yes indeed the original reprints of ECs were great books. They did
more to popularize ECs at first and for 2-4 years after the reprints
came out ECs were one of the most popular runs to collectors.... what
was that 1972 or so Bruce??
At 11:01 AM 1/20/2010, James Richard 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
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At 11:30 AM 1/20/2010, Bruce Hershenson wrote:
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
<<mailto:[email protected]>[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
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