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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, February 11, 1993                   TAG: 9302110047
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-12   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: WALNUT CREEK, CALIF.                                LENGTH: Short

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AND NOW . . . AIDS TRADING CARDS

From the company that put Charles Manson and Jeffrey Dahmer on a set of trading cards comes a new series, featuring people who have or are fighting AIDS.

"There have been people who thought that these cards had a morbid cast to them," said Catherine Yronwode, co-owner of Eclipse Enterprises, the Forestville-based company that created a stir with its "True Crime" series.

But, she maintained in a telephone interview, "we're not dragging out horrid details."

For instance, the Rock Hudson card lists career highlights and ends with a paragraph on his 1985 announcement that he had AIDS. Others in the series include Magic Johnson and Arthur Ashe, who died last weekend of AIDS-related pneumonia.

Instead of gum, the purchaser gets a condom.

The True Crime series, featuring criminals and crime-fighters, drew protests last year while racking up $1 million in sales. Victims' rights groups decried the cards as glorifying violence and profiting from tragedy.

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