CODE NAME SPY TOY!

Because of Lack Of Space/finances Ect..i've had to loose a lot of the Toy room..it was getting out of control, and i'm sure most collectors at one time, or another have had to make tough decisions about their collections, i really needed to downsize, and concentrate mainly on the toys i really loved & wanted to keep, as opposed to trying to collect everything pop culture wise that i liked.
 So for the past 6 months i've been downsizing, thats why theres been  no new posts, and i now have a new blog, the thing i liked most of all while grownig up were the 60's Secret agent toys that were available, so i decided to concentrated on those, this as been a big help to me Mentally & financially! and enabled me to start creating a new & more manageable collection..
please take a look, all new posts will now be on the new blog

http://codenamespytoy.blogspot.co.uk/


i'd like to thank everyone who joined the Atomic Toy Blog, and for your support & comments.
Thanks!

MEGO UHURA ON THE BRIDGE!

So i carefully cut the Clamshell packaging, took out the rather groovy Uhura figure, and placed it on my Enterprise Bridge, with my Repro & original MEGO Figures..I really like this playset, i had it in the box for a while, but eventually found a place for it, right on top of  the bookshelf!..

Uhura at the Com!

Yes i realise Scotty has no Trousers, they got lost somewhere in time on  one of the Enterprises more Daring Missions!.He's one of my original MEGOs, along with Bones McCoy.

Distance pic of the Bridge playset

Bridge box.surrounded by Mr Fox!

I've still got Spock in his packaging, and theres no room for the Salt Vampire on the rather crowded bridge, so its the small Trek cabinet for them.

TWILIGHT ZONE FIGURES

I got these great Twilight Zone figures  made by  Biff Bang Pow, who are also doing a great line of Dr who Figures, more of that later..

Love The Howling Man Devil figure

Once again the packaging, in the MEGO style is fantastic and the likeness to the actors is also very good, and just like the retro Action DC figures i don't really want to open them, but i really want to Display them.

Backs of cards with the other figures available

Again these are very hard to come by in the UK,  I don't know why Forbidden Planet In Nottingham doesn't stock them, instead they go overboard on Dr Who & Twilight, they are Fantastic figures, well packaged, and  would look great on display, now if only Biff Bang would do an Outer Limits Series of Similar Size Characters. that would be Fantastic!

MARVEL ANNUAL 1972

I asked Santa for this Fab Marvel Annual, and i wasn't disappointed, i wanted this one as it was the same one i had when i was 11 back in 1972, my partner scoured E bay and got one for me!

Great Kirby Cover

Its a bit battered and torn, but totally loved! it bought back lots of memories,as it was the same time i started to collect the British  weekly reprints of the classic 60's Marvel comics these were mainly in Black & White, with a tone of red or green to add a splash of colour the same effect was applied to this annual.

Art by the great Steve Ditko

Even in 2 colours the story's came to life, and to me, still looked great, a tribute to the great Marvel Artists of the time, and the wonderful storytelling of Stan Lee.

This lead me to tracking down the original comics, which of course were in colour, and started my Comic Collecting mania which lasted until 1977, when i started to collect records.
I eventually sold most of  my Marvel collection in 1983, to a Comic book store in Birmingham UK, i started again about 7 Years ago, when i found you could get relatively cheap comics off E Bay, if you were not too bothered about Condition & Grading.
This was a great pressie to receive, and hopefully, next year I'll ask Santa for the 1973 Marvel Annual!

The Secrets Of Spiderman..Revealed!

The Annual features Spiderman, Fantastic Four, a little history of Marvel page, and a Conan story, which i always thought was a little out of place as i guess he's not really a Marvel Character, as he wasn't created by Stan lee or any of the Marvel Bullpen, still that doesn't spoil it, as i always used to skip that story when reading it..and i still did 30 so years later!

Even In B & W King Kirby's art is Fab

CHRISTMAS GOODIES RETRO ACTION DC Figures

Hello everyone, hope you all had a great holiday, and hope you all had some nice pressies, I'd like to share a few of mine with you, as Christmas day is also my Birthday, then i tend to get a few extra pressies, I'm lucky in that sense, and I've never really missed having a birthday earlier in the year.
I was lucky enough to receive these great Retro DC figures of Batman & Cheetah, they are of course based on the classic MEGO style.

Super Cool Retro DC Figures

Backs of Cards

I absolutely love these figures, the whole look of them is great, I'm very tempted to open them as i always think figures look much better displayed that way, on the other hand they are so cool. i don't want to spoil them in any way!..they are usually quiet expensive to buy in the UK averaging around £20.00 a figure, that Black Manta one looks Fab, i must attempt to get that.
Shame they are not packaged in the clam shell way like the Emcee Star Trek figures i got to add to my collection..

The salt Vampire being the Star figure here.its Fantastic, these are deffo being opened, as you can carefully cut along the dots without damaging the packaging too much, and i really need to display the Uhura figure on the Enterprise bridge along with my other MEGOs

I need A Gorn!

These re-issues of the Original MEGO figures a great, I'm not a Purist collector, if i like it. I'll buy it and display it regardless of age or collectability.and they were on sale in Forbidden Planet at £6.99!..absolute bargains really, i may go back and get the Sulu figure, for my now overcrowded Enterprise bridge.