The Amsco Marvel World Playset is one of the most wonderful pieces of Superhero merch from the 1970s. An expensive collectible now, I think the major reason for it’s appeal is it was comic accurate in an era when it has no business being so. Seriously, Doctor Strange’s Sanctum Sanctorum?
I found this catalog from Croner, an Australian toy distributor that carried alot of US items by companies like MPC and Azrak-Hamway International. Nothing that I haven’t seen before but it’s nice to end a week looking at stuff like this. That Captain America kite is particularly dreamy.
I’m packing up PlaidStallions HQ for an eventual move and this fluttered across my desk, it’s a Japanese post card for the Toei Spider-Man series and for some reason, they included Kamen Rider V3. I prize it dearly. I’ve had this card since highschool, it was gifted to me by fellow toy collector and friend […]
Oh Corgi, you are a main ingredient in a happy childhood.
I’m totally fascinated with little bits of weird super hero merchandise like this. Here we have the marriage of hair care and our friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man, whose mantra of putting his name on everything would put Garfield to shame. This is all the handiwork of the standard Pyroxoioid Corp. (sexy name!) This set solves […]
This children’s Spider-Man costume from France is pretty killer and detailed, the ray gun is weird but I bet kids didn’t mind.
As much as I think that van is the coolest thing ever, I do kind of think that Spidey and Hulk are the Gene Simmons of the Comic world.
From that brief time when Mork trumped Darth Vader and Spider-Man…
Spidey joined the winner of shopping spree back in 1981, I dream of these things sometimes…. Send me your mall appearance photos!
I have to applaud Ideal Toys for spinning the monster makeup kit concept to Superheroes and not just including Hulk and Spider-Man but the Thing as well as being smart enough to include She-Hulk and Spider-Woman on the box.
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