From Cowboys to the Cosmos

I’ll admit it. I wasn’t much of an action figure girl. Barbie, Ken, Skipper, sure, but G.I. Joe never marched through any of my Barbie play scenarios. If he had, I probably would have married him off to Astronaut Barbie and sent them on a backyard honeymoon in Barbie’s Austin-Healey 3000.The closest I came was Stretch Armstrong, whose rubbery limbs could extend four feet from fingertip to fingertip. He doubled as a slingshot whenever I got the urge to pelt my siblings with Supe