PART OF MY BATMAN PHOTO ARCHIVE

I do love Batman. The toys, merchandise and games too. Some of these here I've owned at some point over the last 30 years and then sold on, especially when I had a vintage toy stall years ago. The rest were part of my photo archive for research such as the IDEAL and Sears sets.

Did you/ do you have any of these?

Have you had/ got any of these readers?

Batmobiles next!

MY FIRST COLLECTABLES

 

Circa 1990, my own very early collection of space and Batman collectables just when I got the old toy bug.

Like Scoop I had a copy of the lovely Into Space with Ace Brave pop-up book, sadly long gone now.

MY EARLY COLLECTION 1990

Recently I found these shots of my early vintage toys collection from around 1990 including my first re-acquired Project Sword toy, the SPACE GLIDER (bought at an evening toy fair in Normanton - they were great!). The snaps were taken by a professional photographer mate of mine back then, which I have scanned for the blog. Around 1990, I started to buy Model and Collectors Mart magazine, which was absolutley wonderful. The classifieds were excellent and were the 'Ebay' of their day - I miss them a lot (I used to advertise for PROJECT SWORD information!) The mint bubble-boxed Corgi Juniors Batmobile in the bottom pic was my first purchase through the magazine - from the excellent TV TOYZONE. I was so excited when it arrived in the post. Those were the days! Alas, many of the toys pictured have been swapped/sold over the years.