A collection a Day #18 – Lunch Boxes, originally uploaded by Cool and Collected. Want to know what my favorite shows were when I was a kid? Just take a look at my lunch boxes. I kicked these things down the street, threw them in the air, and sometimes even caught them. I never brown […]
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Frank Frazetta and Frank Miller art sales break records
The market for comic books and original comic book art is booming. Case in point, the original 1955 Frank Frazetta illustration for Weird Science-Fantasy #29 recently sold for $380,000, which makes it the most expensive piece of comic book art on record. This illustration by Frank Miller was for the cover of Daredevil #188 and […]
A Collection a Day #17 – Vintage target shooting games
A Collection a Day #17 – Vintage target shooting games, originally uploaded by Cool and Collected. These vintage target games are some of my favorite items in my collection. They are big, bright, and colorful (like me). That Space Target game is two feet tall! The pictures on it are so perfect, depicting the space-themed […]
Would you like some cadmium with that order, sir?
McDonalds recalled all those “Shrek Forever After 3D” drinking glasses due to the fact that they contain high levels of cadmium, which can cause “adverse health effects” according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Translation: your kids will die a slow and horrible death if they drink from that Donkey glass all day, every day, for […]
A Collection a Day #16 – Vintage Board Games
A Collection a Day #16 – Vintage Board Games, originally uploaded by Cool and Collected. If there is one thing I really miss in this digital age, it’s board games. Sure, they’re out there on store shelves and kids still play Candyland and Mousetrap, but with the allure of video games, gatherings with family and […]