A follow-up to past posts, most notably this
one from February '09, which looked at my two incomplete samples and a few
oddities, tying them to the Euro-premiums, some of which some of them were pirated from!
From the archive are a couple of newspaper
clippings, one is Dept. DL, which
might be a clue to the Detroit Lakes
Tribune being the carrier paublication? The other is a more generic PO Box
number similar to those used with the comic-giveaway Ad's these 'dolls' also
appeared in, but both came to me already trimmed
I played with the pictures and ended up
with two usable images! I can't remember why I numbered them, there may be a missing
list somewhere! But basically 1-10 are taken from the previously flagged European
margarine-premium 'dancers' set, 11-20 seem to be taken from other sources too,
21-29 are more unique to the 'comic' set and 30 is the Santa I'm still missing!
Mentioned in the past, they came with a PVC/vinyl
sticker set from which you were to fashion hats, skirts, shirts, collars, capes
and bows - for the deer! Like a lot of old vinyl, they are sticky and shrinking now.
Now; I do have this set somewhere, but I'm
not sure if these are my scans or someone else's off of that Wibbly Wobbly Way?
If they are yours and you want me to remove them, let me know, it's not a
problem, I'm just losing track of all the imagery on the dongles!
The missing Santa in the upper shot, and
the Berserker doing some scaleing in the lower shot, all the figure images are
courtesy of Brian Berke who sent them some time ago, well, about two years ago,
it's a long queue now!
The same artwork being used in a rare
branded Ad' for Palmer Jones, you can see why some people conflate these with the Giant-branded stuff - there's very little connection beween most comic-stuff and Giant, the exception being the 'board games' by Lucky Products and Helen of Toy, where some components are the same as those used by Giant of New York, World Toy House and others.
There is more on the sets in a brief entry on the A-Z blog here, while I looked at a few of Betterware's versions
in this Blog's second ever post!
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