Are there any Laurel and Hardy fans out there ? Back in the late 1990s/early 2000s, CMA did at least 2 card sets, which Jeff Allendar lists on his website.

But the Laurel and Hardy UK Fan Club maintains a website which, over the years, has listed a whole bunch of other card sets by CMA which seemingly exist:

Lobby Card Set (72+bonus)
Candid Collection (72)
Poster Art Collection (72)
Rare and Press Collection (72)
Babes at War
L&H and the Automobile
Movie Storyboard Cards (2 sets of 27)

I have about a half dozen mini-sets of cards, which were sold in the 2000s, and called "promo" sets.

In addition, there is/was a particular Ebay seller, apparently the Fan Club store, which was selling at least 13 different 9 card sets exclusive to the Club. All of these were produced by CMA.

Wish someone had a comprehensive list as to what exists !

David

I have 4 albums full of L&H cards amongst which are at least 120 of these 9 card sets. I will need to look through them to check my listing that I have made as I don't think I updated with the last lot of cards that were issued. I won't be able to do that until tomorrow at the earliest.

regards

John

John,

120 different 9 card sets ? Yikes !

I chatted with Jeff Allendar about these back in 2015. He saw a website which listed about 13 diff sets of 9 cards each, but there were no pictures, and he had no idea what existed.

He told me that he noticed that if you joined the Fan Club for $ 30 a year there was apparently access to the images.

David

I have looked through my cards and I have found 123 different 9 card sets issued by the Laurel and Hardy magazine via their website. These do not include any cards that are classed as bonus sets to the card sets you mentioned. In addition before I list these 9 card sets I can clarify that the promo cards mentioned on page 83 of PCE 2008 issued by the L&H Magazine promote the sets that you mentioned i.e.

Lobby Card Set promo cards coloured with blue borders and blue backs.
Candid Collection black borders and grey backs.
Poster Art Collection purple borders and purple backs.

Also the Rare and Press set also had promo cards issued.

The 9 card set were issued in groups which I have indicated with the 3 odd sets at the end.

Group 1
Block-Heads
Heroes of the Regiment
Jitterbugs
Laughing 20's
The Big Noise
The Further Perils of Laurel and Hardy

Group 2
A-Haunting We Will Go
Any Old Port!
Big Business
Nothing but Trouble
Our Relations
Sons of the Desert

Group 3
Another Fine Mess
Babes in Toyland aka March of the Wooden Soldiers
Double Whoopee
Should Married Men Go Home?
The Devil's Brother
Wrong Again

Group 4
Bacon Grabbers
Berth Marks
Great Guns
Liberty
The Dancing Masters
The Midnight Patrol

Group 5
Saps at Sea
The Bohemian Girl
The Fixer Uppers
The Flying Deuces
Towed in a Hole
Twice Two

Group 6
A Chump at Oxford
Habeas Corpus
Scram!
The Bullfighters
The Music Box
You're Darn Tootin'

Group 7
Air Raid Wardens
Atoll K aka Utopia
Perfect Day
Swiss Miss
The Rogue Song
The Second Hundred Years

Group 8
Brats
Pardon Us
That's My Wife
The Chimp
The Finishing Touch
Them Thar Hills

Group 9
A-Haunting We Will Go (Colour)
Busy Bodies
Chickens Come Home
Dirty Work
Pack Up Your Troubles
Their Purple Moment

Group 10
4 Clowns (1970 Documentary)
Block-Heads (Lobby Version 2)
Early to Bed
Flying Elephants
Our Wife
Thicker than Water

Group 11
Beau Hunks
Going Bye-Bye!
One Good Turn
Putting Pants on Philip
The Live Ghost
Tit for Tat

Group 12
County Hospital
From Soup to Nuts
Leave 'Em Laughing
Saps at Sea (2nd)
Two Tars
Way Out West

Group 13
Hog Wild
Our Relations (2nd)
Pick a Star aka Movie Struck
The Battle of the Century
The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case
When Comedy Was King (Compilation)

Group 14
Blotto
Come Clean
Hats Off
Night Owls
Their First Mistake
Unaccustomed As We Are

Group 15
Below Zero
Love 'em and Weep
Me and My Pal
Oliver the Eighth
Sailors, Beware!
Sugar Daddies

Group 16
Do Detectives Think?
Duck Soup
Helpmates
Sons of the Desert (Film Classics Version)
The Hoose-Gow
We Faw Down

Group 17
Be Big!
Laughing Gravy
Slipping Wives
The Lucky Dog
They Go Boom
Why Girls Love Sailors

Group 18
Angora Love
Hollywood Party
Men O' War
The Hollywood Revue of 1929
The Tree in a Test Tube
With Love and Hisses

Group 19
"Colour"
A Spot of Trouble
Gag Photos
Our Relations Behind the Scenes
Rare Theatre Box Office Cards
The Getty Archive

Group 20
Air Raid Wardens (Mexican)
Dig for Victory
Italian Set
Swiss Miss (Mexican)
The Chimp (2nd)
The Fixer Uppers (2nd)

Other issues
Hats Off (2nd)
Laurel and Hardy (Der Grosse Knall back foreign set of the The Big Noise)
Laurel and Hardy (Nothing but Trouble Back)

regards

John

All those sets for Laurel & Hardy and not one for the Marx Brothers? Where is the love?

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Originally posted by catskilleagle:

All those sets for Laurel & Hardy and not one for the Marx Brothers? Where is the love?

I wouldn't appear in any card set that would have me as a chase card.

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Originally posted by wolfie:

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Originally posted by catskilleagle:

All those sets for Laurel & Hardy and not one for the Marx Brothers? Where is the love?

I wouldn't appear in any card set that would have me as a chase card.

And I wonder how many people got that one.

Groucho once said something like, "I wouldn't join any club that would have me as member."

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Originally posted by catskilleagle:
Groucho once said something like, "I wouldn't join any club that would have me as member."

Yeah that's the one, but Groucho was very clever with his jokes, and it had a double meaning. The Marx brothers were Jewish and at that time many of the wealthy clubs and organization got away with barring Jews from being members. It was his way of sticking it to them.

Oh yeah, he was super-sharp.

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Originally posted by Raven:

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Originally posted by catskilleagle:
Groucho once said something like, "I wouldn't join any club that would have me as member."

Yeah that's the one, but Groucho was very clever with his jokes, and it had a double meaning. The Marx brothers were Jewish and at that time many of the wealthy clubs and organization got away with barring Jews from being members. It was his way of sticking it to them.