SCALEXTRIC SCARLET

A couple of photos from the Fanderson page  taken  by Joseph Coen, who spotted the new Scalextric SPV and SPC slot cars on display in Margate.

Radio Stars

We've seen this Thunderbird 1 solid state radio already this summer. A gorgeous thing, here's a lovely condition example on auction this year.

Space was a popular theme for radios. Here's a fab boxed Space Shuttle in perfect shape, again an old auction shot.

I also like this really cool motorbike radio I saw online. What a talking point in the room! 

 

Have you a radio readers? 

Flippin Eck!

A sort of a Hurdler, this big-wheeled Renegade jeep is a fab looking flip-over car.

I've seen that eagle transfer before too. You?

Did you have a jeep or a land rover as a kid?

ZEROID CHECK LIST

Hey Kids,

As Zeroids are proving popular on here at on the moment,  here's the illustration on the back of the Zeroid Missile Defence Pad box.

Interestingly, Zogg's in the mix, but no mention of the Zeroid Alien and Zemo.

Blazing Combat!

As a kid I loved reading my big brothers' Creepy and Eerie comics. It was pure heaven.

Warren advertised their other American comics inside, which I've never seen in the flesh. 

The war one was Blazing Combat.

This is the incredible cover of the first issue, which really made an impression as a kid. The wounded guy always reminded me of a zombified corpse you definitely find in Creepy or Eerie (pics from an auction).

Yep, Blazing Combat used the same roster of world-class artists and writers as its more famous Warren horror stablemates.

That issue one cover was by Frank Frazetta. Who else! 

The inner cover and contents page is a mirror image of the Creepy and Eerie house style.

These are the explosive first four covers I remember.

And the back covers. 

Do you remember Blazing Combat?

FLYING TONIGHT!

These look intriguing from 1976. I never saw these in the UK.  I wonder how many ended up crashing on the shed roof!

Spanish Gold

I love this golden plastic robot I saw on sale in Spain. 

There's lots going on but for me I think of GORT.

Do you like it?

Weekend Quizzoider

Here's another Quiz of similes. Films, books, TV, mostly sci-fi, some horror. An example: flying mouse adult male would be Batman. Peasy! If you are of a mind, have a mooky.

1. The letter before Y is not recognised
2. Cyan Top-Apostle
3. The beast from the pitch pool
4. Folk from the day after today
5. The grassing blood-organ
6. Chaff Hounds
7. Knife Sprinter
8. Adjusted Non-Federal Divisions
9. Tear in the Globe
10. This insular third planet
11. Forced vegetable and Vanilla Sauce
12. The enchanted carousel
13. The final home that's not on the right
14. Mandibles
15. Homicides in Mortuary Street
16. Gore on the Devil's Talons
17. The ditch and the swinging weight
18. The progeny of males
19. One after the fourth periodic division
20. Pelagic Lad
21. The 24 Hours the Globe Froze
22. Identical Summits
23. Noiseless sprinting
24. Monarch's term of conflagration