SUPER SPACE COMMANDER - HORIKAWA - JAPAN

Plastic battery operated robot with TV screen in chest. Walking action with noise and lighted space scene in the chest. There is a tin litho panel below the screen: there are two versions of this panel. Blue and black versions. 10" 25cm

The earliest sighting is the brown no-nose version in the FAO Schwarz 1975 catalog.

The blue version first appeared in the 1978 Spiegel Christmas Catalog.
English and Japanese box versions.

VARIATIONS:
Blue body, no nose, silver litho panel 1 - seen in the Horikawa catalog for 1977 art. 5022 and still there in 1985,
Black, no nose, panel 1.
Black, nose panel 1.
Blue, nose, red and yellow panel