podboy66 Posted January 1, 2021 Share Posted January 1, 2021 RIP Lamont. Thanks for doing the video Jeff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Knight Posted January 1, 2021 Share Posted January 1, 2021 RIP Mr. Larson, you will be dearly missed. Kudos to Jeff and his beautiful eulogy. It was a great and heartfelt summary about his life, collection and how he has touched comic book fans and collectors around the world. If there was a Mt. Rushmore of original owner comic book pedigree collectors, Lamont would absolutely be carved in. Also a big thanks to JB for locating Lamont in the 90's and for CGC/Steve Borock for sponsoring the SDCC dinner under his name. Gotham Kid and Primetime 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bronze johnny Posted January 1, 2021 Share Posted January 1, 2021 1 hour ago, lou_fine said: I would most definitely add the name of Tom Reilly to this list of early comic book collectors, with what would eventually become more commonly known as the San Francisco pedigree which was one of the earliest pedigrees to surface way back in the early 70's. Out of this group of five though, it would appear that the Recil Macon books are the toughest to come across rhough, as they simply don't seem to appear in the marketplace as often as books from the other four collections. That’s what the catch-all “and others” was for😉 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mlansdown Posted January 1, 2021 Share Posted January 1, 2021 Fantastic tribute, Jeff - thanks for posting this... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HouseofComics.Com Posted January 2, 2021 Share Posted January 2, 2021 Superb job, Jeff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mwotka Posted January 2, 2021 Share Posted January 2, 2021 Great tribute and video Jeff. RIP Lamont. I'm curious if there are any other collectors of these original collections still around. I know we are still lucky to share this space with Marty Mann. Anyone else? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KCOComics Posted January 2, 2021 Share Posted January 2, 2021 Jeff - Thank you for doing this. I've read Jon Berk's article about Lamont, but it was great to hear his story retold and your own personal connection to him and his family. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Timely Posted January 2, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted January 2, 2021 (edited) I was at that dinner too (I know there’s a picture floating around of Larson, Mark and I). It was great to meet him, talk to him and hear a few stories. What was just as great was meeting all the current collectors & owners who could appreciate the Larsen collection. RIP Mr. Larson. You will live on through your family and your childhood reading material! Edited January 2, 2021 by Timely lou_fine, Cat-Man_America, Flex Mentallo and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thehumantorch Posted January 2, 2021 Share Posted January 2, 2021 Nice job Jeff. Rip Lamont Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry JSA Posted January 2, 2021 Share Posted January 2, 2021 RIP Lamont Larson. He treasured so many books that were passed down to future comic collectors and generations to come! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry JSA Posted January 2, 2021 Share Posted January 2, 2021 10 hours ago, G G ® said: Without these important collectors in the hobby, The GA particularly would have been lost to a great degree. Whatever his motivations in the first place Lamont Larson and his contemporary hoarders are equally as important in some respects as the actual creators. He's earned his tribute. RIP. Couldn’t have said it better! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cat-Man_America Posted January 2, 2021 Share Posted January 2, 2021 18 hours ago, G G ® said: Without these important collectors in the hobby, The GA particularly would have been lost to a great degree. Whatever his motivations in the first place Lamont Larson and his contemporary hoarders are equally as important in some respects as the actual creators. He's earned his tribute. RIP. Absolutely! Although I'd be pressed ...no pun intended... to think of Lamont Larson as a hoarder. That term has such a negative connotation among the masses these days. In point of fact, Lamont was a collector, he just defined his interest in comics as that of a reader. The thing that made him a collector was the critical attention he paid to handling books as a kid. He didn't share his books with others afterwards because reading comics was a very personal hobby for him. He read his comics and then carefully set them aside. That's as true a determiner of the character of a collector then as it is today. Kids passing around comic books may have been commonplace in the 30's because of depression era frugality, but most of those books didn't survive. I'm curious whether there has ever been a study conducted of this dualistic behavior between private collecting and communal readers from a historical perspective. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post nearmint Posted January 2, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted January 2, 2021 Obituary in the Summerland Advocate-Messenger Cat-Man_America, lou_fine, woowoo and 5 others 7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lou_fine Posted January 2, 2021 Share Posted January 2, 2021 43 minutes ago, nearmint said: Obituary in the Summerland Advocate-Messenger In 1993, Lamont received a phone call that led to the discovery of the origin of the Larson Comic Book Collction, the third largest collection of Golden Age comic books. In 2005, Lamont was guest of honor at San Diego Comi-Con, meeting with collectors from across the United States. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enucleator Posted January 2, 2021 Share Posted January 2, 2021 Beautiful eulogy, Jeff. Being a Nebraska boy, I’ve always held Larson books in high regards. I’ve been fortunate to own a few over the years. I also appreciate you posting the link to his obituary. Turns out he taught at my high school (go Genoa!). He will be missed, but his legacy will live on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
comicnoir Posted January 3, 2021 Share Posted January 3, 2021 Lovely words and quite touching. What was the Sig series book Lamont had signed? And what was the, ahem, grade? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Primetime Posted January 3, 2021 Share Posted January 3, 2021 26 minutes ago, comicnoir said: Lovely words and quite touching. What was the Sig series book Lamont had signed? And what was the, ahem, grade? It may have been this book that Lamont is holding with Mark Haspel at the 2005 SDDC dinner...? lou_fine, nearmint and Cat-Man_America 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Popular Post Timely Posted January 4, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted January 4, 2021 Myself, Larson & Mark. RareHighGrade, The Lions Den, lou_fine and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Timely Posted January 4, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted January 4, 2021 ...and a few other pics from that amazing night! woowoo, lou_fine, Cat-Man_America and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
