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Review: Comic Book Fever by George Khoury

I own a lot of books by George Khoury, in fact this isn’t even the first book by him that I’ve reviewed on this blog and I don’t read much, so that’s pretty special. The reason I own so many, is that George and I seem to like a lot of the same things. His latest […]

The Amazing Spider-Watch

It doesn’t look like much but this would have been a proxy web shooter to me as a kid and probably gotten days of use until it fell apart….  Get our book on Rack Toys and other goodies at our online store Our toy wantlist

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 […]

Spider-Man Ricochet Racers

Ricochet racers were a cool concept on their own, it’s a neat looking laser gun looking rifle that shot cars! Sprinkle in Spider-Man and Captain America and few kids could resist them.

Colouring BooK Theatre: Spiderman’s Christmas

Spider-Man’s Christmas: Giant Story Colouring Book by Marvel Books I found this book at a flea market the other and seeing how it’s Christmas, I spent the money and nabbed this gigantic book from 1984. It’s done in ’84 by the Marvel Bullpen so it’s nicely done rip of the Parkes Run books from the […]

colouring book theatre: The Incredible Hulk

The Incredible Hulk: Giant Story Colouring Book by Parkes Run I recently discovered photos of this book, taken in 2011 at my pal Jeff’s store Kool Stuff Toys. Parkes Run made these giant  books in the late 70s and I remember getting at least one for Christmas. In order to use this for CBT I […]