New York City Comic Book Only Show Sunday March 12

[langur88]

NEW YORK COMIC BOOK SPECTACULAR UPDATE

 

SUNDAY MARCH 12, 2006

9 am-3 pm

(MAYBE A LITTLE LATER)

 

NEW YORK CITY’S ONLY COMIC BOOKS ONLY SHOW

FROM GOLDEN AGE TO MODERN

 

HOLIDAY INN MIDTOWN 440 WEST 57TH ST

 

$5 with coupon at primatepromotions.com 978-388-6576

 

New York Comic Book Spectacular Sunday, March 12, 2006.

Holiday Inn 440 West 57th St. 9 AM-3 PM

$6 Admission $5 with coupon. Under 10 free with adult.

 

This will be a Comic Book and comic art only show. It will be a 75 table show balanced with Golden Age to Silver Age to Modern Comic Books, comic art and comic character related items. Bring the whole family. It is being advertised in Comic Buyers Guide, Wizard Magazine, New York Comic-Con, Primate Promotions mailing list and website, comicbookconventions.com, The CGC collectors boards and many other sites. We will also advertise at other genre crossover events and there will be info on these shows at our events as well. Any crossover-genre events interested in ad swapping, please contact us. This is New York City's only Comic Book only show. The official show runs from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. or so with no early buyers/helpers/kibitsers with no exceptions. Only the dealers actually setting up will be allowed in before 9 a.m. with no early bird admissions. We have run almost 100 successful collectors shows since 1996 in New England and look forward to a New York City show especially after the tremendous success of New York Comic-Con!

 

Special guests

 

Dan Slott, writer of She-Hulk, GLA, The Thing, Spider-Man/Human Torch and the upcoming Big Max

 

James Fry , Artist of Moon Knight, Star Trek, Sonic The Hedgehog and the upcoming Big Max

 

Keith Williams, Inker on Web of Spider-Man, Silver Surfer, Quasar, She-Hulk, The Mask, Star Wars Droids, The Phantom & many more!

 

Arnold Drake, writer- Doom Patrol, Beast Boy, X-Men & many more!

 

Irwin Hasen, artist- Green Lantern, Wildcat, Dondi many more!

 

Ed Coutts penciller of Femforce

painter Marcus Boas

Dreamchilde Press

Crazee Comics

Jason Cole

Brian Kong

David Quiles

Rachel Kadushin

and

Ken Gale & Mercy Van Vlack of the Nuff Said radio show

 

$50 Comic Book Spree Giveaway at Noon and 2

 

New York area comic book store owners please contact us for details about free space at the show!

 

Dave Cummings

Primatepromotions.com

primatepromos@aol.com

978-388-6576

[Comcasthawk]

Any chance you can post a list of some of the dealers that will be there...?

[Red Hook]

I'd be interested in seeing that too.

[Red Hook]

[langur88]

I'd be interested in seeing that too.

 

The show will be two thirds comic dealers and one third creators. Space is very limited for both.

These are the confirmed dealers with a few others on the fence who think it's a negotiation. It's not. We run a "square" house.

 

MONKEYHOUSE ENTERTAINMENT

KATZ KOMIX

CARD & COMIC COMPANY

TV COMICS

STEVE STRYKE

HEROES IN ACTION

NEAT STUFF COLLECTIBLES

OLIVERS COMICS

JOES COMICS

PATRICKS COMICS

DIDIER MARTIN COMICS

EEL OBRIEN

BOP CITY COMICS

TVS TREASURE CHEST

 

Monkeyhouse and Katz are fully re-stocked after NYCC with over 200 long boxes!.

[Red Hook]

Thanks for the update!

[ronm3-migration]

I hope my tickets show up today.

[the blob]

got mine. will waddle over in the a.m. hope the riot police aren't there yet.

[ronm3-migration]

Oh well no tickets for me.

[the blob]

well, it was a nice little 2 hour junket for me, spent a few hundred bucks and went home with some interesting stuff. if my wife didn't expect me home by 12:30 it probably would have been 3 hours. luckily i live in the neighborhood. next one (if there is a next one) I assume you guys will fill up the middle of the room with dealer or creator/industry tables? as you must know by now, a 9 a.m. start doesn't work so well for NYers (or people schlepping in from Long Island or Jersey), but I guess it doesn't matter because if people showed up at 10:30 it's not like they'd be rushed for time finishing up by 3 pm unless and until you pack the room with more tables. i suppose this is more of a holiday inn issue than your choice? anyway, thanks for the pass. (funny thing is, if I have a free pass to a show, I ALWAYS go. i used to get free passes to the big apple shows and always went. weird, huh? hint hint). of course, if you had a huge turnout that room would get too small too quick.

