From this web site of great old comic ads. I think I had half a dozen of the apollo models which had about three snap together pieces. I always wanted the box of green soldiers - little green plastic B-52s set against billowing summer clouds. Not the ghost, though. I think I had nightmares about the ghost when I was five.
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Rob Paterson - September 26, 2003 4:24 pm
There was an ad for a toy tank that was big enough to get inside - oooh did I want that tank but could not raise the cash. I did order the soldiers - they were an especially cheesy lot. I now think that the tank mught have been a let down
Cyn - September 26, 2003 8:22 pm
I wanted the x-ray glasses so I could a naked boys...and see what girls were stuffing their bras.
Cyn - September 26, 2003 8:22 pm
So I could SEE naked boys.
Alan - September 26, 2003 8:53 pm
It was the sub I wanted. No doubt made of cardboard and spit.
Mandy - September 27, 2003 2:46 am
will obey my commands eh??? interesting.......
abuIskander Macdonald - September 27, 2003 10:33 am
My brother ordered the soldiers too and, yep, they were <i>really</i> cheesy - almost two dimensional, not at all like the pic. We couldn't believe how small the box was when it arrived. I have never trusted mail order since.
Matthew - September 28, 2003 8:55 am
I always wanted the sub. Actually, I wanted the x-ray glasses but I knew there was no such thing. Submarines though, submarines were real.
Alan - January 16, 2004 3:12 pm
Here is a great link to even older comics from the 1940s. Why isn't everything being scanned as part of a visual library?