by Shawn Robare | Apr 1, 2010 | Branded in the 80s, Read
As a quick follow up to yesterday’s Dynamite magazine post, I thought I’d also post the flips side of that Mr. T issue. I’m not sure how many issues of Dynamite were set up this way, but this one was a flip book where the opposite side of the...
by Shawn Robare | Mar 31, 2010 | Branded in the 80s, Read
Since I shared an issue of the 80s kid’s magazine Hot Dog! last week I thought it would be fun to take a look at an issue of one of its much more popular sister publications, Dynamite. Also published by Scholastic throughout the 70s & 80s (and actually up...
by Shawn Robare | Mar 29, 2010 | Branded in the 80s, Read
So I meant to post about this a week ago, but I finally found an insanely well-stocked vintage toy shop in the (more or less) Atlanta area. It’s called HD Comics and Toys run by a couple of swell gentlemen, Billy and Steve. They’re located...
by Shawn Robare | Mar 26, 2010 | Branded in the 80s, Read
Looking back, I spent an inordinate amount of time reading as a kid, though I never really had a window into kid-centric magazines. I was always more of an “inside” kind of kid, and I always seemed to have a lot of books around, mostly hand-me-down...
by Shawn Robare | Mar 25, 2010 | Branded in the 80s, Read
When I think about growing up as an American in the 80s, three things come to mind, seeing Lee Iacocca’s “autobiography” on at least a dozen of my friend’s and family’s coffee tables, listening to Bruce Springsteen’s Born in the...
