Showing posts with label Comic books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Comic books. Show all posts

Sunday, July 31, 2016

Sugar Daddy 1953 Comic Characters

Remember when you were a little kid and you looked forward to getting the Sunday edition of the newspaper so you could read the full color comic section? Back the early 1950s comic strips were super popular more so it seems than they are now days with the Anime comics and graphic novels and computerized shows on the internet and on television. In 1953 a company called James O. Welch Co. produced a set of trading cards that were inserted into the Sugar Daddy candy wrappers. There were 50 cards in all. Each with a comic character from one of the popular comic strips of the day. The character name was not included instead there were a series of blank boxes, like a crossword puzzle, that collector's were encouraged to fill out the name. When you collected 25 different cards you were to send in the cards, filled out with your guesses of the character's names and you would win a giant sized Sugar Daddy lollipop candy on a stick.

A second series was produced using the same 50 cards, except these include the name of the character and at the bottom of the card there was a coupon that kids were once again encouraged to send in. This time if you sent in 10 coupons and .25¢ you received a beanie cap or if you sent in 10 coupons and just .10¢ you received 12 beanie buttons.

Anyway you wanna see the cards. I have three cards with two different characters 2 from series 1 and 1 from series 2. Some months back I had mentioned these cards on the card forums where I mention my "mail days" so the description paragraphs I have more or less just copied from those posts to set up showing each of the cards, so there will be some repetitive information in this post.

On 05 June 2015 I got a lone card Non-Sport sweetie for $9.95 + $3.20 Shipping. A single nice condition 1953 R757-1 Comic Character Card "Sugar Daddy" series 29 The Dragon Lady from Terry And The Pirates. This was from a set of 50 cards where there are blank boxes that the collector was to fill in the blanks identifying the character and then after collecting 25 cards mailing the correctly identified cards in to the candy maker they would get a GIANT sized Sugar Daddy "lollipop". There is an identical second "series" R757-2 that has a "coupon" on the bottom of the card (similar to the tabs on the Red Man Tobacco cards). The coupon was for a beanie or set of beanie buttons.



On Wednesday 01 July 2015: I had a one envelope one card mail day. From Ebay for $24.99 + $3.00 shipping. Yeah I know the card was a bit expensive but I think worth it. a 1953 Sugar Daddy Comic Character Cards R757-2 #29 The Dragon Lady from Terry And The Pirates comic strip. A few weeks back I had gotten the other variant of this card the R757-1 variant for much cheaper. The first variant with the fill-in-the-blank for the name is slightly easier to find since it didn't have to be mutilated, this R757-2 variant the one with the coupon is sometimes difficult to find with the coupon intact and in such good shape as this one is in.



On 11 July 2015: From Ebay single package forget if it was a PWE or a small cardboard mailer. If I recall the contents (a single vintage non-sport card) was well protected by a cardboard sandwich and was in a penny sleeve. IN pursuit of my set build of the 1953 Sugar Daddy Comic Character Cards R757-1 (and -2 set) I got card #46 Indian Chief from the "Smitty" comic strip. The blanks are Unmarked of course as this is the way I am collecting this set. At first I was concerned that the card edges were TOO straight and it was "cut" but it seems to be the same size as my other card from this set. Oh the auction details it was a BIN purchase for $7.50 + $4.00 shipping.



I plan on getting the rest of this set both variants eventually. The sets are nearly identical 50 cards in the individual sets so that is 100 cards total. The dash one set I'll try to get unmarked and the dash two set I want with the coupon intact so both sets will take me a while to get. As usual I want to get it on the cheap.

Updated: 30 Mar 2017

My needs for the sets:
R757-1: (Fill in the blank) 2/50:
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35,36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 47, 48, 49, 50

R757-2 (coupon version w/coupon): 1/50
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35,36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Mailday Monday 09 April 2012


Since Monday's Mailday was a pretty big one I'll have to do it on it's own. I will try to post some pictures of stuff later when I mention them specifically, or their sets next time. I am just all kinds of backed up on what I "want" to scan. I keep on thinking of stuff I need to scan, plus over at the TCC forums I was involved in a contest that involved me having to scan something new everyday unless I already had it scanned. So I am even further way back than I was before. At least I came in third! (No prize for 3rd though) Anyway here is the huge list of what I got on Monday (Tuesday there was no card related stuff although I had one of those "you have a package" orange slips which should be some late 80s early 90s Update Sets.

So big a mix of Ebay and Sportlots it is hard to keep track of which was which after putting cards in proper order. It was all Baseball except one Non-Sports Item I got and the seller included some extras.

