I bet if I drew a line connecting all of MoPo's members -- that I
would find (besides a shared interest in posters) -- a past or present
interest in comics, sports cards and sci-fi/sorcery stuff.
Not here!
Rich
On 15 Mar 2009, at 06:46, David Kusumoto wrote:
** I saw Fishler in person that one and only time -- and he struck
me then as a very quiet but intense young man, almost trying to hide
from any attention. When I tried to interview him, he was visibly
uncomfortable and gave me only a few one-breath quotes. But
everyone in the huge room was curious about him. "Who's the kid
with all the money who looks like he just got out of high school?,"
was the general buzz. Instead of letting someone else bid on his
behalf, Stephen flew from NY to L.A. to bid in person. That was a
helluva sale -- and it was striking in that you got the feeling that
Stephen himself knew he was not going to lose those two Universal
horror posters; he had no limit. It happened at Bruce's first stand-
alone showroom sale (Dec. 1998) -- after directing Christie's
previous poster sales in New York. Fishler struck me as a very
mysterious figure. Since then, I've seen him quoted many times and
have learned that he has ALWAYS been a big name in the comic book
world.
** My wife and I have always found it intriguing that so many movie
poster collectors are hyper-intellectual guys who used to collect
sports cards or comic books, who love sci-fi and Star Trek -- who
have a high-geek factor that people (esp. women) can instantly spot
in a crowd. For example, the character "Dwight" in NBC's "The
Office" -- played by the hilarious Rainn Wilson -- is the sort of
guy you'd expect to collect comics and posters, a guy who treats the
Lord of the Rings or Star Trek-type universes like a religion. And
so he does.
** There used to be this quiet, portly guy in his 30s who was a
graphic designer in our office in San Diego. And we used to laugh
because at lunch he would tell us off and on that any woman he might
marry in the future -- MUST first know all about Star Trek and
understand it. And oh, of course, that woman would have to be
gorgeous. He didn't collect movie posters, but he DID collect
comics and action figures. Speaking for myself, I was real INTO
comic books during the first 5-6 years of Comic-Con before moving on
to books and movies big-time.
-d.
-----Original Message-----
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 16:36:24 -0700
To: davidmkusum...@hotmail.com; MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
From: sa...@comic-art.com
Subject: Re: [MOPO] Speaking of Stephen Fishler...
David
first time I met Steve he was 12 years old looking for Fantastic
Four #1 and had the cash with him and much more.
a year later he was a dealer too.
Always a good friend, I know he won't be bothered by mentioning that
his father was a liquor distributor and that should tell you
everything. His mother is a sweet lady and Steve is a very smart
businessman
Rich
At 04:28 PM 3/14/2009, David Kusumoto wrote:
On the AP wires today, see below.
[BTW, Fishler was/is a big buyer of movie posters and is loaded with
$$$. I saw him at Bruce's huge auction held in L.A.'s cavernous
Pacific Design Center that I covered 10 years ago for Movie
Collector's World. At the time he was only 31 -- and he walked away
with the biggest prizes of the day -- two unbacked one-sheets for
"Dracula" ($74,750) and "The Invisible Man" ($55,200).] -d.
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Rare Superman comic sells for $317,200
Mar 14, 5:44 PM (ET)
By DAVID B. CARUSO
NEW YORK (AP) - A rare copy of the first comic book featuring
Superman has sold for $317,200 in an Internet auction. The previous
owner had bought it for less than a buck.
It's one of the highest prices ever paid for a comic book, a
likely testament to the volume's rarity and its excellent condition,
said Stephen Fishler, co-owner of the auction site ComicConnect.com
and its sister dealership, Metropolis Collectibles.
The winning bid for the 1938 edition of Action Comics No. 1,
which features Superman lifting a car on its cover, was submitted
Friday evening by John Dolmayan, drummer for the rock band System of
a Down, according to managers at ComicConnect.com.
Dolmayan, who is also a dealer of rare comic books, said he
acquired the Superman comic on behalf of a client he declined to
identify.
"This is one of the premier books you could collect," he said in
a telephone interview. "It's considered the Holy Grail of comic
books. I talked to my client, and we made the move."
Dolmayan said the client has "a small collection, but everything
he has is incredible."
Only about 100 copies of Action Comics No. 1 are known to exist
and they seldom come up for sale.
"Maybe in a booming economy, it would have done a hundred grand
more, but in this economy, I think the price is great," Fishler said.
The man who had previously owned the book purchased it in a
secondhand store in the early 1950s when he was nine years old.
He paid 35 cents.
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Associated Press writer Adam Goldman in New York contributed to this
report.
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