After all the crap I’ve dealt with the past few weeks, I need to talk about something a bit more fun and a bit less angry rant-y.

A lot of my other blogging compatriots get to talk about old comic book ads, so why shouldn’t I? I saw this one while reading tomorrow’s Yesterday’s Comic (I just confused some new readers with that) and it took me back a bit. I have three of these cars and while I wasn’t a die-hard die-cast car collector I wouldn’t have been much of a boy if I didn’t have too many for my own good.  I started to lose interest once they released cars that can turn into robots, something Matchbox and Hot Wheels have tried…but weren’t very successful at. And that just gave me an idea for a Clutter Reports review in addition to a planned video review in the future.

My dad, and readers of the other site know how imaginative and resourceful he is and how I inherited at least some of that, built a platform where I could race my little cars through a city…a city made up mostly of tape squares because I only had about three toy car playsets and one was stretching the scale a bit. Of surprise to nobody I owned some superhero cars thanks to Corgi up there. I don’t know what became of that toy company, or if they still produce toy cars (the link there doesn’t appear to be an official site) but at the time they were one of the smaller but stealthily popular companies. Everyone thought of Hot Wheels and Matchbox but you had Corgi cars and didn’t know it. Corgi had it’s share of licensed cars, including this one with DC. Although this ad came from a Marvel comic, specifically the Battlestar Galactica comic I’m reviewing tomorrow. So let’s break down this ad…probably shouldn’t say “break down” when we’re talking cars.

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