[ExI] Forrest Ackerman auction

[Michael LaTorra]

4SJ was the ultimate fan!

Although I did not know him personally, he is legend.

Somewhere in space-time, he may live again.

Regards,
Mike LaTorra

On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 12:10 PM, PJ Manney <pjmanney at gmail.com> wrote:

> For those of us who knew him or knew of him, the inevitable is
> happening.  Forry Ackerman's collection is going on the auction block.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forrest_J_Ackerman
>
> My father will twist in agony that he can't bid on Ackerman's signed
> first editions of Frankenstein and Dracula.  [That is when he
> remembers that the auction is being held...  :-(  I won't be reminding
> him.]  Even though he once had his own 1st ed. copies of both, he
> still had biblio-envy for years over Forry's Dracula.  It was enough
> that Forry owned it.  But to have his childhood horror heroes also to
> have signed it?  Priceless.
>
> I was desperate for Robby the Robot.  But I'm sure I won't be able to
> afford it, if it's even being sold.  <sigh>
>
> PJ
>
>
>
> http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-ackerman5-2009feb05,0,4533587.story
>
> >From the Los Angeles Times
> Ackerman trove to be auctioned
> Associated Press
>
> February 5, 2009
>
> He always vowed that he wouldn't die unless he could take it with him.
>
> But now that Forrest J Ackerman really is gone, the grand old man of
> science fiction's memorabilia collection is on the auction block.
>
> Thousands of items, including the Count Dracula ring worn by Bela
> Lugosi in the 1931 horror classic "Dracula," the vampire cape Lugosi
> wore for decades -- even the actor's outfit from the "worst film ever
> made," Ed Wood's cheesy "Plan 9 From Outer Space" -- are going up for
> bid.
>
> So are such notable pieces as a signed, first-edition copy of Mary
> Shelley's novel "Frankenstein" and a first-edition copy of Bram
> Stoker's "Dracula" that was signed not only by Stoker but also by
> Lugosi, Boris Karloff and numerous other horror film notables.
>
> The auction, tentatively scheduled for the last week of April, is
> expected to raise $500,000, said Joe Maddalena, president of Profiles
> in History, which is handling the sale.
>
> Ackerman, the science- fiction writer, editor and literary agent
> widely credited with coining the term "sci-fi," spent a lifetime
> collecting tens of thousands of pieces, ranging from the junky to the
> very rare. He died in December at age 92 at his home in Los Angeles.
>
> Maddalena said that Ackerman's will stipulated that his estate's share
> of the profits be divided among his friends.
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