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I remember enjoying those as a kid. Super sexy superheroin drawings. Saturn girl with an outfit that was almost not there, hehehe.
Then all these cool characters (cool when you're a kid, I guess  ). Timberwolf, who looked strangely similar to Wolverine; Ultraboy who had the same powers as Superboy, but could only do them one at a time; Lightning Lad (there might have been a Lightning Lass also); Mon-El, who had all the powers of Superboy, but no Kryptonite weakness (hmmm ... does sound like Kal-El); Cosmic Boy (same powers as Magneto, now that I think of it). And a whole bunch. I remember having a double-sized issue, with several stories inside. Also, I think Lightning Lad and Saturn Girl got married. Also, Braniac 5, who was a good guy, who was supposed to be the descendant of the evil Braniac that Superman battled, then in the old Superman storyline, they made Brainiac turn out to be an android (so how does an android have kids, hehe?). I don't know if comics has changed Braniac's history or role.
Pretty fun comics. 
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I used to get some of the old Legion issues that had Superboy. I thought that was so cool the way they had Superboy comic adventures in his own time era and adventures in the far flung future with the Legion of Super Heroes.
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Didn't Supergirl have adventures with the Legion too? I wonder how Superboy and Supergirl interacted since Superboy hadn't really met her yet in his own time. I may have to pull out some old books from my collection to check that out.
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Man, you still got those collections ... that's cool! My favourite character at that time was UltraBoy.
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| Posted: 10 Oct 2005 18:15 |
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I've got thousands of comics right now. I have 2 or 3 boxes of Superman, 2 boxes of the Hulk, 2 boxes of spiderman, 1 box of x-men, 1 box of Batman, some old miscellaneous stuff, a box of old TV comics including some old Six Million Dollar Man comics, a box of what ifs, and a lot I still need to organize.
I admit it, I'm hooked on comic books.
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Oh man, What If? ... Those were great. I think those were the pre-cursors of the Elseworld comics. I never knew there was a 6 Million Dollar Man comic. Pretty cool collection.
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Yeah, I love the what ifs and the elseworlds stories. Their kind of like the Twilight Zone of the comic world.
I wish the Six Million Dollar Man would get his own dvd set. I was a huge fan back in the day.
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Seems like everyone owned the Six Million Dollar Man doll with the "telescope" bionic eye, and the rubber bionic "muscle" arm, with the 70's jumpsuit.
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I never got the action figure. By the way it's action figure, action figure! Not doll. Girls play with dolls. I played with super hero action figures.
Here's my Six Million Dollar Man page
 Action Figure!
Can you spell that bionic sound effect? Was it Nanahanan or Nah Nah Nah Nah?
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| Posted: 12 Oct 2005 15:12 |
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Hmmm ... action figure ... still looks like a doll to me. I think they started calling them action figures when they started making the smaller G.I. Joe action figures, the ones in the cartoon.
And I spell it teketeketeketeke.
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Action figure, action figure! Sheesh. I had a Hulk, Batman, and Superman action figures when I was a kid. I mostly played stuff like frisbee, chase the dogs around the yard, rode bikes, and played with video games when they came out. Of course today kids only play video games.
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Wow, you sure had a lot of dolls. j/k
A friend of mine had this cool hulk "action figure". You could stretch it's arms real far apart. I think it was made with some kind of rubber and gel compound or something. It should've been Mr. Fantastic (since when does the hulk stretch his arms?), but the Hulk was the popular comic hero, what with the TV series and all. But that was a high quality toy.
The old GI Joe action figures, the ones from the late 70s, I think, were pretty cool. Much taller than the ones that came out later. It had all these other accessories, like a big jeep, etc. There was a GI Joe with Kung-Fu Grip, which was basically a rubber hand that could grip stuff. Gotta remember, Kung-Fu was big in the 70s. I had a BulletMan GI Joe ... it was this figure with bullet looking helmet-mask, and some hooks at the back of his costume. You'd put a string from one end of the room to another, then use the hooks to make him zip downward through the string like a bullet. Then there was the GI Joe rip-off of the 6 million dollar man, which had see-thru electronics in his android parts.
My friend had a really cool collection of Planet of the Apes action figures and the locations that go with it ... prison, etc.
A cousin of mine had a Ken action figure ... hahaha, a Ken ACTION FIGURE ... Then again, if Ken goes out with Barbie, then I guess he has more action than all the superheroes combined.
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Hmm..yes I suppose ken would.
It's action figure I tell you!
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Tim, please tell me you've seen 'the 40 year old virgin'. Referring to 'action figures', not you personally. 
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Sunboy, Karate Kid, Bouncing Boy there were so many...
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