NON-SPORT FRANKENSET - CARD #14

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JACK DAVIS

NON-SPORT FRANKENSET IS ANOTHER SERIES I'VE ABANDONED FOR YEARS BUT NOW I HAVE AN EXCUSE TO JUMP BACK IN. THE THREE PEOPLE WHO STILL READ THIS BLOG ALREADY KNOW WHAT A FRANKENSET IS BUT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE SPAMMERS PUTTING LINKS TO SKETCHY SHIT IN THE COMMENTS HERE IS MY DEFINITION OF THE FRANKENSET:

A CHAOTIC TRADING CARD SET COMPOSED OF CARDS FROM A SPECIFIC BRAND OR THEME NUMBERED 1-100 OR 200 OR 10000 OR HOWEVER LONG YOU WISH WITH ONE CARD PER NUMBER ON THE BACK. EXAMPLES OF FRANKENSETS I COLLECT:

ALLEN & GINTER MINI SET

TOPPS GOLD PARALLEL SET

PANINI GOLDEN AGE SET

THIS HERE NON-SPORTS SET

EACH SET IS WHAT IS SAYS ON THE TIN: THE A&G MINI SET IS MADE OF MINI CARDS FROM ALL ALLEN & GINTER SETS NUMBERED 1-300. THE TOPPS GOLD PARALLEL SET IS MADE UP OF THE NUMBERED PARALLEL CARDS FROM 2001-ONWARD FOR CARDS 1-660. THE GOLDEN AGE SET WAS MADE BECAUSE I HAD A BUNCH OF GOLDEN AGE CARDS BUT WAS NEVER GOING TO COMPLETE ANY OF THEM SO I MADE MY OWN DAMN SET. AND THIS HERE IS, WELL, THIS HERE. SO FAR I HAVE PUT TOGETHER TWO SERIES OF 44 CARDS AND A PAGE OF STICKERS! I SHOULD PROBABLY MAKE A POST LINKING TO ALL THE PREVIOUS ONES BUT I'M NOT GOING TO DO THAT RIGHT NOW BECAUSE THE FINGERS ARE TYPING AND I'M NOT GOING TO BREAK MY INERTIA

#14 1990 SUNKIST WACKY PLAYERS - THE CRUSHER

JACK DAVIS ILLUSTRATED TRADING CARDS FROM AT LEAST 1959 TO 2009. FIFTY DAMN YEARS OF TRADING CARDS! AND THAT'S JUST THE ONES I KNOW ABOUT, HE MIGHT HAVE A FEW OTHERS HERE AND THERE BEFORE OR AFTER. THIS SET WAS INSERTED INSIDE SUNKIST FRUIT SNACKS AND WAS A MULTI-SPORT SET OF WACKY SPORTS STARS. SPORTS WERE A GREAT SUBJECT FOR JACK'S ART STYLE AS HE COULD EXPRESS THE MOTION AND ENERGY OF ATHLETICS SO WELL. NOT TO MENTION THE HUMOR, YOU'RE NOT GOING TO SEE MANY MORE ILLUSTRATIONS OF A DUDE GETTING HIS HEAD STOMPED THAT'S FUNNIER THAN THIS ONE. IT'S ALSO A GREAT DEPICTION OF A MONSTER OF A FOOTBALL PLAYER. I'M SURE THE RED UNIFORM WASN'T AN ACCIDENT BY THE GEORGIA BULLDOG FAN

THERE'S LIKE TWO DOZEN GAGS ON THIS CARD AND THE BEST ONE MIGHT BE AVID GOLFER. WHOEVER DESIGNED THIS SET CERTAINLY HAD THE MAD MAGAZINE MINDSET OF THROWING EVERY JOKE AT THE WALL AND HOPING SOME OF THEM STICK. ALONG WITH MAD MAGAZINE, MOST OF THE JOKES DO LAND. I HAVE TWO CARDS FROM THIS SET AND I HAD TO REALLY THINK ABOUT WHICH ONE TO INCLUDE BUT IN THE END THIS WAS THE CLINCHER:

FUCK YEAH RAMONES. SO WHAT IF THE SONG IS ABOUT WRESTLING, YOU THINK THAT CRUSHER UP HERE WOULDN'T BE KING OF THE RING?

UPDATE: HERE'S THE FIRST ONE FIGURE IT OUT FROM THERE