Welcome back to Consigned, Cool, & Collected, where the experts at Back to the Past stop to talk about why the stuff we handle is so dang cool. This week, we’re talking about a fabulous piece that recently came in: a 1940 Ideal Toys Superman doll! Specifically, we’re talking about Ideal Toys and their place…
Welcome back to My Hero, wherein we here at Back to the Past identify and delve into the obscure characters from our custom action figure collection! Years ago, we purchased the life’s work of an artist and comic fan whose chosen medium was granting forgotten comic characters the action figure immortality denied to them by…
Welcome back to My Hero, wherein we here at Back to the Past identify and delve into the obscure characters from our custom action figure collection. Years ago, we purchased the life’s work of an artist and comic fan whose chosen medium was granting forgotten comic characters the action figure immortality denied to them by…
Welcome back to My Hero, wherein we here at Back to the Past identify and delve into the obscure characters our custom action figure collection. Years ago, we purchased the life’s work of an artist and comic fan whose chosen medium was granting forgotten comic characters the action figure immortality denied to them by major…
Welcome back to My Hero, our weekly dip into our collection of custom action figures! A lone superfan spent years repainting, resculpting, sewing capes, and generally altering dozens of action figures to capture the likenesses of the most obscure characters in all of comicdom. We were so taken with his life’s work that we bought…
Debuting in 1964, Simon “Wonder Man” Williams is a longtime member of The Avengers and a fan-favorite Marvel hero. As such, he’s entirely too well known to appear in the pages of My Hero, as he’s been turned into an action figure numerous times over the years. However, his most immediate predecessor to the name,…
Welcome back to Consigned, Cool, and Collected, wherein we here at Back to the Past slow down for a second to do a deep dive into something particularly cool that’s come through our doors. Today, we’re looking at a selection of Super 8 movies that came in – including Superman: The Movie. Superman The Movie…
Welcome back to Consigned, Cool, & Collected, wherein we examine the “Cool Factor” of items that come through our doors. Today’s item is a special edition Gold Superman figure created in celebration of the 30th Anniversary of the Super Powers line, with an interesting history behind it’s origins. Mattel’s Gold Superman from DC Classics Anticipating…
Hey everyone, welcome to a new RETRO REVIEW. This week I’ve pulled out the cover dated, January 1987, issue of Superman # 1 from DC Comics. This is the, dare I say it, reboot, or renovation, of the Superman titles after sales had plunged and the Superman titles had languished for far to long. DC…
President Superman Welcome back to Strange Times & Places, where we’re not looking at a specific story but a world of DC’s sprawling Multiverse – Earth 23, home of President Superman! How’s It Different? This would be, like most worlds of the Multiverse, a Royale With Cheese – differences pile up until you have a…