I don't have any sports-related updates but thought I'd post anyway. I am expecting some returns as early as tomorrow, including a 1966 Athletics Yearbook back from Jose Tartabull, and some John Mayberry cards back from a Tom Orr signing.
I'm also bundling up some Rod Carew cards to get signed, including his 1967 rookie card.
When I started this blog, I envisioned it including not only sports memorabilia, but also my comic and vintage toy collection. I ended up creating separate blogs for the comics and toys, but gave up on those. After collecting all of this for over 20 years, I found that my comics and toy collection really slowed down since I only collect vintage items and really don't buy that much anymore. The few items I still want are very expensive and my purchases are few and far between.
My comic collection focuses on the Marvel Universe with a heavy concentration in Spider-Man. I quite buying new comics in the early 90's when the prices and the variant cover scams made it obvious that they were more interested in making money than producing good comics.
My last significant comic purchase was back in 2018 when I bought Amazing Spider-Man #3.
I have Amazing Spider-Man issues #2-425. 425 is when I quit buying new ones.
My vintage toy collection is mostly Star Wars, with some 60's and 70's Superhero toys, such as the Mego line of toys.
I received a lot of the original Star wars toys as Christmas and Birthday gifts when the movie originally came out in 1977 and 1978. In the early 90's, when they released a new line of toys (Power of the Force 2), I got heavily into it again, buying not only the new toys, but also going back and buying more toys from the vintage Kenner line.
I have almost all of the loose Star Wars toys from 1977 - 1983, and some from the 1985 Power of the Force line. I'm missing a few Ewoks and a few of the more expensive Power of the Force figures. I also have several dozen carded figures.
My latest Star Wars purchases were a boxed B-Wing Fighter from Galaxy Toys in Duluth, MN (a great store for old toys!) and this loose Luke in Stormtooper Disguise figure from the 1985 Power of the Force line back in January of this year.
Over the last few years I've also been buying a few more Mego superhero action figures. I've acquired quite a few in the last 2-3 years. These can be tough to find in good condition, and I've decided to try to repair a few for my collection and potentially to resell. I have a handful of figures with loose limbs and clothing in various stages of repair, but of course, haven't gotten around to fixing them yet!
Here are most of the Mego figures I have so far.
I also have some board games, playsets and vehicles from the same time period.
I almost forgot about what prompted me to make this post. I just received most (missing just one) of the 1966 Topps Batman card sets. There were three series, differentiated by the color of the bat logo, with black being the first series, with 55 cards, followed by the red and blue series which each had 44 cards.
The only cards that have significant value, are cards 1 and 2 from the black set, which feature Batman and Robin separately. I bought them all from a seller on eBay which started as me selecting some individual cards, but then our conversation led to me buying the complete red and blue sets, and all but #15 from the black set, which is on its way from a separate ebay purchase.
I scanned them all and have a web page that just dumps the images of them all here on my website.
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