Okay, I admit that the letter “V” had me stumped. Sure, I could have gone with something like “villains” or “vintage,” but those topics were too broad for my headache-challenged brain today, so I looked around the cave and found this… The Battlestar Galactica Viper Launch Station toy from Mattel! Isn’t this just the greatest box art […]
U is for the Uncanny X-Men
When I was a kid, I was all about the Uncanny X-Men. This series had me enthralled with its perfect mix of complex characters and universe-spanning adventures, and just looking at these covers brings back fond memories of reading them and dissecting the stories with my friends. I may have had a half dozen long boxes filled […]
T is for 12-Cent Comics
When I was a kid, I would walk right on by the bins of old comics, only interested in the newest titles and stories. I stopped collecting comics in 1990, the year I went off to college, but in the last few years, I was infected with the 12-cent bug — I just can’t pass up a comic sporting the 12-cent price in […]
S is for Spider-Man
Okay, I’m picking the low hanging fruit for today’s topic, but I’m three days behind so gimme a break. Spider-Man is one of the “Big 4” for me when it comes to collecting. I focus on vintage Batman, Superman, Hulk, and Spider-Man items, but will occasionally pick up a random Captain America or Green Lantern […]
R is for Radios
They’re not just transistor radios, they’re “transistorized” radios. Is that a real thing? I have no idea, but it sure sounds way cooler! These guys look like they just walked off of the pages of a comic book, don’t they? There’s just something about these large hunks of plastic that appeals to me so much. I still […]
Q is for Quiz Time!
Relax, put the pencil down, I’m not really going to quiz you — though I did think about it. No, today’s challenge set me off on a Quixotic quest for a topic beginning with “Q,” the next letter in the Blogging from A-to-Z Challenge. This was no easy task, but eventually I stumbled across this beauty… The […]