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The Treasure Chest of Terrible Toys: The Adolph Hitler Doll (Historic Yet Awful Repost)

24 Aug

August 25, 2013

Summer is nearing an end, so you know what that means. Hitler!

from January 5, 2013

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This doll is made, I fervently hope, not for children but for the collector’s market. The totally messed-up and psychologically screwy collector’s market. The Adolph Hitler doll is a part of the War Ciminals of the 2oth Century series. Other dolls in the set include Himmler and Castro.

Here are a few comments from around the web:

From Graveyardrecords.com:

This doll was made by In The Past Toys of Staten Island, New York in 2000 and became 1 of the hardest dolls of Adolf Hitler to every be made, it is also the best looking doll to ever be made. The likeness is dead on and looks just as Adolf did at the height of his power..

This doll stands about 12″ tall and the box is in Near Mint condition with only minor self wear.

Please keep in mind that Graveyard Records & Movie Maniacs is only selling this doll due to it’s historic / collector purpose and is not intended to glorify, nor exploit the horrors and atrocities of war.

From vice.com:

“All the GI Joe collectors I used to meet would say how lousy figures were these days,” Deborah says from her studio in Staten Island. “They would go on about how nobody was making figures that collectors really wanted to see. I decided the best one to make would be Hitler.

“At first I had one or two people complaining, but the overall response to the figure has been amazing.

Obviously not one to be held back in her commercial ambitions by taste or decency, Deborah’s soon launching a set of serial killer dolls including Charles Manson, the Hillside Strangler, David Berkowitz aka the Son Of Sam, “Hannibal the Cannibal, and the Chainsaw Massacre guy.”

Even better, she’s about to create a line of “Middle Eastern Agitators,” which will feature 12-inch, detailed-to-the-max dolls of Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden.

Who’s next? Quaddafi? The Ayatollah?

“I can’t tell you our secrets, but there’s going to be 15-20 new figures out this year. Don’t rule anything out.”

Seriously, who wants these dolls? Who is clamoring for a Charles Manson doll?

If you need a Hitler doll, keep it to yourself.

I just don’t get it. I would not play with this, I would not display this, I would not let any hint escape that I own this.

Never mind registration for guns, I want registration for Hitler doll owners.

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The Saturday Comics: Swing With Scooter

3 Aug

August 3, 2013

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I am by no means a comic expert, but I am pretty knowledgeable. While I may not have read every comic out there, you can bet that if Marvel or DC put it out, or even one of the indies or “third” publishers, I’d at least have heard of it. I don’t typically, if ever, get surprised by an entire series put out by one of the Big Two publishers but this did it.

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Swing With Scooter ran for 36 issues from 1966 to 1972. It was originally conceived as a British Invasion title. Scooter was a British pop star who came to America. He rode a scooter, so hence his nickname, Scooter.

Right away you can tell that this guy has nothing on John Lennon.

Anyway, it wasn’t long until Swing With Scooter became little more than an Archie rip-off. Eventually he wasn’t even British, just another ordinary comic book teen. However, this book has one thing to set it apart. It was written by Barbara Friedlander, the first woman to write a non-romance title for DC. (Note: Although I saw that referenced online, I am not sure that it is true.) Meanwhile, DC has not brought him back in The New 52. No shock there.

Check out the gallery below, and look for the issue where Scooter is (accidentally? Hmm) unzipping a girl’s dress. Pretty risqué by Archie Comics standards!