SUPERBOY - STOP 'DRAGON' YOUR HEELS...

This is the 1974/'75 AURORA reissue of their '60s

SUPERBOY kit.  Unlike the first one, the 'S' emblems

on his costume and cape (and KRYPTO's as well) weren't

molded onto the plastic, but supplied as adhesive stickers,

and the sign was also omitted from this release.  (I typed

out the one you see in the photos.)

Back around 1981 or '82, someone I know asked me

if I wanted a Superboy kit.  One of his pals had one, but

it had no box or instructions, nor any decals.  His pal didn't

want it and was giving it away. "Sure I'll take it!" I said, but

no plastic model was forthcoming.  Some months later, the

same someone asked me if I wanted an Aurora BATMAN

kit, as there was one on sale in Glasgow for a mere £1.50.

I gave him the dosh, he got the kit for me, I started to

build it - then we moved house.

In our new house, I completed the Batman model,

and sometime around 1984 or so, the same fella said to

me one day "Hey, I've got that Superboy kit for you!"  It

was at least nine years later (after we'd moved back to our

previous abode) that I finally got to build it.  I copied the

'S' symbols from an MPC reissue of the Superman kit, al-

though they were slightly different to the Aurora ones.

I didn't discover this until later 'though.

I eventually acquired an instruction sheet so that

I had the box art.  If I wanted to, I could now make a

facsimile of the box, as it has all the pictorial information

required to do so, but there's no hurry.  A few short years

ago, MOEBIUS MODELS reissued the 1960s version of

the kit, complete with moulded emblems and a facsimile

of the original box, the only difference being that it has

the Moebius name instead of Aurora's.  It also has

the sign that was omitted in the '70s.

So here's my Superboy model, assembled and

painted by myself.  Whaddya think, frantic one?

  

And below is DAVE COCKRUM's original art for the

1974/'75 reissue box.  Have to be honest and say I prefer

the original '60s box art.  Dave's is nicely done 'though.

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