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1979 DC Comics Licensing Booklet

  While multi million dollar Superhero movies are commonplace today and rarely fail at the box office, in 1979, Superman the Movie was kind of new, untested thing.                At the time, the DC comics heroes were represented by licensing corporation of America (LCA) and their job is to sell the Superhero license to […]

Cosmic Bubble Machine

This toy surfaced exactly one year after the cancellation of Battlestar Galactica, as conincedence may have it Larami used to hold that license. What an incredibly random thing to happen. As a side note, it is impossible to look at all imposing blowing bubbles. Check out our upcoming book!

Colouring Book Theatre: Shogun Warriors

 â€˜Shogun Warriors: Dragun” I have to admit, I was  excited when I found scans of this book over at (sponsor) Sherryloutoys website. Mostly because it was free but also because Marvel’s “Shogun Warriors” comic usually took my 35 cents  if there wasn’t a new issue of “Star Wars” or “Micronauts” on the rack. I was […]

Batman & Robin appearing in your town!

  Found a pretty neat piece of DC comics history that I’m working on for the site but I couldn’t resist teasing this little of awesome, a touring schedule for infamous 70s road show “Bugs Bunny meets the Superheroes” which also featured Wonder Woman!   If you were lucky enough to see this back then […]

Lord of the Rings 1979 Catalog

The 1979 release of “The Lord of the Rings” movie was a highly anticipated event by fans and toy companies, hoping to find a fantasy film franchise as lucrative as Star Wars had been. Lord of the Rings was a box office hit but it didn’t equate to much by the way of merchandise. One of […]

Italian for Slime

My world wide fascination with the world wide marketing of Mattel’s Slime continues and this time we are at looking at Italy. Where it was called…Slaim, guess what that means? It’s cool, not as cool as what they called it in Spain but hey, what are you gonna do?

Artsy Phartsy

As kitsch as those owls are, there is something about them that brings me some sort of comfort and as a side bonus, people will think I’m a fancy millionaire who paid a lot of money for them.