TOPPS SUPERMAN 2 MOVIE CARDS 1980

Time for the next installment of my Topps 1980s posts!!



SUPERMAN II- MOVIE PICTURE CARDS

Here's the wrapper in the classic Superman red, yellow, and blue.



As far as wrapper variations go, the only one I've come across is the Bazooka gum ad.



Like the majority of Topps movie cards around this time, the set has 88 cards and 22 stickers (and of course a stick of gum).
There is a lot of reminiscent charm involved with collecting these for me. Peeling open the wax wrapper, smelling the gum and the brown cardstock, shuffling through the stack sorting them, throwing out the miscut ones and the ones with offset printing, reading through the corny card titles... kind of like a trip back in time.

Enough of that, let's check out the cards!





All the best 80s sets had a header card which looks great on the top of your completed set. I wish they made these for current sets.





Most of the 80s movie sets also started out with character cards introducing all the major players. In this set they are called "Kryptonian Crystal Bank Archives" which I guess means they are from the information stored in the crystal banks at Superman's arctic hideout? Stupid.









Actress Margot Kidder played Lois Lane in all four of the 80s Superman movies. That's back when the movie industry did it's best to keep the same actors/actresses in the sequels.
As a neat tidbit Margot posed in the March 1975 issue of Playboy.


(How do you like my censoring job?)



Terence Stamp who played General Zod in this movie played Chancellor Velorum 19 years later in Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace.
He also returned to his union with the Superman franchise as the voice of Superman's father Jor-el on Tv's Smallville in 2001.





Jack O'Halloran who played the strong but silent character Non was an ex-heavyweight boxer and actually came up with the idea for his character to be mute.





Sarah Douglas who played the beautiful but deadly Ursa also played Queen Taramis in the movie Conan the Destroyer with Arnold Schwarzenegger in 1984. Type-cast as a comic book villainess (unfortunately never posed for Playboy).









Allright, it's Ned Beatty. No Deliverance Jokes.









If Marc McClure, the actor who played Jimmy Olsen, looks a little familiar you may have seen Back to the Future as many times as I have. He also played Marty's brother Dave McFly in the first and third movies in that series.


"See ya later, Pop. Whooo, time to change that oil!"



So that's the main cast, now lets get along to the story.





















































































































































































Watch the whole battle on Youtube.



































The reverse sides of the cards that don't have character profiles, star quotes, or movie summaries have pieces to form puzzles A-F.













Complete a Superman 2 card set with 22 superiffic stickers!

MR. POTTER'S PAPER ART 3-29-11

Taking a break from sketching, I spent the last week working on some of my recycled "paper art". I get a kick out of taking paper/cardboard scraps from the local recycling bin and creating 3-dimensional figures and objects out of them. With some scissors, a bit of Elmer's glue, and a LOT of patience you can make about anything.

I've posted some of my previous creations here on my funtime blog so I figured I'd share a couple new projects.

I made a generic Smurf with some blue and white paper I found.





I figured later on I could get fancy and make a Papa Smurf or Smurfette? Who knows.



I brought my old Fisher Price "chatter phone" to work one day to draw it and my co-workers got a big kick out of seeing it on my desk. It seemed everyone was happy to be reunited with their old pal (I guess every kid grew up with this thing).



I was working on the Smurf and I had commented to one of the new guys that I should build the chatter phone to scale out of paper. It would probably take a lot of work but I figured it would be a fun task to complete.
I spent the next three days measuring the original phone, cutting patterns, gluing, and assembling the pieces. I should have photo-documented the process up to this point but I figure I still have quite a bit of work to do. I've got the basic "body" finished and some of the smaller pieces drying. Here's some pics of the current state of completion:







Today I built the dial and started on the wheels.









I'll post more pics of this work-in-progress as it is completed. I've got some neat ideas for it!

TOPPS WACKY PACKAGE ERASERS 2011

I just recently found out that Topps released these and had to get my hands on some (thanks Kirk Liebig).
I collect erasers and Wacky Packages so it was exciting to see the two melded into a creative collectible.



You can buy these at Target in the trading card section of the store. They are marked at $2.99 a pack but surprisingly ring up at $1.99! Each package comes with three erasers shaped like Wacky Pack products and coinciding stickers. There are 24 in all, the last 4 marked "rare".





I bought the majority of the box and am still missing two (#7, #11). I ended up with quite a few duplicates. Here are some photos:









These are really neat to see in 3D and a great addition to any Wacky Package collector. I only had two complaints. First, one of my erasers came out of the package with a shard of glass jutting out of it? (not too safe for kids). Second the outside stickers were sloppily adhered to the erasers in some cases or misapplied (one was actually upside down). Other than that I think they are excellent.

MR. POTTER IN A GARBAGE PAIL KID GRAVE

Garbage Pail Kid artist Brent Engstrom let me know that he put my name on one of the new Flashback series 2 cards. He did all the "Adam Mania" cards for the series. It's too small to see on the printed card but close examination of the painting shows the name "POTTER" etched into a gravestone in the background. Thanks a bunch Brent, it is an honor to be buried next to my favorite artists. We can all rot together!! These cards are in stores now.