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Mail-Order Mysteries Reveals the Real Products Behind Comic Book Ads

March 29, 2023

Mail-Order Mysteries: Real Stuff from Old Comic Book Ads! is a book from pop-culture historian Kirk Demarais in which he shares his very cool personal collection of “the real stuff you got when you ordered out of comic book ads.” He has included over 150 novelties in Mail-Order Mysteries such as “100 Toy Soldiers in a Footlocker, Count Dante’s World’s Deadliest Fighting Secrets, GRIT, Hercules Wrist Band, Hypno-Coin, Life-Size Monsters, Mystic Smoke, Sea Monkeys, Soil From Dracula’s Castle, U-Control Ghost, Ventrilo Voice Thrower… and many, many more!” And yes, it has a glow-in-the-dark cover… read more >

Black Dragon Fighting Society 1967 Vintage Men’s T-Shirt

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