| The Culture of Collecting A personal history detailing the experience of going from young collector to long-time dealer of comics, pulps, and beyond. BY DAVID T. ALEXANDER  Thank you for looking at our web site. If you enjoy old comic books, pulp magazines, movie posters, auto racing and sports publications, original illustration art, old photographs and magazines, and other related collectibles then we have a lot in common.
Our web site has been under construction for a couple of years and probably has a couple more years to go to get it where we want it. It is functional enough now for us to encourage collectors to take a look. Even if you don't see any thing you cannot live without, we hope you will get a kick out of seeing what we have available. When you examine old publications it is like looking back at the fabric of society that brought us to where we are today.
Our collection has been decades in the making and at present we only have around 10% of the collection on line. We are attempting to scan, accurately grade and describe every item that comes through our hands. The inventory generally consists of items printed prior to 1980 and our emphasis is on material published before 1965.
Collecting really became accepted and thus popular in the mid 1970s. Prior to 1975, there were only a handful of comic book stores in the US. Between 1975 and 1985 over 10,000 comic book and baseball card stores opened in the US. Store operators tried to locate all the older material they could and began to horde contemporary material. This has caused comics from 1965 to date being easier to locate. We try to specialize in items that others do not offer for sale.
Many people have asked me how I got involved in collecting. Here is the story of how it all began.
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| Company Bios
DAVID T. ALEXANDER
Founder and Sales Director
email meFor over 38 years, David T. Alexander has been selling comic books and collectibles. He is a Senior Advisor to the Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide, co-author of the Baseball and Sports Publications Price Guide and a main contributor to Old Magazines, a recent magazine price guide. |
 TYLER ALEXANDER
European Operations Director
email meTyler Alexander is a graduate of the University of South Florida. He has been buying and selling comics and collectibles for almost 10 years and is an advisor to the Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide. Tyler is currently in Hannover, Germany heading up our European Office. If you are a European collector and want to buy or sell comics, pulps, movie posters, etc., please contact Tyler. |
Carri
Marketing and Design Manager
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Carri is a graduate of the School of Visual Arts in New York City. She currently oversees the direction and implementation of design and marketing materials for the company. Carri also acts as the Director of West Coast Operations, based in the San Francisco Bay Area. If you have material to sell on the West Coast, please contact Carri.
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