80's comic ads

Advertisements from the eighties comic-books.

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1983 Punch 'n Juicy ad. This bubble gum named after the classic puppet characters Punch and Judy was filled with four different flavoured juices that bursted in the mouth at the first bite.

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Christmas 1984 ad of the Garcia fishing reels featuring Spider-man.

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Christmas 1983 ad of the Garcia fishing reels featuring Spider-man.

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In 1979 Parker Brothers released the Rom action figure. A monthly series was started by Marvel Comics in December 1979 featuring the war between the Spaceknight and the Dire Wraiths, written by Bill Mantlo and drawn by Sal Buscema (issues 1-58) and Steve Ditko (issues 59-75) that lasted until 1986.

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There has been two Indiana Jones RPGs. The first of them, The Adventures of Indiana Jones Role-Playing Game, was released in 1984 by TSR and is featured in this ad. The second one was released by West End Games in 1994.

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1984 Risk ad. This popular strategy board game has been produced by Parker Brothers since 1958.

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Ad of the Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man watches released by Paxxon in 1983.

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1982 ad showing Lego Expert Builder Series Dune Buggy set.

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1981 ad showing Lego Expert Builder Series challenge #8860, the auto chassis. There are also shown the boxes of the sets released between 1978 and 1980.

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1981 ad showing Lego Expert Builder Series challenge #8859, the harvester. There are also shown the boxes of the sets released between 1978 and 1980.

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1980 ad in which Lego challenges us to build the two new Expert Builder Series sets of that year, plus the 1978 and 1979 sets.

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1979 ad of the Lego Expert Builder Series three new sets of that year, plus the 1978 sets.

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1978 ad of the Lego Expert Builder Series four new sets of that year.

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Voltron was an animated TV series aired between 1984 and 1985 with over a hundred episodes. It was a Japanese-American co-production. The Voltron robot (GoLion in Japan) was the product of the combination of five mechanical lions, the Lion Force, piloted by human characters, Keith, Lance, Pidge, Hunk and Princess Allura. Their mission was to avoid the conquest of the planet Arus by the evil King Zarkon. Basically, it was an animated version of the Super Sentai japanese series.

The first line of toys was released by Popy in Japan in 1984 and distributed by Matchbox in the USA. This page advertises the second line of action figures, released by Panosh Place the same year.

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In 1984 the transformable robots were in, and one of the most popular franchises was Robotech/Macross. Revell took advantage of this situation, releasing a line of robot models, like Condar, the one starring this ad, called Robotech Defenders, although these kits were not transformable. Plus, DC Comics published a two-issue series under the same title.

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Among the M&M's mechandising for the Los Angeles 1984 Summer Olympics (that included glass candy jars, ice cream dishes, pins, t-shirts...), this set of 44 trading cards stands out.

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In 1984 you could get for free the very first appearances of Batman, Robin and the Joker just sending three Fig Newtons or Apple Newtons brand seals.