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Phil Levine's video tour of his warehouses stuffed with collectibles

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eBay User ID bakertownecollectables is selling Phil and Lenore Levine's

TV Guides, Comic Books and other truly rare collectibles!

Click on the link, scroll down and press play on the Google video of a tour of their warehouses.

 

http://stores.ebay.com/Bakertowne-Rarities_W0QQssPageNameZstrkQ3amefsQ3amesstQQtZkm

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Thanks for posting that, that was fun.

 

I think the price of Turok #1 just fell. smile.gif

 

Where did you see Turok #1s? I must have missed that part...

 

What was weird was seeing those things in BRIGHT SUNLIGHT... Made me wince a little.

 

Amazing stash. I'm just glad they never had a fire.

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Thanks for posting that, that was fun.

 

I think the price of Turok #1 just fell. smile.gif

 

Where did you see Turok #1s? I must have missed that part...

 

What was weird was seeing those things in BRIGHT SUNLIGHT... Made me wince a little.

 

Amazing stash. I'm just glad they never had a fire.

It was in the trailer.
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That was so much fun to see. I remember Phil and Lenore from my trips to San Diego in the 90's. He was a wild man, great fun to watch him work.

 

Thanks so much for posting the link thumbsup2.gif

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Thanks for posting that, that was fun.

 

I think the price of Turok #1 just fell. smile.gif

 

Sooo, market value is now closer to Acme brand TP than Charmin?

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Bidding has ended for The Levine Collection

 

$395,100.00

Reserve not met

Ended: Mar-14-07

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/LENORES-TV-GUIDES-CO...1QQcmdZViewItem

 

Auctioning off the entire Levine Collection of TV Guides known as “Lenore’s TV Guides,” comic books (golden, silver, platinum age and Antediluvian comics), rare toys, rare magazines including movie magazines and monster magazines, movie posters, lobby cards, comic book racks, original artwork, rare Classics Illustrated material, rare radio and cereal premiums, rare lantern slides, gumball and pinball machines, baseball and other sports memorabilia, adult material including rare Bettie Page items, children's books, Big Little Books, Big Big Books, Little Blue Books, Big Blue Books, the largest giveaway and promotional comic book collection in the world and the second largest Boxing Memorabilia and autograph collection in the world!

 

Sorry, it will be impossible for anyone to preview this collection in person.

 

If this auction does not meet the reserve, the collection will be sold over an 18 to 24 month period, primarily being sold under this ebay name, Bakertownecollectables.

 

After so many years in the business, Phil and Lenore have decided it's time to "let it go."

 

"We'd like to have all that space" says Phil Levine, referring to his three buildings, a trailer, a storage area, and his entire house filled to the brim with TV Guides, rare comic books and other collectibles.

 

Some of the collections Mr. Levine has bought over the years and which are included, in part, in what is up for auction are The E. Nelson Bridwell Estate, The “Levine High” Collection, four Classic’s Illustrated warehouses, the second “Harvey Warehouse,” the “Miller Comics Warehouse” in England, “Jim’s TV Guides” in Calfornia, the major part of the Catechetical Guild files in 1979, the Classics Illustrated Cover Paintings collection which consisted of most of the cover paintings of the Classics Illustrated comics, the “Levine High II” collection which included a near complete set of “Atlas Comics” and a complete set of “EC Comics,” the Tsukuda Toy Warehouse, TV Guide’s own back issue warehouse in Radnor Pennsylvania, which includes the “Signature Copies” of most of TV Guides, the “Instructor Magazine Collection,” the “Twin Circle Warehouse,” the “Michael Sawyer Collection,” the entire estate of world famous movie legend and strongman “Joe Bonomo,” and numerous other collections. Phil Levine’s nickname for many years was “The Attic and Cellar Specialist!”

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Levine, or whomever handles his account, is probably my biggest nemesis on ebay for promotional and anti-communist comic books. Hopefully this means he is retiring!!! cloud9.gif

 

I guess now I will have to buy tons of his stuff! No doubt in my mind he has been hoarding a bunch of what we used to believe were rare issues. Some history might be written soon! 893whatthe.gif

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Phil's warehouse tour was pretty amazing -- but it did occur to me that it was like that guy in the episode of Amazing Stories that had simply collected so much "stuff" it was hard to really understand the meaning of it all.

 

What I mean is, it's sensory overload... it's cool to see it all -- but would you ever want to accumulate that much "stuff". Would you ever really enjoy it all? I mean -- to me it's a warehouse full of stuff that nobody is enjoying. It makes me ask, how much is enough stuff to own... ?

 

Still I am curious to watch the auctions over time.

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all that *spoon* for only $395K??? I know thats an oxymoron, but he had a LOT of items. Does that price acknowledge that 99% is "worthless" (non-Lucy/Marilyn/Beatles magazines, low grade comics, etc etc ) abd very very few valuable items? I dont get it. Sort of a watse of 52 years buying and selling collectibles if he didnt put aside a few million $$ of HG high-quality pieces...

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Phil's warehouse tour was pretty amazing -- but it did occur to me that it was like that guy in the episode of Amazing Stories that had simply collected so much "stuff" it was hard to really understand the meaning of it all.

 

What I mean is, it's sensory overload... it's cool to see it all -- but would you ever want to accumulate that much "stuff". Would you ever really enjoy it all? I mean -- to me it's a warehouse full of stuff that nobody is enjoying. It makes me ask, how much is enough stuff to own... ?

 

Still I am curious to watch the auctions over time.

 

That is a valid point, Brian. I'm also curious how well those collectibles are protected against extremes in temperature. Some of those "warehouses" didn't look like they were climate controlled.

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Bidding has ended for The Levine Collection

 

$395,100.00

Reserve not met

Ended: Mar-14-07

 

I wonder if even the bids that brought the auction to this amount were legitimate. I can only imagine that most of the bids were either dealers/collectors who knew specifically what is within this collection and the amount was justified or many were simply joke bids. Anyone who is willing to bid nearly $400k on a collection advertised in the manner it was, i.e., I have virtually no clue what is really within the collection (though I am not necessarily expressing a doubt it is worth less than $400k, from what I know of his collection I am sure it is worth more), likely either has personal knowledge of the items, or has too much money for their own good and likes risks or has no intention of ever fulfilling a contractual sale and just wants to place a faux bid. I wonder which category most of the bidders fell into. 893scratchchin-thumb.gif

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