“Wanted: A $1,000,000 Game”
Here's one for everyone who has ever wanted to design their own game, a 1942 Popular Science magazine article that...
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How Many Lines Did Stephen Platt Draw in this Prophet Spread?
If you want single issues of Image's Prophet comic book (Amazon.com search*) from the nineties don't expect to spend much...
“‘Rook’ Gets Decked Out for 80th Birthday”
I was reading The Game Makers* yesterday, and as this is my second time through the book -- I first...
Public Service Broadcasting’s “New Dimensions in Sound”
Earlier this year, after one of my trips for work, I was introduced to Public Service Broadcasting (find at Amazon.com*)...
“Plenty of toys, but not German ones” in 1917
I was reading through Dan Foley's 1962 book, Toys Through the Ages*, last night when I ran across an entertaining...
Image Comics Trading Cards from Topps in 1993
I posted an Images of Shadowhawk promotion a few days ago, and in the same drawer that I found that...
Candy Land in Timeless Toys
I've mentioned Timeless Toys: Classic Toys and the Playmakers Who Created Them* a few times before, and while digging through...
Hasbro’s Action Figures Unsuccessful Between 1982 and 1993?
I was flipping through Toy Wars* again last night when a section about Hasbro and G.I. Joe caught my eye:...
