I too love book stores and the old ones is great to get bargains. I used to collect comic books as a kid too and my sister. We were about 5 years apart so she collected ones she was into and I was into Richie Rich, Little Lu Lu, Casper, Windy, The Archies, Spider Man, and The Fantastic 4. Just to name a few classic comics. I now collect more paperbacks and into Romantics, Biography of artists (stars), into The Harry Potter series and have all the books and movies on both Video and DVD.

Alas, no cat Lady Grace! a great image! but there are some very old and very dusty books..... Have you seen The Sorcerer's Apprentice? It is a bit like the Arcana Cabana ...except..smaller...and less...magcal artifacty...and no Balthazar..though my friend does have a goatee and accasionally wears fingerless gloves....and i was for a brief time his apprentice...a job as a student but more of a chance to just be in this very cool atmosphere in an ancient part of town!

Lady Trueheart, Nancy and Lady G, if ever we were to all meet up from our varous parts of the world, a visit to a comic book store and a second hand bookshop has to be on our itinery!!! :hghfive:

It's not Notting Hill, is it? I've never been to Wales, but remember the bookstore in that Julia Roberts movie was on a very quaint street.

What an amazing place, I could spend hours there! Wales is beautiful...it is there that i began writing. there is an energy special to Wales that makes you think in glorious prose and poetry, perhaps not so magnificantly as Dylan Thomas ! lol! Notting Hill is in London Lady Grace, great film. I know the assistant editor so i am biased of course.

 

I would love to visit this Comic book Store 'Secret Headquarters' in LA

http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2008/07/best_comic_store_in_the_w.php

and here is an interssting wiki entry on the rose and fall of the comic book industry, and comic book collecting..and just to bring it back to Nic, he is listed as a famous collector:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_book_collecting

Actor Nicolas Cage, who changed his original last name of Coppola (part of an extended family working in film, including his uncle Francis Ford Coppola) to the stage name "Cage", based on the Marvel Comics character Luke Cage, to avoid the appearance of nepotism^[14] when he entered the film industry. A longtime comics fan, Cage amassed an impressive collection over the years, but in October 2002, he auctioned off most of his collection for combined proceeds of over $1.68 million^[15] through Heritage Auctions. Heritage sold Nicolas Cage's remaining comics privately over the next year for approximately another $325,000, and in 2009 they also auctioned part of Cage's Movie Poster collection.

Me too Lady Trueheart, but most especially vintage movie posters! I do not know much about them though, Nic is obviously a connoiseur and collects/ collected what he knows about with his comic and movie poster collection, now mostly sold I believe.

An article on Nic's comic collection:

http://www.go-star.com/antiquing/cage.htm

Nic has some awesome movie posters in his collection, including a 1925 one-sheet poster of The Phantom of the Opera, a 1938 reissue one-sheet of Dracula, and a 1938 reissue three-sheet of Frankenstein.

http://www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/?id=1129

I would have loved his Dracula one..it would only set you back a cool £300,000 or so...

 

and also i would really love ( possibly moreso actually ) an original vintage 1920 Jekyll and Hyde movie poster, if such a thing exists! The film, well John Barrymore's performance,  always reminds me of Nic as Peter Loew in Vampire's Kiss, which is a fave Nic movie of mine, and it was a thrill when I finally got to hear the Vampire's Kiss Audio commentary to hear nic say that he had used some of mannerisms and movements...it's the hunch shoulders the wild eyes, the fingers...i think i posted that elsewhere so i won't bore everyone to tears!

-- Edited by Lula Argante on Wednesday 3rd of August 2011 12:47:52 PM

Ah! these are wonderful Lady Trueheart! thank you! the second one has that evocative shadow, i prefer it as it captures the Jeklly and Hyde essence

somehow in my minds eye I see a poster of John Barrymore's first transformation with the aforementioned long fingers hunched shoulders and eyes!