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Toy-Ventures: Reckless Toy Show Purchases

Toy-Ventures looks at last week’s Canadian Toy-Con, including what I picked up and some amazing stuff I wish I had purchased. #toyventures #godzilla #planetoftheapes     Join our weekly newsletter. The Super Collector Newsletter combines all the news from Mego Museum and Plaid Stallions and a lot of other fun stuff across the Interwebs. It’s […]

Marvel or DC? A Toy-Ventures Dilemma

Regarding the cover design for Toy-Ventures Magazine, I am surprisingly pretty hands-off. I explain my concept to the artist, and often, in that discussion, they make it better. I retire to the interior knowing I’m in good hands, and honestly, it’s always worked out great. However, for issue 9 and crafting the Mego Comic Action […]

70s Superhero toys in Japanese Starlog – Mego, Remco, AHI and More!

I recently stumbled across this fantastic issue of Japanese Starlog, which was a lot like the US version, except its graphic design was way more exciting. This particular issue has a feature on all the imported Superhero toys from the US you can buy. So the best way to describe it is like a Heroes […]

Toy-Ventures Issue 9 drops next week

Super Happy to announce that Issue 9 of Toy-Ventures Magazine is on the press and will be shipping this month. Issue 9 is jam-packed with vintage toy goodness. Walloping Websnappers: Vincent Cerbone shares this strange 8” Tong Inc. Spider- Man discovery from France. Mego Planet of the Apes Part 6 Our ongoing coverage of the […]