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A Collection a Day #67 – Pulp Fiction, originally uploaded by Cool and Collected. If I was a boy in the 50’s, this is what the floor of my bedroom would have looked like. The stories in the pulps usually were not great masterpieces, but their covers sure were. The art used on the covers […]

For you viewing pleasure, this morning, I present you with this excellent montage of vintage Mego Planet of the Apes commercials. I swear that guy’s voice at 1:18 sounds like Batman’s Adam West.

A Collection a Day #66 – Big Little Books, originally uploaded by Cool and Collected. Big Little books or BLBs have a pretty solid collecting base. Personally, I have a love-hate relationship with them. I love the size and shape, and the graphics are fantastic, but I really hate how fragile these are. I’m afraid […]

This one is for all you completists out there. This roll of toilet paper recently sold on eBay for…. $96.00! That’s right, 96 bucks for a roll of Charmin. It’s certainly rare, and would be a great conversation piece, but I can think of a lot of other ways I could spend that much money. […]

If you ever read a comic book or magazine in the 70’s, you probably saw this smiling guy in his leopard print loin cloth. Charles Atlas was the original He-Man, and he preyed on all our adolescent insecurities to hawk his fitness program. “…make your chest and shoulder muscles swell so big they almost split […]