Card #19 is Big Jim's "greatest challenge" Dr. Steel. I still remember seeing the commercial for the first time as a kid, I was in my parents room watching Gene Roddenberry's "Planet Earth" on the black and white one Saturday afternoon when it aired. Big Jim had an enemy? He has a silver hand and dragon tatoo? I need this!
I pretty much ran to my mother that instant and proclaimed my love for Dr Steel. Upon actually seeing him on a store shelf however, my mother denied me the good Doctor because he was bald and had a tattoo. A few months later, I was allowed a "Torpedo fist", a man with an eye patch, a wooden arm and a tattoo on his hand. Even at five, I wanted to point out my mother's hypocrisy but figured she'd return it to the store if I said anything and Torpedo Fist was really cool so I just treated it as if I had somehow fooled her.
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To think someone would shave their head and get a tattoo just because they had a toy with those traits as a kid is absolutely ridiculous! I swear by my steel prosthetic hand that my toys had no influence on my life choices.
ReplyDeleteI had one of these. He was cool. Except my sister broke the metal hand off after only a few months.
ReplyDeleteIn fact, now that I think about it, he had a karate chop arm with a button to push on his back. Maybe that was another toy, but I'm pretty sure it was this guy.
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