2023 COMC BINGE - PART 21 THE FOURTH STOOGE

OH LOOK WHO'S BACK ALL OF A SUDDEN. IT ME! ALL RESTED UP AND LESS FRAZZLED ALL READY TO POST STUFF AGAIN. BUT WHAT TO POST? HOW TO RETURN FROM MONTHS OF INACTIVITY? HOW TO MAKE SURE I DON'T PROCRASTINATE SOME MORE AND JUST WATCH BOB ROSS VIDEOS UNTIL I PASS OUT?

A COUPLE DAYS AGO I HAD A REALLY GOOD IDEA FOR A TWELVE DAYS OF CARDMAS SERIES. I FIGURED OUT TWELVE WHOLE POSTS AND EVERYTHING. BUT I QUICKLY REALIZED I DID NOT HAVE TIME TO DO ALL THE CRAP NEEDED TO WRITE ALL THE POSTS. TOO BAD. I COULD PROBABLY STILL DO IT SINCE THE TWELVE DAYS OF ACTUAL CHRISTMAS STARTS ON THE 25TH. BUT CHRISTMAS WILL TAKE FOREVER! I WANNA POST NOW!

THEN I REMEMBERED I HAVE DOZENS OF POST DRAFTS LINED UP THAT I ABANDONED MONTHS AGO WHEN I RAN OUTTA GAS. I CAN DO TWELVE SAYS OF DRAFTSMAS! I CAN START WITH THE COMC CARDS FROM LAST YEAR. I HAVE RECEIVED A WHOLE OTHER PACKAGE AND BINGED ONCE AGAIN THIS BLACK FRIDAY SO I BETTER GET POSTING. LET'S START WITH SOME STOOGES

2005 BREYGENT THE THREE STOOGES SCRAMBLED BRAINS

THERE'S A LOT MORE THREE STOOGES SETS OUT THERE THAN I EXPECTED. THE MOST FAMOUS ONE IS THE 1959 FLEER SET, BUT THERE'S ALSO A SECOND SET FROM FLEER IN 1966.  FTCC HAD THEIR OWN STOOGES REVIVAL IN THE 80S, DUOCARDS REPRESENTED THE JUNKWAX ERA OF NON-SPORT, RRPARKS HAS THE KICKSTARTER ERA COVERED, AND THEN THERE'S THIS BREYGENT SET FROM WHATEVER THE HELL PERIOD 2005 WAS. THIS SET IS COLORIZED BUT SO WAS THE '59 SET SO I CAN OVERLOOK IT. THERE ARE PLENTY OF BLACK AND WHITE CARDS TO CHOOSE FROM IF YOU PREFER. THE SET IS A NICE DIGESTIBLE 72 CARDS AND SHOWS OFF SOME OF THERE BEST STUFF FROM THE TED HEALY DAYS TO THEIR 60S MOVIES. THIS CARD SHOWS OFF THEIR SHEMP SHORT SCRAMBLED BRAINS. CHECK IT OUT

WHY SCRAMBLED BRAINS YOU ASK? WHY NO CURLY, YOU HATE CURLY?? WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU, YOU ASK. I DIDN'T GET THIS CARD FOR CURLY, I GOT IT FOR EMIL SITKA. HE'S DR. GEZUNDHEIT UP THERE WITH THE COKE BOTTLE CLASSES TRYING TO HYPNOTIZE SHEMP. I LOVE EMIL IN THE STOOGES SHORTS, HE ALWAYS GIVES 120% EVERY TIME. HE'S BEST KNOWN FOR THE 'HOLD HANDS YOU LOVEBIRDS' GAG FROM BRIDELESS GROOM. I WOULD'VE HAPPILY GOTTEN A CURLY CARD BUT EMIL'S FIRST SHORT WAS HALF WIT'S HOLIDAY WHICH WAS CURLY'S LAST. EMIL WASN'T ON THAT CARD SO THIS WILL HAVE TO DO. ALONG WITH HIS MANY APPEARANCES WITH THE STOOGES, HE WAS ALSO IN MANY TV SHOWS AND FILMS INCLUDING SAM RAIMI'S CRIMEWAVE. HE ALSO WON FIVE HUNDRED BUCKS ON LET'S MAKE A DEAL! EMIL MAKES ME HAPPY AND FINDING HIM ON A CARD MAKES ME HAPPY. EMIL SITKA UNSURPRISINGLY DOESN'T HAVE A TON OF TRADING CARDS BUT IF ANYONE CAN POINT ME TOWARDS A COPY OF THIS ONE FROM THE PHILLY NON-SPORT SHOW I'D BE GRATEFUL

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