BASEBALL
2009 Topps 206 Minis: (I won't bother trying to figure out first names that can be done later) All are the regular backs w/normal numbers:
7 Baldelli Red Sox
12 Ian Stewart Rockies
15 Scherzer Diamondbacks
18 Johjima Mariners
29 Wood Indians
33 Bruce Reds
34 Andre Ethier Dodgers
35 Eric Bedard Mariners
59 Huff RC Indians
65 Glaus Cardinals
112 Hernandez Mariners
183 Bonderman Tigers

1957 Topps 59 Dick Williams Orioles

1964 Topps:
138 World Series Game 3 "L.A. Takes 3rd Straight"
139 World Series Game 4 "Sealing Yanks' Doom"
140 World Series Game 5 "The Dodgers Celebrate"

1967 Topps
31 Jim Brewer Dodgers
92 Ray Washburn Cards
136 Carroll Sembera Astros
144 Bill Hepler Mets
147 Tom Egan Angels
162 Billy O'Dell Pirates
229 Larry Jackson Phillies
324 Hall Woodesnick Cards
342 Hank Fischer Red Sox
343 Tom Satriano Angels
410 Lou Johnson Dodgers (big old "158" in black marker on back)

1968 Topps 321 Leo Durocher Cubs MGR

1970 Topps:
59 Dick Ellsworth Indians
71 NL Strikeout Leaders: Fergie Jenkins Cubs/ Bob Gibson Cardinals/ Bill Singer Dodgers
119 Chuck Taylor High-Tops Cards
241 Royals Rookie Stars Al Fitzmorris and Scott Northey
252 Lowell Palmer Phillies Cool Shades award
266 Wally Bunker Royals (bottom corners chewed quite a bit)
278 Tommie Aaron Braves (sure I've got a dupe of this, as a kid I had two or three)
292 Eddie Leon Indians
362 Joe Hague Cards
444 White Sox Rookie Stars Billy Farmer and John Matias
456 Don Kessinger AS Cubs
485 Jay Johnstone Angels

1971 Topps:
108 John Cumberland Giants
116 Ken Sanders Brewers
118 Cookie Rojas Royals (think its a dupe)
125 Ray Fosse Indians
135 Rick Monday Athletics (dupe)
168 Bruce Del Canton Pirates
188 Dodgers Rookie Stars Bob Valentine and Mike Strahler
253 Bill Sudakis Dodgers
313 Tom Hall Twins
338 Gene Tenance Athletics
345 Joe Horlen White Sox
495 Felipe Alou Athletics (Dig that yellow uniform)
729 Dick Billings Senators

1972 Topps 492 Boyhood Photos of The Stars Young Mel Stottlemyre Yankees

1975 Topps:
192 MVPs 1954
197 MVPs 1959
198 MVPs 1960
199 MVPs 1961
202 MVPs 1964
203 MVPs 1965
205 MVPs 1967 (wow what a miscut)
206 MVPs 1968
209 MVPs 1971
223 Robin Yount RC Brewers (listed as "good" condition) got it for $8.99 plus 99¢ shipping

1977 Topps 635 Robin Yount Brewers

1986 Topps Traded 50T Bo Jackson RC Royals

2012 Topps Heritage: (smell weird almost smokey sigh!) 53 of em all base no SPs that I know of no color switchers so I'll just list numbers for the most part.
7, 15, 23, 26, 42, 46, 53, 61, 65, 72, 76, 83, 87, 93, 97, 103, 121, 131, 143, 154, 157, 159, 164, 166, 182, 188, 202, 212, 218, 238, 239, 246, 249, 259, 276, 287, 288, 291, 297, 315, 322, 325, 329, 330, 346, 347, 348, 351, 363, 378, 387, 396, 413

NON-SPORT
1995 Skybox Batman & Robin The Animated Series Pop-Up P3 Batgirl

Bonus cards:
2010 Marvlel Heroes & Villains:
54 Elektra vs. Skrull Daredevil
68 Ms. Marvel vs. Moonstone
69 Punisher vs. Skrull
81 Wolverine vs. Ruby Red


Playing Mailday Catch-UP. Next update in 1 hour.

Saturday, January 28, 2012

Sexy Comic Villain Sketch Cards

Back on December 26th last year (2011) from Ebay I got two pencil sketched cards from the artist, Mark Spears. I got them for $6 (with $2 shipping) One is of Catwoman the other is Black Cat from SpiderMan. They are true original sketch cards and nothing is on the back. These were from the artist cards that are not associated with any series. These two are truly 1/1s since they are directly from the artist. Sketch cards from the big companies might not necessarily be truly 1/1s those could be photocopies of a sketch.

On the subject of sketch cards I am so annoyed at both the sellers for setting ridiculous prices and for the collectors for paying those prices. A nicely drawn picture on a card (pencil sketch or B&W inked, or Full Color) on Ebay usually start at a ridiculous price of anywhere from about $40 to $60 starting bid (or sometimes Buy it Now) price sometimes they even start at $100 or more. None of them are worth that much to me, and many of them are poorly drawn but still start at some stupid outrageous price.

Personally I try not to spend more than $20 on ANY trading card with $30 being my ceiling. I think the most I have ever spent on an individual card is $30 probably a vintage card or an autograph card.

 When I saw these two cards my first thought was how well drawn they were then when I saw they had really cheap (compared to the average sketch card price on FEEBAY) I had to grab them up. One was only 99¢ (Catwoman) the other (Black Cat) was $4.99.

Catwoman Sketch Card by Mark Spears 2011


Black Cat Sketch Card by Mark Spears 2011

On the Black Cat card I get a kick out of Spidey peaking his head in the doorway. I like Mark's work and will look for stuff from him in the future.