Comic Book Men Visit Geppi's Comic Book Museum

It's been awhile since I've seen an episode of Comic Book Men. But I saw an ad for Episode 1 of Season 6 ("Bucket List") that made me want to check it out, because it featured a trip to Geppi's Entertainment Museum, where you can see--and apparently smell, if you're a person of some significance--a copy of Action Comics #1.

And there are all kinds of other beauties hanging on every wall. I immediately resolved to make a trip to that museum, even though it meant going back to my hometown of Baltimore (which I haven't graced with my presence for 16 years, and we have not missed each other one bit). Since that won't be for awhile, I took a look at the internet version of the museum (as you can do HERE), and that only strengthened my desire to make the pilgrimage. (I'm thinking of getting a couple of dozen and a half other folks to come along and have everybody tell stories on the way out and on the way back, but I don't know if I know enough people for that.) I also checked out the internet store, and saw a bit of loveliness called Pop Culture With Character: A Look Inside Geppi's Entertainment Museum by Dr. Arnold T. Blumberg which I thought looked super interesting. It was on sale for $20, which sounded reasonable, but I checked Amazon and found a copy in good shape for less than $2 (plus $4 shipping), so I went for that instead. I'm really looking forward to getting my hands on this former tree. And I'm sure that will inflame my comic book lust even further, but a man's got to do what a man's got to do, and this man needs to look at some comic book stuff.

Speaking of Mr. Geppi . . . I remembered visiting his comic book store in Baltimore when I was a young fellow. I took a look at his Wikipedia bio to fill in the details, and saw that Mr. Geppi said that he opened his first Geppi's Comic World comic store "in a hole under a TV repair shop" in Baltimore . . . which matched my memory of going down into a cellar-like area to root through comic book boxes. I remember a man--maybe it was Steve Geppi--asking me if I was looking for something in particular, and I said I was looking for The Brave and the Bold #120. Man-Maybe-Geppi responded, "Why would anyone want that?" or something of like ilk, and I replied that it was a team-up between Batman and Kamandi, which seemed to salve his querisome nature (see what I did there?). 

I've still got that comic book, too. But I never went back to that comic book store. I was a timid little feller back in those days.