Randall Dowling Posted March 21, 2022 Share Posted March 21, 2022 On 3/20/2022 at 7:33 PM, Ryan. said: Let me know if you get bored with this one. Tough book. Joshua33 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThothAmon Posted March 21, 2022 Share Posted March 21, 2022 On 3/20/2022 at 8:33 PM, Ryan. said: Let me know if you get bored with this one. RM seems like the type of guy who stays married for life. Robot Man and Randall Dowling 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randall Dowling Posted March 21, 2022 Share Posted March 21, 2022 On 3/20/2022 at 7:01 PM, Robot Man said: Got to see the 3 “Ghoulantics” my buddies Grant Geissman, John Kousakis and John Gaughan. Really missed these guys. Such fountains of EC lore. John Kousakis was so kind to give us each a pile of vintage EC t-shirts. He recently bough out the entire back stock of Grafitti studios con shirts. He will be soon listing them on the bay. I will post pictures later. Very cool, Bob! It's the guys like these 3 that really make it fun going to these shows. I've never seen that copy of Picture Stories from the Bible. Looks like you picked up a nice little haul. I have a copy of Pushover, also (love those early digests). Cobbledclam 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Man Posted March 21, 2022 Author Share Posted March 21, 2022 On 3/20/2022 at 6:58 PM, Randall Dowling said: Very cool, Bob! It's the guys like these 3 that really make it fun going to these shows. I've never seen that copy of Picture Stories from the Bible. Looks like you picked up a nice little haul. I have a copy of Pushover, also (love those early digests). I’ve known these 3 guys for over 40 years. We talk our heads off on those rare times we all get together. The Picture Stories is the scarce hardback. Was going to buy it but handed it to John since he wanted it more than I did. I don’t buy a lot of paperbacks anymore but have always loved digests. They were in kind of short supply today. I had no idea that one was so scarce. Just haven’t seen an LB Cole one in a long time. Randall Dowling, Surfing Alien and Cobbledclam 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Surfing Alien Posted March 21, 2022 Share Posted March 21, 2022 On 3/20/2022 at 10:48 PM, Robot Man said: I’ve known these 3 guys for over 40 years. We talk our heads off on those rare times we all get together. The Picture Stories is the scarce hardback. Was going to buy it but handed it to John since he wanted it more than I did. I don’t buy a lot of paperbacks anymore but have always loved digests. They were in kind of short supply today. I had no idea that one was so scarce. Just haven’t seen an LB Cole one in a long time. Digests are the next pulps imho. Here's the other incredibly rare one... Randall Dowling, frozentundraguy and Robot Man 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobbledclam Posted March 21, 2022 Share Posted March 21, 2022 What a fun looking show! Wow a Grant, Johnny and John sighting! Haven’t seen em in a long while and hope to see all and more at W-con if it goes off. Great pics 🤖 and it seems that there weren’t too many attendees under 55 years of age. Lots of canes and walkers! My kind of joint. jimjum12 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Man Posted March 21, 2022 Author Share Posted March 21, 2022 On 3/20/2022 at 8:32 PM, Surfing Alien said: Digests are the next pulps imho. Here's the other incredibly rare one... Never seen that one either. His digest work is so different than his comic book work. Either earlier or aiming at a different audience. Probably should have bought more digests but these two were sitting face up just beconning me to open my wallet… Surfing Alien 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Man Posted March 21, 2022 Author Share Posted March 21, 2022 On 3/20/2022 at 11:47 PM, Cobbledclam said: What a fun looking show! Wow a Grant, Johnny and John sighting! Haven’t seen em in a long while and hope to see all and more at W-con if it goes off. Great pics 🤖 and it seems that there weren’t too many attendees under 55 years of age. Lots of canes and walkers! My kind of joint. Was a fun show. Old school one day show. Suprisingly, a lot of the younger crowd looking for mostly comics which were in short supply. A lot of single women as well. WonderCon is going to happen but sounds like a ghost of it’s former self. Still no dealers list. Grant and John will be there but not Kookie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Hap Hazard Posted March 21, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted March 21, 2022 Here's my pic of my haul from the show, I was their all morning don't know how I missed seeing you! Those early 60's digest all looked brand new, never read! comicjack, buttock, Mmehdy and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Man Posted March 21, 2022 Author Share Posted March 21, 2022 Nice haul. Yeah, surprised we didn’t see each other. Was a pretty small room. I didn’t see Steve either. I was hanging around Kookie’s booth a lot with Grant and John. Too bad that guy at the back wall with tons of killer pulps wasn’t there. I brought a lot more cash this time. jimjum12 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Surfing Alien Posted March 21, 2022 Share Posted March 21, 2022 On 3/21/2022 at 11:34 AM, Hap Hazard said: Here's my pic of my haul from the show, I was their all morning don't know how I missed seeing you! Those early 60's digest all looked brand new, never read! Nice Two-Fisteds there! Those are getting tough to bring home lately. The competition for them online has gotten pretty fierce. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
