Yet Another Vintage Godzilla Puffy Sticker Store Display (1979)

 

It's kind of crazy how many permutations of vintage Godzilla puffy stickers (and puffy items, such as magnets and keychains) exist.  This blog is full of them.  You can chalk it up to the time period, but even still...

Before we go any further, and just for clarity's sake, in my Guide To Vintage American Godzilla Items (a costless PDF download, by the way), I divide these scores of items into three groups:

Group One ("Three Dimensional Stickers") has artwork like you see above.  A very Marvel Comics-looking Godzilla stands to the right of...well, the Marvel Comics Godzilla logo. These stickers were sold in variously-sized packages, and also in hanging store displays.

Group Two (also "Three Dimensional Stickers") has very different artwork, but the sticker designs were the same as the first group.  They were sold in the same sizes and hanging displays, but I've also seen a cardboard free-standing store display with pegs that sold these alongside stickers from other franchises, but all made by the same nameless manufacturer.

Group Three ("Three Dimensional Sticker," singular) is what we are talking about today. Groups 1 and 2 refer to their products numbers, such as "No. 889," while Group Three only uses "Item" and a number sign, such as "Item #1248." Another unique feature of this third series is that it uses three different main header cards:

The store display we are looking at today is for "Item 1248," and interestingly, it contains six different styles, two different versions of each header card:

There are three copies of each, making 18 sets of stickers total in the pockets of the full display. They measure 3.5 x 5 inches each.

The vinyl back of the display is red, which is different from the other sticker displays that I have (although they all have the thick yellow plastic cord to hang them by).  

You can see all of the Godzilla puffy sticker permutations that I have identified in the guide, but something tells me there may STILL be even more out there, so stay tuned, because if there are, we will feature them here!