Okay, so the bland cover hawking DIC’s animated series and a page of 1991 role play items (one of which wasn’t even pictured) didn’t seem to inspire much confidence in where this catalog was heading. At least the figure pages will give us some shots of all the newest characters, right? Well, some of them. Only nine of the new
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It’s been a while since I’ve taken a few days to cover a GI Joe product catalog. While the previous versions I’ve looked at have come from the 80s, I wanted to focus on how the cross-sell material was presented later in the life of the Real American Hero line. 1991 didn’t look too bad, although we will begin to
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Here’s my all-time favorite 80s GI Joe catalog page layout. Thanks to my folks, I had all the product on this page by Christmas of ’84. It’s a nuclear nostalgia bomb, for sure. Merry Christmas everybody!
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Continuing from last night’s post. This one’s not entirely Joe, but there are some interesting items nonetheless. From all of us at JAD to you and yours, we hope you get lots of goodies under the tree this year.
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Sears’ 1985 Joe offerings couldn’t be contained within a single page! Stay tuned tomorrow for page two!
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What better way to run-up to Christmas than with some more catalog pages? Here’s the GI Joe page from the 1986 Sears Wishbook, complete with the amazing Terrordrome dominating the scene. Wonderful! Put me down for a case! Even better is a small shot of the ultra-cool Dreadnok exclusives. Oh yeah, the Flagg is way down there on the bottom
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I was out of GI Joe collecting by1988, and wasn’t paying attention to catalogs any longer. Too bad, since there were some great toys, and still a decent spread in the Wishbook.
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Now we’re getting into the catalog years that I surreptitiously followed as a burgeoning adult collector. First off, I’ll admit it–I bought 1989 Batman toys. Okay, maybe just Batman and Bob the Goon, but can you blame a kid collector turned teen comic geek? Getting into comics after dumping the toys of my youth actually led me right back into
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We’re going off the rails tonight, but it’s still tangentially Joe related–in my eyes, at least. I’m fascinated by the myriad me-too military toy lines that arose in the early 80s after GI Joe’s relaunch broke into the big time. Sure, Hasbro cribbed the o-ring and rivet format from Mego/Takara (and Hasbro itself by proxy if you want to get
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I just can’t get off the Christmas Catalog kick. There’s so much cool stuff to pore over. Now I remember why I spent so many hours staring at this stuff as a kid. Tonight we forego the usual toys to check out the miscellaneous items that were released early in the 80s line’s launch. From toothbrushes to ride-ons, there’s something
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