Captivating Cover: Into Zartan’s Lair

Continuing the new feature in which I judge a GI Joe book by its cover, here’s another Captivating Cover. This time, we’ve got a coloring book released by Marvel in 1984. Marvel covered a variety of action figure properties with coloring and storybooks in the 1980s, from heavy hitter toy lines like GI Joe and Transformers, to lesser knowns and

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GI Joe Big Coloring Book (1989 Golden)

If there’s one constant from my childhood that I’m heartened to still see, it’s the coloring book. In an age where kiddos have ready access to all sorts of screen-based entertainment, it’s nice to know that there’s still tactile, old fashioned fun to be had. I must have had dozens of coloring books pass through my little hands in the

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