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Description of Pictures: REVOLUTION 1961-1970
From 1961 to 1970, American youth led the way to our nation’s future as the arrival of British rock and roll heralded a new era in music and media. From Cold War spies to commuting cavemen to caped crusaders, colorful comic characters were everywhere during this time of tumultuous change.

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1. GEPPI6_131004_007.JPG: A New Heroic Age: Comic book historians refer to the era from 1956 to 1970 as the Silver Age, when superheroes reasserted their dominance in American comic books. During this period, the DC heroes -- Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, Green Lantern, Hawkman, The Atom -- cemented their place in the annals of American pop culture. But in 1961, Marvel Comics introduced its own brand of superhero beginning with Fantastic Four #1, and soon the Marvel mix of accentuated humanity and far-flung fantasy made them the most popular comic books of the 1960s. DC's Superman was still the front-runner in merchandising, with the Man of Steel featured on everything from puzzles to wallets; he was even the subject of a less than successful 1966 Broadway musical! Batman was enjoying a new surge in visibility thanks to a 1964 redesign in the comics and his 1966 television and feature film debut. There weren't many items in the '60s featuring Marvel heroes like the Incredible Hulk, The Avengers, X-Men, Iron Man, Daredevil and the Amazing Spider-Man just yet, but Marvel did debut its first fan club in 1964, the Merry Marvel Marching Society. Instructing "True Believers" to "face front" and "be true to the Marvel Code of Ethics," the Society offered corny rhetoric and a few premiums, cleverly creating a self-motivated marketing force out of Marvel's own dedicated readers and making them feel like they were part of a cultural movement. The editorial voice crafted by Stan Lee for the comic book letters' pages and the club distinguished the more youthful, casual Marvel style from its "Distinguished Competition." Marvel even encouraged its readers to catch mistakes in the comics themselves. Anyone who not only found an error in a Marvel comic but also explained it would receive a "No-Prize" in the mail. Dedicated Marvelites were thrilled to open their mailbox and find the fabled reward -- an empty envelope with the words "No-Prize" emblazoned on the front. 'Nuff said.
2. GEPPI6_131004_014.JPG: Be Brave! Buy BRAND ECHH! Thou Shalt FIGHT DANDRUFF! SUPPORT Brotherhood Week! HELP RESIST RUST! Be a BIG BROTHER to an amphibian! BANISH TIGHT MASKS! DOWN WITH COOL! STAMP OUT YANCY STREET!
3. GEPPI6_131004_018.JPG: MAKE MINE MARVEL
4. GEPPI6_131004_021.JPG: Scream Along With Marvel Who SAYS this isn't the Marvel Age of Riotous Recordings?
5. GEPPI6_131004_053.JPG: Comicopia As more people became accustomed to getting their entertainment at home, theatrical cartoon shorts lost much of their popularity. Fortunately, short-form animation found refuge in television. They were frequently lower budget efforts and lacking in technical craftsmanship. What they didn't lack was imagination. For a while, it looked like they may even dominate primetime. Every week, Americans gathered around their TV sets to watch the harassment of David Seville by three mischievous chipmunks -- Theodore, Simon, and the show's star on The Alvin Show. Arnold Stang aped Phil Silvers' distinctive style as the voice of Top Cat. A family of the future dealt with the same old problems on The Jetsons. But the biggest draw of all was in the prehistoric town of Bedrock, where The Honeymooners was re-envisioned as a tale of two couples, the Rubbles and The Flintstones. It was a land where peaceful dinosaurs lived alongside people and functioned as their appliances, and after six years it was the longest running primetime cartoon at the time. In 1965, Charles Schultz's Peanuts gang made their TV debut in a primetime special turned perennial classic, A Charlie Brown Christmas. The hit show was followed by another seasonal favorite, It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. Soon Snoopy and company were celebrating every holiday. Bill Cosby's Hey, Hey, Hey, It's Fat Albert animated special hit the networks in 1969 and Fat Albert became a Saturday morning staple. Saturday mornings and syndicated shows were populated by the likes of the moose and squirrel in Rocky and His Friends (later renamed The Bullwinkle Show), Underdog, Roger Ramjet, The World of Secret Squirrel & Atom Ant, The Pink Panther, Space Ghost and Dino Boy, George of the Jungle, The Archie Show, Speed Racer, and Scooby Doo, Where Are You! In newspapers, Peanuts was king, Ziggy was still on greeting cards and a Yale Daily News strip by college junior Garry Trudeau, Bull Tales, became the politically aware Doonesbury.
