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I got these three in the mail today.


FRED SAVAGE


PETER GALLAGHER


SAMUEL L. JACKSON

The photo of Samuel L. Jackson had visible fingerprints all over it so they could possibly belong to him? It was obviously signed in blue ballpoint pen and pressed deeply into the photo (tough guy).

BATTLE BEASTS AND PVC MADNESS PT.1

I used to buy any of the PVC figures I found at thrift stores and garage sales. Mostly I just bought 80's related ones but for a while I bought quite a bit of other cartoon related ones. The collection got a bit out of control so I sold some of the major collections I'd amassed such as the California Raisins and Smurfs. I also gave boxes full of them away to kids or friends over the years but I still have a lot left. Most of the rest I am planning on selling on Ebay, but before I sell anything on there I always try and photograph them so I can at least remember what I once owned. Here is part 1 of the PVCs I'm planning on selling:



BATTLE BEASTS aren't really PVCs but are little action figures. These guys were so awesome when I was a kid because us boys didn't have to feel bad about collecting cute little animals. Each figure had a little black square on their chest that would reveal their power when subjected to heat. You just pressed and held your finger over the little black sticker and after a few seconds the image would appear. It was very similar to "paper, rock,scissors" except in this case it was "water, wood, fire". Fire burns wood, wood floats on water, water puts out fire. The heat sensative section of their chest was actually a sticker referred to by collectors as a "rub" which kind of stinks because it ended up peeling or falling off most of the figures over time.
Also, each figure came with a little gray plastic weapon which was easily lost due to it's size. So if you have one of these Battle Beast figures with it's own unique weapon and intact rub, you've got yourself a valuable collectable.



I've got 11 of these Battle Beast figures. I also have one of the later figures where instead of the "rub" it has a small clear circle where you can just look inside to see it's power.





Here's some Cabbage Patch Kids PVCs I collected.



My sisters used to have a couple of these when we were kids.



These are all the Snork figures I found in the last 10 years or so. They are kind of hard to find in this area because I think they were offered in a fast food resturaunt that we didn't have around here. I've got three or four books on fast food collectable so I'll have to check. I'm pretty sure this isn't the whole collection.



Here's all I have left of an Alvin and the Chipmunks collection. I think I sold all the bigger items like stuffed dolls and windups on Ebay years ago.

Anyway, I don't know if anyone is interested in looking at this kind of stuff but I'm going to keep posting these PVC collections as I go through and photograph them anyway.

SWEDISH POSTCARDS

I came across a large group of Swedish postcards and they are so cheesy. These are just begging to be violated. The majority of them had cutesy couples so I added dialogue balloons with crummy pick-up lines. There's a whole bunch more where these came from and there are still a lot that I can't think of anything funny to add words to. If anyone has any suggestions for the blank ones leave a comment.



















I'll post a couple on Myspace and Facebook tomorrow and see if I can fill the blanks.

GARBAGE PAIL KID BOOK

I've been thinking for quite a while about trying to write and publish a coffee table type book with all the card images from all the series of Garbage Pail Kids. Not too long ago they came out with a book like this for the first seven series of wacky packages. I wrote a blog about it when it first came out. I have a few pages created to see what it would look like.



Here's my idea for the cover.



The "Contents" page would be layed out like the original card checklist and I'd try to get an original G.P.K. artist to do some sort of a foreword or introduction (John Pound, Tom Bunk). Then a few pages of history and then on to each series.





I like this one better with an actual piece of gum I scanned from an old pack of G.P.K. cards.

Each of the 15 series sections would begin with a nice photo of the package. I have all the original packaging so I can scan all these real nice. Each series would have it's own color scheme so it is easy to designate quickly between series.



The second page for each series has the card checklist, some images from the reverse side of the cards, and some fact/tidbits.



The cards will be shown in nice detail spaced 9 to a page which will take 5 pages for each series since only one (a or b) card image will be shown. That will be 4 pages per series. All images will be scanned from my personal collection. I would also like to have the series 2 giant cards and posters in the book. I have high quality scans of these already.

That will leave about a page and a half of nothing at the end of each series. So I've got to think up some kind of neat trivia or facts page, or fill it with illustrations or rough artwork/sketches.

E-mail me if you have suggestions. steveartfour@yahoo.com

PLASTIC TREASURE

I haven't been out of the house much since my surgery but I took Laura to go tan a couple days ago and while she was in there I walked down the College Hill and stopped into Hill Street News & Tobacco to look at magazines for a bit. While I was in there killing time my friend Noel called me on my cell phone. He wanted to know where I was at because he had a present for me.
He drove to the hill and got there right when Laura was done tanning. He had a little cigar box. I told him, "Noel, you are a dumb ass because you know I quit smoking". I was just joking but I did wonder what was in the box.
When he opened it up I saw that it was full of all these little knick-knacks. He knew I would like it. He said he bought the whole box for five bucks from some lady at the public library.
I didn't get a real good look at all the stuff that was in there until I got home and dumped it all out on the table. Here is some photos of the stuff that was inside:







All sorts of random cool junk.





There was a whole shitload of charms and I recognized a few of them as old "Cracker Jack" prizes because I've seen some of them at antique shows.



I let my daughter Sam put all the charms on a bracelet.



Here's a picture of all the rings that were in there. My favorite one was a really cool "motion" ring that flipped back and forth between the wolfman and the creature from the black lagoon. There was also a lot of Hostess rings. My dad worked for Hostess all through my childhood so we always had these laying around the house. There is also a yellow "Twinkie the Kid" ring I have a couple of them in my studio because they remind me of my dad and how me and my brother and sisters would raid his truck when he stopped home for lunch.

Anyway, thanks a bunch Noel. That was a neat gift.