Pop Culture with Character: A Look Inside Geppis Entertainment Museum

By Arnold T. Blumberg

From the Brownies and the Yellow Kid to Spider-Man and SpongeBob SquarePantsand everything in between, Geppi's Entertainment Museum offers an unprecedentedlook back at over two centuries of American pop culture through the charactersand personalities we have grown to love. Now for the first time, this specialpublication gives readers a chance to take a part of the museum home to relivememories of childhood, rediscover old friends, meet new one and enhance theunderstanding of the ways in which these pop culture icons helped shape us as anation and as people. With hundreds of full-color illustrations of cherishedcollectibles in the museum collection and with text that not only tells thestory of the museum exhibit but throws the spotlight on a wide range ofcharacters that typified every era, Pop Culture with Character: A Look InsideGeppi's Entertainment Museum is your road map to this 230-year-long journeythrough print, radio, film, television, video games, the internet and beyond.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1888472685
• ISBN13: 9781888472684
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Gemstone Publishing
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 2.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.6" x 11.3"

Customer Reviews

Great for collector and scholars of comic-book, toys, movies and TV shows!

This book contains beautiful pictures of the Geppi's Entertainment Museum collection, and although there are not large explanations, pop cultural icons are easily recognizable and it will take you down memory lane in a trip sure to warm your heart with nice memories of your childhood or even yearning for a time you didn't get to know, from the late 19th Century to the present. A great illustrated reference for collectors, scholars and enthusiasts of all ages of comic-books, toys, movies and TV shows!