Curioverse
Ringing in the New Year with Philip La Carta
Well, getting to meet him and having a slice of his wife’s fruit cake. But it was a big celebration for us. When we got Philip La Carta’s phone call agreeing to sign copies of a Spaceman Jax Model Sheet for us, there was some dancing around the office, to...
Curio & Co. in the Family for Generations
Mr. Druthers remembers his Great Grandfather – who worked at Curio & Co. side by side with his father – bringing out a collection of matchbooks collected from travels around the world. “Listening to his stories of those matchbooks; well I was right there with him…in places I’d never even...
Rex Ensemble
Rex Ensemble is a jazz combo, active from the 1960s to the 1990s, on the Needles Records label (out of Needles, California in the Mohave Desert). The band members themselves came out of the St. Louis jazz scene. They began as a slick group in the 60s, complete with matching...
Sunnington Morn
Sunnington Morn was a manufacturer of breakfast cereals, and with their sugary cereals such as Double Scoop, they were a major sponsor of animated TV shows in the 1960s, such as Spaceman Jax and the Galactic Adventures or Brigadier Buffalo.
Pennyland
From thrill rides to afternoon picnics, from concerts to games of chance and skill – there was something for everyone at the Pennyland amusement park. Built by the Trans-Ardellia Traction Company (the company that provided trolley services through Ardellia and out to the suburbs) as a trolley park at the...
Dekkin
Spaceman Jax's 7-year-old niece is an energetic little firecracker. Despite her adorable sweetness, she loves nothing more than to jump into the action and take on the Mantagons, much to the dismay of their home service robot RT, who tries to get her to do her homework and go to...
Frank and His Friend: Animated Series
In 1982, creator Clarence ‘Otis’ Dooley was in negotiations with Benday Studios to bring Frank and His Friend to television sets in an animated series. (Although the deal ultimately fell through when the studio folded as a result of heavy investment into the North American LaserDisc market, much of the...
George Julius Steepleback
The co-founder of the Pennyland amusement park started out as an engineer with the Trans-Ardellia Traction Company, which sent Steepleback to Europe to observe a new funicular project there in 1892. While there, Steepleback was given a unique deck of tarot cards, known as the Tarot of Musterberg, and brought...
Oberpfaffendorfer
Founded in the early 1900s, Oberfpaffendorfer is a family-run company manufacturing packaged foods. With roots in German-speaking Switzerland, the company is as known for its family loyalty as it is for its packaged “comfort food.” Oberpfaffendorfer fully embraced the frozen food market in the 1950s, and some of its popular...
Premise of Spaceman Jax and the Galactic Adventures
The show chronicled the continuing exploits of intrepid but dimwitted Spaceman Jax and his friends in the Star Year 6354 ¾. Spaceman Jax and his young niece Dekkin were the only survivors of Tiberion 3, a planet destroyed for its energy-producing crystals. Jax vowed to avenge his planet and bring...
Premise of Roger Believe
In the comic, Roger Believe wakes to find himself in Paris in an alternate 1940s. Unable to remember how he got there, Roger struggles to come to terms with a life he doesn’t remember, and a past he can’t forget. Never giving up on his quest to solve his own...
Brigadier Buffalo
Brigadier Buffalo is one of those shows that made Saturday mornings complete when we were kids. Maybe it was the sugar rush from those endless bowls of Sunnington Morn cereal, maybe it was the silly plots, or the appealing characters. Whatever it was, here in the office we’ve been reminiscing...