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GI Joe Adventure Team Explores the World

Mantooth — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 15:38:40 +0000

These GI Joe Wishbook spreads are some of my earliest memories, my mother even tells me that an overnight hospital stay once was made less traumatic by handing me a Christmas wishbook that was in her car.

No wonder that I smile every time I see one of these double-page spreads…

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Greatest Catalog Page Ever (to me)

Mantooth — Tue, 24 Dec 2013 17:42:00 +0000

It seems fitting to end a month of Wish Book pages with what I consider the greatest one ever. From Monkey Wards 1976, the Mego Superheroes battling the Lincoln Monsters.

It’s not my favourite because of childhood (we didn’t have Wards in Canada) but when I was a teen tracking down my childhood monster friends, I could never find them. In the pre-internet days of collecting, I’d plow through toy shop or comic buyers guide and get people trying to sell me AHI and Mego monsters but I knew they weren’t right.

Then I started buying old catalogs from a collector (that’s a story in itself) and bam! first page I opened, there they were. That was 1989, it only took me 23 years to finish the set….

More on the Lincoln Monsters:

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Super Joe meets Godzilla

Mantooth — Tue, 24 Dec 2013 13:33:00 +0000

Seeing as it’s Christmas eve, I’m going to hurry up and do a few of my favourites before I shut down for the year. This piece featuring Hasbro Super Joe (an underrated line IMHO) features Shogun Warriors Godzilla, for no good reason but it totally works. This is what I miss about catalogs….

Christmas Cowboys

Mantooth — Mon, 23 Dec 2013 13:48:00 +0000

Although they were far past prime, Western action figures were still very much a viable commodity in the 1970s. I’d even be willing to argue that Gabriel’s seminal Lone Ranger line may be one of the top ten action figure lines of the 1970s.

Check em all out here:

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A little more Kung Fu Grip Love

Mantooth — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 18:03:00 +0000

It’s true, I loves me some GI Joe. While I have no room to put it all, I sure like to window shop.

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Atomic Joe Love

Mantooth — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 05:00:00 +0000

This page is from the 1975 Eaton’s catalog and I’m pretty sure I burned it into my brain that year. Joe’s world (and packaging artwork) has always captivated me and 1975 was a super special time for me…mainly because I was five.

Atomic Man was a childhood favourite of mine (though the appearance of Steve Austin did diminish Mike’s appeal) and Sky Dive to Danger (the set where Joe lands into a giant spider web) will forever be my favourite GI Joe set of all time.

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Vintage Barbie Love

Mantooth — Tue, 17 Dec 2013 05:00:00 +0000

I’ll admit it, that camper van tempted me….

Fun Girl’s Toys

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Bionic Monday!

Mantooth — Mon, 16 Dec 2013 05:00:00 +0000

Christmas will forever remind me of the Bionic Man, mostly because he or his friends were a staple from 1975 to 1978. I didn’t get everything on this page but I had Steve, Oscar and Maskatron and I played with those three for years.

I would feel remiss if I didn’t extend the Bionic Monday spotlight to the Bionic Woman, a show my sister watched loyally (I’d watch the Fembot ones or when Steve did a guest star/crossover). While I personally never had any of this stuff, I remember how big a deal it was on the playground.

More Bionic Love

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Christmas Adventure

Mantooth — Thu, 12 Dec 2013 05:00:00 +0000

Adventure People were a Christmas staple for me from ’75 to ’79, I’m not sure I ever even asked for them but they were welcome. The hours I spent playing with sets 1 through 3 probably outnumbered the amount I studied in college, so more than nine hours…

Canadian Star Wars

Mantooth — Mon, 09 Dec 2013 05:00:00 +0000

Or as I called it Star Wars, this page from 1979 shows a lot of the unique Star Wars items that could be found north of the US border. From the cardboard deathstar to the regal plush ending with the (very collectible) cheap-o utility belts that recycled some pieces from Remco.

I want to add that I never partook in any of those unique items as a kid, not that I’m complaining (I did great!) but I just find it kind of funny.

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