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Ace Comics #17 (David McKay Publications, 1938) Condition: FN+. Appearances include the Phantom, Blondie, and Krazy Kat. Overstreet 2010 FN 6.0 value = $117; VF 8.0 value = $231.

Adventure Comics #73 (DC, 1942) Condition: Qualified FR. Origin of Manhunter by Simon & Kirby. Manhunter cover. Overstreet lists as "scarce". Two-thirds of the spine missing, cover detached, water stain along the spine, rusty staples, centerfold missing. Overstreet 2009 GD 2.0 value = $1,275.

Adventure Comics #78 (DC, 1942) Condition: Apparent GD/VG. Joe Simon and Jack Kirby cover art. Jack Burnley and Bernard Baily art. Overstreet 2010 GD 2.0 value = $194.

Famous Funnies #10 (Eastern Color, 1935) Condition: GD/VG. There is a stain on the front cover. Overstreet 2010 GD 2.0 value = $177; VG 4.0 value = $354.

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HERITAGE MOVIE POSTER AUCTION ENDS SUNDAY

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Buena Vista, R-1971). Insert (14" X 36"). Science Fiction.
Starring Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Paul Lukas, Peter Lorre, Robert J. Wilke, Ted de Corsia, Gloria Pall. Directed by Richard Fleischer. An unrestored poster with bright color and a clean overall appearance. It may have general signs of use, such as very slight edge wear. Please see full-color, enlargeable image below for more details. Rolled, Very Fine+.

The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (Columbia, 1958). Insert (14" X 36"). Fantasy.
Starring Kerwin Mathews, Kathryn Grant, Richard Eyer, Torin Thatcher, Alec Mango, Danny Green, Harold Kasket, Alfred Brown, Nana DeHerrera, Nino Falanga, Luis Guedes, Virgilio Teixeira. Directed by Nathan Juran. An unrestored poster that displays signs of use. May include light edge wear with small tears, corner bumps, surface wrinkles, and pinholes. Please see full-color, enlargeable image below for more details. Folded, Fine/Very Fine.

Adventures of Captain Fabian (Century Pictures, R-Late 1950s). Belgian (14" X 21.5"). Swashbuckler.
Starring Errol Flynn, Micheline Presle, Vincent Price, Agnes Moorehead, Victor Francen, Howard Vernon, Jim Gérald, Héléna Manson, and Valentine Camax. Directed by William Marshall and Robert Florey. An unrestored poster that displays signs of use. May include light edge or fold wear, slight fold separations, very minor paper loss, pinholes, or unobtrusive stains. Please see full-color, enlargeable image below for more details. Folded, Fine/Very Fine.

Adventures of Frank and Jesse James (Republic, 1948). One Sheet (27" X 41"). Serial.
Starring Clayton Moore, Steve Darrell, Noel Neill, George J. Lewis, and John Crawford. Directed by Fred C. Bannon and Yakima Canutt. An unrestored poster that displays signs of use. May include edge or fold wear, fold separations, tears, minor paper loss, pinholes, or unobtrusive stains. Please see full-color, enlargeable image below for more details. Folded, Fine/Very Fine.

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First Look: Hustler Video's 'This Ain't Avatar XXX' porn parody

In January, many media outlets around the world couldn't resist making puns on the news that Hustler Video would be tackling James Cameron's sci-fi blockbuster Avatar with a new 3-D porn parody: The world's favorite blue movie was going blue.

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Free FANGORIA “NIGHT OF THE DEMONS” midnight

SCREENING OCT. 15

FANGORIA will host a free screening of director Adam Gierasch’s horror remake NIGHT OF THE DEMONS at the Cinema Village (22 East 12th Street, off University Place) on Friday, October 15 at 11:30 p.m. Gierasch co-wrote the new film with longtime partner Jace Anderson, the two having previously collaborated on AUTOPSY, TOOLBOX MURDERS, MOTHER OF TEARS, MORTUARY and the upcoming FERTILE GROUND. Gierasch will introduce the 35mm screening and conduct a Q&A.

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LA Con Lands Ray Bradbury for Sept. 19 Show

Legendary Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles author Ray Bradbury will be the guest of The Los Angeles Comic Book and Science Fiction Convention on Sunday, September 19, 2010. He will appear at the show from 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM to sign copies of the new DVD Ray Bradbury's Chrysalis, a new science fiction film based on his short story.

