Pat Calhoun Posted December 2, 2021 Share Posted December 2, 2021 Robot Man and Larryw7 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Man Posted December 6, 2021 Author Share Posted December 6, 2021 (edited) Name the forgotten cartoon character Dept. I love finding little groups of stuff like this. I don’t go out of way, nor do I pay much. Just fun to stumble on things like this. Kids used to trade amoungst them selves to see how many they could get. Some characters are obvious and some are just lost to time I’m afraid. First off is a group of card stock “Lucky Chips” from a NO CA newspaper. 1940’s. These were apparently slipped into newspapers randomly. The paper would publish the winning numbers in the next issue redeemable for prizes. Kind like lottery tickets. How many characters can you name? Edited December 6, 2021 by Robot Man Sarg, Randall Dowling and PopKulture 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Man Posted December 6, 2021 Author Share Posted December 6, 2021 Group 2. Similar to group 1. How many do you know? Randall Dowling, Sarg, Larryw7 and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Robot Man Posted December 6, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted December 6, 2021 (edited) And finally these I got yesterday. These came inside Welch’s suckers. From 1953. A complete set is 50. Probably a set I will not live long enough to complete. That is a lot of dentist bills… The strip is identified. But the character name is not. Edited December 7, 2021 by Robot Man Mmehdy, ThothAmon, PopKulture and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PopKulture Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 (edited) On 12/6/2021 at 5:23 PM, Robot Man said: Group 2. Similar to group 1. How many do you know? Some tough ones - it's sort of an eye test, too! The first one escapes me right now - looks like a George Carlson or perhaps a character from "Out Our Way" - the second one might be a poorly drawn Dan Dunn or a lot of other characters. From there I believe it's Smitty, Straight Arrow, Bugs, Mary Worth and Rex Morgan, M.D. Unless the last one is Big Ben Bolt. Do they have the names on the reverse? The set above this one has some real toughies - it looks like Abie Agent to start off! Only the last row is easier. Edited December 7, 2021 by PopKulture Randall Dowling and Robot Man 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Man Posted December 20, 2021 Author Share Posted December 20, 2021 Better get that holiday shopping done… comicjack, sagii and Larryw7 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Man Posted December 22, 2021 Author Share Posted December 22, 2021 Alien Christmas children? jimjum12 and 50YrsCollctngCmcs 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
50YrsCollctngCmcs Posted December 22, 2021 Share Posted December 22, 2021 On 12/21/2021 at 5:07 PM, Robot Man said: Alien Christmas children? Looks like something you'd see in some trendy place in Soho! Kind of creepy though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Man Posted December 22, 2021 Author Share Posted December 22, 2021 What represents Christmas better than Santa and candy? Surfing Alien 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Robot Man Posted December 24, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted December 24, 2021 Stocking stuffers... Sarg, Larryw7, Surfing Alien and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Robot Man Posted December 24, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted December 24, 2021 Surfing Alien, jimjum12, Mmehdy and 4 others 5 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Man Posted December 24, 2021 Author Share Posted December 24, 2021 Surfing Alien and ThothAmon 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tri-Color Brian Posted December 24, 2021 Share Posted December 24, 2021 (edited) Not comic related, but I know you like buttons. I got this at the 1974 World's Fair. The Soviet Pavilion was out of them, so one of the soviet guys in charge gave me this button off his suit coat...and of course, in keeping with the tradition of distaste for capitalism and Americans, he included the traditional look of disgust as he did it... Edited December 24, 2021 by Tri-ColorBrian Sarg, ThothAmon, MattTheDuck and 1 other 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Man Posted December 24, 2021 Author Share Posted December 24, 2021 Have a Merry Christmas with a Pepsi from Santa! sagii 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
50YrsCollctngCmcs Posted December 24, 2021 Share Posted December 24, 2021 On 12/23/2021 at 5:19 PM, Tri-ColorBrian said: Not comic related, but I know you like buttons. I got this at the 1974 World's Fair. The Soviet Pavilion was out of them, so one of the soviet guys in charge gave me this button off his suit coat...and of course, in keeping with the tradition of distaste for capitalism and Americans, he included the traditional look of disgust as he did it... Geez the guy gave you the button off his jacket and you are making fun of him! He was probably mad he couldn't bring it back to Russia and trade it for some goodies. Tri-Color Brian 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tri-Color Brian Posted December 24, 2021 Share Posted December 24, 2021 On 12/24/2021 at 3:33 PM, 50YrsCollctngCmcs said: Geez the guy gave you the button off his jacket and you are making fun of him! He was probably mad he couldn't bring it back to Russia and trade it for some goodies. I just report the facts, Sir. No levity intended...well, not much anyway... ThothAmon 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Man Posted December 27, 2021 Author Share Posted December 27, 2021 Well, the big day is over. Hope 'y'all got something under the tree from 'ole Santa... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Robot Man Posted December 27, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted December 27, 2021 And 'ole yours truly MANY years ago! Larryw7, alexgross.com, Tri-Color Brian and 4 others 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
50YrsCollctngCmcs Posted December 27, 2021 Share Posted December 27, 2021 On 12/27/2021 at 12:39 PM, Robot Man said: And 'ole yours truly MANY years ago! I wonder why they chose to include the old fashioned phone with the super market setup? Or maybe that was a separate present? That also looks like a cool model of the P38 Lightning plane below. I had a scale plastic model of that which was pretty amazing. jimjum12 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Man Posted December 29, 2021 Author Share Posted December 29, 2021 Got a cool post Christmas present from a friend yesterday. She thought I might know who this was. Indeed, a 1920’s/‘30’s newspaper character. A larger than normal box. Great graphics and a flip down front. Maybe even better, they are just starting to clear out their grandparent’s house. “Full of junk” she said. I am going to help her out to make sure they don’t pitch anything good. Nothing better than the archeology of going through an old house of “junk”. @PopKulture Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
