Kenner 1973 Toy Catalog, #1

For the next seventeen days, we'll be featuring a different page from this 1973 comics insert, a catalog of groovy, goofball Kenner toys, with utterly cheapjack illustrations and asinine text.

I hope lots of folks of the proper age get a flash of powerful nostalgia. Myself, I was already in college when this advert ran.

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Posted By: Paul - Mon Dec 29, 2008
Category: Toys | Advertising | 1970s

Comments

I was 9 when that came out, so I ate a lot of Cheerios that year trying to earn cash back on those toys.

Posted by Freddie Freelance on 12/29/08 at 02:20 PM

I was 8 in '73 so I remember this well!

Posted by AGFH on 12/29/08 at 02:35 PM

"Hey Kids! Tell mom to get book in Cheerios..."

Every time an article is missing, I inevitably read a sentence in a thick Russian accent.

Posted by kingmonkey in Athens, Ontario on 12/30/08 at 10:32 AM

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