Bradbury's writing has inspired generations of fans and other writers with works such as Something Wicked this Way Comes, The Illustrated Man, Dandelion Wine and others. Twenty-seven of his short stories were adapted for classic EC Comics tales in the pages of Tales from the Crypt, Weird Science, and others.

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Galactica’s Mary McDonnell at Big Apple Con

Battlestar Galactica’s President Laura Roslin, better known as Academy-, Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated actress Mary McDonnell, will appear as a special guest at the Wizard World Big Apple Comic Con, October 1-3, 2010 at Penn Plaza Pavilion in New York.

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Pittsburgh Show Gets Jim Shooter for 11/14

Western Pennsylvania’s New Dimension Comics will present its second Pittsburgh Comic & Collectibles Show on Sunday, November 14, 2010 from 11 AM to 5 PM in Pittsburgh's Century III Mall, which is located at 3075 Clairton Road, West Mifflin, PA 15213.

The one-day show’s guest of honor will be Magnus, Robot Fighter, Doctor Solar, Man of the Atom and Turok, Son of Stone writer Jim Shooter. A Pittsburgh native, Shooter started writing Superman and other titles for DC Comics when he was 13 years old. He went on to chronicle the adventures of the Legion of Super-Heroes, The Avengers, Ghost Rider, and many other characters before becoming Editor-in-Chief of Marvel Comics and founder of VALIANT, Defiant, and Broadway Comics.

In 2007, Shooter was inducted into The Overstreet Hall of Fame for comic book creators alongside Spider-Man co-creator Steve Ditko and new X-Men co-creator Dave Cockrum.

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Captain Action at Baltimore Comic-Con

Moonstone Books’ Captain Action will be well represented at this weekend’s Baltimore Comic-Con (August 28-29, 2010) with Captain Action Season 2 #1 cover artists Mark Texiera and Mike Allred and Captain Action Season 2 #2 cover artist Mark Wheatley on hand to meet their fans.

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The Walking Dead: Halloween Debut

AMC television has announced a Halloween debut for their new show based on Robert Kirkman’s Image Comics series The Walking Dead. They have posted the extended trailer shown at Comic-Con International: San Diego on their site along with a series of other videos. The 90-minute first episode will air at 10 PM ET. The rest of the season’s episodes will run Sunday nights as well.

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Locke & Key: TV Series in the Works

Steven Spielberg will team with Fringe and Star Trek writer-producers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci to bring Joe Hill's supernatural comic book series Locke & Key to television, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Hill is the son of novelist Stephen King.

“Locke & Key chronicles Locke children as they attempt to recover from their father's murder by a deranged high school student. The family moves to a Maine island (named Lovecraft) where the youngest Locke discovers a doorway with supernatural qualities,” THR said.

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Danger Girl: Back in Business

IDW Publishing as brought back J. Scott Campbell and Andy Hartnel's Danger Girl in Danger Girl: The Deluxe Edition a $50 hardcover, oversized collection of the former best-selling comic book originally published under the Wildstorm banner at Image Comics and then DC Comics. This 262-page collection includes a 20-page sketchbook.

For those who missed out on the first time around (or in previous collections), the series centers on Abbey Chase, who joins the Danger Girl team of Sydney Savage, Natalia Kassle, and Silicon Valerie on a quest to recover several magical relics. There is, as the title suggests, plenty of danger to go with all the action.

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High-Grade Spider-Man, More at Pedigree

“The grades are in and the grades are incredible!” said Pedigree Comics’ Doug Schmell the newly CGC-certified batch of 9.8, 9.6 and 9.4 Marvels and DCs, mostly from the Silver Age, including the 50 comics he purchased during July’s Comic-Con International: San Diego. “Every book will be added to the Grand Auction listings. The auction is scheduled to begin at 8:00 PM EDT this Sunday, August 29, 2010 and last for 10 days, with the first half of books ending the afternoon of Wednesday, September 8 and the final half of books closing on Thursday, September 9.”

Schmell said the auction will feature over 700 hundred CGC-certified comics and magazines, many being the highest CGC-certified according to the census.

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Batman #1 CGC 3.0 Tops $28 K at ComicLink

In ComicLink’s auction which just ended Thursday, August 26, 2010, the company realized a number of record sales of vintage comic books. This partial list includes some of the items that went prior to Thursday evening’s final session. Check back on Friday afternoon for updates, and next week in Scoop for a full report on the auction.

