Here's a list of cool vintage (and recent) Kovacs memorabilia to add to your collection, as you go through antique shops, flea markets, garage sales and relative's attics. If I've overlooked something, let me know what it is and where's a good place to find it, and I'll add it to the list.

• E.E.F.M.S. membership card -- Ernie created this fan club during the run of one of his early live television shows in Philly. Ernie's show was a wake-up show and began quite early in the morning, and so he called this secret club the Early Eyeball Fraternal and Marching Society.

 
• E.E.F.M.S. paraphernalia -- I seem to remember seeing a necktie with the logo on it in a book. There may be other stuff out there.

 
• "Oriental Blues" -- Ernie's theme song (partially lifted from a Gershwin piano piece called Rialto Ripples) was released as a 45 rpm record by MGM Records. The flip side is something called "Hey, Taxi!", and I think has Ernie on it. I almost got a chance to hear the record at the Performing Arts Library in NY, but some fan who worked there at one time had permanently borrowed it.

 
• Percy's Specs -- The eyes-and-glasses Ernie used for Percy Dovetonsils were a dimestore novelty item, with sleepy-looking eyelids drawn in. I've found similar items, but nothing with the half-ping-pong ball eyes.
  
  
• "Silents Please" -- This is not so much a collectible as it is something to be on the lookout for. In 1960, Ernie hosted this TV show, a summer replacement, in which he did wraparounds for a half-hour program of silent films. The show was produced by Paul Killiam in New York, and ran on ABC, then again on WOR-TV. A handful of these episodes survive, but not the whole series.  Keep your eyes peeled, fans; according to Edie, it's the only footage ever shot in Ernie's den.
  
  
• The Ernie Kovacs Album -- Columbia Records released this compilation album on vinyl in 1976, around the time the PBS "Best of" series was running. It used audio transcription discs of Kovacs' live shows from 1955 and 1956 held in the Kovacs special collection at UCLA as source material.
  
  
• The Life Magazine Cover -- After the huge success of the Silent Show in 1957, Life Magazine put Ernie on its cover, and on the map, with a big feature story. The cover is a beautiful color shot of Ernie in a TV studio, and the article has a great deal of info from the man himself on his theory of television comedy. I found a copy -- twice -- at a street vendor in NYC who's usually on Broadway just a couple of blocks below Lincoln Center.

 
• Show Business Illustrated Magazine -- the October 17, 1961 issue of Show Business Illustrated (a Hugh Hefner publication) featuring a six page story/photo spread that includes shots of Ernie's underwater Dutch masters commercial and several Jolene Brand tub scenes. This one was brought to my attention by fan James Stover.

 
• Music To Listen to Records BY -- this is an album that Ernie and Edie did with Henry Mancini during the 50s. I was alerted to this by Edie's son Josh.
  
  
• TV Guide, et al. -- I'm sure there are many TV Guides and similar TV listing weeklies out there with ads and photos of Ernie.