<div>4SJ was the ultimate fan! </div>
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<div>Although I did not know him personally, he is legend.</div>
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<div>Somewhere in space-time, he may live again.</div>
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<div>Regards,</div>
<div>Mike LaTorra<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 12:10 PM, PJ Manney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pjmanney@gmail.com">pjmanney@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">For those of us who knew him or knew of him, the inevitable is<br>happening. Forry Ackerman's collection is going on the auction block.<br>
<br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forrest_J_Ackerman" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forrest_J_Ackerman</a><br><br>My father will twist in agony that he can't bid on Ackerman's signed<br>first editions of Frankenstein and Dracula. [That is when he<br>
remembers that the auction is being held... :-( I won't be reminding<br>him.] Even though he once had his own 1st ed. copies of both, he<br>still had biblio-envy for years over Forry's Dracula. It was enough<br>
that Forry owned it. But to have his childhood horror heroes also to<br>have signed it? Priceless.<br><br>I was desperate for Robby the Robot. But I'm sure I won't be able to<br>afford it, if it's even being sold. <sigh><br>
<br>PJ<br><br><br><a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-ackerman5-2009feb05,0,4533587.story" target="_blank">http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-ackerman5-2009feb05,0,4533587.story</a><br><br>>From the Los Angeles Times<br>
Ackerman trove to be auctioned<br>Associated Press<br><br>February 5, 2009<br><br>He always vowed that he wouldn't die unless he could take it with him.<br><br>But now that Forrest J Ackerman really is gone, the grand old man of<br>
science fiction's memorabilia collection is on the auction block.<br><br>Thousands of items, including the Count Dracula ring worn by Bela<br>Lugosi in the 1931 horror classic "Dracula," the vampire cape Lugosi<br>
wore for decades -- even the actor's outfit from the "worst film ever<br>made," Ed Wood's cheesy "Plan 9 From Outer Space" -- are going up for<br>bid.<br><br>So are such notable pieces as a signed, first-edition copy of Mary<br>
Shelley's novel "Frankenstein" and a first-edition copy of Bram<br>Stoker's "Dracula" that was signed not only by Stoker but also by<br>Lugosi, Boris Karloff and numerous other horror film notables.<br>
<br>The auction, tentatively scheduled for the last week of April, is<br>expected to raise $500,000, said Joe Maddalena, president of Profiles<br>in History, which is handling the sale.<br><br>Ackerman, the science- fiction writer, editor and literary agent<br>
widely credited with coining the term "sci-fi," spent a lifetime<br>collecting tens of thousands of pieces, ranging from the junky to the<br>very rare. He died in December at age 92 at his home in Los Angeles.<br>
<br>Maddalena said that Ackerman's will stipulated that his estate's share<br>of the profits be divided among his friends.<br>_______________________________________________<br>extropy-chat mailing list<br><a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a><br>
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