Name: Slade Super Agent
Made by and When: Shindana Toys, 1975
Material: Vinyl
Marks: Shindana Toys / ©1975
Height: 9-1/2 inches
Hair/Eyes/Mouth: Sculpted Afro/brown painted eyes/closed mouth with mustache
Clothes: Orange shirt, brown faux leather short jacket, brown faux leather pants, black boots
Other: Attaché case (black vinyl bag) contains a cardboard box that illustrates super-agent gadgets. Shindana did not believe in or make toy guns or other toy weapons. One of their mottos was “Learn, Baby, Learn.” The back of Slade’s box reads:
From the neighborhood, the war, and college he learned it all!
The neighborhood:
He learned how to survive by knowing, understanding, and dealing with people.
The War:
Taught him how to survive by going for days without food or sleep. How to track without being seen. He learned hand to hand combat: weapons, communications, underwater diving & sky diving.
College:
He learned to live through education. Being strong in math, computer electronics, & business; he searched for a job to make use of all his talents, his thirst for thrill and adventure, his hunger for more excitement & knowledge.
With crime & corruption overtaking our world, his search was ended.
Code Name: SLADE
Super Agent
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