BLACK FRIDAY COMC PICKUPS - PART 22: KNUCKLEHEADS

 M-M-M-MORE M-M-M-MINIS! THIS ONE ISN'T A PRE-WAR VINTAGE CIGARETTE CARD BUT IT COULD HAVE BEEN

2013 PANINI GOLDEN AGE THE THREE STOOGES COMEDY ACT AMERICAN CARAMEL MINI

ONE OF MY COLLECTING FAILS IS THAT I STILL HAVE NEVER PICKED UP A VINTAGE FLEER THREE STOOGES CARD. I'VE HAD A COUPLE CHANCES TO GET ONE BUT EVERY TIME I BALKED AT THE PRICES. MAYBE I WAS JUST BITTER THAT THERE'S NO SHEMP CARDS* IN THE SET? PANINI GOLDEN AGE DID HAVE A CARD OF THE SHEMP TEAM IN MINI VERSION YET SO I GRABBED. PANINI GOLDEN AGE IS SO WEIRD, A RETRO-STYLE SET PACKED WITH POP CULTURE GOODNESS THAT SEEMED TO BE EVERYWHERE FOR THREE YEARS AND THEN POOF, IT WAS GONE. LARRY, MOE AND CURLY ALL GOT CARDS IN 2012 ALONG WITH A STOOGES CARD WITH ALL THREE AND THERE WAS THIS CARD IN 2013 ALONG WITH A 9 CARD INSERT SET FEATURING SOME OF THEIR SHORT SUBJECTS. SHEMP IS UNFAIRLY MALIGNED AS A STOOGE AND HIS CARDS ARE HARD TO FIND SO I JUMPED ON THIS QUICK WHEN I SAW IT

THE BACK IS A RIFF ON THE 1910 E-90 BASEBALL CARD BACK. THIS ONE IS BLUE, THEY ALSO COME WITH RED INK. MINI'S WERE ONE PER PACK AND THERE WERE SIX OR SEVEN DIFFERENT FLAVORS AND I CAN'T FIND ODDS FOR ANY OF THEM ANYWHERE SO WHO KNOWS IF THIS IS SCARCE OR NOT. FUNNY THING IS TOPPS HAS THEIR OWN AMERICAN CARAMEL MINI PARALLEL DESIGN IN 2010 TOPPS 206. YOU CAN COLLECT AT LEAST FOUR DIFFERENT CARDS WITH THIS BACK IF YOU SO CHOOSE. I ALSO HAVE AN ATLANTA BRAVES SHIRT THAT INCORPORATES THIS DESIGN ALBEIT VERY SUBTLY. AMERICAN CARAMEL IS WAY MORE POPULAR THAT I IMAGINED

*NO JOE BESSER EITHER BUT THERE ARE A FEW CURLY JOE CARDS? THAT'S THE MOST GALLING PART, NO SHEMP, BUT CURLY JOE. ANOTHER THING THAT SURPRISED ME IS JOE BESSER HAS EXACTLY ZERO CARDS BEFORE A 1997 THREE STOOGES SET. WHILE BESSER IS NOT EXACTLY THE MOST BELOVED STOOGE HE IS DEFINITELY A GREAT COMEDIAN AND WAS VERY FUNNY ON ABBOTT AND COSTELLO AND JACK BENNY PROGRAMS AND WITH HIS OWN SET OF SHORTS. LOONEY TUNES RIPPED OFF HIS MANNERISMS IN SEVERAL CARTOONS, IF THAT'S NOT CONFIRMATION YOU'VE MADE IT I DON'T KNOW WHAT IS

OMG I JUST LOOKED UP SHEMP AND THAT'S HIS FIRST CARD TOO, WTF