Tuesday, April 21, 2020

Miniature Superman Figurine

This Justice League miniature Superman figurine was picked up at the local Dollar Tree a few weeks ago. The blue of his costume has a metallic look to it and reflects light. His pose is interesting because his left leg is lifted up and slightly bent. Maybe he was trying to imitate Captain Morgan.

Monday, April 20, 2020

Invasion of the Foamies Day 6: Batman

The last member of the superhero foamies is non other than Batman. I guess Captain America, Hulk, Spider-Man, Black Panther and Rocket Raccoon couldn't find another Marvel Comics superhero to join them so they recruited the Dark Knight from DC Comics. He looks a little weird without the ears on his cowl and he kind of looks like a penguin from behind.


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Saturday, April 18, 2020

Invasion of the Foamies Day5: Rocket Raccoon

Rocket Raccoon is not only a member of the Guardians of the Galaxy but he is also a member of the foamies that I picked up at the local Dollar Tree:


Friday, April 17, 2020

Thursday, April 16, 2020

Tuesday, April 14, 2020

T-shirt Tuesday: The Flash Logo Distressed T-shirt

My sister bought me two t-shirts for Easter this weekend while she was shopping at the local Walmart's. One of them was the Flash logo distressed t-shirt. I'm wearing it as I write this but the picture below was taken with it draped over the side of my bed. The red is much darker than my other Flash logo distressed t-shirt that I have had for years.

Sunday, April 12, 2020

Superman Batman Candy Sticks

Happy Easter. I picked up a bag of Superman Batman Candy Sticks that I found in the Easter section at the local Dollar Tree. I was supposed to get 25 boxes but got 26 boxes. Each box had two candy sticks and some of the images were used with the DC Trinity Candysticks that I picked up last year for Halloween at the local Dollar General. They were made in Colombia and distributed by World Confections.

Here is the front of the Superman Batman Candy Sticks bag:

Here is the back of the Superman Batman Candy Sticks bag:

My bag had 14 Superman boxes (4 green, 8 red and yellow, 2 red). All of them feature his upper torso with two sides featuring extreme close up shots of his face:

There were only 12 Batman boxes in my bag (3 blue, 2 red and orange, 7 yellow). None of the images featured extreme close up shots of his face.

I am a little disappointed that none of the boxes had both DC superheroes on them. I guess they didn't want me to call them World's Finest Candy Sticks.

Saturday, April 11, 2020

Goodnight Hilary Heath

Sad news for Hilary Heath, Horror Film Actress Opposite Vincent Price, Dies of Coronavirus at 74. She went by her maiden name of Hilary Dwyer and appeared with him in the following three movies produced by American International Pictures: Witchfinder General (1968), The Oblong Box (1969) and Cry of the Banshee (1970). She also appeared on several British television shows including an episode each of The Prisoner, Space: 1999 and The Avengers.

Friday, April 10, 2020

Toon Trio Candy Sticks

The local Dollar Tree had bags of these Toon Trio Candy Sticks stocked in their Easter section and I picked one up. The bag really doesn't have a name so I just called it Toon Trio because it features characters from three different cartoon shows: Tom and Jerry, Scooby-Doo and The Flintstones. Each bag is supposed to have 25 pieces or boxes with two candy sticks in each box but mine had 26 boxes. They were made in Colombia and distributed by World Confections.

Here is the front of the Toon Trio Candy Sticks bag:

Here is the back of the Toon Trio Candy Sticks bag:

I ended up getting eight boxes with Tom and Jerry (six were yellow and two were red). All the boxes had both of them on one side while Tom was on the other side of the yellow boxes and Jerry was on the other side of the red boxes.

I ended up getting 8 Scooby-Doo boxes (5 were purple and 3 were green). The whole gang is shown on the purple boxes with the Mystery Machine on one side with a close up of Scooby on the other side. The green boxes have only Velma, Daphne and Scooby on one side and a different close up of Scooby on the other side.

The Flintstones should have been called Fred and Barney since they are mostly featured on the 10 boxes that I got (6 were red and 4 were blue). Fred and Barney are one side of the red boxes with an extreme close up of Fred Flintstone is the one the other side. Dino is on one side of the blue boxes with Barney Rubble on the other side.

