Category: Memorabilia

This category features the wide variety of Reddy items made as promotional materials.

1956 comic book

It’s interesting how time and wear affect the value of all memorabilia. This 1956 comic book featuring Reddy Kilowatt is worth just US$7 in Fair condition, but goes for US$136.25 in Near Mint condition. Put out by Education Comics, it’s titled The Wizard of Light and tells the story of Thomas Edison. Cool!

Are you Reddy?

Well, looky there! Reddy in a cowboy costume! Here’s a photo and an excerpt of a post written by tikiranch: This was the first advertising nodder I bought when I started to collect advertising figures . I was at the Arizona Toy show and they had another antique show in another building. I was shopping […]

Reddy Kilowatt Original Art

Reddy Kilowatt Original Art Originally uploaded by Neato Coolville. “This is just a small torn off piece from a larger page. I wish I had the rest of it. Artist unknown.”

Reddy Kilowatt bobblehead by Funko

Wow, $150 bucks for this 7″ tall nodder! A distinguishing advertising character that was also a classic nodder. The Reddy Kilowatt nodder initially was actually dressed in a cowboy outfit and eventually changed into his current appearance. Reddy Kilowatt had a production run of only 10,000 pieces and hasn’t been repeated since, to the best […]

Reddy in the ‘Gallery of Regrettable Food 3.0’

James Lileks’ “Gallery of Regrettable Food” is an internet classic. Even Reddy cannot escape a skewering: Reddy Kilowatt heralding the all-electric, post-war Kitchen of Death. Isn’t he cute? the women seem to be saying. (The one on the left seems particularly enchanted.) They do not realize, of course, that one touch of Reddy means instant, […]