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A Collection a Day #62 – Star Wars trading cards, originally uploaded by Cool and Collected. I’ve made it to 62 collections without a single reference to Star Wars, but that changes now! As someone who collects pretty much anything cool from pop culture, it might seem strange that I don’t have much from the […]

A Collection a Day #61 – Starlog magazines, originally uploaded by Cool and Collected. Hey kids! Once upon a time there were these things called magazines. They were plentiful in the days before the interwebs but now they are threatened with extinction, which is sad because they are an absolute treasure trove of knowledge. I […]

A Collection a Day #60 – More Superman stuff, originally uploaded by Cool and Collected. Look, up on the shelf, it’s Superman! I don’t actively pursue Superman items for my collection, but it’s hard not to find them, and some are just too hard to leave behind. The man of steel has been leading the […]

A Collection a Day #59 – Buck Rogers trading card stickers, originally uploaded by Cool and Collected. Man, did my mom hate these things. These stickers were included in the wax packs of trading cards and were more prized than the cards and even the gum. The manufacturers of these stickers used some kind of […]

A Collection a Day #58 – The Goonies trading cards, originally uploaded by Cool and Collected. Trading cards must have been the biggest spoilers for kids in the pre-internet age. Imagine you tear open a pack of these cards and got #73, which states: “Talk about your happy endings! Rosalita, the Walsh’s maid, discovers the […]

A Collection a Day #57 – Black Hole trading cards, originally uploaded by Cool and Collected. Remember when we all thought this movie was going to be the next “Star Wars?” Well, it missed that mark by just a teeny tiny bit, but once the nostalgia factor kicked in, some of us grew to love […]