Joe Moe is Consignment Specialist for Heritage Auctions.

Joe Moe’s love of collectibles was sealed when he moved from Hawaii to "the mainland" (Hollywood) in 1981 and became associated with pop culture icon Forrest J Ackerman (1916-2008), the legendary editor of Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine, who virtually invented movie memorabilia collecting in the 1930s. Joe curated Ackerman’s world-renowned collection of over 800,000 props, costumes, posters, books, and artworks until Ackerman’s passing. Joe has worked as a filmmaker, FX artist, screenwriter, and designer of dark rides for international theme parks. He's written and edited auction catalogs as a memorabilia specialist for over a decade on high-profile projects including Debbie Reynolds, Carrie Fisher, Marvel, Liza Minnelli, Glee, Howard Hughes, Milton Greene, Marilyn Monroe, The Hunger Games, Frank Darabont, Martin Landau, and more. Joe is incredibly proud to be a part of the Heritage Auctions family.

Die Hard Model Miniature Office Chair. It’s the Bomb!

I mean, the actual bomb (prop)! In the blockbuster action film Die Hard, an innocuous office chair becomes a major turning point in the story’s plot. Well, an innocuous office chair with a C-4 explosive-loaded computer strapped to it!

The Importance of Building Monster Models!

What would you do with 62 plastic monster model kits? Before you answer, let me explain what these model kits meant to kids of my generation… Slide Show: Images of Joe Moe’s Monster Model display at last year’s Kevin Burns: Monsters & Friends gallery preview. Growing up in the 60s and 70s, long before VHS […]