6. GEPPI6_131004_058.JPG: Action Figures Before Barbie, it was assumed that girls only wanted to play with baby dolls, but in 1955, Ruth Handler bought a German Bild Lilli doll. The adult female doll with the extensive wardrobe inspired Ruth, who had also noticed that her own daughter preferred to play with adult dolls. Handler decided to develop her own fashion doll through which girls could live a vicarious fantasy life. With the help of her husband Elliott -- who just happened to run Mattel -- Handler bought the Lilli patent, named the new version after her daughter's nickname, and Barbie Millicent Roberts was born. With her 38-18-33 figure and countless accessories, Barbie sold over 350,000 dolls in her first year. She was joined by boyfriend Ken in 1961, sisters Skipper and Tutti, brother Todd, and friends Midge, Skooter, Ricky and Chris. In ten years, Barbie generated over half a billion dollars in sales, became a worldwide icon and the target of intense feminist criticism. While Barbie blazed a trail for female figures, another doll was challenging the conventional wisdom that boys wouldn't play with dolls. Licensing agent Stan Weston convinced Hasbro's Don Levine to create a line of military-themed, articulated GI Joe "action figures" covering all four branches of the military. The Joe line debuted in 1964 and instantly won over a generation of boys eager to stage their own adventures. An official club was established and by the end of the year there were over 150,000 members. In 1965, with 2 million Joes sold, Hasbro introduced new more ambitious additions, including new outfits, a footlocker to store everything, vehicles, and an African-American Joe. The GI Nurse doll was a rare failure. In the late '60s, anti-war sentiment and competition from other figures like the Gilbert company's astronaut Major Matt Mason and Ideal's Captain Action hit the Joe line hard. Distancing Joe from his military origins, Hasbro altered the toy line to send Joe on exploratory adventures rather than combat missions. And there were more changes ahead....
7. GEPPI6_131004_124.JPG: Pez From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Pez (trademarked PEZ in capitals) is the brand name of an Austrian candy and their mechanical pocket dispensers. The candy itself takes the shape of pressed, dry, straight-edged, curved-corner, blocks (15 mm (5/8 inch) long, 8 mm (5/16 inch) wide, and 5 mm (3/16 inch) high), with Pez dispensers holding 12 Pez pieces. Pez was originally introduced in Austria, later exported, notably to the U.S., and eventually became available worldwide. The all-uppercase spelling of the logo echoes the trademark's style on the packaging and the dispensers themselves, with the logo drawn in perspective and giving the appearance that the letters are built out of 45 brick-like Pez candies (15 bricks in the P and 15 in each of the E and Z). Despite the widespread recognition and popularity of the Pez dispenser, the company considers itself to be primarily a candy company, and over 3 billion candy bricks are consumed each year in the U.S. alone. Pez dispensers are part of popular culture in many nations, an example being 'Soul Candy' in Japanese manga series Bleach. Because of the large number of dispenser designs over the years, they are collected by enthusiasts.
8. GEPPI6_131004_154.JPG: Frontiers When President Kennedy committed America to putting a man on the moon by the end of the 1960s, all of the nation's resources were dedicated to making that dream come true. But before that journey became a reality, television producers were determined to take up on the ultimate trip where no many had gone before. Producer Gene Roddenberry sold it to NBC as "Wagon Train to the stars," and when Star Trek debuted on September 8, 1966, it was just that -- a western adventure series disguised as a journey into outer space, with a 23rd century maverick starship captain and his faithful crew forging new frontiers every week. Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner), Spock (Leonard Nimoy) and Dr. McCoy (Deforest Kelley) headlined a cast that would become indelible icons in the annals of pop culture. The western as a television genre was already long in the tooth by the 1960s, but there was still plenty of power left in those tales of dust and desperadoes -- the long-running series Gunsmoke and Bonanza; the sci-fi western The Wild, Wild West; The Big Valley; and of course Wagon Train. It was Star Trek, however, that distilled the essence of the western while catapulting it into the distant future. Producer Irwin Allen countered with his own sci-fi/western hybrids like Lost in Space and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. Long before it became a pop culture institution, Star Trek was just a moderately successful show that ran for three seasons and was almost always struggling to avoid cancellation. An unprecedented letter-writing campaign spearheaded by devoted fans actually saved the series for a third and final season, but eventually time ran out. On July 21, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin of Apollo 11 became the first men to set foot on the surface of the moon. Less than two months later, the five-year mission of the USS Enterprise came prematurely to an end on September 2, 1969. But the adventure would continue...
9. GEPPI6_131004_163.JPG: Selling Celebrities For entertainment as well as the nation itself, it was a decade of change. Radio lost its edge, television went to color, movies became more daring, sports heroes became sports celebrities and advertisements were more memorable than the main feature. Carrying over into the new decade, TV audiences took in the innocence of childhood with Dennis the Menace and Leave it to Beaver. Eliott Ness battled Al Capone weekly on The Untouchables and The Ed Sullivan Show entered the decade where it would have its most famous broadcast. The wit and wisdom of country folk was captured in The Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres, and Petticoat Junction. Monsters, witches, and aliens proved quite domestic in The Addams Family, The Munsters, I Dream of Jeannie, Bewitched, and My Favorite Martian. Stars had self-titled shows like The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Andy Griffith Show, The Lucy Show, The Doris Day Show and The Dean Martin Show. Batman got a