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...
by Shawn Robare | Feb 9, 2011 | Branded in the 80s, Read
I never questioned whether or not history was written in stone until I had my eyes opened by a cheerleading coach in my senior year of high school. No, I wasn’t in the cheerleading program, Coach Gordon also taught World History at my school. During...
by Shawn Robare | Feb 8, 2011 | Branded in the 80s, Read
This week brings yet another set of vintage book club flyers from the 80s, though sadly it’s also the last. So far I’ve covered the Troll and Weekly Reader flyers, and for this last installment I’m going to take a look at the largest of the...