50YrsCollctngCmcs Posted March 21, 2022 Share Posted March 21, 2022 The great thing about this show is the huge amount of material available for very reasonable prices. Even comics sometimes; but that selection is mostly reader books but some interesting stuff. I found an interesting box of National Lampoons but they were a little too beat for my taste. And if paperbacks are your thing man it's like heaven!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Man Posted March 21, 2022 Author Share Posted March 21, 2022 (edited) Yes, you never what can turn up here. Two boardies posted pictures in addition to me, of what they picked up. If I had seen some of these items first, I would have bought them myself. Good to see there was enough good scores for all of us. Here is one other thing I picked up. Not only is it a cool 1920’s baseball team photo, but, it has that cool automobile advertising angle. Edited March 22, 2022 by Robot Man jimjum12 and Surfing Alien 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Surfing Alien Posted March 22, 2022 Share Posted March 22, 2022 On 3/21/2022 at 4:54 PM, Robot Man said: Yes, you never what can turn up here. Two boardies posted pictures in addition to me, of what they picked up. If I had seen some of these items first, I would have bought them myself. Good to see there was enough good scores for all of us. Here is one other thing I picked up. Not only is it a cool 1920’s baseball team photo, but, it has that cool automobile advertising angle. That's a gr8 pic. Those dudes all look like they're 5' 2" 95 lbs dripping wet, but still psyched to play ball Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Robot Man Posted March 22, 2022 Author Popular Post Share Posted March 22, 2022 (edited) Please excuse an old guy to reminisce... A couple of days ago I mentioned getting some new old stock T-Shirts from my buddy John. He had bought out the entire Graphitti warehouse of back stock. One in particular brought back a flood of nostalgia. Back in August of 1988 when the SDCC was still family, not about big bucks and was the weekend all us West Coast guys looked forward to, there was a special event. 4 guys who were big comic fans decided that the music on the Sat night party sucked decided to one up everybody. So Bill Mumy, Miguel Ferrer, Steve Leiahola, and Max Allen Collins who were all musicians formed Seduction of the Innocent to play at the 1988 party. And what a night it was. Everybody turned out to party with them. I believe that Trina Robbins was first on the dance floor. And since it was Jack Kirby's birthday, the boys even played a slow number so Jack and Roz could glide the dance floor. What an incredible night one just one of many that made this con so magical. Check out the article below. In the 3rd photo Bill is wearing one of these shirts! So, 34 years later, I have a brand new shirt to wear and remember this night. Thanks Johnny! http://www.beatbrothersrecords.com/web/cd/cd_seduction_background.html Edited March 22, 2022 by Robot Man jimjum12, Weird, manetteska and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manetteska Posted March 22, 2022 Share Posted March 22, 2022 On 3/22/2022 at 1:50 PM, Robot Man said: Please excuse an old guy to reminisce... A couple of days ago I mentioned getting some new old stock T-Shirts from my buddy John. He had bought out the entire Graphite warehouse of back stock. One in particular brought back a flood of nostalgia. Back in August of 1988 when the SDCC was still family, not about big books and was the weekend all us West Coast guys looked forward to, there was a special event. 4 guys who were big comic fans decided that the music on the Sat night party sucked decided to one up everybody. So Bill Mumy, Miguel Ferrer, Steve Leiahola, and Max Allen Collins who were all musicians formed Seduction of the Innocent to play at the 1988 party. And what a night it was. Everybody turned out to party with them. I believe that Trina Robbins was first on the dance floor. And since it was Jack Kirby's birthday, the boys even played a slow number so Jack and Roz could glide the dance floor. What an incredible night one just one of many that made this con so magical. Check out the article below. In the 3rd photo Bill is wearing one of these shirts! So, 34 years later, I have a brand new shirt to wear and remember this night. Thanks Johnny! http://www.beatbrothersrecords.com/web/cd/cd_seduction_background.html Very cool story; thanks for sharing. Is he taking orders for shirts? ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Man Posted March 22, 2022 Author Share Posted March 22, 2022 On 3/22/2022 at 12:23 PM, manetteska said: Very cool story; thanks for sharing. Is he taking orders for shirts? ;) He flipped most of them to a single seller but pulled out a bunch. He mentioned he would probably be putting them on eBay. I will notify you people when I hear he does. Here are the rest he gave me. All original, vintage old stock. I had the Weird Science one from when it originally came out but just wore it out. Weird, manetteska and 707comics 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Robot Man Posted March 25, 2022 Author Popular Post Share Posted March 25, 2022 Just a big Robot hug and shout out to a great boardie! A while back, I posted something here. A boardie contacted me asking if I would sell it. It apparently had a connection to his dad. I realized it was way more important to him than it was to me so I just sent it to him as a gift. I expected nothing in return. Sometimes things just end up where they should be. Well, a couple of days ago I found a package on my door stop. Was very surprised. Just look what was inside! This is an actual hand made folk art piece. And so well done. Apparently came from an estate sale with more different ones. I have a lot of these blank stare guys but nothing this unique. A huge thank you to @MattTheDuck. Just goes to show what a great place these boards are. Jayman, mlansdown, jimjum12 and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattTheDuck Posted March 25, 2022 Share Posted March 25, 2022 You're welcome! It was an interesting sale, with a lot of this kind of "homemade" style items. mlansdown, littledoom, Robot Man and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Man Posted April 1, 2022 Author Share Posted April 1, 2022 Well I made it. After 2 years, WonderCon is back. Smooth and easy to get in. Had to stop for a quick vaccine check. (Passed with flying colors). Masks required. I have zero problem with it. Zero line to get my badge. Crowd seems light but it is early. Selling badges on site. Been a long time since that has happened. Lots of smiling faces. Got wait for opening a bit. Hopefully, some cool books in the dealers micro area… jimjum12, sagii, Weird and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
