by Shawn Robare | Jun 1, 2010 | Branded in the 80s, Read
This week on Branded in the 80s I’m going to feature a series of posts in celebration of the 25th anniversary of one of my all time favorite 80s flicks, the Goonies! To start things off I thought I’d repurpose some of the content from an old Peel...
by Shawn Robare | May 28, 2010 | Branded in the 80s, Read
This week brings a slight theme, orange-yellow-blue. Most of the bubblegum card wax wrappers I’ve seen have limited color palettes, between two and four colors, and a good chunk of them feature yellow and blue. So these three really jumped out at...
by Shawn Robare | May 26, 2010 | Branded in the 80s, Read
I’m about a week late with this as far as the 30th anniversary is concerned, but I ran across this ad in an old 1983 Woman’s Day magazine for Pac-Man vitamins that I thought was kind of neat. I have to admit that I was a Flintstone Kid when it came to my...
by Shawn Robare | May 24, 2010 | Branded in the 80s, Read
For the most part as a kid I was pretty unfamiliar with the whole cult of personality surrounding the James Bond franchise. For some reason, aside from A View to a Kill and the Timothy Dalton flicks, I never ran across any of the films on Saturday Afternoon TV,...
by Shawn Robare | May 21, 2010 | Branded in the 80s, Read
This week’s WPPA brings an anniversary of an unlikely duo, Kiss and Howard the Duck. 33 years ago this month Kiss made their very first comic book appearance in issue number 12 of Howard the Duck (published by Marvel in 1977.) I believe the Empire...
