For me it's the wild west and Hamlet I usually read every article or notice every time it pops up somewhere while out in public.
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What do you geek out on , besides toy collecting?
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hmmm, so many things...
Comics
Tolkien
Robert E. Howard
Frazetta art
sword & sorcery
D&D and other ttrpg
vintage paperbacks
archaeology
ancient & medieval history
mythology & folklore
Pre-Columbian American history
Ancient Egypt
Knights Templar history & myth
speculative history
Salvador Dali
Tarot
Red Sox
New England/Hartford Whalers
fantasy football
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hmmm, so many things...
Comics
Tolkien
Robert E. Howard
Frazetta art
sword & sorcery
D&D and other ttrpg
vintage paperbacks
archaeology
ancient & medieval history
mythology & folklore
Pre-Columbian American history
Ancient Egypt
Knights Templar history & myth
speculative history
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I'm a conspiracy guy myself, it's hard to bring it up sometimes. But to think there isn't a vanishing point on power and control of society would be extremely naive or stupid.
Anyway , I'd love to collect vintage paperbacks but it's hard to know where to start. I love the Frazetta covers and my grandpa had multiple copies of every ERB novel. Someone pointed out the first Masters of the Universe wave was a greatest hits of all the Sword and Sorcery and sci-fi tropes of 70's paperbacks. That's why I love them now.Comment
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Big fan of fictional crossovers (primarily with television series)
Anything Jim Henson
Bergen & McCarthy
the original Captain Marvel
Doctor Who and lots of Brit TV
Cyrano de Bergerac adaptations
variations on A Christmas Carol
The Inklings
John Milton
Shakespeare (fave play The Tempest; fave character Falstaff)Hugh H. Davis
Wanted: Legends of the West (Empire & Excel) and other western historically-based figures. Send me an offer.
Also interested in figures based on literary characters.Comment
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Capt. Marvel
Doc Savage & Pulp reprint series
Tea
Ascots/Day cravats
Historical eyewear
Oscar Wilde
Costuming/Men's tailoringWANTED: Dick Grayson SI trousers; gray AJ Mustang horse; vintage RC Batman (Bruce Wayne) head; minty Wolfman tights; mint Black Knight sword; minty Launcelot boots; Lion Rock (pale) Dracula & Mummy heads; Lion Rock Franky squared boots; Wayne Foundation blue furniture; Flash Gordon/Ming (10") unbroken holsters; CHiPs gloved arms; POTA T2 tan body; CTVT/vintage Friar Tuck robes, BBP TZ Burgess Meredith glasses.Comment
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My masters' thesis in medieval history examined the origins of banking institutions in the late ancient/early medieval period through the early modern period to examine what the antecedents of banking families like the Medici were, so a lot of my research delved into the Templars themselves. Of course I was turned on to Templar myth by reading Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco as a senior at university and that piqued my interest in Templar history leading to the shaping of the topic of my thesis. There's a lot of crackpot theories out there about the Templars, which I take with a grain of salt, but they are more fun than a barrel of rolling monks (not monkeys, putting monkeys in a barrel and rolling it down a hill is cruel). But, yeah sometimes, you can encounter some real fringe stuff. The offshoot is, when you read/see something like Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code, you can point to all the different books and sources he stole his ideas from and give people something better written on the topic if they are interested.
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Star Trek (which makes toy collecting even worse, of course)
American history, particularly Revolutionary War and WW2
Stop Motion animation
Pin-up art
Pro football, go Bills!Comment
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American comics up through the early 2000s, particularly comic history
Packaging and licensing art for franchises I love
Universal Monster Films
Hammer Horror Films
Lighted holiday Blow Molds
Vintage Christmas
Vintage Halloween
Star Trek TOS (TV and films)
A Christmas Carol (all adaptations)
Dracula (the orginal novel and how it's reinterpreted)Comment
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