The
NPD Department would create the revised artwork and card type, but the Art Department
was in charge of the overall design and would produce the composition of the front
side and card backs as well as the promotional material and packaging. Composition
images were generated to help guide the final card type design and artwork placement.
The mock-up for the ‘FILE’ cards, reminiscient of G.I. Joe character file
cards, contain two main sections. The first section containing the character’s
name plus ALIAS, current ADDRESS
and their PERMANENT RECORD. The second section
contained their FAVORITES that each included
the topics of FOOD, SONG
(or ALBUM), BOOK
(or MAGAZINE), MOVIE
(seen on comp as ‘MOVIES‘), T.V.
SHOW and QUOTE. The NPD Department
would give feedback at a later stage and eventually give the final ‘okay’.

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The OS5 file card image depicts
the PERMANENT RECORD for bullet point number
three: ’12/6/86 – Removed shoes, thousands cried’. Pound’s original piece shows
the character for OS2 cards 52a Dirty HARRY and 52b ROB Slob submerged in a slop-filled
pigpen, while Bunk’s rendered artwork shows the character’s bottom half (seen
for the first time) removing one of his CPK-like shoes and whose odor is causing
post-apocalyptic, catastrophic devastation clear up past the ozone layer: aeroplanes
and satellites are dropping like flies, wilted trees & the environment void
of plant or animal life, and a man in a fighting hole with a precautionary gas
mask peeking out like a groundhog can be seen.
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The dying trees in the background
of the color rough have been reduced in size, focusing more on the character,
a banana peel has been added to the left foot of the character, and the red color
has been removed from the shoes.

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The OS5 file card image depicts
the PERMANENT RECORD for bullet point number
one: ’11/14/82 – Sneezed in class. School was out for a month’. Pound’s original
piece shows the character for OS2 cards 45a Leaky LINDSAY and 45b Messy TESSIE
(spelled ‘Messy TESSY’ on ALIAS) playing
cat’s cradle with her heavy-flow runny nose surrounded by tissue box, used tissies
and sinus relief spray, while Bunk’s rendered artwork shows a seismic sneeze from
the character covering three of her classmates and allegedly closing the school
down for a month; possibly a one-room schoolhouse. S’not the most hygienic.

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The file card image for OS5 reverse
card 172 depicts the PERMANENT RECORD for
bullet point number one: ‘6/26/85 – Nabbed for making counterfeit doilies in her
basement’. Pound’s original piece shows the character for OS2 cards 78a Wrinkled
RITA and 78b Ancient ANNIE in a Boca Raton-like setting in Florida with a poodle
and palm tree, while Bunk’s rendered artwork shows the character in a dark dungeon-like
basement running a one-person sweatshop mass-producing cheap doilies (def’n:
Doly – a small ornamental mat made of lace or paper in a lace pattern, found
in various sizes, usually placed on a plate or under sweets or knick-knacks).
Bunk made her indentity incognito with sunglasses.

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The OS5 file card image depicts
the PERMANENT RECORD for bullet point number
one: ‘9/12/80 – Held up a Pizzeria – made off with 65 pies and a sausage hero’.
Pound’s original piece shows the character for OS1 cards 26a Slobby ROBBIE and
26b Fat MATT sitting upon a bathroom scale and pulverizing it whilst eating an
ice cream cone and holding a box of candy, while Bunk’s rendered artwork shows
the character slowly meandering in a heavy-footed stampede from a Pizzaria with
said stolen pies and a sausage hero to boot (def’n: Hero sandwich –
a large sandwich consisting of a long cut roll containing cooked sausage and other
meats, cheese, lettuce and tomatoes).

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The OS5 file card image doesn’t
necessarly depict any PERMANENT RECORD bullet
point that’s listed straight out. Pound’s original piece shows the character for
OS1 cards 33a Mad MIKE and 33b Savage STUART in a full-on killing attack mode
with weapons in hand, while Bunk’s rendered artwork shows the character emerging
from a seized town or city leaving the destruction in fire and ruin with a dead
chicken impaled upon his broken sword. A skull shows up in both renditions, but
Bunk’s skull is cracked down the middle. Bunk has also taken the liberty of adding
a bone piece to the warrior’s ear ornamentation.

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For the original concept, the color rough depicted the character running through
the town/city rather than the outskirts; a dead rooster was later added skewered
onto the sword.

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The OS5 file
card image depicts the PERMANENT RECORD
for bullet point number one: ‘9/10/80 – Tried to auction self off as human bookends’.
Pound’s original piece shows the character for OS2 cards 49a Double HEATHER, 49b
Schizo FRAN (non-ALIAS) and 49b FRAN FRAN
in a full on bare knuckle fistfight with oneself… err… twoself, while Bunk’s
rendered artwork shows the character holding six assumed cookbooks between their
noggins and holding a potential weapon in the form of a wooden mixing spoon utensil
and a wooden rolling pin. The former used to ‘dish out’ and the latter used to
‘flatten’, well chosen. Bunk has added a Band-aid plaster to head #2.

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The OS5 file card image doesn’t
necessarly de-‘pick’ any PERMANENT RECORD
bullet point that’s listed on the backside. Pound’s original piece shows the character
for OS2 cards 77a Ghastly ASHLEY and 77b Acne AMY in a bust portraying portrait
showing off metal-mouth train tracks and an unclear complexion (acne, blackheads,
whiteheads, comedones, etc.), while Bunk’s rendered artwork shows the character
at a high-class garden party with palm shrubs in the background along with waitstaff
and unclogged pores spurting out zit-goo from popped zits. Bunk has changed the
dress and hair ribbon to pink to show off the yellow pimple pus and added a red
tie to the dress. The color rough has the character in a green dress and tie.

