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A Collection a day #68 – King Kong, originally uploaded by Cool and Collected. “Ladies and gentlemen, look at Kong, the Eighth Wonder of the World.” In 1933, the movie, King Kong, was released on the world by RKO Pictures. It was widely heralded for its cutting-edge stop motion effects. The American Film Institute recently […]

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 […]

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 […]

A Collection a Day #65, originally uploaded by Cool and Collected. By being a collector of pop culture, most items I collect are by no means unique. They are mass produced, and readily available as long as you have readily available funds. Today’s collection is a little different, though, as it is one of the […]

A Collection a Day #64 – Space Men, originally uploaded by Cool and Collected. I can’t get enough of these bubble-headed astronauts. There’s a lesson to be learned here — the next time you are abducted by a UFO, just plop a fishbowl over your cranium and you are ready to take on any alien […]

A Collection a Day #63 – Star Wars stuff, originally uploaded by Cool and Collected. So, after 63 collections, I’m getting a little desperate for source material. I raided my son’s toy bin for most of these items. As I mentioned in my last collection’s description, I never really started a Star Wars collection, despite […]