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I don't really own many vintage trading cards, but I did recently pick up a set of 'Dogs By Zito' cards from the '40s on eBay, since me and my wife are dachshund owners and aficianados. Looks like this Zito chap, who was apparently a society caricaturist of the time, drew some whimsical, extremely fetching dog-related cartoons as well. Here's the first couple:
Bizarrely enough, the only page devoted to Zito that I can find appears to have pictures of the very same two cards I scanned, albeit in black and white bound form. Well, I have a set of 44 (out of 45) of the Zito cards, and just randomly happened to pick those, so I'll do so more that haven't appeared online sometime soon - they're all pretty funny, though some are mystifying to today's reader.
Oops, sory for the slight delay, but back again - I don't have the whole set of these, but I do have a few highlights from the 'Bill & Ted's Most Atypical Movie' set - in this case, Napoleon pigging down on a gigantic icecream sundae in San Dimas!
The description simply reads as follows: "While Bill and Ted continue to round up subjects for their report, Deacon entertains Napoleon. Napoleon devours the ice cream and receives the Ziggy Piggy Award." It's amazing what a great movie Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure is, and this is one of my favorite moments in the film - there's something about tiny unimpressed French dictators, I guess?
Since I just picked up a great non-sport trading card collection which has a small selection of a whole bunch of trading card sets dating back to the early '70s, let's try a classic from the Truckin' card collection in 1975.
As the description with the card list notes: "This series features customized trucks/lorries and vans. Each card back shows descriptive text and includes an order form for subscription to Truckin' magazine."And this particular beauty of a van is called 'Spaced Out'.
As you can see from the description of the van, made by Bob Cardenas from Denver, Colorado: "Spaced Out is a good name for this shortened Chevy van... some of the modifications are custom portholes, sunroof, scoop, two-piece front bumper, fog lights, shortened drive pipe, 11-inch driveshaft." Hawtness - I'll take a dozen.
First ever post on the new hotness that is Pop Cult Scan Fun, and the first of a wonderful non-sport trading card set - YO! MTV Raps Series 1, based on the MTV hiphop show of the same name.
I'll be busting out some of the other awesome cards over time, including Biz Markie in a lab coat and obscure-ass female Def Jam rapper Nikki D, hopefully, but in the meantime, here's one of the Tone Loc cards from the first series (as always, click through for a hi-res version):
A co-worker couldn't remember who Tone Loc was, which I was very disappointed by, since 'Wild Thing' and 'Funky Cold Medina' have given him his hall pass to hiphop fame in most people's books. Also, Ace Venture: Pet Detective, yay! But hey, the point of ephemera is that you can't remember, cos of the ephemerality, right? Also, as the back of the card notes: 'Tone is short for Tony, and Loc is short for Loco'. Aha!