Original
Final Artwork: JOHN POUND

Original Series
— two Puzzle Preview cards: 179a and 193a —
twenty-one Puzzle Piece cards: 168a (v), 168a (v),
169a (v), 169 a (v), 171a, 175a (v), 175a (v), 176a, 178a (v), 183a, 186a, 187a,
188a, 192a, 194a, 197a, 198a, 199a, 200a, 203a and 205a.

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The OS5 file card image depicts
the PERMANENT RECORD for either bullet point
number one or three: ‘Spray painted New Jerse Pink/Blue’, however, the character
is holding a yellow and purple spray can. Pound’s original piece shows the character
for OS1 cards 30a New Wave Dave and 30b Graffiti PETEY spray painting an inner-city
wall with pink and white spray paint cans, while Bunk’s rendered artwork shows
the character standing on a pile of empty spray paint cans spraying himself after
tagging a whole city. Bunk’s character has a forward-facing profile so shows off
the character sporting a blue t-shirt and belted pants. The color rough has an
‘AIRBRUSH!‘ notation from the art director to have the artist
use the method for the spraypainted area.

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The OS5 file card image depicts
the PERMANENT RECORD for bullet point number
one: ‘9/5/82 – Stole 200 color T.V.’s with remote control from Radio Shack’. Pound’s
original piece shows the character for OS1 cards 10a Tee-Vee STEVIE (spelled ‘T.V.
STEVIE’ on ALIAS) and 10b Geeky GARY surrounded
by a circle of woodgrain T.V.’s and a video camera, while Bunk’s rendered artwork
shows the character with a tower of stolen teevees behind him. The character is
pushing the ‘ON’ button on the remote and in Bunk-fashion the TV is unplugged
but still working. The spiderweb attached to the character’s foot shows he’s been
squatting for some time. The character is missing his watch-face. The color rough
depicts the character with a yellow shirt and holding the TV remote towards his
body.

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The OS5 file card image depicts
the PERMANENT RECORD for bullet point number
two: ’11/9/82 – Robbed Acme Weight Co. Got away with 607,000 lbs. and a truss’
(def’n: Truss – a framework consisting of rafters, posts and struts
supporting a roof). Pound’s original piece shows the character for OS2 cards 51a
RUSSELL Muscle and 51b BRETT Sweat lifing a heavy weight bar and sweating profusely,
while Bunk’s rendered artwork shows the character lifting an entire weight lifting
building as weights and professional weightlifters topple out and free fall. Bunk
has placed popping veins on the character and two faces to check comedically whether
the coast is clear.
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The original color rough concept
had the character in a mobster suit holding up a liquor store with bottles toppling
off of the shelves; picture notes to the left from the art director had the artist
change the concept to shop-lifting a weight lifting building and to add a burgler
mask.

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The OS5 file card image depicts
the PERMANENT RECORD for either bullet point
number one: ‘5/10/81 Recreated the bombing of Pearl Harbor in his bathtub, 8000
perished’. Pound’s original piece shows the character for OS1 cards 41a Mean GENE
and 41b Joltin’ JOE standing in an all-out assault mode holding a semi-automatic
rifle (still smoking) and a bundle of dynamite, two ammo belts, an army knife
in between teeth, arrows, combat boots and a grenade, while Bunk’s rendered artwork
shows the character holding a bazooka and aforementioned dynamite, a grenade replaced
knife between teeth (knife stuck in floor next to hand bomb) and box of dynamite
still intact. Note: dead rubber ducky. No bullet hole found in the rubber ducky
for the color rough.

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The OS5 file card image depicts
the PERMANENT RECORD for bullet point number
three: ‘3/15/86 – Wrapped duct tape around heads of terminal acne patients. Then
removed slowly’. Pound’s original piece shows the character for OS2 cards 62a
Greaser GREG and 62b CHRIS Hiss in full-on street fight mode holding a chain and
pocket knife (broken bottle at his feet), while Bunk’s rendered artwork shows
the character still with a cigarette in his mouth but also ‘whistling while he
works’ at removing duct tape from victims acne-scarred faces, to gruesomely reveal
the skull and eye sockets underneath. Bunk has added a skull ring to the hand
holding the ‘TAPE‘ dispenser.
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For the original color concept,
the character was just whistling with no cigarette in his mouth and the victims
tongue is sticking out, no star added for ‘pain’ and less skin and blood attached
to the ripped off tape.

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The OS5 file card image doesn’t
necessarly depict any PERMANENT RECORD bullet
point that’s listed on the backside. Pound’s original piece shows the character
for OS1 cards 3a Up CHUCK and 3b Heavin’ STEVEN innocently sitting on a baby blanket
and barfing his toys out along with lunch, while Bunk’s rendered artwork shows
the infant sitting in a similar position on top of a house vomiting and causing
the town, or small city, to flood. Instead of toys (truck, goldfish, building
block, house key) as seen in Pound’s piece, Bunk has a dead fish, a teevee set
and a tin can spewing out of the character’s mouth. A shark fin can be seen in
the background to add to the humour level.

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The OS5 file card image doesn’t
necessarly depict any specific PERMANENT RECORD
bullet point that’s listed on the backside, but the character is belligerently
swearing as stated in bullet point number one. Pound’s original piece shows the
wildwoman character for OS2 cards 50a Mad DONNA and 50b Nutty NICOLE in a playpen
biting on the head of a chicken and holding what looks like a human femur bone,
while Bunk’s rendered artwork shows the character flipping off of the handle,
and her feet, still holding onto the terrorized chicken and an alleged human bone,
but is also seen verbally spewing cuss words. Bunk’s character does not have quite
as long of hair as Pound’s. The original concept for the color rough had the broken
and escaped from playpen and the plant replaced with a human skull.