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The collection started when I found a blue Hoppy just after my wife and I got married in November of 1988. I then found a green Hoppy and a children\u2019s circus themed mug. The quest was on!<\/p>\n The collection features three styles: the pedestal and two straight-sided with D handles. Why two straight-sided styles? One has the Hazel Atlas mark on the bottom and the other style does not. The height, width, and thickness are just slightly different. The bottom and sweat ring are also slightly different. However, there are certain characters \u2013 especially in the western scenes \u2013 in the artwork that appear on both styles. Why? My guess is that a copyright was involved. The cups without the HA mark could be copyrighted by the customer and those with the mark by the company could not.<\/p>\n Saturday morning TV<\/a> is a recurring theme, and Western themes are certainly the most popular. Besides Hoppy, there are Ranger Joe (2 colors), Tex the Marshall (6), Wyatt Earp, Daniel Boone, Buffalo Bill, western kids (4 colors with small kids in the scenes), Native Americans (6 maroon with white graphics), a bronc-buster, The Cisco Kid and Davy Crockett. There are nine different Crockett\u2019s in the collection. One is obviously Fess Parker and has a Disney copyright [unfortunately, this one was broken during shipment, but Terry is still looking]. There are six different colors that have \u201cFamous Frontiersman\u201d on the banner and are unmarked. These may have been Big Top promos. The two that have the HA mark and the banner \u201cIndian Fighter\u201d are my favorites of this group. You never see this cup in any color but red. One night, while perusing EBAY I found the brown Crockett cup. In my 28 years of collecting, this is the only one I\u2019ve ever seen. Is it an error of a bad die lot? No one will ever know for sure, but that\u2019s my guess.<\/p>\n Space was another popular TV theme in the fifties and sixties, and the mugs featuring space scenes boldly imitate Buck Rogers graphics with four different scenes in four colors. The entire set is done again in the pedestal style with the same graphics, but swapped colors.<\/p>\n<\/a>My first Hazel Atlas cup was a black Hopalong Cassidy I had as a kid. Our mom had to paint initials on two identical cups to determine which was mine and which was my sister\u2019s.<\/p>\n<\/a>The four Hoppy\u2019s came with Big Top Peanut Butter, and I\u2019ve learned that the six unmarked Davy Crockett mugs were also distributed this way.<\/p>\n<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>