Sad About Monsters

Slowly but surely I'm selling the last of the items I had left over from my toy fair days in the Noughties.

Just a few things left, this Forry keyring has now gone too. I bought it from the States as a thing of interest to have on my stall. The keyring was a promotional item for the late great Forrest J. Ackerman, publisher of Famous Monsters and father of the Monster craze in the Sixties. I still have lots of his magazines, so I could let go of this after many years languishing in the loft.

Sad really.

It was originally somewhere on my old stall back in the day. Here's my mate Mark - top and me, bottom. It's probably Doncaster or Morley.

Hugely happy days standing at fairs and wearing our Mad About Monsters T-Shirts, the name I gave my vintage toy business at the time. 

Somewhere I have the massive Monster Lab toy by Ideal, boxed, which graced my stall now and then and caused a stir.

Do you or did you stand at fairs? Toys, books, records, models?

Famous Keyfobs

I bought this American key fob for my old UK vintage toy fair stall. An interesting item was my logic.

I got the keyfob on eBay about twenty years back from a seller in LA.

It was listed as a Forrest J. Ackerman key fob on account of the 4E repeated on it, one of 'Forry's many nicknames. 4E = For-ry.

I've never seen another one associated with Forry, so I have my doubts now I've dug it out again. 

Maybe 4E was a LA firm after all? 

Anyone any clue?