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Record Prices for Pulp Art at Heritage

After more than a solid year of dominating Heritage Auctions’ Illustration Art Auctions, Pin-up and Glamour Art, while still performing superbly, was forced to cede the spotlight on August 17, 2010 to classic Pulp Art, as several icons of the genre burst into the spotlight, led by Hugh Joseph Ward’s “The Evil Flame,” Spicy Mystery Stories pulp cover, August 1936, from The Estate of John McLaughlin, which brought $143,400 to lead the auction’s $2.591 million in offerings. It is the highest price ever realized at public auction for a pulp magazine cover.

“This painting was not only the most important Ward pulp cover we've ever offered,” said Ed Jaster, Senior Vice President of Heritage, “it's one of the absolute best pulp covers that exists, by any artist, as reflected by the price paid for it. It has all the hallmarks of the greatest pulp covers: sexual tension, violence, a gorgeous woman in danger, all aggressively painted in a way that can’t help but to catch the eye.”

Another iconic piece of Pulp Art that set a record for price at auction was the auction catalog cover piece, Norman Saunders’s “The Ones,” Marvel Science cover, May 1951, a classic sci-fi damsel in distress painting that demolished the previous price record for Saunders, realizing $50,788, while another record was set for the artist Robert Fuqua, when his May 1930 Fantastic Adventures pulp illustration, first issue, “Revolt of the Robots” – an illustration for Arthur Tofte's classic story of the same name – wrestled its way to a $27,485 final price amidst competitive bidding. Both of these classic paintings also came to auction from The Estate of John McLaughlin.

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Action #1, Detective #27 on ComicConnect

micConnect.com’s Event Auction begins Friday August 27, 2010 at noon with over 1,500 lots for bidding.

“Strong results and consignor confidence in ComicConnect.com have allowed us to put the top two comic books in the world in this one auction,” said Rob Reynolds, Director of Consignments. “With the copy Action Comics #1 CGC 5.0 saving a house from foreclosure and the resulting world-wide press coverage we received, the owner of the Detective Comics #27 CGC 4.0 knew he had to be a part of this.”

Top Golden Age lots include Adventure Comics #40 CGC 6.5, Batman #2 CGC 9.2, Batman #5 CGC 9.4, Batman #6 CGC 9.4, Batman #9 CGC 9.4, Captain America Comics #2 CGC 8.5, Century of Comics CGC 8.0, Classic Comics #1 CGC 9.2, Detective Comics #1 CGC 5.0, Detective Comics #28 CGC 7.5, Detective Comics #29 CGC 6.0, Flash Comics #1 CGC 5.0, More Fun Comics #51 CGC 9.0, Pep Comics #22 CGC 5.0, Superman #1 CGC 7.0 (Mod(P)), Superman #1 CGC 1.8, Superman #1 CGC 0.5, Wonder Woman #1 CGC 7.0, and Wonderworld Comics #3 CGC 9.4.

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999 Folded One-Sheets at eMoviePoster.com

The name’s Bond. James Bond. Oh, and there are plenty of other names offered as well as eMoviePoster.com has put up 999 folded one-sheets for their latest Tuesday-closing auctions.

Ian Fleming’s British secret agent with a license to kill, James Bond, Agent 007, is represented by an assortment of posters including Dr. No (1980 reissue, Sean Connery as Bond in the first theatrical feature), From Russia, With Love style B (Connery), Goldfinger (Connery), On Her Majesty's Secret Service style B international (George Lazenby as Bond with Diana Rigg), Diamonds Are Forever international (Connery illustrated by Robert McGinnis), The Spy Who Loved Me (Roger Moore as Bond with art by Bob Peak), Moonraker (Moore illustrated by Gouzee), and For Your Eyes Only advance (Moore).

Some of the other highlights include George Romero’s Night Of The Living Dead, Stanley Kubrick’s Lolita (Sue Lyon), Walter Hill’s The Warriors (Jarvis artwork), John Sturges' The Magnificent Seven (Yul Brynner and Steve McQueen) and Gunfight At The O.K. Corral (Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas), John Ford’s They Were Expendable style C (Robert Montgomery and John Wayne), Jacques Tourneur’s Appointment In Honduras (Ann Sheridan and Glenn Ford), and Roger Vadim’s Barbarella (the quintessential Jane Fonda illustrated by Boris Vallejo).

