Wednesday, 25 December 2013

My Brother-In-Law Used to Own A Comic Book Store

Here are some Christmas treats from my brother-in-law's wonderful collection/old stock:













Beautiful, beautiful Grenadier boxes!


At this point the memory card in my wife's camera was full.   It was a dilemma - do I go back and erase some of the big batch of Christmas family photos she took to make room for some more pics of lead, especially 'cause I was just getting to the Grenadier gloryload or... not do that?   A couple of moments of some pretty hardcore soul-searching and a rather impressive bit of inner ethical debate raged on... but of course, I took no further pictures. 

4 comments:

  1. Can I marry either you or your brother in law and get some fresh old lead for Christmas too?

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    1. Hey, hey, Mr. ALMan, we are pretty much into traditional family groupings and all that...and I should stress that before you make any life-altering decisions that all this old lead is NOT mine and was not given to me but simply shown to me to admire, swoon over and take a couple of pictures to share with the community of classic leadheads, but then again, I think my brother-in-law has a soft spot for French cooking, so perhaps...

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  2. Sweet ,Unfortunately they weren't gifts given and unwrapped for xmas.

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  3. Thanks, Peter. Yes, too true, but one can always hope for birthday time...

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