I think I recall getting a dollar a week as an allowance around the time I bought this:
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Some of the comic books in my collection are the actual copies from my childhood purchases. I still have the figure from the Mr. Spock model kit I bought back then (base is long gone). Otherwise most of my "stuff" was bought (or re-bought) as an adult.
Ain't it the truth, Terry. That's why we have a raging market for the things we lost. This thread will probably die a quick death, since I restricted it to stuff "you still have"!
Here's all three FM paperbacks I bought way back in the day. :)
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That would be model kits - most of the Aurora monsters, and a few cars like an AMT 1925 Fruit Wagon, AMTronic, and others. Oh, and there are a few 10 cent rubber monsters from the 60s that were in a box that was saved. As I've mentioned ad nauseum on the boards, most things were lost in a flood. These happened to be on the top shelf in my bedroom closet on the second floor. The Aurora monsters were flooded but I hosed them off and saved them in a box in my dad's basement.
Chris, I can relate to the flood story. I lived in a large basement room (during my monster kid days) that was subject to seepage. Not a raging flood, but an annoying (infuriating) presence of H2O. It would come and go. I don't know why I didn't get sick from living in a veritable mold farm!
Quote from: dlhenderson on July 05, 2012, 12:06:41 AM
Chris, I can relate to the flood story. I lived in a large basement room (during my monster kid days) that was subject to seepage. Not a raging flood, but an annoying (infuriating) presence of H2O. It would come and go. I don't know why I didn't get sick from living in a veritable mold farm!
Lord, yeah. We've had some serious issues with people getting sick from mold in their offices.
BTW, congrats on holding onto your FMOF paperbacks. I've seen them on ebay but they've always gone for more than I was willing to spend. I've never actually seen one of them in person.
Yeah, for me it would be my Aurora kits, and the few issues of FM that I still have from back then.
Gotta go with comics--most of the early ones I have were bought with money my dad gave me for working with him on the weekends or during summer vaca.
I have a very early Ghost Rider comic book that I bought for a grand total of $1.75. It was payment for following my dad around all day and washing wet concrete off of his tools.
Free pizza was also worked into that deal ;)
That sounds like a pretty good deal, blacklagoon. ;D
Here's another item from a couple of years later. Maybe I should have started a paperback book thread...these survived 'cause they are relatively unbreakable!
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What the heck are you all talking about......I'm STILL on an allowance.
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Don't laugh at my pain. ;)
Emma, lovely Emma...gotta love that cat suit! >:D
All of my "Star Wars" figures, posters, and books bought between Dec. '76 and May '80. All the Aurora kits, FMOF/Creepy/Eerie/Vampirella back issues, Mego figures, and monster posters are gone. I DO still have my "Edward Gorey's Dracula" poster, programme, and plush bat, from 1977, too. I'd had the "Edward Gorey's Dracula" Toy Theater book, but it got destroyed in the move from NJ to NC in '99.
I still have my Palmer monsters, MPC Pop-Tops and Unbreakable Weirds, a few Marx dinos, Sinclair dinos, Haunted Hulk hull, lots of hardback books about monster movies, and several books on dinosaurs. I had to buy back all the comics and monster mags (I read them 'til they fell apart).
Quote from: horrorhunter on July 06, 2012, 03:32:05 AM
I still have my Palmer monsters, MPC Pop-Tops and Unbreakable Weirds, a few Marx dinos, Sinclair dinos, Haunted Hulk hull, lots of hardback books about monster movies, and several books on dinosaurs. I had to buy back all the comics and monster mags (I read them 'til they fell apart).
Horrorhunter - are they the small dinos that came on the blister packs? I remember larger dinos that were hollow - in fact, open at the bottom. They came in a variety of colors...I remember white and a bright green. Ddo you know who made those?
I remember going with my Dad to a small Sears store (it smelled of new tire rubber). I paused at a wall of hanging, carded merchandise. There was a set of Marx dinosaurs that caught my attention. My thoughtful Dad added it to the stuff he went there to buy. I still have a couple of those. I think they are the same ones used in one of the large Marx play sets.
