Mail-Order Mysteries

Mail-Order Mysteries answers this question, revealing the amazing truths (and agonizing exaggerations) about the actual products marketed to kids in the ‘60s, ‘70s, and ‘80s. Pop-culture historian Kirk Demarais shares his astonishing collection, including:


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!


With more than 150 extraordinary, peculiar, and downright fraudulent collectibles, Mail-Order Mysteries is a must-have book comic book fans everywhere. Trust us.