“Get a Kit, or Get Cash” with Monogram Models in 1982

This full-page advertisement comes from the October 1982 issue of Boys’ Life, once again showing us that there was a time when toymakers put effort into advertising to kids in comics and magazines. I always have loved the idea of model kits more than the practice of working on a kit — I’m far too impatient — so ads like this were dangerous when I was younger. How many kits did I buy and never finish? I have no idea. Lots.