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[Gasport]

LOVE that cover! Takes me back to the stationery store that i bought mine in when it first was issued...still even remember what it smelled like! I met Gene in the late 80's at a Long Island Sci Fi convention. He set up a table and for a minimal fee, offered to draw whatever you requested...here was my request:

[jimm]

Great sketch, wow...

[Scatter]

LOVE that cover! Takes me back to the stationery store that i bought mine in when it first was issued...still even remember what it smelled like! I met Gene in the late 80's at a Long Island Sci Fi convention. He set up a table and for a minimal fee, offered to draw whatever you requested...here was my request:

Holy crap!! That is incredible!!

[Gasport]

Thanks guys...If i had more money back then, i would have had him do more. He was charging something ridiculous like 35 bucks if i remember right! Funny thing was, when i made my request he looked over at his wife who accompanied him to the con. She got up and made a bee-line to the adjacent dealers room. Gene said he'd get started on my drawing when she returned and i could come back later. All of a sudden she was back with a couple of old back issues of Gene's Dracula comics. He sent her to BUY THEM to use as a reference!

[jimm]

Vastly underrated artist, my older brother had a full run of marvel daredevils with his work, love it

[BaronLatos35]

Well, I found a copy of Tomb of Dracula: number 1, this week.

Very cool! Love this cover....

[Therin of Andor]

Late for dinner! by Therin of Andor, on Flickr

http://therinofandor.blogspot.com/2010/12/late-for-dinner.html

Despite the enormous watch and chain he wears around his neck, the Kooky Spooky patriarch, Daddy Booregard, tries to explain to Grandmother Macreak just why he's 41 years late for dinner. And he's brought a freeloading ring-in, Gilroy from Avon, with him.

The Kooky Spookys are glow-in-the-dark finger puppet toys from 1969. As a kid, I really, really thought I was getting a Daddy Booregard for Easter 1970, after my brothers and I scored a Kooky Spooky each for Christmas 1969. (But thanks eBay! Daddy and Gilroy both arrived today, from different locales in the USA. Gilroy is from the 70s and contains 70s-vintage lip balm.)

I'm sure I remember a 1968 pricetag of $AU1.69 cents, or thereabouts, in 1969. Daddy Booregard cost me $250 on eBay "Buy it now!" just before Christmas. A bargain to rekindle such strong childhood memories of our much-loved toys.

[Gasport]

WOW!!! Congrats on the Kooky Spooky purchase....quite a chunk of change you spent, but good for you! These things certainly ain't getting any cheaper. I still have my original Bro Mortimer from back in the day. Still remember, oh so well going into the local five and dime to buy it. I lost his banjo, but found another on ebay for almost 100 bucks a few years ago. which i was THRILLED to reunite him with! Here's to eternal Kooky Spooky goodness and congrats again!

[Therin of Andor]

How weird would it have been if the banjo you bought had turned out to be the exact one you once lost?

My Grandma Macreak's umbrella eventually snapped on the handle during the 70s, but I was never impressed with it because it was only a half-umbrella, flat at the back. My little brother's Spook'em lost his sign the same way, but having seen those preliminary sketches for "Betty Boo", as she was originally called (we had no idea Spook'em was supposed to be female, despite obvious pink trim on the bonnet and nightshirt), I'm rather keen to make a little skull-topped "death rattle" from a plastic Halloween party favour. My local bargain shop was selling bags of little glowing skulls last Halloween.

[Scary Terry]

I'm pretty sure that TOMB OF DRACULA #1 cover is by Neal Adams.  The Colans may have ended up with it -- but that's not Gene's art on that particular cover.
http://www.giantsizemarvel.com/2010/10/three-marvel-monster-covers-by.html

[bigbud]

Terry, You're dead right! I'll have to check out my facts on what I remember about that event! Mind may be going bad........Bud

[jimm]

Despite the enormous watch and chain he wears around his neck

Flava!

[jimm]

I'm pretty sure that TOMB OF DRACULA #1 cover is by Neal Adams.

Agreed thats Adams

[Beaumont75]

...  However, I decided to sell it to a dealer.  He gave me a few thousand for it and we bought furniture and a computer (our first) for the house.  We were both happy with the deal.  My favorite was the Sea Adventurer with Kung-Fu Grip...

It is good that your are happy in selling some of your collections and buying a furniture and a computer. I guess the furniture and the computer is more important than your collections. Anyways if it eats too much space it your house then it is better to lessen your collections by selling it.

[toys-of-terror]

Just picked this up a couple weeks back, Its styled like the telco motionettes and about the same size, it lights up, moves and makes spooky sounds. about 18" tall i would guess. The box says made by y-s toys and distributed by alby's inc. I've seen some of the witch time animated figures but this is the first one of these i've seen. I love it! Couldn't resist. Picked it up at a flea market.