Vintage Comic Book, Newsstand & Convention Photos

Bud Plant

Well, this is quite a shot, entirely new to me. This is from Baycon 1968, the World Science Fiction Convention in Berkeley, from an archive of Jay Kay Klein's photos of almost all SF conventions. This is four of us comic book buddies, from our San Jose days, and all four part of our 1968 store, Seven Sons Comic Shop.
From the left, the tall good looking blond youngster is my good friend Jim Buser; with his back to us is Tom Tallmon, who used to drive me around before I got my license and I roomed with along with first wife LeAnn, with my business downstairs; with black hair and elbow up is John Barrett, co-founder of our seven stores, Comics & Comix, and collecting buddy since I was 13; and the geek next to him with glasses is me, 16 years old. We are checking out original art at Roger Nelson’s table. Roger and his partner Jack from New Orleans took us under their wing and helped watch our table there. We visited them a couple times years later. This was the first show we four had ever attended, we all shared one lone table.