Aunt Ruby’s Sweet Jazz Babies Action Figure Collection, Volume Number One
Aunt Ruby’s Sweet Jazz Babies is pleased to present this collection of their beloved
Children
’s Action Figures. The Babies regularly donate their services and the proceeds of action figure
sales to various children
’s educational testing organizations to help further the effectiveness of
children
’s education methodologies.
The Babies express their sincere gratitude to the Estate of Drs. Klaus and
Gertrude Volmgarten for the photographic images of the action figures presented
.
This striking action figure of Tartan Purry was based upon a sculpture by Miss
Margaret P. Vanderbuilt after her chance meeting with Tartan in the elegant
ballroom of the Chateaux Le
’ Mauve near Paris, France, in the fall of 1973. Miss Vanderbuilt had established a reputation in French society as a lady of
independence that no man could ever possess, although many had vied for her
hand.
Having heard the Babies in Monte Carlo the previous month, her friends had
forewarned her not to attend the elegant ball, telling her that even she would
not be able to resist the onslaught of emotions that would flood her heart as
the Babies performed.
Miss Vanderbuilt dismissed her friends advice and attended the ball. Witnesses claim that the playing of Tartan Purry that evening cast a spell upon
Miss Vanderbuilt, who was to spend the rest of her life decorating her vast
estate with sculptures of Tartan Purry.
Tartan Purry maintains that he did not intend this fate for Miss Vanderbuilt,
and on that particular evening, and as always, he had only played what he had
felt in his heart
.
In late 1976, an unusually large blue parrot landed near the home of film
producer James Cameron and began to recite a fascinating tale in iambic
pentameter of a jungle hunt on a far away romantic island it called the
“Isle of Babes”. The recitation proceeded continuously for several days and James took careful
notes of the story.
After the parrot finished the recitation, James brought the bird nourishment,
and commissioned an artist to work with the parrot to recreate the image of the
warrior portrayed in the jungle hunt narrative.
James altered certain parts of the original story and used the result to develop
the blockbuster movie Rambo, released in 1982.
After flying away from the home of James Cameron, the parrot arrived on the
grounds of the Playskool Corporation and repeated the description of the jungle
warrior to Playskool toy designers.
Playskool felt that the action figure would be inappropriate for their target
children
’s audience and as a result, this image of their prototype action figure has
never before been published
.
It has been established through carbon dating analysis that this action figure
of Professor Joseph Cordi was fabricated in early 1981 using a complex polymer
compound created near Lake Charles, Louisiana.
Although many specifics regarding the origin of this figure remain unknown, an
incident apparently occurred on Jazz Babies Island during the late 1930
’s in which Professor Cordi’s muscular structure spontaneously grew several orders of magnitude and his
complexion also changed to a shade of avocado green.
During this time, most of Professor Cordi’s clothing could not withstand his muscular growth and subsequently ripped and
fell off of his person, as can also be seen in the figure.
Although this change to Professor Cordi’s physical composition eventually reversed itself, some believe that this
condition may occasionally recur.
In early 1961, Jack Kirby of Marvel Comics learned of this story and was
inspired to use it as a basis for his superhero character
“The Incredible Hulk”
.
Cuban youths will readily recognize this action figure of the Joker character
from the Cuban version of the Batman television series.
The image of Cesar Romero was officially banned during the 1960’s from Cuban television screens as a result of Fidel Castro’s opinion concerning Romero’s role in the 1953 film “Prisoners of the Casbah”. During the 1960’s, Fidel Castro required that the image of Cesar Romero be eliminated in order
for Hollywood to broadcast the Batman television series in Cuba.
After consulting with his friend, Henry Fonda, Batman’s producer Bill Dozier contracted with Tartan Purry to portray a Spanish version
of the Joker character for the Batman television series.
This action figure was manufactured in Cuba in 1971.
East and West Coast theatergoers will recognize this action figure of King Crazy
Oliver Steck in his role as the Riddler in the Broadway stage production of
Batman, circa 1971.
This theatre version of the 1960’s era television series featured King Steck’s innovative design of large colored text balloons that would be thrown from the
stage during the fight sequences of the play.
Another innovative feature pioneered by King Steck was his use of live felines
in the wardrobe design of Cat Woman, whose entrance to the stage was often
marked with deafening sorties of purring.
Although disliked by critics, the Broadway production was a media sensation that
was regularly attended by Henry Kissinger and President Richard Nixon.
This action figure was popular among the children of wealthy northeastern elite
socialites.
This action figure celebrates the heroic deeds of Marcus Adamson, Lewis Gun
operator for Her Majesty
’s 12th Airborne Squadron, and hero of England during World War I. King Oliver’s portrayal of the infamous soldier in the critically acclaimed theatre
production of
“Adamson, My Lionheart” in 1938 helped unite a divided England in the face of growing Nazi aggression. Adamson’s memorable war cries of “Touche, devil”, and “Suffer me not you swine” inspired English men and women to brave what Adamson termed a “stiff upper lip” in the face of the Nazi attacks that were soon to follow. Many of these action figures were carried by young English children into bomb
shelters during Nazi V-1 rocket attacks.
The expression worn by King Steck reminded the children that they did not suffer
alone.