 

are you considering using the church basement (only a few blocks from there)? much bigger (though not as well air conditioned). given that you don't have any porn, shouldn't they not object? or does the hilton have a bigger room somewhere?

[langur88]

Oh well no tickets for me.

 

If you sent your name and address, I sent the passes.

 

Were you the gentleman that we let in after he told us that he did not get his passes?

[langur88]

well, it was a nice little 2 hour junket for me, spent a few hundred bucks and went home with some interesting stuff. if my wife didn't expect me home by 12:30 it probably would have been 3 hours. luckily i live in the neighborhood. next one (if there is a next one) I assume you guys will fill up the middle of the room with dealer or creator/industry tables? as you must know by now, a 9 a.m. start doesn't work so well for NYers (or people schlepping in from Long Island or Jersey), but I guess it doesn't matter because if people showed up at 10:30 it's not like they'd be rushed for time finishing up by 3 pm unless and until you pack the room with more tables. i suppose this is more of a holiday inn issue than your choice? anyway, thanks for the pass. (funny thing is, if I have a free pass to a show, I ALWAYS go. i used to get free passes to the big apple shows and always went. weird, huh? hint hint). of course, if you had a huge turnout that room would get too small too quick.

 

are you considering using the church basement (only a few blocks from there)? much bigger (though not as well air conditioned). given that you don't have any porn, shouldn't they not object? or does the hilton have a bigger room somewhere?

 

Plenty of fans/collectors had no trouble with 9 a.m. and the last left at almost 4:30. The next show is May 7th and runs until 4 or so. More dates soon.

We love New York.

 

The room maximum is 75 tables and they were all full of comic books or comic creators so I am not sure about the space that you refer to. All the creators made it by 10. (Thank you Mr. Hasen). Every dealer has renewed for May 7th and I actually have a wait list. The show is comic books only and we are a bit fussy about who we rent to. If you have a positive story about a dealer who you think should be there, please send it along. The dealers that set up were all happy with the show and I have never received so many positive comments by dealers, attendees and creators in my ten years of running shows. Something hit a nerve.

 

Comic Books have no place inside a house of worship. or a basement.

 

The Holiday Inn is professional, clean, carpeted, well lit with a restaurant, bar and large clean bathrooms in an excellent part of town.

 

I am glad that you came to the show and feel free to e-mail me with any other comments or suggestions that you may have.

[the blob]

there's really no need to be defensive. i said it was a nice little show and definitely less of a hassle than the set-up at the Penn Pavilion (great, now neatstuff is going to yell at me...) i spent a decent wad of cash (so, obviously, the dealers had stuff worth buying at reasonable prices) and probably paid for a couple of tables as a result. it just seemed like there seemed to be a fair amount of empty space in the middle of the room that looked like maybe you could stick another aisle in there, that's all. if the holiday inn didn't allow it to be filled in due to their regulations, that's fine. perhaps there are rules about that. as for 9:00 am...... not a problem for me and actually prefer an early start because the wife gets upset if I kill an afternoon at one of these things (time that I could spend doing chores at her command), just repeating what I was hearing from others there.

[langur88]

there's really no need to be defensive. i said it was a nice little show and definitely less of a hassle than the set-up at the Penn Pavilion (great, now neatstuff is going to yell at me...) i spent a decent wad of cash (so, obviously, the dealers had stuff worth buying at reasonable prices) and probably paid for a couple of tables as a result. it just seemed like there seemed to be a fair amount of empty space in the middle of the room that looked like maybe you could stick another aisle in there, that's all. if the holiday inn didn't allow it to be filled in due to their regulations, that's fine. perhaps there are rules about that. as for 9:00 am...... not a problem for me and actually prefer an early start because the wife gets upset if I kill an afternoon at one of these things (time that I could spend doing chores at her command), just repeating what I was hearing from others there.

 

Not defensive. Just answering rhe questions. Its 75 tables one way or the other and it will be configured a little different next time. The first show is always the hardest to diagram but it will be even better May 7th. Many people thanked us for the early start so that they could get home at a reasonable hour. It also gave them first dibs as we have no early bird buyers. We have a formula as a family run show that has worked for ten years through five states and almost 100 shows.

 

We always welcome feedback as there is always room for improvements.

[dgillock]

I dropped by yesterday and I would generally give the show a positive review.

 

First, a $5 admission is great. I was happy to pay it and frankly one of the major reasons I went yesterday was because the admission cost was so low. I wasn't planning on spending more than about $100 (and that's about where I came in), so $5 seemed about appropriate. The cost of admission for some other shows is high enough that I'm hard pressed to attend unless I'm planning on spending $400+. It would be great if the show could be a little or a lot bigger, but I would rather see it stay cheap given the choice.

