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When Captain America Throws His Mighty Shield…

All those at the Columbus car show must yield! Another winner from Larry, this time it’s Captain America, the perfect hero for the fourth of July weekend. Cap was pretty busy with appearances around this time. Again I have to say huge props to Larry for these wonderful shots, check out his site for classic […]

To the Batmobile Larry!

Larry sent in this cool shot of him and Batman from a Columbus car show circa 1981. It’s weird but this is how I kind of picture Batman. I’d also like to know where Larry got that killer Flash T Shirt! I have more vintage shots of Larry from next week and it should come […]

Tim and Spidey

Tim sent in the great picture of him and Spider-Man at a Boscov’s in 1977, he’s got more pictures and a wonderful story surrounding that day at his blog . Click here to check out Tim’s blog and “The day he met Spider-Man (sort of)”

Action Man Visits a Toy Shop

Tying in nicely to yesterday’s catalog, we have another cool toy store appearance by Action Man, well Action Men really as the regular and space version showed up at toy stores across the UK in a special vehicle. They didn’t show the car sadly but we do have a sweet, sweet shot of an Action […]

Spider Man takes on the Knight of Darkness?

Today’s Mall Appearance shot comes from Patrick, who also added a great story of the day he got it, I’ll let him tell it, budding in of course… “It was a beautiful Saturday in Woodbridge Center Mall, Woodbrdge, New Jersey. It was an open area (which exists to this day) in the JC Penney wing. […]

By Your Command!

Jason Lenzi from Bif Bang Pow Sent in this wunderbar shot of him at Universal Studios circa 1979 with a real live Cylon. This is just a small sample of some of his cool vacation pics from that tour that I’ll brining to the site in the next few weeks. Looking at them, it’s no […]

Spider-Man at Toys By Rizzi

Here’s a cool shot from 1979 featuring the webbed wall crawler at the opening of a “Toys By Rizzi” store in Downers Grove, IL. Spider-Man was joined by Bigfoot (not sure if he was the bionic one) but sadly there are no photos of him. If you look closely you can see a whole aisle […]

Darth Vader hits the Waterpark

Matt sent in this fun shot of him and Darth Vader in the Wisconsin Dells circa 1978, note the signed 8″ by 10″ glossy in his hands. Matt gets bonus points for the cool Starsky and Hutch shirt but I’m not sure why Darth Vader is wearing the buzzer from my grandmother’s apartment building lobby […]

Spidey in the Great White North

Mike sent in this neat picture of him and his sister at a Windsor Ontario mall circa 1974, why is Mike a little freaked out looking in the picture. Mike tells me the other costumed character making an appearance was MAN THING! I’d love to see photos of that although it’s not exactly the ideal […]

Spider-Man in the UK

Today’s mall appearance comes from the UK where Spider-Man was used on a bus tour to promote the Palitoy Superheroes line (which were repackaged Mego Superheroes). I don’t know about you but this is more Spider-Man than I ever hoped to see….. Send me your mall appearance photos!