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Not the AURORA SUPERMAN model comic.

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Zonker

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The model kit definitely came before the comic whose cover scan I posted above. I remember putting together the Superman model kit in the mid-1970s, and I may have seen ads for similar kits in Silver Age comics I later came across. The Jerry Ordway cover is a self-conscious reference to the model kit of 20 years earlier, my only uncertainty is if there is an earlier issue that pre-dated the model kit.

 

While we're on the subject, I also had the Batman kit, with him swinging down from a tree branch, possibly throwing a batarang at the same time. I remember the several-page mini-comic that was included had some cool art by I believe Giordano, done very much in the O'Neil/Adams/Novick/Giordano style of the time. Great stuff!

 

Cheers,

Z.

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Mister_Comics

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I've seen those AURORA comics slabbed quite a few times. They always seem graded high. 9.2's, 9.4's, and 9.6's. Must be bacause they still find them in those COMIC SCENE kits.

 

BTW; I use to build those kits too. I still have my Captain America, Tonto, Batman, and Superman Aurora comics. But they are no where near a 9.0. Too much paint and glue on them.

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Ron_Nasty

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I built those Aurora models in 1964, and a few more times the next couple of years. Superman was .98c, Batman $1.49.

 

Built them all, Superboy and Krypto, Robin, Hulk, Spider-Man, Captain America, Green Hornet's Black Beauty, Batmobile, Batboat and so on.

 

Wish I had kept an unopened box of each! But you don't really think about that when you're 10 years old.

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ninanina

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I used to build them to. Had a lot of the monster ones. Werewolf, Dracula, Frankenstein and Superman etc. One day I was bored so my neighbor and I lined them up and shot BB's at them. Lotsa fun at the time. Busting the heads open was the best part.

 

But now, I wish I still had 'em. frown.gif

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Ron_Nasty

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My younger brother did most of the destruction. I used to put them together so many times that the glue started melting the plastic.

 

Had most of the Universal monsters and some of the Rat Fink models too.

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