Welcome back to Consigned, Cool, & Collected, where we look back into the history of the cool stuff we see on the daily. Today, we’re looking at the Piggy Cook toy from our eBay store, an electronic toy from the 1950s that represents a proud legacy of Japanese toy making. Our Yonezawa Toys Piggy Cook…
Welcome back to My Hero, where we put names to the faces of the custom action figures in the collection of the same name! This week’s focus on Private Lancelot Strong, the secret identity of the second Archie Comics hero known as The Shield! Our Private Strong figure! A Short-Lived Revival In 1959, the superhero…
Welcome back to Consigned, Cool, & Collected, where your pals at Back to the Past pause to really appreciate the cool stuff we work with every day. Today has us looking at two items we’ve recently handled featuring Batman villain Roxy Rocket, her first appearance in Batman Adventures Annual #1 and her first action figure…
Welcome back our ongoing examination of the voluminous My Hero Collection of custom action figures! This one takes us away from the world of comic books, though not very far, as today’s hero is Pollux from the 1990 TV series The Flash! Our Pollux figure, as seen on eBay. The yellow showing through in some spots…
Welcome back to our weekly dip into the depths of the My Hero collection, one unidentified madman’s quest to immortalize in plastic the most obscure comic book characters ever created. That built up the collection of hundreds of hand-altered action figures that now reside in the Back to the Past warehouse and that I have…
Welcome back to My Hero, where the motley assortment of weirdo characters in the My Hero Collection get their moment in the sun! This week’s star is the Human Flying Fish, a (mostly) one-off Aquaman foe from 1960’s Adventure Comics #372. Our custom Human Flying Fish. I think his body comes from a Marvel Super…
Welcome back to My Hero, where one-off super heroes are more worthy of notice than ones with 300 issues under their belt! Today’s selection from our Custom Action Figure Collection is Joshua, a costumed vigilante who originated in 1969’s Teen Titans #20. Joshua, as he appears in our Custom Action Figure Collection. A One-Off Titan…
Welcome back to My Hero, where the obscure characters that make up our Custom Action Figure Collection take center stage! Today, we’re looking at a Marvel hero: a doctor who traveled to Himalayas and learned the ways of the mystic arts, later joining the ranks of The Avengers…but not the one you’re thinking of. Our…
Welcome back to My Hero, where I show my work in identifying the characters in our vast collection of customized action figures! This week’s subject is a foursome of figures (our customizer loved army building) comprising the full membership of the Batman Revenge Squad from World’s Finest #175. The foursome of the Batman Revenge Squad…
Welcome back to Consigned, Cool, & Collected, where we stop to look deeper into the cool stuff we at Back to the Past deal with every day. Today we turn our eyes to our eBay store and this nifty 1997 Kenner Toys Trailer VHS tape and the last days of the King of the Action…