Christmas of 1994

By: comic_book_fan

The Christmas of 1994 is very foggy to me, but I am nostalgic and it is the first Christmas I remember, and it is an important one to me. So, I will write what I remember about it, and hope I can somehow keep things in order.

I remember my family was going Christmas shopping at the Middlesborro Mall (A little history, irrelevant but some might find it interesting - Middlesborro is a small town in Kentucky. Back in the 1930's, it was known as little Las Vegas and many of the mobsters fled down there because gambling was hot and the police presence was low. It was built inside a meteorite crater, and I think Lee Majors lives there, for any Six Million Dollar Man fans.) Anyway, me and my family went Christmas shopping and I went in to KB toys.

I almost never got to go there, but it was Christmas so they told me if I were good and let them shop, I could pick out a toy while they scoped out my presents. A distraction that worked like a charm.

I had just recently got into the Wildcats cartoon, thanks to this really cool action figure my mom got me. It was a Spartan action figure. I hate to use another picture so soon, but this part kind of warrants it.

It was a lot like this figure. It could exchange it's hand for a weapon, or you could shoot it's hand off. Being 5 years old, I lost Spartan's hand almost immediately. But I took that toy everywhere. I wanted Grifter, who quickly became my favorite Wildcats member after watching the show. At the time, I was crazy about that show and my brother loved the Ninja Turtles and they always came on back to back along with the Real Ghostbusters and Garfield on USA Cartoon Express. That was a great lineup in my opinion. The only one to rival Fox Kids. We would always argue about who would win in a fight between the 2 teams.

Anyway, they didn't have Grifter and my brother was over looking at an action figure, so I went to see what he was looking at. When I got there, I saw this:

This bad*ss looking action figure came with a book that was all about him, and it had all these cool drawings of him ripping monsters apart. My 5 year old mind was blown.

Then after we paid for the figure, my brother dropped a bombshell on me that changed me forever. He said, "You know all these cartoons are based off of these comic books that you can get that tell their stories in moredetail. I was like, "So Wildcats, X-Men, Batman, all of them are based off these books?" He said, "Yeah!" And was like "Where can I get these?"

He took me to the comic store that was not far from KB toys and they were having a sale. I bought all of these issues - Spectacular Spiderman #205 and #206 and all of the X-Men Fatal Attractions stories. None for the Knight Medieval Spawn action figure but it was later taken away because of the spikes?

That was the first Christmas related memory I can recall. I hope you find it at least somewhat amusing.

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