Ciorac, Detective27Kid, Esquirecomics, Steve Borock , Beerbohm at GEM! 0

[ciorac]

Glad you like that one theagenes. Since you were a frequent visitor/contributor to the now infamous thread, I knew you would appreciate the humor of the captions.

 

Yeah that OO thread did get a little heated at times, didn't it.

 

Nah, it was all in fun and the spirit of debate. Good times!

 

In fact, Bob finally gave in and accepted the idea that Superman was the driving force in the hobby at the dawn of the golden age...so much so that he had Supes on his mind the rest of the day.....

 

[The Black Hand ®]

There is no doubt in my mind what the most important comic book of all time is and it doesn't even matter how "important" is defined.

[BrianR]

It's nice to see faces of people you start dealing with. I started buying a couple books from Robert Beerbohm. He's a great guy to work with and knows his books. It know this is a bit OT.

 

The museum is fanastic looking maybe one day If my Wife and I go on a trip.

[showcase4]

the BLB on the left is the #1 ranked Big Little Book....there are only 2 known copies ( I thought there were 3...but there are only 2! ). The other one is owned by yours truly.....what are the chances of a collectible so rare there are only 2, and as big as the world is, both copies are in Baltimore and owned by someone named Steve?

 

 

Steve

[MrBedrock]

what are the chances of a collectible so rare there are only 2, and as big as the world is, both copies are in Baltimore and owned by someone named Steve?

Steve

 

100%?

[Robert Beerbohm]

Here are a few of the pics i took. Arnold was a delightful host explaining each of the exhibit halls:

 

 

 

 

 

This last pic, Pons and I fell behind as he was explaining to me the importantance of America's first printed comic book Obadiah Oldbuck from waaaay back in 1842

[Robert Beerbohm]

America's first comic book from 1842, Obadiah Oldbuck, is housed in this glass case

 

[Robert Beerbohm]

And here Arnold is explaining the "Pioneer" room's importance to the history of comic books, housing a "couple" artifacts dating 100s of years prior to when Superman debuted. In the 2nd pic, Bill P just felt compelled to document all that prior history

 

 

[Robert Beerbohm]

one of the coolest off-beat artifacts amongst 1000s of such treasures

 

[Robert Beerbohm]

and here are the only two comic books in Steve G's GEM museum which i have never had before:

 

 

and can you guess the only one i had never had before in this pic?

 

[G.A.tor]

hello all..

since you all got some of my other traveling companion's perspectives, I tried to pick a few shots I took that I enjoyed...

 

 

gator

[showcase4]

our very own Centaurman when he was a cover model........

 

[showcase4]

[showcase4]

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[showcase4]

a rather tough one to find in high grade.....

 

[action1kid]

Thats my former copy of Famous Funnies Series 1 you see there./ A v.f plus and a Gerber 10! First modern comicbook [1933] ever sold ! Was sold in chain stores before it hit newstands

[Silver Surfer]

BTW, this marble collection is valued at approx. $1 million dollars!!!!

 

So would you sell the marbles or the Pay Copy? Bye, bye marbles.

[The Black Hand ®]

Pay copy, those marbles won't disintergrate like the decaying paper that makes up the pay copy.

[ShoNuff-migration]

 

 

America's first comic...is housed in this glass case.

 

I don't see a copy of The Yellow Kid in that case.