29 June 2011
Slot Car Track
Oh be still my fluttering 10 year old heart!!!!
This giant 1/32 scaled slot car track wouldn't have fit it many kid's bedrooms, so the living room floor would have to be comandeered, causing a rukus with Sis and her doll house..it would have been fun. The cost of this monster was $100 in 1966.... that would be over $660 today. Lucky kid!!
This giant 1/32 scaled slot car track wouldn't have fit it many kid's bedrooms, so the living room floor would have to be comandeered, causing a rukus with Sis and her doll house..it would have been fun. The cost of this monster was $100 in 1966.... that would be over $660 today. Lucky kid!!
23 June 2011
22 June 2011
Belmont, Dayton Ohio mid 50s
Love the art deco-ish signs--Kroger's, Brown Derby, Belmont Theatre, Albers...all long gone. Even when I was a kid in the 60s the Brown Derby location was a dive bar.
Oranges were 2 cents.
Oranges were 2 cents.
17 June 2011
A rift in the family?
Something that might have troubled little boomers, had they been as anal rententive as me, was this:
Roy Roger' comicbook was published by Dell
Roy Roger' comicbook was published by Dell
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| Aug '47 While his wife's comicbook was published by rival DC |
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| Nov '48 How unfaithful!!! |
Well, Trigger's comicbook (I mean, what cowboy star or pet DIDN'T have their own comicbook back then?) was published by Dell, so we know who the outsider was!!! Bet she bunked outside the stable, served her right!
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| May '51 |
16 June 2011
08 June 2011
Western Publishing's fact page from MIGHTY SAMSON #5, March 1966
art by Frank Thorne
Here's the georgeous Gollub cover.
(GCD credits Gollub with this, but I dunno..looks kinda Wilson-y. Gollub had done the previous SAMSON covers, but Wilson took over the series covers on the next issue..so I think GCD might be wrong.)
On a personal note:
I remember standing at the comic rack at Clark's Drug Store in Dayton, Ohio, wracked with indecision as I fretted over which comic deserved my meager funds. It was the very beginning of Batmania, and I had never ever yet bought a DC comic. Batman had the Riddler on the cover! On the other hand...look at it -Samson, monster, leggy babe. I went with dependable Gold Key.
Here's the georgeous Gollub cover.
(GCD credits Gollub with this, but I dunno..looks kinda Wilson-y. Gollub had done the previous SAMSON covers, but Wilson took over the series covers on the next issue..so I think GCD might be wrong.)
I remember standing at the comic rack at Clark's Drug Store in Dayton, Ohio, wracked with indecision as I fretted over which comic deserved my meager funds. It was the very beginning of Batmania, and I had never ever yet bought a DC comic. Batman had the Riddler on the cover! On the other hand...look at it -Samson, monster, leggy babe. I went with dependable Gold Key.
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