Many thanks to Chaz Rose for this killer pic, Chaz tells me he brought a Mego Spiderman and asked him "Is this You?" How awesome...

In the early seventies, Mattel toys had a big hit on their hands with Big Jim, a nine inch muscle bound sports hero/man's man who came p...

As wonderfully creepy as the new Burger King ad campaign is, it should be remembered that the original characters were creepy (especially t...

The Turtle Neck/Jacket combination is a little something I like to call the "Botany 500" look, named after the men's clothing...

When I started out doing trading card #9, I wanted to do something for the ladies. The Fembot seemed like a great start, sure she's a gi...

Ammended to add "if he refers to you as " mother ", is terrified of "Land of the Giants" episodes and still shares...

This week's book comes courtesy of Sharry, who tells me the book is filled with several goofy mini stories. As a kid I never much dug t...

I think this may be my favorite image of all time, not only is it 95% Brick Mantooth based but it's wonderfully absurd. I love how the ...

Lots of new faces (well, in the form of Masks) could be found in the 1983 Collegeville Catalog, while the company was still selling various...

With October 31st a day away, it's prime time to launch another Top Ten List, this time it's (in my humble opinion of course) the t...

Although before my time, I kind of dig these early seventies play suits which I'm sure doubled as Halloween costumes. I love how boys c...

It's refreshing to see this many monster toys on a Christmas catalog page, usually they get kind of dismissed or marginalized as being ...

I know it's Halloween week and all but I wanted to mention that there is a new entry on the Christmas in the '70s Book Blog. This w...

With Halloween appraoching, it seemed like a great time to showcase all the little additions I have for the various Rack Toy pages on the s...

Kicking it off today is my pal Lee wearing a Ben Cooper Hulk suit, nobody loves the Hulk more than Lee. Speaking of big fans, here is Lou...