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    Quote Originally Posted by BrewMeister View Post
    When I sent these books in, Stephen King had been talking about how fanatical fans could be (not in a good way), and how that had been part of the inspiration for Misery. I had enclosed a note thanking him for signing my books, and I signed it something like "From your # 2 fan (I know how you feel about # 1)." Hence the reference on the Thinner inscription.



    I too, was able to mail in two books for a signature by Sai King - way back when he was doing that! At the time I had very few King signatures; maybe two or three. Last year I sold all of my S/Ls due to money issues. I did manage, however, to keep all my first editions of which some are signed to me personally. The only two books that I kept that are other than First Editions are my Gift Editions of Insomnia (Zeizing) and Desperation (Grant). Here are their signature pages. Not sure why the one went sideways as I had turned it upright!



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    I fixed the picture orientation. Great signatures. Congratulations.

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    Yeah. Great signatures, guys.
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    Very nice, Bob!
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    Whatever happened to Bad Penny?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Scoogs View Post
    Whatever happened to Bad Penny?
    Sold his collection and is leading a happy life (last time I heard...)

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    Quote Originally Posted by frik View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Scoogs View Post
    Whatever happened to Bad Penny?
    Sold his collection and is leading a happy life (last time I heard...)

    sk
    Is that true? I've been under the impression he was sick and perhaps even passed. I'd love to be wrong about that.

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    I too, was able to mail in two books for a signature by Sai King - way back when he was doing that! At the time I had very few King signatures; maybe two or three. Last year I sold all of my S/Ls due to money issues. I did manage, however, to keep all my first editions of which some are signed to me personally. The only two books that I kept that are other than First Editions are my Gift Editions of Insomnia (Zeizing) and Desperation (Grant). Here are their signature pages.
    I'm glad you were able to keep those editions. S/Ls can be replaced, but we'll never get another chance to have books personally signed like these again!
    Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SystemCrashOverRide View Post
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    Whatever happened to Bad Penny?
    Sold his collection and is leading a happy life (last time I heard...)

    sk
    Is that true? I've been under the impression he was sick and perhaps even passed. I'd love to be wrong about that.
    That was my impression as well. In 2015, when I group of TDTers were at the Revival signing in Sarasota, I distinctly remember everyone taking a moment to think of Bad Penny as he was “close to the clearing at the end of the path”.

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    If that’s true about Bad Penny, I’m very sorry to hear it.
    "...that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little." ~ Ray Bradbury

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    Agreed Patrick.
    I vaguely remember that he was sick, but had not heard that he may have passed.
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    Quote Originally Posted by bdwyer19 View Post
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    Whatever happened to Bad Penny?
    Sold his collection and is leading a happy life (last time I heard...)

    sk
    Is that true? I've been under the impression he was sick and perhaps even passed. I'd love to be wrong about that.
    That was my impression as well. In 2015, when I group of TDTers were at the Revival signing in Sarasota, I distinctly remember everyone taking a moment to think of Bad Penny as he was “close to the clearing at the end of the path”.
    Yeah, we were fairly close, working on the HF alot, and though he never actually explicitly stated it to me, I got the distinct impression his time was short. He definitely wanted to avoid any outpouring of sympathy. His trip to Egypt was his "Bucket List". I really miss him as well. We had a lot of laughs together. he was a great guy.
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    There is (AFAIK) no evidence that Bad Penny has passed.
    Forgive me if I'm wrong, but there were other reasons that BP sold his collection.

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    Maybe, but I definitely remember being at the lunch and David referring to BP as “entering the clearing”.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Randall Flagg View Post
    There is (AFAIK) no evidence that Bad Penny has passed.
    Forgive me if I'm wrong, but there were other reasons that BP sold his collection.
    I bought a lot of his stuff both from him directly and through David at Betts in the Great BadPenny Sell-off.

    He told me personally in an email that he had pancreatic cancer. I've tried to find his obituary a few times though the years by doing basic internet searches, but to no avail.

    I've heard twinges of rumors of other theories but I'm not sure where those came from or how much salt they hold, but anything's possible I guess.

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    Yeah, it was a mystery. I bought from him and sold to him as well and never had other than a pleasant transaction.
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    I know (and really cannot say more) that Bad Penny was not sick. He HAD to sell his collection to save his ass legally. I really cannot say more about it but it was nothing to do with being sick....
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    Quote Originally Posted by webstar1000 View Post
    I know (and really cannot say more) that Bad Penny was not sick. He HAD to sell his collection to save his ass legally. I really cannot say more about it but it was nothing to do with being sick....
    That doesn’t make sense. David was in charge of selling his collection. At the lunch in Sarasota, he asked for a moment of silence for BP, and then alluded to his passing. Saying that you’re sick while selling your collection could be a cover story, but I don’t buy it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bdwyer19 View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by webstar1000 View Post
    I know (and really cannot say more) that Bad Penny was not sick. He HAD to sell his collection to save his ass legally. I really cannot say more about it but it was nothing to do with being sick....
    That doesn’t make sense. David was in charge of selling his collection. At the lunch in Sarasota, he asked for a moment of silence for BP, and then alluded to his passing. Saying that you’re sick while selling your collection could be a cover story, but I don’t buy it.
    Not much more I can really say. But that is not the case


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    Quote Originally Posted by bdwyer19 View Post
    Saying that you’re sick while selling your collection could be a cover story, but I don’t buy it.
    It's not important that you "buy it", but it is the truth.


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    BP was not sick. He embezzled. When caught, he had to sell his collection to begin restitution. Time for truths to be told.

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    Hi everyone! It seems like a lifetime since I last posted on here. I was just talking to my kid about our Stephen King collecting days 28 yrs ago, and today I get a msg from this forum! I miss it all, scouring used book stores for gems sellers were not aware were valuable (that ended when the WWW opened to everyone), the early SKEMERS, the newsgroups, all my old friends, and of course, most of our collection we had to sell (still have the Castlerock newsletters, the signed limited box edition of The Stand, and some other cool stuff). Any of my generation old timers left?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Randall Flagg View Post
    BP was not sick. He embezzled. When caught, he had to sell his collection to begin restitution. Time for truths to be told.
    Why all the subterfuge? I’m assuming this was public information.

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    Wow, I helped BP sell off part of his non-King collection and he lied to me as well. I don't regret doing it and still have the books I bought from him but wow

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    Guess we should have known that he was indeed a bad penny.

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