Ain’t life crazy? My wife was looking for a missing tv remote, waaaaay down between the cushions of the mid-century couch we inherited from her parents’ house, and she found this card from a vintage kid’s game. I believe it had…
Ain’t life crazy? My wife was looking for a missing tv remote, waaaaay down between the cushions of the mid-century couch we inherited from her parents’ house, and she found this card from a vintage kid’s game. I believe it had…
Of my many NY Comic-Con finds, nothing stands out like Rainbow Batman… and it turns out he’s in canon, too!
Stan Weston, the licensing entrepreneur who created G.I. Joe and Captain Action back in the 60’s, has died at 84. more info here, here, and here. Photo is Stan at his Manhattan office, surrounded by his many projects and toys, in…
August 1 is the birthday of Jackie Ormes, the first African-American woman syndicated cartoonist. She created the comic strip Torchy Brown and the panel comic Patty-Jo ‘n’ Ginger. In 1947, the Terri Lee doll company produced a doll based on…
sorry, more puppets, and blurry no less from this guy, this time. (What is it about red vertical stripes that says “puppets”?)
Donald Levine, the Hasbro executive who launched the G.I. Joe “action figure” in 1964, died this month. I was a Captain Action kid, myself. G.I. Joe was a soldier, but Captain Action was a superhero. And you could dress him…
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