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From Mike Durrett, for About.com

The Original Illustrated Catalog of ACME Products

Sunday August 5, 2007
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"ACME is a worldwide leader of many manufactured goods. From its humble beginnings providing corks and flypaper to bug collectors ('Buddy's Bug Hunt'/1935) to its heyday in the American Southwest supplying a certain coyote, from Ultimatum Dispatchers to Batman outfits, ACME has set the standard for excellence," curator G.P. Markham proudly and rightfully boasts. "For the first time ever, information and pictures of all ACME products, specialty divisions, and services (from 1935 to 1964) are gathered here, in one convenient catalog."

Screen shots from the classic Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoons adorn each entry, complete with annotations designating the films which contain the clever ACME product placements.

And now I must go test my new Jet-Propelled Pogo Stick...

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Pictured: Wile E. Coyote, ACME user. Photo credit: Justin Sullivan / Getty Images.

Comments

July 24, 2006 at 9:54 am
(1) rudd g says:

what does acme stand for?

July 24, 2006 at 6:49 pm
(2) Mike Durrett says:

The definition of “acme” is “the highest level or degree attainable,” says Dictionary.com. “The name has been humorously expanded as A (or American) Company
Making Everything. (In fact, Acme was a real brand sold from Sears
Roebuck catalogs in the early 1900s.)”

The exact genesis in the Warner Bros. cartoons and other sources is unclear to me.

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