Cool and Collected - collecting pop culture memories and memorabilia
A general discussion of collecting cool things, such as vintage and modern toys, comic books, ephemera.
I’m not a huge Peanuts fan, but I totally dig the style of these Snoopy posters by Laurent Durieux… Snoopy LOVE Snoopy Just Married Dark Hall Mansions recently brought us those great Tom Whalen Peanuts posters, and I am really enjoying how they are bringing some style to the Peanuts franchise. These new posters and [...]
Marvel Third Eye posters have been on my list of Holy Grails for years, and I never dreamed I would find one in the wild. Last weekend, I found ten! These posters have a huge following and there are usually one or two available on any given day on eBay, but be prepared to pay [...]
Any Shogun Warrior experts out there? Hake’s is going to sell these two posters in their upcoming auction, and I was wondering if anyone knew anything about these. They feature Gaiking and have a small Japanese sticker on the back with a logo. These are possibly pre-US release posters that were used in Japan to [...]
The good folks at Guernsey’s will be holding another incredible auction tomorrow. This time the items up for bid are focused on vintage circus items and carousel animals. I’m not too interested in the carousel animals (though some of them are pretty cool) but I would be more than happy to own one of these [...]
Charles Joseph Carter (1874 – 1936) was the American stage magician, known as “Carter the Great.” During the heyday of magic acts in the U.S., Carter gained his greatest fame abroad. Among the highlights of Carter’s stage performances during his career were the classic “sawing a woman in half” illusion (an elaborate surgical-themed version with “nurses” in [...]
A lot of people are snapping up copies of the Dark Knight movie posters with Heath Ledger as the Joker, but my money will be going towards this awesome one-sheet, showing Bat-Man in front of a burning bat symbol. I can’t wait to get my hands on one of these and see it in the [...]
