1986 Strawberry Shortcake Comic Ad
Hiding inside the April, 1986, issue of Marvel’s Droids comic book is this full-page advertisement…
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1983 Ad for Parker Brothers’ Spider-Man Video Game
There’s no shortage of great advertisements hiding in various online archives, and today I’d like…
1985 Newspaper Ad Featuring Masters of the Universe and Mattel’s Secret Wars
This 1985 advertisement is for the action figure fans of the eighties. Mattel clearly got…
1983 “Videogaming” Magazine Cover Featuring Spider-Man and Tron
It’s almost as if this 1983 Videogaming Illustrated magazine was trying to predict the future!…
Spider-Man Sells Fishing Poles?
One of the things I encountered in Playthings magazine while in the library last week…
“The High Price Of Comic Fantasy”
I hate to be the one to point this out, but complaining about comics costing…
Marvel’s X-Men Are Hotter than Ever!
Just how important was the Fox Kids X-Men cartoon (Amazon.com search*) to Marvel’s success today?…
Marvel Explains Price Blocks in 1986
As a kid, I loved to read. I would read everything I could get my…