Anyone ever open a box of these?

[DR.X]

Came across these digging through a tub of hardcover books. Man there was some screwy stuff out there in trading cards. Just wondering if anyone has a set of these. I have no intention of opening it. It's still in it's original shrink wrap.

 

[seanfingh]

 

Even at my most depraved, a box cracking, pack busting fiend, I never even thought about buying or busting those cards.

[Park]

Came across these digging through a tub of hardcover books. Man there was some screwy stuff out there in trading cards. Just wondering if anyone has a set of these. I have no intention of opening it. It's still in it's original shrink wrap.

 

 

I think those were sold by the FBI.

 

[MrBedrock]

I remember selling packs of those in the early nineties. I don't think we ever busted boxes to make sets on those because so many of those types of cards had terrible distribution in the boxes. Invariably you'd end up with only one complete set (if that) and certain cards duplicated to infinity.

[DR.X]

Even at my most depraved, a box cracking, pack busting fiend, I never even thought about buying or busting those cards.

 

You want em, and you know it.

 

 

DR.X

[Annihilus]

I've never busted open a box of them, but I do have a set of those cards somewhere in the bowels of my garage.

[brendanb438]

Looks like a hell of a fun set to get as many of the cards autographed as possible by anyone still alive in that set.

[Iceman399]

Looks like a hell of a fun set to get as many of the cards autographed as possible by anyone still alive in that set.

 

well said.

[rednalsram]

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

 

Looks like a hell of a fun set to get as many of the cards autographed as possible by anyone still alive in that set.

[Ditch Fahrenheit]

What does it say?

 

Serial Killers

G-Men - Gangsters

Murderers

[ForlornOutcast]

haha I just noticed that

[Moondog]

I remember selling packs of those in the early nineties. I don't think we ever busted boxes to make sets on those because so many of those types of cards had terrible distribution in the boxes. Invariably you'd end up with only one complete set (if that) and certain cards duplicated to infinity.

 

I had decided not to carry them at Moondog's, but Dean Mullaney of Eclipse told the Chicago media during an interview that you could buy them at my stores. We had picketers out front at our Lincoln Park store until I yelled at them that "We ain't got any!"

 

What a screwy time to be in business.

[MR SigS]

I remember them. Never had an interest

[MrBedrock]

I remember selling packs of those in the early nineties. I don't think we ever busted boxes to make sets on those because so many of those types of cards had terrible distribution in the boxes. Invariably you'd end up with only one complete set (if that) and certain cards duplicated to infinity.

 

I had decided not to carry them at Moondog's, but Dean Mullaney of Eclipse told the Chicago media during an interview that you could buy them at my stores. We had picketers out front at our Lincoln Park store until I yelled at them that "We ain't got any!"

 

What a screwy time to be in business.

I do remember the bad press that set got. I have fortunately never had any picketers or problems with censorship despite the fact that Houston's 2nd Baptist church, as far as I know the largest baptist church in the country, is less than a quarter mile from the shop.

[Moondog]

I remember selling packs of those in the early nineties. I don't think we ever busted boxes to make sets on those because so many of those types of cards had terrible distribution in the boxes. Invariably you'd end up with only one complete set (if that) and certain cards duplicated to infinity.

 

I had decided not to carry them at Moondog's, but Dean Mullaney of Eclipse told the Chicago media during an interview that you could buy them at my stores. We had picketers out front at our Lincoln Park store until I yelled at them that "We ain't got any!"

 

What a screwy time to be in business.

I do remember the bad press that set got. I have fortunately never had any picketers or problems with censorship despite the fact that Houston's 2nd Baptist church, as far as I know the largest baptist church in the country, is less than a quarter mile from the shop.

 

In the early days of Moondog's (1978-1982) we would get regular visits from the local police. "I'm sorry, Gary, but we have to check out the complaints we get about you selling porn to kids." These police visits always followed visits by women who obviously were not comics fans, who checked out every item in the store. We always bagged anything with bare breasts and had conspicuous signage that said minors were not to open bagged items, but it never stopped the visits by the do-gooders. Only after four years did it stop - and it was probably the police who stopped - not the complaints from the do-gooders.

 

How do you handle this in your store, Richard?