Starter of this subject: Lloyd
Last post in this subject: 7/22/2000
Messages in this subject: 6
| Lloyd | 7/22/2000 6 replies |
| I had an Atomic Bomb Ring in, I believe, the late forties. It didn't look like a bullet, but a minature bomb, with, if I recall correctly, a tiny red fin, that when removed, had a small lens. Holding this lens to your eye, you'd see what appeared to be tiny sparks flashing. (Had to be dark. Under the covers was good.) I don't know the source, but hope it wasn't radium. Had the pistol ring also. |
| Janet | 7/22/2000 5 replies |
| Haven't thought of that in years, and I don't remember that it was Superman, but I had an "Atomic Bomb" ring. I believe it came from a send-in offer from a box of cereal. Actually, I still have the "bomb" portion, but the ring is long gone. Good memory. . . under the covers or even under the bed were great places to view the sparks! |
| Jack French | 7/23/2000 4 replies |
| According to Tom Tumbusch, OTR premium expert, the Lone Ranger Kix Atomic Ring was the most numerous radio premium in history. Approximately 6 million of them were produced and distributed between 1948 and 1957. General Mills, who made Kix cereal, was the sponsor of the Masked Rider of the Plains then. |
| Lou Genco | 7/23/2000 3 replies |
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Lou |
| Nate Williams | 7/24/2000 2 replies |
| I had one of these babies too! It really would be nice to know, especially as pointed out that this was one of the biggest distributed premiums, what made the sparks fly in the bomb ring. Heavens to betsy it couldn't be made today. I buried mine in my back yard in St. Louis lo those many years ago but I picked up a nice ring not too long ago on eBay. |
| Charles Sexton | 7/25/2000 1 replies |
| And Lloyd mentioned the 6-Gun ring, too. What a beauty that was. It's also interesting how it worked, very much like a cigarette lighter. The ring had a very small hole along the bottom of the gun into which one inserted a wick from a cigarette lighter. On top of the ring was a small wheel (sort of out of place on a gun, but not too obtrusive) that you flicked, just like using a lighter, and, behold, there were the sparks. Nate is very correct in saying you couldn't find anything like that in cereal packages or through the mail anymore. It would cost a fortune to make them today. I'm not even sure how the companies did it back then, but I assume they were all hand made or at least assembled by hand. |
| Nate Williams | 7/26/2000 0 replies |
| Do anyone know what the ingredients were inside the atomic bomb ring?? and/or what about all those "glow in the dark" items like Tom Mix's spurs or compass? Where were these items made and is it documented anywhere what m |