Returning to a perennial favourite, a line we've definitely had more than once as an opener! And it's our blow-mould copies of the Giant minis we're looking at again today, with a couple of new snippets of information to round the whole.
This was a evilBay lot about 18-months ago, showing the pose I actually only noticed as I was Blogging them last time;
The back of the card is overprinted to JBZ, or Joseph B. Zahn & Bros., a US importer ('Jobber'), who carried all the usual fantastic plastic from Hong Kong and repackaged the cheaper/smaller pocket-money tin-plate from Japan.
Then, about a year ago, I picked up a two'er myself, with the errant pose, and . . . blue lenticular eyes, not the common black, sometimes rendered as a grey, so, there's a variant to add to the story, as well as the 'new' branding! My card is the more-common unbranded generic, though. I wonder if they did 1's? Or 4's!
Close-up of the new guy, with his lady-charmer eyes!
2 comments:
these are really neat Hugh! I may have to check out that JBZ firm
I've seen the logo a couple of times on other rack-toy stuff, Ed, but don't know much about them, otherwise?
H
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