friend with The Green Hornet and "Sock it to me" became a common expression thanks to Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In. Television also transformed sports players into international celebrities. Everyone knew Joe Namath, Willie Mays, Lew Alcindor, Sandy Koufax and Jack Nicklaus. On the big screen, kids thrilled to 101 Dalmations, Mary Poppins and The Love Bug. Adults enjoyed Charade, Breakfast at Tiffany's and Dr. Zhivago. The emerging youth generation was reflected in The Graduate, Easy Rider and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. The past got blood in The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, The Wild Bunch and Bonnie and Clyde. And everybody saw The Sound of Music. With comic-style characters, infectious jingles and catchy slogans, memorable commercials convinced us to buy foods like Cheerios, Cap'n Crunch, Jif peanut butter, and Green Giant canned vegetables, as well as household items like Palmolive liquid, Ajax cleanser and Noxema Shaving Cream.
10. GEPPI6_131004_167.JPG: Fighting for Freedom: An atmosphere of change swept the nation and the status quo was no longer left unquestioned. Demanding reform and an end to racism, oppression and conflict, Americans joined together to fight for civil rights and an end to an unpopular war. In the south, where segregation was still in effect, peaceful sit-ins and protests drew national attention, gaining sympathy for the plight of African Americans. These non-violent confrontations culminated in a historic March on Washington, with a quarter million people taking part on August 28, 1963. Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. addressed the gathering, declaring that "I Have A Dream." Though popular, King was not without his critics, and in the years following the march, racial tension did not subside. Other leaders of the civil rights movement like Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael, and LeRoi Jones valued assertive action over non-violent protest. In California, labor leader Cesar Chavez formed the National Farm Workers Association, determined to obtain fair wages for farm workers. Under his leadership, the workers went on strike for five years and urged Americans to boycott grapes. In the end, Chavez and his constituency were victorious. Throughout the 1960s, Presidents Kennedy and Johnson escalated the level of our role in the Vietnam conflict, allying with the southern Vietnamese against the northern Communist forces. By 1966, 375,000 US troops were involved and the draft increased. Many young Americans dodged the draft, anti-war demonstrations proliferated and the war reached every American in their homes through television news. Home front supporters included the American Legion, the Veterans of Foreign Wars and Young Americans for Freedom. Vietnam created a nationwide divide that would resonate painfully well into the 1970s.
11. GEPPI6_131004_174.JPG: Revolution: "The times they are a-changin'." -- Bob Dylan America entered the 1960s with a sense of great expectations. President Kennedy galvanized a generation by telling them "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." African Americans challenged the status quo with demonstrations and a historic march on Washington. The assassination of the President on November 22, 1963 shocked the entire nation, but President Lyndon B. Johnson's promise of a "Great Society" offered hope. Hope dimmed with the escalation of conflict in Vietnam. Tensions rose at home between races and generations. Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy were assassinated in 1968 and America was embroiled in violence and despair. The '68 Democratic National Convention in Chicago erupted into a full-scale riot. On the screen, James Bond was king, Julie Andrews' The Sound of Music broke box office records, and Man explored space and time in 2001: A Space Odyssey and Planet of the Apes. Four mop-top musicians from Liverpool came to the US, ushering in the British Invasion. A record company in Detroit gave us the Motown sound. In Southern California, things got psychedelic. And as an upbeat coda to a tumultuous time, the nation's youth celebrated with a Summer of Love and a three-day festival of "Peace and Music" at the Woodstock Music and Art Festival.
12. GEPPI6_131004_179.JPG: Secret Agents: It may have blossomed with President John F. Kennedy in 1961, when he listed Iam Fleming's From Russia With Love as one of his favorite books. America was clamoring for the exploits of a new hero. Suave, sophisticated, and steel-eyed, this ladies' man who was licensed to kill leapt to the silver screen in Dr. No (1962) and captured moviegoers with his first line: "Bond. James Bond." Audiences indulged in the exploits of this dapper espionage agent, code named 007, two traveled to exotic locales, romanced beautiful women, prevented evil men from taking over the world, and drank his vodka martinis "shaken, not stirred." Throughout the 1960s, the Bond films -- produced by Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman -- became undisputed box office champions. Sean Connery played the role with aplomb, becoming synonymous with the character and one of Hollywood's highest paid stars. Bond's popularity carried over into a non-Broccoli/Saltzman production, the satirical Casino Royale, which featured seven James Bonds. Even replacing Connery with the untested George Lazenby in On Her Majesty's Secret Service didn't keep audiences away, resulting in what some fans regard as the best of Bond's cinematic adventures. Secret agents were now all the rage. Cinemas saw Dean Martin, James Coburn and Michael Caine essay the roles of agents Matt Helm, Derek Flint, and Harry Palmer. Television spies included Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin in The Man From UNCLE; April Dancer in The Girl From UNCLE; John Steed and Emma Peel in The Avengers; Honey West; Simon Templar -- future Bond Roger Moore -- in The Saint; the IMF team of Mission: Impossible; Kelly Robinson and Alexander "Scotty" Scott in I Spy; Modesty Blaise; and Max and Agent 99 in the spy parody, Get Smart! Each week, audiences could watch their favorite heroes bnattle evil conglomerates like SPECTRE, THRUSH, and KAOS.
