Father Geek's Page

Welcome to My World... Well, a part of it anyway...

I'm a 58 year old advanced collector of artifacts of the World's pop culture; posters from movies and concerts, toys from the golden ages of radio, television, and the motion pictures, cigarette & gum cards and their bastard offspring, Animation Cels, autographs, comic books from the 1930's to the present, magazines, paperback books, hardbacks, pulps, science fiction, horror, fantasy, cowboys & Indians, war, mysteries, suspense, thrilling adventures, it could all find itself housed at Geek Headquarters in Austin, Texas. My favorite collecting areas are Film and Comics. Under the subject of film I am mainly interested in 16mm, posters (mainly 1-shts, inserts, lobbies), scripts, props, and items that were once housed in the Ackermansion. Within above items I most want things that connect to classic Film Noir, Pre 1977 Science Fiction, Horror, and Fantasy. This collection currently numbers well over 10,000 pieces ranging from the silents right up to today. It includes original release pieces from 33's KONG, REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE, NOTORIOUS, FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE WOLFMAN, KISS OF DEATH, ATOM-MAN VS SUPERMAN, TOBOR, DRACULA, BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN, STRANGERS ON A TRAIN, and on and on. The comic collection fills over 80 long comic boxes, 60 of which are full of books from the Silver Age or before and includes issues from all the major companies. TIMELY, FOX, QUALITY, FICTION HOUSE, ATLAS, EC, FAWCETT, STANDARD, MARVEL and DC are the most well represented. My personal favorites being my run of MAD #1 thru #23. Currently I am collecting heavily from what I call the ATOM AGE of comics (roughly 1945 - 1955), mostly Horror, Crime, Sci-Fi, and Adventure (Jungle, War, etc). Annnnnd I'm also filling out my Movie comics collection.

Just who is this Father Geek ...

Who is Father Geek who is to play your host on this page, this labyrinth of paper and plastic, brass and tin, ink and paint that will overflow this electronic page over the coming weeks, months, and hopefully years. Well, I was born into a middle class family of 4th generation Texans 8 months before we dropped the bombs on Hiroshima & Nagasaki. My father was an officer in the Army Air Corp and I spent most of my first 2 years in the backseat of a 1940 Chevy traveling the great American west from one air base to another. At 3 we set down roots in San Antonio, home of the Alamo and the Buckhorn Saloon, the headquarters of the 4th Army and the "West Point of the Air". I led that storybook, 50's TV family life, joined Boy Scouts and earned my Eagle with a bronze palm. I played every inning of every game thru 4 years of Little League. My mother was president of the PTA and I made pretty good grades. I played in the band and drove a 58 Chevy my senior year. I was the 1st of my friends to have a TV (1951), and I went to alot of movies in SA's giant single screen film palaces and at the many drive-ins around town in the days of 50 cent admissions, 5 cent bus rides, & 10 cent hot-dogs. In 1965 I enrolled at the University of Texas in Austin and it's been my home ever since. I had vague thoughts of becoming a lawyer and I was a member of UT's varsity debate and public speaking teams. Like most of my generation I was politically active. In Texas at that time the power had rested with the Democrats since reconstruction so the revolutionary thing to do was be a Republican. I joined their youth wing. I majored in Sociology, then Advertising. I became a professional political underling, working for candidates and in the PR dept. at Republican State Headquarters. I was on Nixon's staff at the 68 convention in Miami. My future wife was the social chairman of the political club that I was the PR man for. We started to hangout, and watch movies together. We enrolled at the UT Film school and our politics started to shift to the left. In 1969 we formed a high-octane, mind-numbing lightshow performance company, working with all the pop rockers of the day, and shooting some commercials & short musical films in 16mm for clubs around the state. We began collecting posters & comicbooks as we traveled throughout the south. Our Son arrived at the end of 1971 and we opened a pop culture collectibles store. We crisscrossed the country doing festivals and collector shows 25 or 30 times a year until he started public school in 2nd grade, we had begun to collect movies, cartoons, and trailers on 16mm. I bought a VCR in 1976 and a sister came on the scene in 1981. In 1984 we divorced after 18 years together. She got the kids. I got depressed. Life goes on and in 1989 my son moved in with me. Then in 1992 my Ex died in a tragic fire out on the North Texas plains and I suddenly had both my kids back. What is it that Goldblum says in that big dino flick? Oh yeah, "Life finds a way." In the late Fall of 96 I decided to never SELL another part of my collection, no matter how high the offer, not because I'm rich (I'm Not), but because I'd much rather have my HULK #1 than a shoebox full of money which is much more common and easier to come by. Well, that's a peek at the primal ooze that formed the bio-hard-drive that is to be your host on this page as we journey together thru the refuge of the 20th century popular culture mirror that it has been my pleasure to archive.

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