Rack jobber

The term "jobber" can be synonymous with wholesaler or intermediary in merchandising. The term dates to the mid-19th century and earlier. The rack jobber retains ownership of the products, reducing the potential loss incurred by the retailer from lack of product sales. The proceeds of the sale from the product are then divided/shared by the rack jobber and retailer. Rack jobbers have played a role in the music industry: in the 1930s the Music Dealers Service was a rack jobber operating music sheet racks. ==LP Records==

The first LP rack jobber in the U.S. was Elliott Wexler (1913–1966) who started Music Merchants in Philadelphia in 1952. ==Toys==

Brian Heiler runs the website plaidstallions.com that features rack toys, and has written a book about them, Rack Toys: Cheap, Crazed Playthings (2012) . Many of these toys involved slapping product licenses (usually in the form of stickers with logos and sometimes imagery) on generic toys before Ronald Reagan lifted the prohibition on toys based on television shows or vice versa. Some early 1980s shows such as Manimal had rack toys based on them that featured the title character midway in transition from human to lion and human to cobra. Rack toy licenses included Star Trek, Space: 1999, Kojak, Police Woman, Land of the Lost, The Sword and the Sorcerer, The Lone Ranger, Planet of the Apes, The Phantom, Flash Gordon, The Mod Squad, M*A*S*H/Trapper John, M.D., The Brady Bunch, Simon & Simon, Matt Houston, The Dukes of Hazzard, Dick Tracy, Annie, Laverne & Shirley, CHiPS, The Love Boat, Mr. Smith, Airwolf, B.J. and the Bear, Street Hawk, The A-Team, Mr. T. Knight Rider, Baywatch, The Simpsons, 1941, The Patriot, The Karate Kid, American Ninja, Rocky, The Delta Force, The Martian Chronicles, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, The Mighty Hercules, Groovie Goolies, The Banana Splits, The Woody Woodpecker Show, The Perils of Penelope Pitstop, Dick Dastardly, Mighty Mouse, Josie and the Pussycats, Dr. Shrinker, Spectreman, Ultraman, Manta and Moray, Space Sentinels, Universal Monsters, The Mighty Crusaders, Tex Starr, Popeye, Tarzan, The Shadow, Disney, Hanna-Barbera, Marvel Comics, and DC Comics. Common examples of rack toys include parachuters, motorcycles, helicopters, water guns, make-up kits, doctor kits, barber/hair styling kits, nurse kits, construction kits, and character figures--frequently bendables or with little or none of the articulation of action figures. ==See also==