LOOK OUT! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES PUNY EARTHLINGS! MARS ATTACKS!

Continuing raids into my 'loft in space' ( yeah, sorry!) have produced further booty. Here's my set of MARS ATTACKS gum cards for your delectation. Alas they are but professional copies made by Renato Gelasso, which I bought at the NEC years ago to replace my real set. Yes, I had a proper real set but only as an adult. I was too young to have collected them in the late 50's and they were pulled from shops after parents complained about the gore. Amazing that a set of cards can inspire an entire film. I think about my proper set probably once a day. You see I found them wrapped in a rubber band amongst a pile of old toys and stuff at a car boot sale in Barnsley (this was Carlsberg's WOTE!) back in the early 1990's. I couldn't believe my eyes and with bulging irises I asked how much they were. I heard the 'F' of the word 'Fifty' and I had paid and run off before the old chap had finished saying 'pence'! For at least 2 years they were the number one item in my growing space/sci fi collection. Alas my family hit hard times and I was forced to sell them for £50 in 1993 to a gum card dealer whom I knew. We were both happy at the time but I have regretted it ever since. The Renato Gelasso copies are really nice replicas but can never replace the real thing. Anyone else had or still have MARS ATTACKS or got similar tales of heartbreaking selling woe?