{"id":7420,"date":"2012-11-07T18:21:46","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T22:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=7420"},"modified":"2012-11-04T21:29:30","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T01:29:30","slug":"7420","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=7420","title":{"rendered":"Mars Attacks Cards Get the Treatment They Deserve"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nWhen I was a kid nearly everyone my age went through a phase where we collected bubble gum cards<\/strong>. \u00a0I can remember collecting baseball, football, monster, Beatles, Monkees<\/em><\/strong>, and Batman<\/strong><\/em> cards. \u00a0I wasn’t quite old enough to have collected Mars Attacks<\/strong><\/em> cards, but all of us knew their reputation. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Mars Attacks<\/strong><\/em> trading cards were released in 1962<\/strong>, but were quickly pulled because they were considered too gory for kids. \u00a0Norman Saunders<\/strong> created paintings of the Martians<\/strong> blasting, burning and impaling humans in their quest to take over planet Earth<\/strong>. \u00a0So most of us knew of the cards, but had never actually seen them. \u00a0No matter, for our imaginations made the Mars Attacks<\/strong><\/em> cards much worse than the actual art ever could. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Now, for the first time ever…<\/span><\/p>\n