Thursday, April 03, 2008

MORE FUN WITH FILMATION

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With all the warm and fuzzy nostalgia directed at the Brady Bunch over the last 30 years or so, those who were not around during the 70s mig...
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Monday, March 24, 2008

NEW CAPTAIN ACTION MODEL FROM MOEBIUS

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Moebius Models , in conjunction with Captain Action Enterprises , has finally released their long-awaited Captain Action model, a reproducti...
Wednesday, March 12, 2008

CLAPTON THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY

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This entry is way off the mark for this blog, but it is my blog after all, so what the hell. I just finished reading Eric Clapton’s autobiog...
Tuesday, March 04, 2008

THE TALE OF TWO WHITMANS

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If you were a kid in the 70s, Whitman Publishing Company was probably your publisher of choice whether you knew it or not. Whitman produced ...
Thursday, February 28, 2008

THE EXCITING WORLD OF FILMATION

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Any child who was glued to the TV in the 60s and 70s the way I was became intimately familiar with the handful of cartoon producers who domi...
Friday, February 22, 2008

SECRET ORIGINS OF A COMIC FAN

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When last I blogged, I was talking about the moment I became a serious comic fan. It was the spring of 1972 and I had just gotten three comi...
Thursday, February 21, 2008

THE DAY I BECAME A COMIC FAN

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I mentioned in my previous post about my first encounters with comic books as a child. My big influence was the Batman TV show, which led me...
Wednesday, February 20, 2008

THE MAKING OF A COMIC FAN

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I can narrow down the time I became a comic fan to one specific moment when I was seven years old. It was in the spring of 1972 and I foun...
Tuesday, February 12, 2008

ACTION FIGURE PROJECT - CAPTAIN ACTION ATV CONT'D.

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The creation of the Captain Action ATV continues... About 10 years ago, while I was attempting to quit smoking, I returned to my adolescent ...
Wednesday, January 30, 2008

ATTACK OF THE MECHANICAL TOYS!

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As I've mentioned numerous times in this post, my brother is six and a half years older than I. That meant that his childhood toy refere...
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Tuesday, January 22, 2008

NEW ACTION FIGURE PROJECT - PART TWO

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In a previous post, I talked about a 1/6 th scale all-terrain vehicle (ATV) that I bought as a post-Christmas clearance item at my local dr...
Thursday, January 17, 2008

HI-TECH - 70s STYLE

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Having a brother half a dozen years older than I created a bit of anxiety in the growing up department. From my earliest memories around age...
Friday, January 11, 2008

NEW ACTION FIGURE PROJECT

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A couple days after Christmas, I went to my local drug store to pick up a prescription. As is my habit, I walked down the toy aisle on my wa...
Monday, January 07, 2008

L'IL SOLDIER JOE

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Before I was in grade school, my mom and I spent a lot of time together during the day. With my father at work and my brother in school, she...
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Thursday, January 03, 2008

ANOTHER YEAR

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Well, another holiday season has come and gone, and we’re now in 2008! When I was a kid, I would’ve expected everyone in 2008 to be riding a...