Regular readers will know that I've shown a
photo of my wee TOMY robot before, but here's
a brief clip of him in motion. "It's alive!"
Thursday, 7 April 2016
RECOMMENDED READING: KIRBY COLLECTOR, BACK ISSUE, & ALTER EGO...
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Was in a local comicbook store relatively recently and came away with a big batch of goodies. Amongst the pile of stuff I acquired were the four mags you see before you - comics nostalgia at its very best. So get along to your nearest shop and buy your own copies before they sell out. You wouldn't want to live the rest of your life without them. (Hard-sell? Me? Nah!)
It's APRIL - So Time For A Post About The WOOLWORTH'S SANTA...
Yeah, I'm aware it's not Christmas (though it will be before you know it), but I've been meaning to do this post for a while. Not that it contains any earth-shaking content (when do they ever?), but I feel like wallowing in nostalgia for a bit.
The Santa in the above photo is from a set of four I bought in WOOLWORTH'S back around the mid-'80s. Every year since then they've been trotted out to add to the festive cheer in the living-room, adorning the wall-clock above the fireplace for many a Christmas now - 'though I originally hung them from the old tree (which pre-dates my arrival on the planet).
It's a classic Santa Claus design, very similar to the one associated with COCA COLA. And though I didn't acquire the figures until the mid-'80s, I can easily imagine them as part of the Christmases of my boyhood back in the '60s, accentuating the yuletide mood of houses that they never once saw the insides of. Strange that, eh?
Anyway, I assumed when I bought them that they were a relatively new product at the time ('cos I'd never seen them before), but perhaps they're an old item that appeared in shops every Christmas for decades. Does anyone else have them, and if so, can you recall roughly what year you first got them? Let me know in the comments section, will you?
(And remember - it's only eight months to Christmas.)
KLASSIC KIRBY KOMIC KOVERS: The INCREDIBLE HULK #5...
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I first read this tale in an issue of SMASH! back in the 1960s. Re-read it (and saw the above cover for the first time) in MARVEL COLLECTORS' ITEM CLASSICS #6 not long after. It was reprinted in an early ish of The MIGHTY WORLD Of MARVEL in the early '70s, as well as appearing in the comic's Annual around the same time. One of my favourite HULK stories - one glance and I'm a kid again. How about you?