Thursday, April 09, 2020

Invasion of the Foamies Day 1: Captain America

I picked up six different Foamies at the local Dollar Tree a few days ago. Here is the front of the Captain America one:

Here is the back of the Cpatain America foamie (foamy?):

Wednesday, April 08, 2020

Women Wednesday: Wonder Woman Activity Fun Set

I picked up this Wonder Woman Activity Fun Set at the local Dollar Tree yesterday. The movie tie-in set includes a 3"x5" memo pad with 20 sheets, two pencils, a pencil sharpener and a eraser. The pencil sharpener features Diana with her sword while the memo pad features her crossing her bracelets. The blue eraser is winged shaped and features her logo in gold. The red pencil has her gold logo all over it while the blue pencil has four different images of Wonder Woman. All the images are comic art and the package has a copyright of 2018 by Peachtree Playthings

Wednesday, April 01, 2020

Women Wednesday: CW's Stargirl Posters

Here are two posters for CW's Stargirl tv series that have been released with the premiere date of May 18, 2020. The first one features Stargirl (Brec Bassinger) and her cosmic rod:

The second poster features Courtney Whitmore/Stargirl, Pat Dugan/S.T.R.I.P.E., members of the current Justice Society of America (Yolanda Montez/Wildcat, Beeth Chapel/Dr. Mid-Nite, Rick Tyler/Hourman) and the Injustice Society (Ms. Brooks/Tigress, Dr. Henry King/Brainwave, Jordan Mahkent/Icicle, Dr. Ito/Dragon King and Crock/Sportsmaster):

Monday, March 30, 2020

Roger Dodger, Super Van and '12 Ford Fiesta Hot Wheels

I decided to pick up a few Hot Wheels at the local Dillons store last week and thought I would share pictures of them here even though they are not comic book related. They are collectible toys so this post is sort of appropriate.

The Roger Dodger is #8 in the HW Art Cars mini collection (there's 10 in the set) and #67 in the Hot Wheels 2020 collection. There is supposed to be three variants of this one. I like the copper "Steam" on black, which is why I picked it up. There is a big R on the roof.

The Super Van is #9 in the HW Art Cars mini collection and #68 in the Hot Wheels 2020 collection and features the King of Hearts. The roof has an Ace of Hearts and I'm tempted to either get another one or open this one to find out what is on the other side.

Finally, there is the '12 Ford Fiesta, which is #9 in the Checkmate mini collection (there is 9 in the set) and #263 in the Hot Wheels 2018 collection. I like this one because of the Pawn chess piece and word (there is a bigger Pawn image on the roof). I saw a bunch of Chekmate cars around Christmas last year at the local Walmart's but never picked any up. The one I picked up is basically a white car but I have yet to see a black version of it.

Sunday, March 29, 2020

Superhero Sunday: Batmobiles and Batplane

I decided to do something a little different for this week's Superhero Sunday. Instead of putting the spotlight on Batman, I decided to focus on his Batmobile. The reason is because I have been finding some new Batmobiles that Hot Wheels have been producing for 2020. Once again there are five in the set and I have two of them plus one with an alternate paint job. Technically, there are eight in the mini collection if you include all the variants.

I found the chrome Batmobile at the local Walmart's a few months ago. It's the third one in the set and is based on the comic book version:

Here is a close up shot of the chrome Batmobile:

The alternate paint job of the third Batmobile is gold and was found a few weeks ago at the local Walmart's:

Here is a close up shot of the gold Batmobile:

The Batplane is actually the first one of the set and I found it the same time that I found the gold Batmobile. It's from the Batman: The Animated Series. I think there is enough Batman-related flying vehicles that Hot Wheels could do a set of their own. How cool would it be to have a Batplane, Batwing, Batjet, Batrocket and Batcopter?

Here is a close up of the Batplane:

The Hot Wheels Batman Mini Collection lists a third color variation for the third Batmobile but doesn't say what color it is. I'm thinking it will be either black or dark blue. There is also a Batplane variant. I'm still missing #2 (Batcopter), #4 (TV series Batmobile) and #5 (Batman: Arkham Asylum Batmobile). The last one is a Treasure Hunt so I might never find it.

Wednesday, March 25, 2020