Whether it was a radical advertisement, a piece of amazing artwork, or in the case of the ThunderCats magazine, specifically issue number 4 from the Fall of 1987, a small photo that drove my imagination bat-shit crazy. On the whole these are kind of useless in terms of digging up content for sites like this, but every so often there’d be a nugget of pure gold. ![]() Most of these were very thin, maybe 20 or 30 pages, and were full of short comics, fold-out posters, short stories, activities and a handful of kid-centric articles and news items. Joe, Go-Bots, ALF and the Masters of the Universe, basically branded versions of kid mags like Hot Dog or Dynamite. These magazines were very similar to the thin floppies you’d see for brands like G.I. About 8 or 9 years ago I picked up a lot of magazines on eBay that contained three issues of the very short-lived ThunderCats publication from the Lorimar Publishing Group. ![]() ![]() In my quest to catalog and discuss a bunch of the stuff that I loved as a kid I’ve accumulated all sorts of weird and wonderful ephemera along the way that have opened up whole new worlds of stuff that I never experienced as a kid. When you run a website steeped in nostalgia you never know exactly where the hunt for content will take you.
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