Hepcat

Yes, it was a great kit for its day and among the last three or so model kits I built when I was a young fellow. Here's the picture again:

Mmmmmm, 380 pages of Atlas Comics!

DC editors of course also "borrowed" cover concepts from each other. Once again from 1950: Then from 1963:

Well mine still works. I can tell you that anyway.

Some of us are old hands at discussing fifty years ago this month: https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/marvelmasterworksfansite/the-dc-comics-time-capsule-november-1969-t35368.html I've been doing it since mid-2011!

Check out this link: https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/remco-bulldog-large-tank-ammo-flag-1854440812

No. I think they simply don't care whether and how the comic has been cosmetically "enhanced" because they don't care about the comic, only the encased label.

Truth! A fellow has to be very careful about dipping his dog these days:

Alright. Here you go:

OK! I'll play too:

I like the top one a lot better.

Do you operate a store or set up with a booth at toy shows?

The now common "All I care about is the number and colour of the label" thinking.

If you truly want the passage of (eons of) time over three panels, this one should really do it for you:

My next two:

Original box! Are they Mint in Box (unused) therefore? How minty are the boxes? Mint in NM Box toys of any kind from the early sixties will draw hundreds of dollars worth of interest. Incidentally the steam engines are not only boss cool but they continue to be made by Wilesco to this very day: https://www.wilesco.de/en

Did somebody say Charltons? I may put together a list of the top ten Charlton comic covers from my collection sometime in the next few weeks. For now though here's a tough one:

Wow! Success! The end of a most noble quest!

Ross Andru had done a couple of beautiful Wonder Woman triptych covers in 1962-63 which were thus prior to the ones above:

Wow! I rate Wyatt Earp up there among Marvel's very greatest titles.

The Creepy Crawler Thingmaker sold so well after its introduction in 1964 that Mattel immediately started releasing multiple variants. Here are some particularly wild ones: Ahhhhh, yes! The Incredible Edibles from 1966! Evidently they employed a substance Mattel labelled Gobble-Degoop. It was sugar free - meaning it must have been artificially sweetened with chemical sugar substitutes of some sort. You know, like the stuff in diet soda pop and those little packages of artificial sweeteners that women empty into their coffee these days....

Must have been the Mattel Strange Change Toy from 1968: The "Lost World" sub-title was probably in reference to the 1960 fantasy adventure flick of the same name:

Repairing and re-entering a post from 9 January 2018: Continuing the list of my favourite toys from my childhood years: 11. Parker Bros. Monopoly Game 12. Cox Spitfire with .049 Thimble Drome Engine 13. Topper Johnny Seven O.M.A. 14. Mattel Creepy Crawlers Thingmaker 15. Milton Bradley The Deputy Game 16. Coleco Power Play Hockey Game 17. Eagle Electric Canadian Football Game The 1962-63 version of an electric football game above was the one I actually played but it was very crude compared to this beautiful Grey Cup Game that Coleco (which acquired Eagle in 1968) produced in 1970: 18. Ohio Art Ring Toss Honourable mention goes to two items that didn't make my list because I wasn't sure they could be properly classified as toys: Standard Plastics Creature-Wolfman Monster Wallet Peacock Crayons Peacock Crayons had the dominant market share (yes bigger than Crayola) in Canada up until some time in the 1960's. Crayons of course needed the accompaniment of colouring books. I remember admiring Shari Lewis and Deputy Dawg colouring books at the News Depot in downtown London but I can't say for sure whether these were colouring books I actually had.

Oh man! Those covers are all fabulous! And I've always found holiday covers particularly eye-catching.

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