{"id":5647,"date":"2011-12-19T07:31:20","date_gmt":"2011-12-19T12:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=5647"},"modified":"2024-07-20T19:37:10","modified_gmt":"2024-07-20T23:37:10","slug":"comics-toy-tie-ins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/12\/19\/comics-toy-tie-ins\/","title":{"rendered":"What I Miss About Comics&#8230;Toy Tie-Ins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/COMICS-HEAD.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4243\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/09\/12\/goofy-ideas\/comics-head-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/COMICS-HEAD.jpg?fit=640%2C144&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,144\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"COMICS-HEAD\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/COMICS-HEAD.jpg?fit=640%2C144&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4243\" title=\"COMICS-HEAD\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/COMICS-HEAD.jpg?resize=640%2C144&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/COMICS-HEAD.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/COMICS-HEAD.jpg?resize=300%2C67&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a title=\"Evel Knievel Comic by willceau, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/3492969354\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3641\/3492969354_f491fabd4e_z.jpg?resize=428%2C640\" alt=\"Evel Knievel Comic\" width=\"428\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a>Back in the early to mid-70s, the <strong>Evel Knievel Stunt Cycle<\/strong> was the hottest toy in the country. Manufacturers couldn&#8217;t keep with with demand. It was on my younger brother&#8217;s Christmas list, and he had to make due with the <strong>Evel Knievel Scramble Van<\/strong>. My brother had to console himself with the cheezy van and the free comic that Marvel produced and was given out at toy stores. He did finally get the cycle about six months later for his birthday.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/EvelKnievel\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For more <strong>Evel Knievel<\/strong> goodness, watch the made-for-TV biopic for <strong>FREE<\/strong> at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/EvelKnievel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Internet Archive!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the early to mid-70s, the Evel Knievel Stunt Cycle was the hottest toy in the country. Manufacturers couldn&#8217;t keep with with demand. It was on my younger brother&#8217;s Christmas list, and he had to make due with the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/12\/19\/comics-toy-tie-ins\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[335],"tags":[86,1145,1047,347],"class_list":["post-5647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-i-miss-about-comics","tag-christmas","tag-evel-knievel","tag-ideal","tag-toy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-1t5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8126,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2012\/05\/21\/inspiration-ghost-rider\/","url_meta":{"origin":5647,"position":0},"title":"Inspiration for The Ghost Rider?","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"May 21, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"One of the older and most beloved comics in my collection is a Ghost Rider comic that my older brother bought, read and tossed at me. 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