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Lovable Smoking Traveler’s Pet

I was pleased to track one of these down over the weekend as my dad sold them back in the 70s. I was always fascinated by the concept, especially the notion that the Hanna Barbera characters were chain smokers. As an adult, I’m going to venture a guess that this isn’t an officially licensed product. […]

Comic Ad: Mattel Shogun Warriors

 It’s a holiday here today and technically that means I’m supposed to be assembling patio furniture and cleaning my garage. However, I couldn’t resist posting this knock out ad from the summer of 1979 that I poured over for many an hour.

More Shogun Warriors in France

Found this cool ad from comic book in France, offering 50 Jumbo Goldorak Shogun Warriors in a contest. This guy was a European exclusive (although I found more than one here in Canada, never smart enough to buy one) and it’s sweet to see so many of them in this advert. click on this for […]

Marvel Superheroes Pinball

Blame the Avengers for my Marvel comics kick this week, I remember getting one of these Hasbro pinball games for my eight birthday. My neighbour got it for me because he knew I liked Captain America, it was cool and I loved the art but I didn’t play with it much.  Mostly because my dad […]

Activated Marvel Super Heroes by PPC

images graciously provided by Hakes Auctions Right after Mego and just before Secret Wars, Activated Superheroes are a forgotten series of Marvel Superhero figures produced by Processed Plastic Corp (sexy name eh?) or PPC for short. PPC trade ad which includes the Activated Superheroes These are well sculpted “army men” type characters (that remind me […]

Mattel Big Jim Repro Art Book

Reproduction is was a series of black and white line drawings of toy products provided to vendors for newspaper advertisements. It is something of a lost artform in this digital age and something I both admire and collect. I’ve compiled a gallery of repro art for Mattel’s 1975 Big Jim line, as I’m pretty fond […]