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Hahah…I picked this Mars Attacks! figure up at World’s Best Comics in Sacramento today, and it’s wonderful. The original ’60s Topps cards were amazingly lurid and one of them featured a horrible Martian blasting a dog with his ray gun wtih the card title “Destroying A Dog.” This figure by ReAction even includes the ill-fated dog as an accessory. You can check out so many more cool figures by ReAction right here.… read more
In 1975, The Six Million Dollar Man was one of the most popular shows on TV and his action figure was a top seller. Hasbro, whose GI JOE line was fading and needed a shot in the arm, came out with their own cyborg style dude, The Atomic Man! As you can see from the catalog photo above, he was a stylin’ dude who proudly showed off his freakish “atomic-powered” limbs with no shame whatsoever. But how did he get … read more