Topps Fright Flicks Trading Cards: Backs
As I noted before, the “Did it ever happen?” backs don’t relate to the scenes on the front of the cards. Instead you have little odd stories posing that question.
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Trading Cards
Topps Fright Flicks Trading Cards: Fronts
Warning, the images can be gory! Which shouldn’t bother most horror fans 😉
This Topps Fright Flicks card set from the 1980s is a nostalgic tour of great horror moments from a wonderful decade for horror movies. And you got a stick of bubble gum and a sticker in every wax pack too! Can’t beat that.
Here are the 90 card fronts. I didn’t place them in numerical order, but kept the horizontal cards separate from the vertical ones. Unfortunately, each card back notes the movie the facing photo is from, but for some odd reason adds a little blurb of text that’s not related to the movie or the photo.
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Fright Flicks Picture A
This is the 10 card set for Picture A of Fright Flicks, 1988, from the Topps Company. Put together, the backs make a nifty nostalgic poster suitable for framing. Practical effects were the bomb in the 1980s.
Universal Monsters Illustrated Insert Poster
This 11×17 inch promotional mini-poster came in the shipping box for the Topps Universal Monsters Illustrated Deluxe Trading Cards (1994).
52 Famous Murderers
and No Bubblegum
I left graduate school with a MA in Forensic Psychology and a notion I could pursue a career probing the depths the human mind can sink through while assisting a criminal justice system burdened by many factors beyond simple policing and meting out justice. It would be a lark, providing lots of fascinating party talk and dinner chat to titillate my listeners.
My notion was first tested when I was told to wear a clip-on tie while interning in the agitated ward of a correctional facility so I wouldn’t be strangled by any of my more rambunctious charges. It was vigorously challenged when sitting across the long, narrow, table from me, on one of those days you’ve missed the coffee cart when you really shouldn’t have, was an explosively violent young person wearing a straitjacket. He had been unruly during the night and so the restraint was deemed prudent. After a few minutes of chitchat he asked me what I would do if he suddenly jumped over that table and did his best to smother the life out of me, or maybe just break my neck instead, before the corrections officer, standing some feet across the room, could stop him. …
Trading Cards: Midnight Madness Robot Killer
Here is the twelve-card story for Robot Killer, from Rosem’s Midnight Madness Card Set. Story is by Steve Kiviat and illustrations by Alfredo Osorio. (Copyright 1990 by Rosem Enterprises.)
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Trading Cards: 1960s Sci-Fi & Terror TV
This is a wonderful set of 50 cards, ‘an educational guide for viewers,’ from Funfax, copyright 1994. This series ‘examines the best sci-fi and horror programs from that decade’ [1960 to 1970]. Click to enlarge. You will find the information on the back of each card nostalgic and interesting, and a very good selection of unforgettable episodes.
Trading Cards: The Simpsons Mania Set
Treehouse of Horror
This 9-card subset from the The Simpson's Mania card set from Inkworks (copyright 2001) provides a taste of Treehouse of Horror Halloween fun from the television series. The picture on the back shows a ghostly surprise when held under black light.
Doctor Who Cadbury Typhoo 1976
“Collect colorful pictures of exciting characters encountered during the timeless travels of the Tardis. There are 12 octagonal cards to collect”–from Cadbury Typhoo Limited. Copyright BBC 1976.
The Doctor certainly encounters a lot of monsters in his travels, don’t you think?
Trading Cards: The Munsters Autograph Cards
How much longer till Halloween? Here are the Dart Flipcards, Inc. The Munsters autographed trading cards for your Munsterish delight.
I met the adorable Pat Priest at one of the Drunken Severed Head's invitation-only parties, held during a Monster Bash convention. She regaled us with funny stories of her work on The Munsters set, how she turned down a free car from Elvis, and how she threw away the show's scripts and other future hot collectibles when no longer needed. Memorabilia was not a hot topic in those days apparently. I ate at Al Lewis' restaurant called, fittingly enough, Grampa's in Greenwich Village back in 1987. I didn't notice the place until this guy sitting in front yelled "Are you hungry?" and held the door open for us, inviting us in. It was Al Lewis, chomping on a big cigar and having a ball. The Italian food was awesome, too.
Trading Cards: Midnight Madness, The Surgeon
Here is the twelve card story for the series, The Surgeon, from Rosem’s Midnight Madness Card Set. Story is by Steve Kiviat, and illustrations by Alfredo Osorio. (Copyright 1990 by Rosem Enterprises.) His patients have more to complain about than their medical coverage.
Trading Cards: Midnight Madness, Desert Rats
Here is the twelve card story for my favorite one in the series, Desert Rats, from Rosem’s Midnight Madness Card Set. Story is by Steve Kiviat, and illustrations by Alfredo Osorio. (Copyright 1990 by Rosem Enterprises.)
Can’t you just eat it up! It is so quaintly gruesome. And look at those cute little fuzzy faces. They just gnaw at your heart, don’t they?
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