MORRISON MONDAYS meets TOYHEM! — Welcome to TOYHEM! For the seventh straight holiday season, we’re bringing you a series of features and columns celebrating the toys of our youth, which often made for the best memories this time of year. Click here to check out the complete index of stories — and have a Merry Christmas, a Happy Chanukah and Happy Holidays! — Dan — By BILL MORRISON I was born into the Golden Age of comic-book and comic-strip character figurines. Of course, such shelf-sitting totems have existed nearly since the advent of comics themselves, but graven images of our favorite characters really proliferated in the latter half of the 20th century with dress-up dolls, action figures, statues, and of course, model kits. I love all those things, but models are my favorite type of figurine because you don’t just take them out of the package and put them on display, you make them! As a kid in the 1960s who was starting to think about the possibility of a career as an artist someday, I was lured by the seductive box art of model kits, and then engaged creatively by the process of painting the parts and gluing them together to create a figure. Sure, I had fun playing with my Captain Action dolls, but assembling those Aurora kits got me really excited. And it wasn’t just due to the toxic airplane glue. Though I loved the Aurora monster models and had nearly every one of them as a kid, I was a major Batmaniac and my favorite model kits were naturally those of the Bat-variety. Aurora Plastics Corp. produced seven Batman-related assembly kits between 1964 and 1967, and all of them are on my list of favorite Bat-models from over the years. But since this is 13thDimension, I’m adding six more to bring my list of faves to a full baker’s dozen! — 1. Batman. In 1964, Aurora produced a Superman “All Plastic Assembly Kit,” and though they had no idea a phenomenon known as “Batmania” would infect the world in just two years, they also came out with a Batman kit. The “New Look” for Batman that  was introduced in Detective Comics #327 was still very, well, new. So, the cool, modern Carmine Infantino/Murphy Anderson box art seems like an odd choice, especially when you consider that much of the later...