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Philip Reed November 15, 2015

Hiding inside the April, 1986, issue of Marvel's Droids comic book is this full-page advertisement for the Strawberry Shortcake comic....

Philip Reed November 10, 2015

There's no shortage of great advertisements hiding in various online archives, and today I'd like to direct your attention to...

Philip Reed October 7, 2015

This 1985 advertisement is for the action figure fans of the eighties. Mattel clearly got some great space in this...

Philip Reed September 17, 2015

It's almost as if this 1983 Videogaming Illustrated magazine was trying to predict the future! Disney's Tron and Marvel's Spider-Man...

Philip Reed September 13, 2015

One of the things I encountered in Playthings magazine while in the library last week was an advertisement from Marvel...

Philip Reed July 29, 2015

I hate to be the one to point this out, but complaining about comics costing $0.40 back in 1979 looks...

Philip Reed July 5, 2015

Just how important was the Fox Kids X-Men cartoon (Amazon.com search*) to Marvel's success today? I've no idea, but I'm...

Philip Reed July 4, 2015

As a kid, I loved to read. I would read everything I could get my hands on, and this meant...

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