Rare Space ship From the Comic Books

16 Responses to Rare Space ship From the Comic Books

1. Ed Connell says:

   August 9, 2014 at 11:29 PM

   I could have made my own out of cardboard boxes. I never remember seeing this in any comic book either, not that I would have ordered it anyway.

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2. Mark says:

   August 10, 2014 at 9:50 AM

   I would have loved one ,they also sold a tank and submarine ( not sure if there are others ), I made a tank out of cardboard boxs and cardboard tubing , you can google image them, Ahh, a kids imagination !

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3. Ed Connell says:

   August 10, 2014 at 9:59 AM

   I think I remember the tank. I didn’t trust those adds, I ordered some stuff once, and it wasn’t a good deal. I ordered the AWI figures, I didn’t know they were going to be ho scale, lol. My brother ordered the see thru object glasses. Needless to say we never ordered anything from the comic books again.

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4. Mark says:

   August 10, 2014 at 10:17 AM

   I hear ya ! I ordered the Revolutionary war set that turned to be Ho also, but we did have fun knocking each others army down with balls ! I also ordered a WW2 set with exploding tanks I thought that set was really useless for me so I never really played with it !

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5. Mark says:

   August 10, 2014 at 10:20 AM

   There is a book called “Mail-Order Mysteries: Real Stuff from Old Comic Book Ads!” on Amazon I’d like to get it one day !

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6. Wayne W says:

   August 10, 2014 at 10:28 AM

   I always suspected the tank, submarine, and rocket, I remember asking my folks and them warning me off it. I bought the ARW figures, didn’t mind them being HO (as I collect them, too, now) – I was just glad they’d switched from flats to 3-D before I bought them. I think my biggest disappointment was the “Gold Crown” set with the “Giant castle big enough for 122 men! (I think that was it)” Just like Ralphie with his Orphan Annie decoder ring I checked the mail every day to discover it was a printed plastic playmat/game board. But what did I expect for a buck-fifty. The figures were great – Giant copies of Britains (and others, maybe Elastolin) – they were great; still have some.

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7. Ed Connell says:

   August 10, 2014 at 11:37 AM

   Yeah at least they weren’t the flats, and I always wanted the big knight castle one also, but I lost regular sized toy soldiers, ho were just too small for me back then.

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8. Brian Johnson says:

   August 10, 2014 at 5:48 PM

   I still remember when my Comic Book Ad Civil War Set arrived in the mail,The sinking feeling started as soon as I pulled it of of the Mailbox which I had been staking out after I figured out about when it should arrive and I could hold it in the palm of one hand then when I opened it in my room I was not a Happy Camper,I think it was the first time I slipped up and let my Mom hear me use some choice language so I ended up both P***ed off and in trouble!!

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9. Mark says:

   August 10, 2014 at 6:44 PM

   I think we are all over it now,we can look back and smile a little and laugh a little, as an adult I collected some the old Flat sets from the old comic book ads now I think they’re pretty cool same with the Gibbs Custer set !

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   • admin says:

     August 10, 2014 at 8:49 PM

     Mark
     I agree we laugh at the comic book flats.

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10. Ed Borris says:

    August 11, 2014 at 10:42 AM

    I think Gibbs custer although I like to call them semi flat because they were sculpted different on oth sides, was an excellent set. Where else could you get 80 figures in 80 poses? Okay, they were a bit off on historical accuracy, but I love those sets. At one time I had 10 of them, now I’m down to 2 keepers.

    Although I never saw one of those space ships, I heard it was essentially a cardboard box with art work, $2,500.00 is a lot of money for a cheap cardboard box. I imagine any kid that ordered one when they first came out was very disappointed.

    I ordered the Roman set from the back of a comic book when I was young , I was only mildly disappointed. They were still pretty cool and I had a lot of fun with them, they were fairly durable unlike the army set they sold.

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11. Mark says:

    August 11, 2014 at 8:20 PM

    Gibbs Custer definitely had a lot of great poses ! I wish some of the fully rounded makers had gotten inspiration from Gibbs !

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12. Ed Borris says:

    August 12, 2014 at 6:47 AM

    Yeah,the Gibbs set is great, who else until Conte did a figure with a sword through the torso? The biggest problem with Gibbs is someone of those great poses have trouble withstanding the tests of time. A lot of figures only have a small piece of their foot attaching them to the base. For some unknown reason the blue figures have more of that problem than the other colors.

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13. Mark says:

    August 12, 2014 at 5:56 PM

    Did not know that thanks for Info Ed !

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14. Wayne W says:

    August 12, 2014 at 9:32 PM

    I wonder if the dye used in the blue guys makes the plastic more brittle over time?

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15. Ed Borris says:

    August 13, 2014 at 6:56 AM

    Hard to say about the blue plastic, but they also made many shades of the blue. I learned this while trying to match colors to complete sets. They made a soft plastic set and a hard plastic set and believe it or not it was easier to find an intact set of the hard plastic than the soft plastic.

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