Monday, October 20, 2008

JOHN CHUCKMAN'S NON-SPORTS TRADING CARDS - BOWMAN WILD MAN - 1950 - 72-CARD COMPLETE SET - FRONTS AND BACKS - PLUS WRAPPER - SET DESCRIPTION

A rather strange but visually-striking - sometimes beautiful - set of cards with its theme about bloodshed through the ages. Some of the images do not even fit the theme - e.g. Cards 9 and 10; others seem little more than propaganda - e.g. Cards 24 and 71. We find Bible stories and outer space plus a few cards not about violence at all. And where did Card 26 about an airliner come from? The subjects of some cards - e.g. Cards 70 and 71 - look like they came from Bush's America after 9/11. I guess some things just do not change. Bowman here displays, as in their Red Menace set, extremely right-wing attitudes, promotion of fear, fascination with violence and misery, embrace of Biblical myths - an odd mix for trading cards, but if you want to understand the official American mindset of the early 1950s, this set of cards brings it back vividly. 




JOHN CHUCKMAN'S NON-SPORTS TRADING CARDS - BOWMAN WILD MAN - 1950 - CARD 001 - THE FIRST MURDER




JOHN CHUCKMAN'S NON-SPORTS TRADING CARDS - BOWMAN WILD MAN - 1950 - CARD 002 - FIGHT FOR A CAVE


JOHN CHUCKMAN'S NON-SPORTS TRADING CARDS - BOWMAN WILD MAN - 1950 - CARD 003 - IN THE ROMAN ARENA


JOHN CHUCKMAN'S NON-SPORTS TRADING CARDS - BOWMAN WILD MAN - 1950 - CARD 004 - HANNIBAL CROSSES THE ALPS


JOHN CHUCKMAN'S NON-SPORTS TRADING CARDS - BOWMAN WILD MAN - 1950 - CARD 005 - ATTILA AND THE HUNS


JOHN CHUCKMAN'S NON-SPORTS TRADING CARDS - BOWMAN WILD MAN - 1950 - CARD 006 - CRUSADERS STORM ANTIOCH


JOHN CHUCKMAN'S NON-SPORTS TRADING CARDS - BOWMAN WILD MAN - 1950 - CARD 007 - POISON GAS


JOHN CHUCKMAN'S NON-SPORTS TRADING CARDS - BOWMAN WILD MAN - 1950 - CARD 008 - HIROSHIMA


JOHN CHUCKMAN'S NON-SPORTS TRADING CARDS - BOWMAN WILD MAN - 1950 - CARD 009 - SEEING THE WORLD


JOHN CHUCKMAN'S NON-SPORTS TRADING CARDS - BOWMAN WILD MAN - 1950 - CARD 010 - MARCO POLO IN THE EAST


JOHN CHUCKMAN'S NON-SPORTS TRADING CARDS - BOWMAN WILD MAN - 1950 - CARD 011 - FIRE AIDS EARLY MAN


JOHN CHUCKMAN'S NON-SPORTS TRADING CARDS - BOWMAN WILD MAN - 1950 - CARD 012 - HUNTING THE MAMMOTH


JOHN CHUCKMAN'S NON-SPORTS TRADING CARDS - BOWMAN WILD MAN - 1950 - CARD 013 - BUILDING THE PYRAMIDS


JOHN CHUCKMAN'S NON-SPORTS TRADING CARDS - BOWMAN WILD MAN - 1950 - CARD 014 - FALCONRY


JOHN CHUCKMAN'S NON-SPORTS TRADING CARDS - BOWMAN WILD MAN - 1950 - CARD 015 - LAST BARE-KNUCKLE BOUT


JOHN CHUCKMAN'S NON-SPORTS TRADING CARDS - BOWMAN WILD MAN - 1950 - CARD 016 - PIRACY


JOHN CHUCKMAN'S NON-SPORTS TRADING CARDS - BOWMAN WILD MAN - 1950 - CARD 017 - STRETCHER BEARERS


JOHN CHUCKMAN'S NON-SPORTS TRADING CARDS - BOWMAN WILD MAN - 1950 - CARD 018 - RESCUE AT SEA


JOHN CHUCKMAN'S NON-SPORTS TRADING CARDS - BOWMAN WILD MAN - 1950 - CARD 019 - CIVIL WAR IN CHINA


JOHN CHUCKMAN'S NON-SPORTS TRADING CARDS - BOWMAN WILD MAN - 1950 - CARD 020 - SNORKEL


JOHN CHUCKMAN'S NON-SPORTS TRADING CARDS - BOWMAN WILD MAN - 1950 - CARD 021 - REIGN OF TERROR


JOHN CHUCKMAN'S NON-SPORTS TRADING CARDS - BOWMAN WILD MAN - 1950 - CARD 022 - BORDER INCIDENT


JOHN CHUCKMAN'S NON-SPORTS TRADING CARDS - BOWMAN WILD MAN - 1950 - CARD 023 - JUNGLE BOMBING


JOHN CHUCKMAN'S NON-SPORTS TRADING CARDS - BOWMAN WILD MAN - 1950 - CARD 024 - SABOTEURS


JOHN CHUCKMAN'S NON-SPORTS TRADING CARDS - BOWMAN WILD MAN - 1950 - CARD 025 - AMAZON FRONTIER