The comic in question was Action Comics #346. The advertisement under discussion can be found here. Given the scale of those toys and the multiple battlefields the kids seem to have built, that’s some massive diorama.
In case you hadn’t spotted it (I hadn’t), there is a like button available just above this bit for you to share your favourite Planet Karen comics at the Book of Face, and in fact all sorts of other places. It’s the one in the middle with the squiggly icon with “like” underneath it in tiny, tiny lettering, but I’m working on making it easier to spot.
I have a bunch of my dad’s old comics from the 1960′s and I love the old ads in them. For just $0.50, you can get a life-sized submarine!
I checked out the details of that comic on comics.org and saw that the circulation for Action at the time was 491.5 k…nowadays, comic companies would kill for that kind of following…
I remember owning Zoids – ‘giant’ robo dinosaurs brimming with weaponry and some 1/72 scaled army soldiers(Hasegawa, I think). The scale was tiny but Japanese soldiers vs. giant robo dinos was epic ^__^.
I was just looking at the G.I.Joe comic ad you reference, Karen. It shows Japanese soldiers… Were there really East Asian G.I.Joe
dollsaction-figures made? I had the impression they were all white men, all the time, back then.Aw, the link is now 403 Forbidden.