Good memory! I did 12 East Coast Comix reprints from 1973 to 1975. We sold
to every comic shop in the world, but there were only around 50 of them back
then. If there were the 5,000 there were later, we would have been able to
do the entire series.
Bruce
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Richard Halegua Comic Art <
sa...@comic-art.com> wrote:
> 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 <jrl...@mediabearonline.com>
> 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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