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Brian Hague
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You're welcome, Bob! Happy hunting!
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Andrew Bitner
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Such a huge fan of Tom Swift, Jr. It was my daydream back then to have a Flying Lab or a Jetmarine or ride on the Repellatron Skyway. That was such big picture sf thinking--loved it.
I have a couple of the books and my local library appears to have quite a few as well. For anyone who loves the fantastic science in comic books, this might well suit you.
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Peter Martin
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OK, I'm going to provide a vintage photo of mine, with vintage bowlcut included...
I'd guess this was taken in Christmas 1979. This Hulk toy came with "smash-out" handcuffs and a "rage cage". You inflated him with a pump and he tore off his shirt, his handcuffs and busted out of the cage. Naturally I lost all the paraphanelia bar the pump and the Hulk himself.
Also pictured: a Star Wars-influenced version of Rock Em Sock Em robots.
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Eric Smearman
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I still have a bunch of Mego figures. They're boxed up at
my parents' house in West Virginia.
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Anthony J Lombardi
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I'd guess this was taken in Christmas 1979. This Hulk toy came with "smash-out" handcuffs and a "rage cage". You inflated him with a pump and he tore off his shirt, his handcuffs and busted out of the cage. Naturally I lost all the paraphanelia bar the pump and the Hulk himself.``````````````````````````````````` Funstuf made some great figures. I had that Hulk as well. I also had Frankenstein with lab table and Dracula in his coffin.
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Matt Hawes
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The above photo is me from the year 1979, or so, liberating a Princess Leia figure from the packaging, along with other Star Wars and Battlestar Galactica toys. Also in pic: You can see part of a Spider-Man Underoos package, the Remco Energized Superman toy, and the Star Wars cantina set that came with the exclusive blue Snaggletooth figure (which I gave away to a cousin years later).
A year or so later (floor once again littered with gift wrap and toys). There's a pile of yet more Star Wars toys, along with some Filmation Flash Gordon figures, I believe, and a couple of novelty record albums. I also starting wearing my glasses (which were pretty dorky looking... Eep).
A few years later, 1984. No toys, but plenty of cool comics! Among them are the graphic novel, X-MEN: "God Loves, Man Kills," NEW MUTANTS #6 (i think), MARVEL FANFARE #4, and PHOENIX: THE UNTOLD STORY #1.
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Ron Grant
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As a kid, I heard the siren call of neither of those series, but I was heavily into TOM SWIFT JR. |
One of my pet fantasies is some day to make a Tom Swift movie
As a kid in the seventies my older brother left me his Tom Swift jr books and I devoured them .
If you can't do a movie I would love to see a comics version but the time period must remain the same.
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Robert Shepherd
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In my "young reader" days, I read every ENCYCLOPEDIA BROWN book I could get my hands on.
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Bill Collins
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Bob MacNeil`s post made me think about the tricks our
memory makes on us,i may start another thread to save
derailing this one as i have a recent experience that
surprised me.
P.S. love the childhood present opening pics!
Edited by Bill Collins on 02 May 2017 at 12:25am
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John Byrne
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P.S. love the childhood present opening pics!•• Here's another, circa 1959..... 
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John Byrne
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And another, from five Xmases later. . . .
Dig those eyebrows! My voice was getting deeper, too. . . . . . (Crazy to think I had officially stopped buying/reading comics about 4 months before this picture was taken. I seem to be handling my withdrawals pretty well.)
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Peter Martin
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Cool photos, JB!
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