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Complete Frazetta Story at Russ Cochran

For the last few weeks we’ve been telling you that the next edition of Russ Cochran’s Comic Art Auction is set to close on September 2, 2010 and the name of the game for that event might be “rarities.” Here’s why we think we’re right: The event includes works by Chester Gould, Winsor McCay, Boris Vallejo, George McManus, Reed Crandall, Harold Gray, Bob Montana, Wally Wood, Alex Toth, Carlos Garzon and Al Williamson, Jack Kirby, Carmine Infantino and John Severin, Russ Heath, Jose "Pepe" Gonzalez, Jack Davis, and Johnny Craig, among others.

There are numerous one-of-a-kind opportunities, particularly including the McCay piece, but the recent passing of master fantasy illustrator Frank Frazetta means that many eyes will be on the 10 pages of Frazetta art in the auction.

Offered separately are the stunning Thun'da #1 pages 24, 25, and 27 (including the "Gods of the Jungle" splash page), from the classic Frazetta tale. The pages are each matted.

“This is the Frazetta of 1952, setting out to show the world of comic art what he could do when he really tried,” Cochran said.

The other seven pages are part of one lot and it’s another genuine rarity. In this case, it’s the complete seven-page story “River Gauntlet” from White Indian #13 (1951).

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Mound City Unveils New Golden Age Collection

Last September, Mound City Auctions set 502 World Records when they sold an original collection of comic books found in a basement in Arnold, Missouri for over $1 million. Now the company will offer what they describe as “one of the best collections of Golden Age comics ever sold in St. Louis” in their September 17-19, 2010 auction.

“This auction features a wonderful collection of Golden Age comic books, and many Silver and Bronze Age comic books as well. Over 12,000 books will be sold over the three days,” Mound City’s Rob Weiman said in a press release.

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Eight Barks Paintings on Display at Heritage

Eight original Carl Barks paintings from The Kerby Confer collection are on display now through September 13, 2010 at Heritage Auction Galleries’ Beverly Hills facility. The works, including “This Dollar Saved My Life at Whitehorse,” represent an amazing selection of the Master’s efforts, any one of which would be the gem of most collections for a Disney, Barks or Duck enthusiast.

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PEP COMICS at ComicConnect

ComicConnect.com will include a copy of the very first Archie comic book in their September Event Auction. The comic, Pep Comics #22, introduced the characters Archie, Betty and Jughead to the world in December 1941. Extremely rare in high-grade, this copy certified by CGC is a 5.0 and available for bidding right now.

“We are really excited about this very rare and highly sought-after comic that is so much a part of comic book history,” said Rob Reynolds, Director of Consignments. “With the coverless copy recently selling for over $3,000, it’s amazing to see how far demand outstrips supply, and of course, there can be only one lucky winner in this auction.”

“When reviewing GPAnalyis.com for the history of publicly recorded sales of Pep #22, many collectors and enthusiasts may be startled to see that there is only one such recorded sale,” said Stephen Fishler, CEO of ComicConnect.com. “This is one of the toughest books for Archie fans to find, with only seven unrestored comics on the CGC census, and only two higher graded than this one.”

The Pep Comics #22 joins a nearly complete run of Pep Comics #1 - 50 as well as a tough group of Archie ranging from #3 to 30.

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Art Bissell Collection at Schulte Auctions

Schulte Auctions is featuring the Art Bissell Collection in their August 2010 on-line vintage sports memorabilia auction. Art was born and raised in Beaver, PA and was in the men’s clothing business for many years but his real passion was following and collecting signed and un-signed items from athletes, specifically the Pittsburgh Pirates great Honus Wagner.

In 1915, Art met the Pirates super-star at Honus’s sporting goods store located in Pittsburgh. In 1927, Bissell started to assemble numerous baseball mementos dedicating the collection as “The Honus Wagner Memorial Hall of Fame Museum.”

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Bronze Age Fantastic First: Warlord #1

DC Comics; January – February 1976

Cover by Mike Grell

Title: “This Savage World”
Synopsis: Fleeing the city of Thera, Travis Morgan and Tara find an assortment of dangers in the jungles of Skartaris.

Writer: Mike Grell
Penciler: Mike Grell
Inker: Mike Grell

Review: Picking up right where 1st Issue Special #8 left off, writer-artist Mike Grell continues the business of mythmaking as he lays out more of the hollow-Earth world of Skartaris. Grell packs this issue with plenty of action (including one fantasy cliché too many in the form of a satyr), yet still finds time for character development. He’s already displaying a good story sense, both as a writer and an artist. The art here is particularly nice; his inking on later issues could be a little rough, but this work is nicely polished.

