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...
by Shawn Robare | May 19, 2010 | Branded in the 80s, Read
As I mentioned in the first part of the discussion on the Silverhawks cartoon, there isn’t a whole heck of a lot going on in the first two-part origin story. Peter Lawrence delivered a pretty bare-bones story that sets up all the main characters of the...
by Shawn Robare | May 17, 2010 | Branded in the 80s, Read
I realized the other day that while I’ve been making a concerted effort to make my way through piles of magazines, books, and other vintage papers top share on Branded, I haven’t really made a dent in my cartoon collection either. There are a lot of...
