The story of J.J. Armes is so fantastic that it sounds like it came out of a toy maker's brain storming session.
After losing his hands in a childhood accident, Jay Armes worked hard and trained himself to use his steel prosthesis in any fashion that a hand could function, he also trained his mind and body and became an internationally known private eye complete with gadgets and a pet tiger!
It's no wonder that Ideal toys released their line of J.J Armes inspired toys a year after he released his autobiography. While the toys didn't last a long time, they certainly one of the more memorable action figure lines of the 1970s:
Visit the 1977 J.J. Armes Catalog Here
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Is steel magnetic, cause I'm thinking you could seriously incapacitate this dude by handing him a large magnet...
ReplyDeleteit's amazing that he's a real guy. If he existed now, they'd probably build a reality show around him.
ReplyDelete@Autumnforest = I think a magnet big enough to matter would be hard to carry around.
Unless you lured him to a junkyard and got him under one of those electromagnetic cranes!
Good Grief! Another one that I'd forgotten about!
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