13. GEPPI6_131004_199.JPG: I love the idea of them encouraging a young teenager to look natural smoking a pipe.
14. GEPPI6_131004_216.JPG: From Fab to Festival: Folk music was the rage, led by chart toppers Peter, Paul and Mary, The Kingston Trio, Joan Baez and Bob Dylan. Pop music was getting an infusion of more intricate craftsmanship via Phil Spector's "Wall of Sound." Berry Gordy started a company in Detroit, dubbed its Hitsville, USA, and delivered that Motown sound with acts like the Miracles, The Supremes, Mary Wells, The Four Tops, The Temptations, Little Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye. Down in Memphis, Satellite Records changed its name to Stax and released records by Rufus Thomas, Booker T and the MGs, Sam and Dave, and Otis Redding. Elvis, fresh from the Army, conquered the charts with "Suspicion" and "Good Luck Charm" and filled movie theaters with Blue Hawaii and Viva Las Vegas. In 1962, a popular Liverpool band released their first hit single in England, "Love Me Do." Less than two years later the entire world was conquered by the Beatles. Their names are as familiar today as they were in 1964 -- John, Paul, George and Ringo. Beatlemania led to the British invasion and soon the charts were filling up with England's newest hit makers -- The Dave Clark Five, The Kinks, The Animals, Herman's Hermits, The Who and The Rolling Stones. Not to be outdone, American youth took to their guitars -- The Byrds, Jimi Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane, The Grateful Dead and Janis Joplin. Even television joined in with the Monkees, an American group assembled to mimic the Beatles for a TV series. Despite their dubious beginnings, the group became one of the decade's biggest acts. The culmination of '60s youth culture and music was the legendary Woodstock Music and Art Festival. Nearly 500,000 people gathered at Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York on August 15-17, 1969 to take in "3 Days of Peace & Music." The event distilled a generation's yearning spirit and was captured on film for a 1970 feature, Woodstock.
15. GEPPI6_131004_223.JPG: Bam! Pow! Zap! Batman and Robin leapt onto the small screen in 1966 with a campy mix of big name guest star villains, gaudy costume and set design, and a delightfully tongue-in-cheek approach to superheroics that won over adults and children alike. For three seasons, and occasionally with the aid of Batgirl and the woefully inept police of Gotham City, the Dynamic Duo fought the forces of evil and virtually set the standard -- for good or bad -- by which we judged superheroes and comics for decades to come. Batman had already undergone a 'new look' renovation in the pages of DC Comics, spearheaded by artist/editor Carmine Infantino, when producer William S. Dozier conceived of bringing the Caped Crusaders to television with a serial-style adventure series that would take nothing too seriously despite its earnest heroes and dastardly death traps. Adam West and Burt Ward played Batman and Robin alongside a veritable A-list of Hollywood stars eager to please their children or grandchildren and match wits with the crime-fighters. Caesar Romero (The Joker), Burgess Meredith (The Penguin), Frank Gorshin (The Riddler) and Julie Newmar (Catwoman) headlined a rotating rogues gallery that also featured Roddy McDowall, Vincent Price, Tallulah Bankhead and Joan Collins. Batman even made it to the big screen in 1966 with a feature film version of the show that replaced Newmar with Lee Meriweather but retained all of the series' action and humor. "Some days you just can't get rid of a bomb" was just one of the lines West had to deliver with a straight face. The merchandising of Batman and Robin kicked into overdrive and the psychedelic camp of the show would become inextricably linked with both Batman and American comic books in general. Today, newspaper stories heralding the latest events in comics invariably begin with the words that were once emblazoned on TV screens as Batman and Robin duked it out with their foes -- "Bam! Pow! Zap!"
Wikipedia Description: Geppi's Entertainment Museum
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Geppi's Entertainment Museum is a 16,000-square-foot (1,500 m2) privately owned pop culture museum located at historic Camden Station at Camden Yards in Baltimore, Maryland. The museum chronicles the history of pop culture in America from the 17th century to today as made popular in newspapers, magazines, comic books, movies, television, radio and video games. It features a large and varied collection of nearly 6,0000 pop culture artifacts, including magazines, movie posters, toys, buttons, badges, cereal boxes, trading cards, dolls, figurines - and memorabilia of every conceivable category!. Geppi’s Entertainment Museum is located in downtown Baltimore's historic Camden Station at Camden Yards, directly above the Sports Legends Museum at Camden Yards and adjacent to Oriole Park at Camden Yards.

