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Here in alphabetical order are scans of a baker's dozen of my favourite DC covers from my collection cover dated 1967:

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 That 1962-63 version of an electric football game 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 These 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.

13 Oct 2017 14:29 #1223 2017-10-13T18:29 Here are my ten favourite toys from my childhood years. I limited my selections to only those toys I either had or really coveted but never managed to obtain as a kid. Accordingly I rejected a bunch of really cool toys from that era that I'd love to have today simply because I just don't remember being aware of them at the time, e.g. Ideal King Zor, Kenner Give-A-Show Projector, MPC Pop-Tops, Ideal Godzilla Board Game, Hamilton's Invaders, Marx Prehistoric Times Playset, etc, etc. Here then in rough order is my list: MY TEN FAVOURITE TOYS FROM MY CHILDHOOD YEARS 1. Mad, Mad, Mad Scientist Laboratory 2. Monogram 330P/LM Ferrari 1/32 Scale Slot Car Kit 3. Aurora Bride of Frankenstein Model Kit 4. Nash Skateboard (wooden with steel wheels) 5. Lionel HO Electric Train Set with Launching Helicopter and Bobbing Head Giraffe Cars 6. Revell Rat Fink Model Kit 7. Duncan Imperial Spin Top 8. Marx Three Keys to Treasure Bagatelle 9. Hasbro Marble Maze 10. Kenner Rocky & Bullwinkle Presto Sparkle Paint Set

It's also very sad that they're not making much progress on the disease that's ravaging Tasmanian devils lately.

I love funny animal Xmas covers!

Merry Xmas to all my furry and not-so-furry friends posting on this board!

Merry Xmas to all my furry and not-so-furry friends posting on this board!

This past summer and fall I participated in the TSN CFL Fantasy pool. I ended up finishing 62nd overall which is a very credible showing since the total number of participants was I believe well over 15,000. My best standings in various subleagues were: TSN 1040 Vancouver 1/196 TSN 1050 Toronto 1/178 The Angry Birds 1/133 TSN 690 Montreal 1/96 2017 CFL All-Stars 1/45 Blue Bombers 1/41 Bomber Fans 2/438 TSN 1290 Winnipeg 2/302 Ticat Fans 2/196 TSN 1150 Hamilton 2/170 Argo Fans 3/218 My most disappointing standings were in these sub-leagues: Eskimo Empire Podcast 3/79 CF Podcast Network 5/202 The Waggle 5/207 One Empire 7/345 The Den 3/197 TSN 1260 Edmonton 5/358

The greatest gift that could be offered to you fellows down under this Xmas season is a reappearance of thylacines.

That's precisely one of the reasons why this board is so compelling. In any event, happy modelling and collecting over the holidays and in the coming year!

Stylish! It's her!

Thank you! Here's a relatively recent pic of Cowboy with a friend: Cowboy is now the senior member of our current posse of three rounded out by Scout (female) and Lucky (male).

Yes, and I've got a few catching up posts to do over the next couple of weeks!

I do though still have two of the slot cars I built as a kid. Here are some close-up shots of the two. The bigger car on the left is a 1/24 scale Revell Lotus 23 while the smaller one is a 1/32 scale Monogram Ferrari 330 P/LM. Plus the Cox Spitfire with the .049 Thimble Drome Engine that I rebuilt in 1966 after destroying the body attempting to fly it: Sadly I need to replace the plastic cockpit cover which snapped in two when being transported by my sister when I last moved. One of these days I guess....

Here are scans of a baker's dozen of the Murphy Anderson covers from my collection that I like the best:

Sadly none. A character flaw I hope in time to correct.

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is among my dozen top titles! So tough to find copies in grade though.

Sometimes I'm not sure I know him myself. In the meantime, here are a few more scans from my collection: Now let's see some of yours.

The Gale Allen splash page has some eye-catching features as well.

I hate it when neat old neighbourhoods become yuppified! Toronto's hippie Yorkville neighbourhood became yuppified by the early seventies and run down Queen Street West with its coin shops, comic shops, pawn shops and porn shops suffered the same fate in the eighties. And now since the nineties the Lakeshore motel strip has been completely destroyed by wave after wave of soulless high-rise condos, a development that rapacious city counsellors have abetted and cheered in their unending quest for ever higher property "values" to tax. Very sad.

Here are some scans from my Leaf Munsters card set: And here are a couple of scans from my Addams Family gum card set that Donruss issued in 1964:

Order him up a jar of this from his cousin in Canada:

Sweet thread!