I gotta say that mine were GI Joes and Johnny West. I've still got my original that Mom bought me at Woolworth's in Big Town, a mall in Mesquite, Texas. The GI Joe book I bought, not to collect the stuff but just to remember and look at all the cool accessories, some I had and some I didn't have, says mine is a 1964 model. I don't think it's quite that old, but maybe. I got another one later that had the dog tags you pulled on and then he talked. "Medic, get that stretcher up here!" Something about "Charlie".
Johnny West was a cowboy action figure. I got him and "Chief Cherokee". Dunno where my Mom and Dad picked them up. Maybe bought them out of the Sears wishbook. That or Monkey Wards. There were no Walmarts back then that I was aware of. Maybe some down in Arkansas, but if we were there, we were fishin', not buyin' toys.
My brother and I had alot of the Johnny West action figures. We also played outdoors alot growing up.
