Michael Jackson heads this year’s list of top-earning dead celebrities, followed by Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, Charles Schultz, and John Lennon, in that order. What other celebrities are on the list, and what are people buying from them?
• Louis Armstrong—That one recording where he goes, “Beep A Zip Bop – Hey!” and bares his enormous, perfectly white teeth
• Humphrey Bogart—Individually signed deadpan stares
• Linus Pauling—Whatever that thing was he did that saved a bunch of people
• Adolf Hitler!*
—Staff
*Yeah, the part of the Holocaust nobody talks about is how the Nazis totally ripped off the guy who designed the swastika.
