Remember the book and record sets of days gone by? I sure do. I can recall the veritable library of sets that my grade school maintained: everything from standard kids’ sing-along fare to then-current releases like The Black Hole and Star Wars.
The GI Joe Adventure Team releases were a few years before my time, but they’re fun nevertheless. Youtube is a treasure trove of these things, and the Mummy’s Tomb story is a perfect one for the Halloween season. Enjoy.
I miss the days of Book and Record sets.I had my fair share of Peter Pan records as a toddler, including nursery rhymes and the like. I was a bit too young to have had any of the Adventure Team sets, though I did experience the wonders of the 1980s'…
Mummies and GI Joe go way back--all the way to the 70s. As a kid just barely aware of the large scale Joes that predated my childhood Real American Heros, I was somehow aware of the original search for the mummy set. Maybe it was the Peter Pan book and…
By KansasBrawler As much as I love Kre-O, sometimes the choices they make with their sets are a little strange. Case in point, the Thunderwave Jet Boat set. While it’s probably the second-weakest set, I wanted it because Cutter is one of my favorite Joes. It’s obvious the Thunderwave Jet…
I had a few of these, but it was pre ’82 so I really didn’t understand who G.I. Joe was or what he was about. But, the scratchy records in the basement are a definite childhood memory. When I found them in my Dad’s cabinet along with his records a few years later, I didn’t understand why they were titled G.I. Joe or why there was no Cobra and no code names I recognized.
I had a few of these, but it was pre ’82 so I really didn’t understand who G.I. Joe was or what he was about. But, the scratchy records in the basement are a definite childhood memory. When I found them in my Dad’s cabinet along with his records a few years later, I didn’t understand why they were titled G.I. Joe or why there was no Cobra and no code names I recognized.
Reminds me of that movie the Angry beavers once watched “The curse of the mummies curse”
This is one of four that were available. They also packaged 3 of the stories on one 33 1/3 LP with no book. Very cool to see that included here.