Category: Joltin’ Joe Sinnott

The late, great Marvel Comics Legend, Joe Sinnott

Joe Sinnott in Dutch, Ian Anderson in Space

Mark Sinnott has announced that his dad, Marvel Comics legend Joe Sinnott, will have some of his fantastic art on display at the Dutch Ale House in Joe’s hometown of Saugerties, NY. The opening for the two-month showing will be next Sunday, February 20 at 3 pm, and I’m hoping to be there with D.F. Rogers, esq. Denro has done an incredible job of locating issues of comic books for Joe that he worked on decades ago, where Joe had only the story title on file because the publisher didn’t have a specific issue in mind for the assignment.

Mark is the world’s biggest Jethro Tull fan, and at this moment one of Ian Anderson’s flutes is in orbit on the International Space Station, with astronaut Catherine Coleman.

Last minute dinner invite

Had a great surprise tonight. Joe Sinnott’s son Mark called Denro to say he was in town with his wife Belinda and their daughter Erin, who’s attending college in Boston. Erin is a writer, who already has two published novels to her name, with a third in the works right now.

We all met up downtown and went out to dinner. I love talking comics and music, but I have to take a backseat to Mark and Dennis when they get going on sports. My sport is running, and being not far from the Boston Marathon finish line this evening, I’m wavering on my decision to give up 26.2-mile road races.

All-Ball-Knee fun

Here’s me last Sunday at the Albany Comic Con, with Denro and the Sinnott boys — Joe, his son Mark, and grandson Trevor. It was great seeing Joe getting around with no trouble at all, since his hip replacement surgery. I treated everybody to dinner and we all had a great time!

Joe is a lifelong fan of the Giants baseball team, going back to their years in New York, so he was very happy with their win against the Phillies last Saturday night. Joe’s mother’s uncle was John McGraw, which explains his continued loyalty to the Giants after they moved to San Francisco in 1957. Tonight they play the Texas Rangers in game 1 of the World Series. Friends who know Dennis as a loyal Boston Red Sox fanatic, and not a comic book fan, will be shocked to see that he donned a Giants cap! This proves that Dennis is second to none in his admiration and appreciation of Mighty Joe Sinnott. Considering how much I admire the man, that’s saying something!

Crime Does Not Slay

Ya know, it seems that whenever I try to not blog because I have more important things to worry about, I spot something almost immediately that makes me break my self-imposed silence. Dennis and I are hoping to get to Albany on Sunday, to see Joltin’ Joe Sinnott, who is scheduled to be at a comic book show. This would be Joe’s first appearance since having hip replacement surgery, and it’s great that he’s feeling up to getting out and about again.

What has me writing this, however, is this news item from Albany, about a man beaten and robbed of his valuable comic-book collection. He wasn’t killed during the assault, but later died of a heart attack, after being interviewed by police. Here’s a different article that includes a photo of Rico J. Vendetti, who allegedly hired thugs to commit the crime, back in July. Vendetti supposedly was/is owner of this comic-book shop:

Irondequoit Collectibles
125 Pebbleview Drive
Rochester, NY 14612-4118

To add spice to the story, the break in the case came from a tip a hooker gave to a cop. I wonder if Rico had bought a dealer’s table at the show on Sunday? The whereabouts of the stolen collection is unknown. If he already unloaded it, I assume the buyer(s) will come forward.