Posted on 12/23/2015 10:45:28 AM PST by w1n1
Blast from the past a rare early 60's tv commercial for Mattel's Tommy Burst submachine gun detective set. Maybe somebody still have this hidden in their attic.
The detective set comes with the Tommy submachine gun, shoulder holster, snub-nose 38 and an ID badge.
Go here to see this classic commercial from Mattel.
here’s a Johnny Reb Cannon for sale on eBay for only $197.50:
Gee, and “Argosy” used to be such a relatively classy pulp mag in the olden days.
If I had my old Mattel I’d offer to trade you for your real one.
Agreed. I’m heavily invested in Nerf guns (for my kids! Really!)
Pride and joy is the belt-fed Vulcan Nerf machine gun. 6 D-cell batteries, fires at a rate of about 130 rounds/darts per minute.
The beauty of the Nerf stuff is that there are plenty of people who post modifications on increasing firing rate and distance online. One guy jacked an RC car battery into his Vulcan and got it up to 500 rounds per minute.
And to think, we used to go out and play with this stuff in the street and in the woods, and never a worry about gettin’ shot by the cops. (Not the cops’ fault - but the world has moved on.)
I had one. It was great.
I had the Fanner 50.
“We gave him a jumbo size container of bbs which he used up in a couple of days. “
I just hope he didn’t shoot his eye out! :-)
“Don’t know what happened to it after that.”
Mom probably made dad throw it away.
“Or at least don’t bring it home.”
I believe that’s the line of the year on FR.
Har!
No. Lol. But the squirrels knew to avoid our backyard. The bbs are plastic these days and although they will won’t kill or maim will hurt a bit. Shredded the paper targets. The kids would have gun fights in the park. With protective glasses of course. Don’t want to put an eye out!
I had the Mattel Tommy gun and the Man from Uncle set, that must be why I’m so disturbed.
Ah, yes. What a genre. I have one example buried deep in some nook around here somewhere, from maybe about 1965. I recall that coffee-table book that came out, documenting the various covers, but never got it. Perhaps a tad too tawdry for my tastes. Although I love the older pulp covers, sporting the old Norman Saunders style of cover art. Not that some of the 1930s horror pulp covers didn’t get a bit too tackily gruesome at times as well. I have a few issues of “Dime Mystery” and “Terror Tales,” but their covers are luckily not ‘too’ tasteless.
***but their covers are luckily not ‘too’ tasteless.***
I have the coffee table book (IT’S A MAN’S WORLD).
http://javasbachelorpad.com/itsamansworld.html
It is great and some of the info, such as the claim that a purchaser of a magazine took four seconds to glance over all those offered, so the covers had to reach out and “grab” his attention.
Yep, I think that’s the one.
Still have a preference for the older pulp era, though. Although I guess the “Spicy” pulps could have been technically considered a precursor to the ‘men’s adventure’ mags. But the “Spicy’s” hotsy-totsy qualities still seem to refreshingly reek of a pre-Hugh Hefner worldview.
Isn’t this a Mainway product, like the Sac’O’Glass and the Sac’O’Nails?......
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