Quote from: horrorhunter on July 06, 2012, 03:32:05 AM
I still have my Palmer monsters, MPC Pop-Tops and Unbreakable Weirds....
Did the MPC Pop-Tops and Weird Monsters prove unbreakable? Some people have reported that particularly their Pop-Tops turned quite brittle.
???
Quote from: ChrisW on July 06, 2012, 03:02:04 PM
Horrorhunter - are they the small dinos that came on the blister packs? I remember larger dinos that were hollow - in fact, open at the bottom. They came in a variety of colors...I remember white and a bright green. Ddo you know who made those?
Hey Chris, I was a toy dinosaur fiend when I was a little brat (still am, dino fiend and maybe brat too * lol). There were several loose MPC dinos from the blister cards, as well as the contents of one of the Marx square box playsets with the four brown hard plastic mountains. It contained the cavemen so it was probably the rarer one (forget the number) like the #3388. I went dino crazy a few years ago and put together several Marx Prehistoric Times playsets from original boxes and pieces obtained on eBay. I even scored a couple of those unopened carded examples before the prices hit the stratosphere. As far as those big toothy, hollow dinos, yes I had some of those from kiddom but they didn't hold up like the MPC/Marx ones so I replaced those later, too. When they first came out in the '60s most people refer to them as "dimestore dinosaurs", and I'm not sure who originally made them. A few years later they were put out again by Tootsietoy who then had the molds.
Quote from: Hepcat on July 06, 2012, 05:06:06 PM
Did the MPC Pop-Tops and Weird Monsters prove unbreakable? Some people have reported that particularly their Pop-Tops turned quite brittle.
???
Yep Hep ;D, they did indeed prove unbreakable for me. I remember we discussed this before and you surmised the plastic mix may have changed at some point causing the differences in breakability. Sounds like a good theory to me. ;)
My Allowances went primarily to one Banana Split which went uneaten, when a 4 yr old stepped in it....however, but as I got older, they went to DC comics which were stolen (except 3), and Aurora and Monster Scenes Model kits of which I mostly still have, along with Pirates of the Caribbean kits (in need of repair)
Quote from: horrorhunter on July 06, 2012, 05:18:12 PMI even scored a couple of those unopened carded examples before the prices hit the stratosphere.
Cool! Please post some pictures. Carded figures are evidently highly prized by a certain cadre of collectors.
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I still have a Mr. Spock model from 1973, minus some parts that broke off.
And a rubber skeleton, of really high quality, that I bought for Halloween in 1975. I remember it was 1975, because that year's Halloween was really wonderful.
Quote from: Hepcat on July 06, 2012, 07:46:46 PM
Cool! Please post some pictures. Carded figures are evidently highly prized by a certain cadre of collectors.
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I'll second that motion!
Quote from: Hepcat on July 06, 2012, 07:46:46 PM
Cool! Please post some pictures. Carded figures are evidently highly prized by a certain cadre of collectors.
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Yeah, I've been putting off getting a digital cam and scanner long enough. I gotta get on that.
Groovy Goolies and Fat Albert PVCs, some 1972 baseball and football cards, POTA Mego, a micronaut or 2, maybe a few other trinkets
THE FRANKENSCIENCE MONSTER, the Bookfinger reprint of Egremont's BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN, and the Carl Dreadstone novelisations of the Universal Horror Classics.
"E" ededed
Just a few 8mm film's from my you(http://i1112.photobucket.com/albums/k497/nyse40/monster%20room/IMG_1769.jpg)th.(//)
NICE batch, Kidagain!
Love those Castle 8mm Films!
Sadly almost all the pics originally posted in this thread have disappeared.
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Quote from: Hepcat on October 18, 2019, 03:44:07 AM
Sadly almost all the pics originally posted in this thread have disappeared.
All 1 of them.