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So do I. Chlorophyll Kid had the unique ability to make plants grow super fast and super big. A valuable skill if I do say so myself. He could land a position with Monsanto and put every competing fertilizer manufacturer out of business. (thumbs u

Issue #306, the first appearance of the Legion of Substitute Heroes, also merits a mention. Other key early Legion of Superhero books are: Action 276 - Intro of Brainiac 5, Phantom Girl and Triplicate Girl. Superboy 89 - Intro of Mon-el. Superboy 98 - Intro and origin of Ultraboy.

Here are a couple of one of a kind items in my comic room. The first pic is the original artwork from the movie poster used for the 1972 rerelease of "The Song of the South". The second is a stained glass window I commissioned of Brer Fox and Flower for the door in my comic room that opens onto the upstairs balcony. Not having opposable thumbs, I had to get The MAN to help me install the stained glass window. .

I first posted pictures of the comic cabinet in my comic room just over three years ago: Comic Cabinet Here are some updated pictures from early last summer. The comic cabinets have not changed much in the last eight months but I need to take some better shots:

251 - First Green Arrow by Jack Kirby. 256 - Green Arrow origin. 260 - Aquaman origin 262 - Speedy origin. 269 Aqualad intro and origin. 285 - Bizarro World begins. 294 - First Legion of Super Pets.

Nice box art! (thumbs u

Transformers were the best toys. Still have my optimus that I got in 1985, but no longer in the condition in your picture. Nice acquisition. Getting old toys back are great. I know this is a comic forum but anybody have any interest in getting a section for toys on the forum? Brother, I've been thinking this a lot lately. If they are not interested in a new section, it would be great if a thread like this could be a permanent sticky in this section. It seems like this happens about once every month. To me, it's just like the new comic acquisition sticky thread. I agree!

I had one (thumbs u I've got one with the same teams - Toronto and Montreal. The playing board is white and baby blue though. Games with Toronto Maple Leaf and Montreal Canadien players are the most common. For a really cool game you needed six or more different teams. Because games with Maple Leaf and Canadien players were issued most often, the player figures from these two teams are the least interesting to collectors.

The Aurora Universal monster model kits were one of the very best products aimed at young boys in the early sixties. I initially discovered these kits while tagging along with my mother as she haunted the Kresges, Woolworths, Zellers and Metropolitan stores in downtown London. The very cool ads Aurora ran for their monster customizing contest on the back cover of DC comics in the fall of 1963 and winter of 1964 also left a pronounced mark on my impressionable young mind. The Creature was my favourite, albeit the three I eventually ended up building were the Mummy, Bride of Frankenstein and Frankenstein's Flivver. I also managed to score a super cool Standard Plastics Wolfman/Creature wallet for successfully hawking fifteen newspapers on a Saturday morning in the spring of 1964. Of course I collect all these items now. I have most of the Aurora monsters M.I.B. with the exception of the Mummy's Chariot and the Godzilla and King Kong ones. The wallets are much tougher. I have the Mummy/Dracula and Frankenstein/Phantom ones but neither is in perfect enough condition for my demanding standards.

A buddy of mine had a HO Lionel train set with an operating log dump car and a helicopter launch car. His set made me badly want a similar HO Lionel train set with these cars and others such as a milk can unloading car, missile launch car, bobbing head giraffe car, aquarium car and gold bullion car.

Every young fellow growing up in Canada since WWII either had or wanted a Coleco hockey game: The various models of the games and the different player pieces are of course now hot collectibles among toy and hockey memorabilia collectors.

It was probably a Tudor since Tudor had an NFL licence and was therefore the most popular: I have an Aurora Monday Night Canadian Football with the box. This of course is a bizarre conflux since football is very seldomnly played on Monday nights in the Canadian Football League.

Wow! I remember the big kids down the street having one of these steam engines when I was five years old. (thumbs u

Agreed! The Ideal Green Ghost is a top of the line collectible game.

Yes! The coolest personal defence weapon ever made! Not at all. (thumbs u

Here's the second best: I built one of these as a kid to race at my local slot car track. I still have the assembled car minus a couple of the lug nuts that I lost at the track. Just as good, I now have an additional mint in box one in my M.I.B. slot car collection.

This one was the best. The box art was by Mort Kunstler who modeled the boy scientist after his own son: My father gave it away to the snot nosed kid down the street when I went off to boarding school in grade nine. I've been looking for another one for thirty years now with no success.

Who did the artwork on issue 111 of Millie the Model?

Interesting analysis! For some reason I've never considered boomer age as one of the driving forces of Silver Age development. The Silver Age was without a doubt all about baby boomers. And aging baby boomers have been the force behind the incredible escalation we've seen in Silver Age comic prices.

Good man! I crack them all too - although I've done only a dozen or so. (thumbs u

More like he`s never met a girl yet. You evidently married the only one you met.

Take it from me, it will never be enough Ditto. The more you make, the higher her expectations go! Then she'd want you to sell more. Why guys end up marrying women who don't share their interests is beyond me. Regardless of how hot they are, you know that won't last.

I'm sure those sweet chariots are swinging quite low by now. I've read that she had a host of admirers including Charlton Heston but could never settle down due to substance abuse problems, which caused her to pass away prematurely in the 1980's. But this hasn't been confirmed and very little seems to be known about her. Who knows, she may now be a grandmother and she and her husband may view albums of her pics from the seventies whenever they get a quite moment away from the kids.

The incomparable Roberta Pedon, perhaps the greatest figure model of all time:

I was put off by a bad first impression for several years.