The annual Comic-Con International: San Diego is this week, July 24-27, 2008, at the San Diego Convention Center. This is widely viewed as “the” pop culture (comics, film, television, etc.) event of the year. However, with compounded growth year after year, there will be no admission tickets sold on site, and all advance tickets have been sold out. [Read more…]
In late June, Star Wares (starwarescollectibles on eBay, StarWares.com on the web) listed a collection of Star Trek props for sale on eBay – a chair and two LCARS panels – characterized as “original”. There were several concurrent discussions in the original prop, replica prop, and Star Trek prop collecting communities about the cited source of these pieces – Greg Stone. [Read more…]
One of the most frequent topics that original prop collectors bring up with me is with regard to fraud on eBay. This is often coupled with expressions of frustration by collectors who have found that they do not understand how to report fraud and violations of eBay policy with eBay directly, when they are not party to any transaction. Though eBay has a number of appropriate policies in place, it is challenging for eBay members to find the appropriate method by which these experts in the field can share material information directly with eBay in an effort to help them to enforce their own policies. [Read more…]
The upcoming Profiles in History “Auction 32” event is set for July 31 & August 1 at the Profiles offices in Calabassas Hills. This sale features a complete Superman costume attributed to use by Christopher Reeve in Superman: The Movie and Superman II. [Read more…]
The L.A. Times website features a short video featurette and story on the upcoming Profiles in History “Hollywood Auction 32” (LINK): [Read more…]
This is an archive of one of the Superman costumes previously offered in the marketplace, on eBay, that has not been captured in prior articles. As is the case with other articles, this serves to archive listings of costumes marketed as “original” and “authentic”, worn by Christopher Reeves in the Superman films of the 70s and 80s. [Read more…]
Gillian Anderson, who played FBI Agent Dana Scully in the X-Files television series and films, has put together an impressive series of auction events on eBay, with proceeds benefiting a number of charities. [Read more…]
There is a story in today’s Telegraph about the Stanley Kubrick Archive – “all 900 boxes of it”, so I thought readers might be interested in a link to this story as well as information about the Archive at the University of the Arts London. [Read more…]
