Garytoons!

Well…. this is what Wally will be quick to recognize as yet another “based-on-a-true-story” strip from our childhood… 

I took a little artistic license, as usual…

On a side note, back in the day (which, for me, was sometime in the early to mid ’70s), for some inexplicable reason, they really did used to make action figures like this.  Their limbs were all held in place by a string, and if you turned the torso just a little too much one way or the other (and what kid doesn’t try to turn his action figures’ torsos further than they’re supposed to go..???), you heard a sickening “snap,” and before you knew it, their arms and legs were dangling uselessly in their costumes (if they didn’t just fall off on the floor!).  I can’t tell you how many “finger puppets” we had in our toy box as kids… I guess we couldn’t bear to part with what was left of our beloved action figures…

Anyone else have any similarly traumatic experiences with their childhood toys…? 😉