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Outside of William Shatner, there’s little room in advertising for the grotesque or the bizarre. Which is too bad, says Marc Hartzman, senior copywriter at FCBi, New York, and fan of deformed 19th-century circus performers and other sundry curiosities.

For the most part, Hartzman, 29, has to get his jollies outside his day job. He produces a zine, Backwash, devoted to oddities great and small, and has now published Found on eBay, a book outlining some of the stranger offerings put up for sale.

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