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Thursday, June 20, 2013

Now this has cool lettering!

Wednesday, June 19, 2013

BATMAN TV SERIES product

If you visit my blog often, you know I am a fan of the BATMAN TV Series and love good art :) Some have been excited about the NEW product that is coming out this Fall from various companies. Normally, I get excited too and would like to add a few things to my collection. When I collect things, packaging is important to me. When I saw this packaging and several other items packaged like this for the upcoming releases...I scratched my head. First of all, the lettering doesn't look good. It should be colorful, well designed and look like something out of the TV series and it doesn't. Then my eyes move to the art immediately.....and what I see, looks nothing like the TV series that I have been watching for many years. WHY????!!! This doesn't make any sense. Many have said it is DC COMICS way of making it match their universe :) If you are going to put product out based on the TV series, it should reflect the TV series and nothing else. That is just my opinion.

So many things are in the wrong hands these days. Maybe one day, the people who are in charge of merchandising characters will ask experts or fans what they think and then maybe it will get done right. A few things were done right a few years back when someone hired my friend Alex Ross to do a painting of the Barris Batmobile for a few racing sets and models. That looked GREAT! Now that these products can reflect the image of Adam West and Burt Ward and the other actors...why not put pictures of the actors on the packaging?

from Ron Murphy

THREE STOOGES MANIA

First of all, HAPPY BIRTHDAY to MOE HOWARD!

I have been watching lots of THE THREE STOOGES lately! Yesterday, my friend Tom picked up[ an AMAZING DVD for us at WALMART for $5 called THREE STOOGES MANIA! It has several things that are worth a lot more than $5. First of all, there is an Excellent quality interview circa 1965-66 with the Stooges and their families with Excellent quality clips from the cartoon series. There are Excellent quality color clips from the NBC THE DANNY THOMAS SHOW! A great, colorized complete episode of THE ED WYNN SHOW (With cool CAMEL CIGARETTE commercials). It also includes a complete gallery of trailers with some BEHIND-THE-SCENES stuff from THE OUTLAWS IS COMING! It has Larry's 1973 interview from the Actor's home in Woodland Hills, CA cut together with Stooges clips. If you want a DVD with RARE STOOGES stuff....this is it!