A conversation on The Red Devils Facebook group sparked a quick souvenir check through the No Fightin’ warehouse.
Joining the ever-growing collection alongside the popular Red Devils keychain/bottle opener is some rare flair we’ve not seen before, brought to our attention by an anonymous collector.
First up is this red and mirrored magnet, with the original Red Devils logo (pre-Blue Shadows, occassionally used during the Def American years).
This is as solid a piece we’ve come across, with the logo on a mirror that is affixed inside a piece of red plastic. The back is more than a magnet — in fact, it’s three small magnets along the edges of the plastic.
Homemade? Maybe. Cool? Most definitely.
Next up is this small black pin, about the size of a U.S. quarter, again with the old logo. It’s easy to imagine how cheap and plentiful band buttons like this were in the early 1980s.
The rare and collectible Red Devils
There isn’t much in the way of merchandise for The Red Devils or 13. Beyond the records, here is some of the swag that has been coveted by fans.
Finally, we have a really cool piece of promotional material from “King King.”
It’s a Red Devils album promo flat. These were 12-by-12 pieces of cardboard that promoted an album with artwork on both sides. Flats were really popular, again, back in the 1980s and 1990s. The two sides allowed for the flats to appear in windows but not waste the back space. Or you’d see them haning from store ceilings by kite string.
They were immensely collectable, and we’d often hit up the local record stores and get them for free when album promo cycles were finished.
The best ones featured alternative art or graphics.
What I like about this piece (two flats are shown here, front and back) is the typography. The glossy side features the “King King” album art we’re all familiar with.
The matte side — often limited to two colors — presents a two-deck Red Devils logo (with a new “the” variant) as well as the “King King” CD spine wordmark. This looks like the largest version of that alt logo we’ve seen.
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