Circling back

 

Blog readers appear to be on vacation this week, which is fine, it's where I want to be.

I don't want to put too much effort into a post today anyway, so I just have a follow-up from a post from a few months ago.

Back then I was updating my progress on the Ron Cey MSA discs from 1976-77. The joy of collecting those is certainly not the fronts, with every one basically the same, Cey's hat black as night and a generic vibe you could pick up from yards away thanks to the blazing yellow edges (it was the '70s).

 

No, the goodness is on the back.

 

 

I showed off nine versions on that post. I've since added two more. I wanted to have more by this point, but I get distracted by so much card stuff and some of the variations aren't easy to find.

Here are the two I've added:

Towne Club Pop Centers.

And Holiday Inn.

So that brings me to 11.

If I add the smaller Wiffle Ball disc in my collection, that's a full dozen.

 

But there are too many differences between the Wiffle Ball disc and all the others for me to feel comfortable lumping them together. Also I have a Burger Chef Cey disc that is the same Wiffle Ball size. It's part of a team panel that I don't want to separate, so I really should get an individual Burger Chef Cey.

Anyway, if I add the Wiffle Ball Cey, this is what all the backs look like:

That's really cool, really '70s and in some cases makes the kid in me come alive because he remembers a lot of these places, or something similar, and wants to go there right now ... or at least play wiffle ball in the back yard at 6 Chadwick Road again.

As for the full-size discs, there are six more backs to get for The Penguin. I showed them in that previous post. They seem like the more difficult ones to find but hopefully I can stay attentive and spot some in the months to come. I don't know how often they pop up (they're all sold out on COMC and not on ebay right now).

So that's where I am. I'll have another update when I make more progress.

And -- if you're reading this on Saturday -- NOW I am on vacation!