 

Very nostalgic for me! Nice tight, orderly little show with a lot of friendly conversation going on and enough room to actually get at the bins. Really reminded me of the little firehouse shows I would go to as a teen. Big, sprawling conventions are fun, but I really think that there is a place for little mini day cons like this.

 

The attendance seemed a little light (a rainy Sunday a couple of weeks after the Javitts show, I suppose), but the dealers I spoke with basically said though it wasn't packed, the table costs were low enough that the day had been fine for them. With more promotion, I think that the attendance can be doubled in May. I was pretty surprised how few collector friends of mine even knew that this show was happening. I found out about it here and I know that there were some flyers around LCSs in NY, but I'm not sure if they reach as many people as they should have.

 

It was nice to see a room full of comic dealers, without all of the other stuff mixed in. There was some variety in the stock available, and I was even able to pick up 3 Lev Gleasons to add to my collection (from TV Comics, thanks!). A good deal of room was taken up by $1 boxes, 50cent boxes, and newer books which don't really interest me, but they did seem to interest many of the other attendees. The Silver/Bronze selection mostly seemed in the VG to FN range, though I was able to pick up a few nicer (VFish) Bronze Actions for some very fair prices. Being mostly a GA collector, I'd obviously love to see more of the lower to mid-grade, sub-$100 Golden-Age books available, but if the convention continues and attacts a wider array of dealers and buyers, I suppose this will happen naturally.

 

All in all, a good time. Look forward to May 7th and I'll certainly be spreading the word.

[Point Five]

Great review, dmgcsr! I was at the show too, and your review looks exactly like the one I was going to write. After the chaos of the Javits show, the smaller scale and friendly atmosphere was a real nice change of pace. The reasonable admission price is great, as it takes the pressure off of making purchases big enough to justify attending in the first place, and it was nice to be able to chit-chat with dealers and browse the books at leisure. (I can relate to the show's nostalgia factor too, as my father used to take me to similar vintage camera shows & postcard shows in that same hotel back in the '80s!)

 

I too came to the show looking primarily for Golden Age books, and unfortunately a five-minute stroll around the room was enough to confirm that I wouldn't find any this time around. While I understand that it's not entirely within the control of the organizers, I would love to see more GA dealers represented as the show hopefully continues to pick up steam. But that said, I picked up a big stack of $1 books (which I literally never do) and a few other odds and ends, and walked away feeling like it was an enjoyable time for the price.

 

Great to hear about the dealer bookings for May, Dave. All continued success!

 

--Jon

[Comcasthawk]

I have to say I was greatly disappointed in this show. All the talk for months was about how there would be a room full of just comics. What a let down when I entered the room and saw 5 or 6 dealers with "average" books and the rest were of the "fleamarket" type of dealer. Lots of junk boxes with .25 and .50 cents books in them. This show was a total sham and there is no reason to ever go again.

 

"60 dealer table", my [embarrassing lack of self control]. How can any of you give props to a show like this is beyond me.

 

It doesn't even come close to the local Philadelphia at the Ramada Inn.

[Foolkiller]

I wasn't able to make it, though I'm disturbed when I hear, the "local Philadelphia show" is a better show... and "5 or 6 dealers"... I hope this show improves, and I wish Dave the best of luck in the future.

 

The local Philly show could be a lot better if Derek would just move it downtown, but for his own reasons, which I don't know, won't do it.... but let me just say that as someone who's gone to those shows (can't make it this week) they are nice little shows and if this NYC one 'paled in comparison' I've gotta say I'm a bit worried.

 

To me this is really the timing though. You can't have a show (not saying Dave is at fault here, has to get his show off the ground at some point) two weeks after Javits and expect dealers etc. to come out.

 

I wish the show good luck, but as I've maintained, the Javits show will be the new San Diego, BA should try and become the king of the local show in NYC. However, if they fail to get it together... then this local show could surely become a bit of a force if they find a unique niche to grow in. Otherwise, this will be a fast fade.

[Comcasthawk]

I'm not knocking the Philly show. I love it. It's an hour and ten minute drive from my house and has alot of dealers from up and down the East Coast. This show sucked!! TV Comics was the only dealer with decent stuff.

 

Hey, don't get me wrong, I'm not putting down the dealers that were there(and thank God they did show up). What I am "mad" about is the advertising of this show as a room full of comic books, which it was far from.

[Foolkiller]

Point taken. You should let me know the next time you'll be at the local philly show and chat...

 

yes, there's Gary Platt, Jeff Weaver, Al Stoltz -- and a few others, plus the room is always fun... sadly, can't make it this time...