Guilty! I think Ron Barlow and I was the very first to do same size repros in full color on the same paper of ANY comics. That unleashed a flood of imitations over the decades since.
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 1:01 PM, James Richard <[email protected]>wrote: > Bruce, > > Aha!!! So you're the culprit! You're one of the guys who first created > those damn EC reprints and cut the resale value of my complete run of > original EC sci-fi and horror titles in half! > > -- JR > > Bruce Hershenson wrote: > > I bought my first lobby cards in 1969 from a Texas dealer named Tannar > Miles. I was making my living selling comic books, but I never re-sold a > single poster or lobby card. In 1976 I quit comics 100% and I sold all my > comics, but kept my movie paper collection (mostly lobby cards). In 1984 I > "re-discovered" the hobby, and became partners selling movie paper with my > old friend Ron Barlow, with whom I had done the very first EC comic book > reprints (long before Russ Cochran). > > In 1989, I "retired" and *INTENDED *to buy and sell movie posters as a > part-time hobby (to pass time in my retirement) but that quickly got off > track, and the next year I organized the first all-movie poster auction by a > major auction house, and in the years since then I have auctioned quite a > few more posters. It is interesting that when I started full time in 1990, > almost all of the leading dealers at that time predicted I would "hit and > run" (leaving the hobby in a couple of years), but with a very few > exceptions I have far outlasted my critics. > > Bruce > > Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [email protected] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
