My blogs

Blogs I follow

Gender	Male
Occupation	Writer
Location	Lewisville, Texas, United States
Introduction	John E. Petty is the founding director of Heritage Auction Galleries' Rare Comics and Original Comic Art division, where he brought the collections of Stan Lee and Don Levine (the creator of GI Joe) to auction. Additionally, he is the author of CAPES, CROOKS AND CLIFFHANGERS: HEROIC SERIAL POSTERS OF THE GOLDEN AGE, and has published extensively on Pop Culture Topics in such publications as FILMS OF THE GOLDEN AGE, THE COMIC BUYER'S GUIDE, BIG REEL, and CLASSIC IMAGES. He holds a Masters in Radio, Television, and Film from the University of North Texas, where his concentration was on Japanese cinema.
Interests	Comic books, original comic art, movies (particularly old movies), movie posters Celtic music, tarot, paganism, Godzilla, Royal Doulton character jugs
Favorite movies	The Adventures of Robin Hood (the Errol Flynn version), Godzilla (1954, the original Japanese version), Robot Monster, The Maltese Falcon, Iron Man, Nosferatu, Metropolis, Frankenstein (1931), Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Rashomon, Battleship Potemkin, Tokyo Story
Favorite music	Enya, Lorenna McKennit, Connie Dover, Clannad, Queen, Blackmore's Knight, J.S. Bach, Johannes Brahms, Edward Grieg, Ralph Vaughn Williams
Favorite books	Pillars of the Earth, Frankenstein, Shogun, Sarum by Edward Rutherford (one of my favorite authors), The Pendragon Cycle by Stephen R. Lawhead, anything by H.P. Lovecraft or Robert E. Howard, Captain Blood