Mail-Order Mysteries Mail-Order Mysteries

Mail-Order Mysteries

Real Stuff from Old Comic Book Ads!

    • 4.7 • 17 Ratings
    • $9.99
    • $9.99

Publisher Description

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.

GENRE
Humor
RELEASED
2011
October 2
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
156
Pages
PUBLISHER
Insight Editions
SELLER
Insight Editions, LP
SIZE
39
MB

Customer Reviews

Leftcoastlove ,

Too expensive too short

Fun walk down memory lane but for what we got it was WAY overpriced!

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