BLACK FRIDAY COMC PICKUPS - PART 53: IT ME

AFTER STUMBLING UPON THE GREATEST CARD I MAY EVER FIND I REALISED THERE WAS NO WAY TO TOP IT AND JUST STARTED FUCKING AROUND. WITH ALL PRESSURE ON ME TO FIND A WINNER GONE I GOT TO RELAX AND LET MY MOUSE TAKE ME TO WONDEROUS PLACES. THIS IS BUT THE FIRST OF MANY AMAZING FINDS I FELL BASS ACKWARDS INTO WHILE IN MY PEACEFUL ZEN STATE

1965 FLEER WEIRD-OHS DAVEY THE PSYCHO CYCLIST

READING OLD MAD MAGAZINES I SWIPED FROM MY UNCLE AT WAY TOO YOUNG OF AN AGE INFLUENCED ME GREATLY FOR GOOD OR ILL. MIXED IN WITH THE MADS WERE A FEW ISSUES OF CAR TOONS AND CYCLE TOONS AS MY UNCLE WAS A GEAR HEAD. I NEVER GOT THAT INTO THE MOTOR VEHICLES BUT I WAS INTRODUCED TO WILD LOOKING FUNNY CARS AND HOT RODS A COUPLE DECADES AFTER THEY HAD GONE OUT OF STYLE. SINCE I WAS ALSO A STRANGE MONSTER KID I WAS ATTRACTED TO THE ED ROTH STYLE CREATURES DRIVING FUNNY CARS ARTWORK, INCLUDING THE WEIRD-OHS MODEL KITS. I NEVER SAW ONE OF THOSE MODELS WHEN I WAS A KID BUT I ENJOYED THEM FROM AFAR THROUGH OLD ADS. I WAS SURPRISED TO FIND IN MY RANDOM COMC SEARCHING THAT FLEER PRODUCED A SET OF WEIRD-OHS TRADING CARDS, ALTHOUGH I SHOULDN'T HAVE BEEN AS FLEER WAS A LITTLE DESPERATE TO MAKE ANY KIND OF CARDS BACK THEN. I DISCOVERED ONE OF THE WEIRD-OHS SHARED A NAME WITH ME AND I WAS COMPELLED TO PICK IT UP FOR MY MONSTER CARD COLLECTION EVEN THOUGH IT COST AN ASTRONOMICAL BUCK AND FIFTY-ONE CENTS, MORE THAN THE PAST THREE CARDS COMBINED. I REALLY AM A BIG CHEAPSKATE, AREN'T I 

 

"A HIGHWAY TERROR - WRECKER OF THE BEAUTIFUL, WHO HATES TO SEE THINGS GO WELL AND SEES TO IT THAT THEY DON'T" A VERY RELATABLE BIO FOR OUR DAVEY. THE WEIRD-OHS WERE DESIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR BILL CAMPBELL, WHO HAS INFLUENCED MY OWN ART SENSIBILITIES QUITE A BIT. IN HIGH SCHOOL I MAKE AN ART PROJECT OUT OF CLAY THAT WAS A GOOFY GREEN MONSTER RIDING A SKATEBOARD THAT CRIBBED HEAVILY ON THESE MODEL DESIGNS. I DON'T KNOW IF BILL IS A LONG LOST RELATIVE BUT HE LIVED RIGHT UP THE STREET FROM ME IN PAULDING COUNTY WHICH IS COOL. I'M FINDING A LOT OF GEORGIA NATIVES RESEARCHING THESE POSTS. ANOTHER THING I WAS UNAWARE OF IS THAT WEIRD-OHS GOT THEIR OWN CARTOON IN THE LATE NINETIES. I HAD TO CHECK OUT AN EPISODE AND WHILE I CAN'T REALLY SAY THAT IT'S GOOD IT'S NOW OLD ENOUGH THAT THE CLUNKY CGI CLAYMATION ART STYLE IS KIND OF CHARMING PLUS IT HAS SOME REALLY GOOD VOICE ACTING. THERE'S A FEW VHS-RIPPED EPISODES ON YOUTUBE TO CHECK OUT, HERE'S ONE WHERE PORTIA (VOICED BY TABATHA ST.GERMAIN!) WORKS OUT HER UNREQUITED LOVE FOR DAVEY IF YOU GOT TEN MINUTES YOU NEVER WANT TO HAVE BACK

ANOTHER GREAT THING ABOUT THIS CARD OTHER THAN THE ART IS IT'S PURE FLEERNESS. IT'S ON THAT GREAT FLEER WHITE CARDSTOCK WITH A VERY SIMPLE TWO COLOR BACK. AND LOOK AT THE SIZE OF THAT CARD NUMBER! I'LL STILL BE ABLE TO READ THAT YEARS FROM NOW WHEN MY EYESIGHT DEGENERATES TO DR. CYCLOPS LEVELS OF BLINDNESS. OLD FLEER CARDS MAKE ME VERY HAPPY AND THIS IS A GOOD EXAMPLE OF ONE. PLUS, I'VE BEEN COVETING A VINTAGE FLEER BASKETBALL CARD FOR A VERY LONG TIME AND THANKS TO THE HAPPY LITTLE DUDE ON THE BACK I HAVE ONE NOW! KINDA. IF YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT WEIRD-OH MODELS, HERE'S A GREAT POST INCLUDING PICS OF DAVEY'S MODEL KIT. NOW THAT I KNOW THESE THINGS ARE STILL BEING MADE I WANT TO FIND A HOBBY SHOP AND PICK UP A MONSTER MODEL I'LL PROCRASTINATE BUILDING