Creator of "G.I. Joe" Action Figure Passes Away at 86

[magic452]

Originally Posted by vienna

I was a bit too old (about 13yo) when G.I. Joe hit the market. Also, I was infested by the "Beatle" bug having seen them on the Sullivan Show. My main passion was guitars. Girls were also a passion especially since I had taken note that girls, particularly the pretty ones, seemed to really like guitar players....

As a child growing up in the 50s, we played War and Cowboys and Indians. I also had a rather sizable assortment of those little green army men one could buy in large plastic bags; they looked kind of like this:





The boys in my neighborhood staged some mighty impressive battles on the sidewalks...


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I use to have tons of those things. I was also too old for GI Joe.

Magic