by Shawn Robare | Feb 23, 2011 | Branded in the 80s, Read
Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been sharing some fun stuff from the pages of the obscure Scholastic publication Maniac Magazine. This week I thought I’d go ahead and give an overview of what this periodical was like. If I had to pin it down I’d...
by Shawn Robare | Feb 21, 2011 | Branded in the 80s, Read
So it’s been almost a year since I stumbled upon a mystery that I like to call “Michal Knight and the Mystery of K.I.T.T. and the Blue Prowler”. The basic gist of the story is that while I was looking up Knight Rider read-along books on eBay I...
by Shawn Robare | Feb 18, 2011 | Branded in the 80s, Read
Well, as I’ve hinted at in the past month, the house of Branded was visited by none other than that crazy stone-faced, logical Vulcan Spock! I recently played host to Eclectorama’s traveling Spock Mego figure on it way around North America, and it was my...
by Shawn Robare | Feb 14, 2011 | Branded in the 80s, Read
So, continuing with the slight Valentine’s Day theme and as a preview for the Maniac post I hope to have up this week I thought I would break out my meager collection of stickers that were available in issues of the magazine. This first set of stickers are...
by Shawn Robare | Feb 11, 2011 | Branded in the 80s, Read
So even though I’m not a huge fan of Valentine’s day, it is just around the corner and I thought it would be a great opportunity to share a couple pieces of truly awesome Wax Paper Pop Art that I recently acquired. They’re pink, girly, and just...
by Shawn Robare | Feb 10, 2011 | Branded in the 80s, Read
Getting a chance to look at all these old book club flyers reminded me that I have a stack of some of the more obscure Scholastic branded magazines from the 80s called Maniac. I plan on scanning the best of those issues for next week, but today I have a really cool...