Background

The museum is owned by Stephen A. Geppi, President and CEO of Diamond Comics Distributors, and The majority of the artifacts come from Geppi's private collection. In 2007, Geppi's daughter Melissa "Missy" Geppi-Bowersox became the Executive Vice-President of the Geppi’s Entertainment Museum; in 2012, Melissa Geppi-Bowersox was promoted to President.

The museum's founding curator was Dr. Arnold T. Blumberg, former editor at Gemstone Publishing. In 2011 Andy Hershberger was promoted to Associate Curator/Registrar, and has since worked with Melissa Geppi-Bowersox in the creation of a curatorial advisory committee.

In 2012, the museum store was renamed Geppi's Comic World (formerly: Flashbacks) in honor of Geppi’s former comic chain. Zachary Winland is the current manager of Geppi's Comic World.

Exhibits

The museum is composed of several galleries devoted to different eras of pop culture, as well as a temporary exhibit space for rotating exhibits. The standing galleries are:

* A Story in Four Colors displays a large collection of comic books to the Golden Age to the Modern Era. The gallery also includes an extensive collection of pulp magazines and Big Little Books.
* Pioneer Spirit: Baltimore Heroes looks at personalities, businesses and events that have made Baltimore City and the surrounding suburbs so awesome.
* Extra, Extra: 1776-1927 features characters made popular in newspapers, books, movies and radio broadcasts of the era.
* When Heroes Unite: 1928-1945 displays character collectibles from the Great Depression until World War II, including Mickey Mouse ,Popeye, Superman, Captain Marvel, Dick Tracy, Tom Mix, Gene Autry, The Lone Ranger and more.
* America Tunes In: 1946-1960 features artifacts from era, including Howdy Doody, Davy Crockett, I Love Lucy, sports heroes, space and western shows and rock and roll.
* Revolution: 1961 to 1970 contains relics from one of the most influential decades of the 20th century. James Bond, The Flintstones, Batman, The Green Hornet, Star Trek, The Beatles, Barbie and G.I. Joe are just a few of the characters that are represented here.
* Expanding Universe: 1971-1990 highlights video games, fast food tie-ins, Saturday morning cartoons, TV celebrities and Star Wars
* Going Global: 1991-Present displays artifacts from the last decade of the 20th century to the present, and includes representation of Jack Sparrow, MC Hammer, Hanna Montana and the Toy Story franchise.

Special Edition: Temporary Exhibits

Geppi’s Entertainment Museum has been host to a wide range of rotating exhibits from Star Wars, to the Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide to previews of upcoming toys. Currently the museum is hosting Colorforms�: 60 Years of Creative Storytelling an exhibit commemorating the 60th anniversary of Colorforms�, one of America’s most beloved toys.

Coming in August of 2013, Geppi’s Entertainment Museum will host Milestones: African Americans in Comics, Pop Culture and Beyond, a major special exhibit developed and curated by Michael Davis, co-founder of Milestone Media.
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