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Hoot Gibson

Maybe it was his homegrown Nebraska beginnings or his quaint, anecdotal affinity for owl-hunting. Something about Hoot Gibson made audiences adore him. Let's take a short look into the life of this silent and talking cowboy film legend.

Before landing his first role in a minor Western, Hoot Gibson worked as a cowboy on his father's ranch, in Wild West rodeo shoes and as a wrangler for Universal Pictures.

Though his first film appearance was in the 1910 short, Pride of the Range, Gibson didn't become a bonafide film star until the 1920s. At the height of his career, his popularity was second only to Tom Mix's.

Over the course of the next twenty years, until his 1944 retirement, Hoot Gibson appeared in over 200 films. He was last seen in 1960's Ocean's 11, as an uncredited "Road Block Deputy."

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Rin Tin Tin

Credited as "the most recognized name in German Shepherd history," Rin Tin Tin became a film star in 1922, but the real-life, stranger-than-fiction story of the dog dates back 1918--when he was rescued from a bombed dog kennel in Lorraine, France during World War I.

On September 15, 1918, Corporal Lee Duncan found a litter of puppies in a newly bomed kennel, along with their mother Betty. Duncan claimed two of the pups--a boy and a girl--and named them Rin Tin Tin and Nannette. The two pups the corporal claimed are the only two who survived. Then, during the process of transporting them back to his native Los Angeles, Nannette took ill and died.

Rin Tin Tin proved to be tough and resilient, however. Three years later Warner Brothers signed him for his first film, at Duncan's prompting. He was an immediate hit with fans who lauded his heroism and loyalty.

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The Legend of Big Boy

Did you know that the irrepressible mascot for America's favorite family diner was inspired by a real boy?

One crisp day in 1936, a family strolled into Bob Wian's 10-seat diner in Glendale, California. With them was a boy, around the age of six, whose girth exceeded his years and whose ill-fitting shirt and pants caused Bob to chuckle and dub the little patron "Big Boy." Or so we're told at Big Boy Restaurants' official website.

But said site also shares a slightly different version of the tale, one in which a random customer is inspired to draw a stout boy with greasily coiffed hair and a protruding tummy on a napkin, after witnessing Wian's propitious creation of the double-decker hamburger. Upon viewing the drawing, Wian immediately adopted it as his new "Big Boy" mascot.

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Inside The Avengers Academy

Ever since the “Avengers Disassembled” storyline (followed by the “Civil War” and “Secret Invasion” stories), Marvel Comics has ramped up their emphasis on The Avengers as Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, raising the stature of the team with the number of titles in which they’re featured and the number of events swirling around the characters.

Spinning out of the latest relaunch was a new title that caught our eye, Avengers Academy. We liked the concept (established characters teaching new, would-be heroes) and we’ve love the work of writer Christos Gage since he first came to our attention on DC’s Deadshot mini-series a few years back. For this one he’s teamed with artist Mike McKone, another creator whose work we enjoy.

Gage talked with Scoop about the new series and its origins.

Scoop: The Avengers line-up of titles is obviously one of the areas that Marvel is putting a lot of effort into. How did you first get involved with them?
Christos Gage (CG): I snuck in the back door! Dan Slott was writing Avengers: The Initiative and starting on Amazing Spider-Man while also finishing up She-Hulk. He needed a breather somewhere, and Tom Brevoort thought I might be a good choice to write an Initiative fill-in issue. I wrote what ended up as the Butterball issue, #13 - one of my personal favorites as well as one the readers seemed to love - and Dan liked it so much he asked me if I wanted to come aboard as co-writer, which I did starting with #8. When Dan left Initiative to write Mighty Avengers, I inherited the book, and then it evolved into AvengersAcademy.

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Buffy and Angel: Together Again in 2011

Both IDW Publishing and Dark Horse Comics have released statements outlining the plan to have both the Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Angel comics published by Dark Horse once again. Dark Horse originally gave up on Angel in 2002, roughly two years before the TV series ended. IDW picked it up in 2005 and has been producing comics ever since.

Dark Horse, of course, has seen Buffy turn into one of their most consistent performers under the direction of creator Joss Whedon. In 2007, IDW kicked off Angel: After The Fall, also plotted by Whedon, and saw it turn into a hit for them.

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Stop-Motion Tim Burton: The Addams Family

Deadline Hollywood has reported that director Tim Burton will re-team with his Ed Wood screenwriters Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski for The Addams Family, a stop-motion animated film for Illumination Entertainment (Despicable Me) and Universal Pictures.

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