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The latest catalog from Hake’s arrived in my mailbox last week, which made for some excellent weekend reading. Hake’s Auction #204 is going on now, and you can bid online until November 8-10. Hake’s catalogs are bursting with information for the pop culture collector. No matter what you collect, Hake’s has something that will blow […]

Here are a couple of vintage Halloween King Kong costumes that somehow found their way into my collection. Luckily, I have unpaid child labor available to model them… Happy Halloween everybody! Let’s go trick or treating!

Last night, somewhere in Texas, all Hell broke loose. A bunch of lucky people were loaded onto buses and delivered to an abandoned shopping mall for a surprise movie. This was the ninth Mondo Mystery Movie and being right before Halloween, you kind of sensed something great was about to happen. A friend of Cool […]

Have you ever been asked the question: “If your house was burning down, and you could only grab a few things, what would you save?” Of course, I’d throw my wife and kids under one arm, but under the other arm would be my collection of vintage AJ Renzi King Kong banks. Do not judge […]

I wanted to feature a spooky vintage board game in the Countdown to Halloween, and they don’t get much spookier than this gem: The Voice of the Mummy. This game was released by Milton Bradley in 1971 and is one of the earliest battery operated board games. A three tiered foam platform serves as the […]