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Philip Reed June 1, 2016

Charles Lippincott has posted this on Facebook and it is too amazing to keep hidden away and not share. This...

Philip Reed May 17, 2016

Mattel has run their Masters of the Universe classics series (find at Amazon.com*) for longer than I think any of...

Philip Reed May 17, 2016

This 1985 Sears advertisement is a perfect example of why it pays to scan through the Google newspaper archives and...

Philip Reed May 16, 2016

Yesterday's Convertors newspaper ad was only a small part of the Boscov's ad found in a December, 1985 issue of...

Philip Reed May 14, 2016

My new Star Wars newspaper ads book has some amazing prices from the seventies and eighties, but no matter how...

Philip Reed May 9, 2016

We've seen the Masters of the Universe news story before in which Mattel announced a character design contest, and now...

Philip Reed April 27, 2016

If you're at all interested in vintage Hot Wheels toy cars then this 1968 newspaper ad for the Hot Wheels...

Philip Reed April 17, 2016

I've written about the Masters of the Universe Slime Pit playset before (see this featured post), and seeing this 1986...

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