“Super Heroes Means Super Fun With A Jotastar Toy” in 1978
One of the stranger things about the seventies is how the Marvel and DC characters…
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NBC “Saturday Morning Fever!” in 1978
Here’s a look at NBC’s Saturday morning cartoon schedule for 1978, showing us the Fantastic…
“Join the Spider-Man Network of Friends Fan Club!”
Even though the ad is dated 1978, I uncovered it in a 1979 Star Wars…
Mego Elastic Heroes in 1979
If we keep flipping through that 1979 Star Wars comic where we uncovered an awesome…
“He strikes from outer space . . . “
Yesterday’s Rom advertisement wasn’t the only ad for the Parker Brothers Rom Space Knight toy…
Select Convertors and Transformers Comic Books at ShopKo
January 20, 1985. I uncovered this advertisement in the Sioux City Journal newspaper and was…
Mattel’s Secret Wars at Payless in 1985
The recent Wheeled Warriors ad and Tomy Tribots ad, if those two toys were all…
“Wanted: Superheroes!” for the Marvel Super Heroes RPG in 1986
This 1986 Dragon magazine ad features one of the very first roleplaying games I ever…