A note from William Platnick

Hello Enchantment Ink visitor. On April 8th, 2020, the author of all these books, my father, Norman Platnick, died of complications due to a serious fall.

Words cannot describe the amount of pain my family is in right now. My father was a wonderful, humble, loving, passionate and intelligent man. He had 3 passions in life: my mother, spiders and collecting.

As a way of honoring my father's legacy in the illustrated artwork community, I will be turning as many books of his as possible into PDF files and distributing them online, for free.

If you have found these collector's guides useful, I ask that you make a donation to the Norman I. Platnick Memorial Fund, which will be setting up a scholarship in the field of arachnology, my father's career.

If you'd like to learn more about my father and his amazing life (such as skipping middle school and high school and going to college when he was 12), I'd like to lift up just a few pieces:

NY Times: Norman Platnick Obituary
Concord University Magazine Fall 2018: Friendly Neighbordhood Arachnologist page 20
NY Times: The Exciting Adventures of Spider Man
Daily News: NYC'S real-life spider man
NY Times: For Some, an Appliance; for Others, Art
The Wall Street Journal: Warming Up to Spiders

Please check out our newest guides

Belles of Yesteryear: A Collector's Guide to J. Ross Bryson
By Norm Platnick, Dean Patzer, and Russ Salazar

My Dream Girl: A Collector's Guide to Zoe Mozert
By Norm Platnick and Rick Huisking

The Old, Old Story: A Collector's Guide to Adelaide Hiebel
By Chuck Kahle, Tim Smith, and Norm Platnick

Love's Old Sweet Song: A Collector's Guide to Zula Kenyon
By Barbara Driscoll, Chuck Kahle, Tim Smith, and Norm Platnick

The Glamour Girl: A Collector's Guide to Rolf Armstrong
By Norman I. Platnick and Michael Wooldridge

American Belles: A Collector's Guide to Earl Christy, vol. 2
By Norman I. Platnick and Audrey V. Buffington

American Belles: A Collector's Guide to Earl Christy, vol. 1
By Norman I. Platnick and Audrey V. Buffington

The Winsome Lass: A Collector's Guide to Haskell Coffin
by Norman I. Platnick and Richard V. Huisking, Jr.

The Golden Glow: A Collector's Guide to Gene Pressler
by Norman I. Platnick and Judy & Dean Patzer

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