer whose legal surname is Batman-- and yes, he did collect Batman comics.

 

 

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GeeksAreMyPeeps

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Not comics but , back in the 90's I did the east coast national sportcard show and Reggie Jackson was there buying his rookie cards. I had 2 or 3 in my showcase. Sure enough he stopped by my table asked to look at the cards, looked at them and gave them back, said thanks and walked away. His lackey then walks up and proceeds to tell me to sell them to Reggie for basically peanuts because he was Reggie. Put a bad taste in my mouth to this day the way he did it. Needless to say he did not buy any of mine. I heard he did buy a bunch though.

I never understood why famous people with money try to use that as leverage to get freebies. We all know you have money. Now I could understand a situation where it was Joe Dimaggio or someone from that era, as salaries hadn't gotten ridiculous, but Reggie has money

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oakman29

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Ever shipped a comic to a celebrity? or anyone else that sticks out of the norm?

I had a Killing Joke comic shipped to a corrections center in florida once which got mailed back to me.. Then I contacted the buyer, who turned out to be the kid's mother who bought it for him. I ended up shipping it to her instead..

I've bought books from John Dolmyan,drummer of System of a Down. :headbang:

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Awax

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Ever shipped a comic to a celebrity? or anyone else that sticks out of the norm?

I had a Killing Joke comic shipped to a corrections center in florida once which got mailed back to me.. Then I contacted the buyer, who turned out to be the kid's mother who bought it for him. I ended up shipping it to her instead..

I've bought books from John Dolmyan,drummer of System of a Down. :headbang:

 

Chop Suey :cloud9:

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oakman29

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Ever shipped a comic to a celebrity? or anyone else that sticks out of the norm?

I had a Killing Joke comic shipped to a corrections center in florida once which got mailed back to me.. Then I contacted the buyer, who turned out to be the kid's mother who bought it for him. I ended up shipping it to her instead..

I've bought books from John Dolmyan,drummer of System of a Down. :headbang:

 

Chop Suey :cloud9:

They were gonna call that song "greggy is an ugly azz mother Fer".They were eating Chinese at the time,and had an idea! lol

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shadroch

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Ever shipped a comic to a celebrity? or anyone else that sticks out of the norm?

I had a Killing Joke comic shipped to a corrections center in florida once which got mailed back to me.. Then I contacted the buyer, who turned out to be the kid's mother who bought it for him. I ended up shipping it to her instead..

I've bought books from John Dolmyan,drummer of System of a Down. :headbang:

 

Wasn't he the owner of Torpedo Comics?

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oakman29

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Ever shipped a comic to a celebrity? or anyone else that sticks out of the norm?

I had a Killing Joke comic shipped to a corrections center in florida once which got mailed back to me.. Then I contacted the buyer, who turned out to be the kid's mother who bought it for him. I ended up shipping it to her instead..

I've bought books from John Dolmyan,drummer of System of a Down. :headbang:

 

Wasn't he the owner of Torpedo Comics?

Yes.

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