A 1998 Three Stooges promo tee, all-over print, licensed through Comedy III Entertainment, sepia-tone full-bleed sublimation edge to edge. This is not a standard character iron-on from the rack at Spencer's. The print wraps the entire body of the shirt, front and back, Moe and Larry and Curly rendered in that warm monochrome brown that reads closer to archival photography than to novelty merchandise.

Comedy III Entertainment had been the licensing arm controlling Three Stooges rights since the early 1980s, and by 1998 they were leaning hard into the promo cycle for the Columbia/Tristar Three Stooges TV movie that aired that year, starring Michael Chiklis as Curly, Evan Handler as Larry, and Paul Ben-Victor as Moe. The film aired on ABC in April 1998 and drew enough attention to push a full wave of licensed merchandise. The all-over sublimation format was at its commercial peak in the mid-to-late 1990s, used heavily across sports apparel, surf brands, and entertainment tie-ins. This kind of edge-to-edge licensed tee required a different production process than screen print runs, which is part of why they survived in better shape than comparable character tees from the same years. The sepia palette choice also locked it visually to the original short-film era rather than any colorized or updated branding.

The copy here is in the condition you'd expect from a piece that was printed to move product and not necessarily to last thirty years, so the hand of the fabric has relaxed. The print itself reads clean from any viewing distance. Size Large, which cuts generously by current sizing. The sublimation extends past the collar into the shoulder yoke. Run your thumb along the edge of the collar rib where the all-over print transitions to the seam, and you'll see exactly where the sublimation boundary sits and whether any cracking has started along that edge.

OWNER VERIFY: confirm the ABC airdate year (1998) against any interior tag or promotional text printed on the garment.