As you can see from the back cover, if you completed the album you could take part in some sweepstakes where you could win one of 40 airline tickets (from the now defunct Aeroperú airline) Lima-Miami-Lima. And before you ask me: yes, I also gave this one to my friend as a bonus together with all the Kenner items I sold him.
Here's also a 1983 Return of the Jedi catalog from Kenner which went away together with my collection when I sold it to my friend.
And here is a 1981 The Empire Strikes Back catalog from Kenner I've had for years, until I gave it to my friend together with alll the vintage Kenner stuff I sold him.
These are two dozen Dixie Star Wars paper cups made in the USA by the American Can Company in 1980 which I had for quite a long time. Some of them were used once at a birthday party my aunt threw for her maid's daughter back in the day, the others were anothe batch my mom had bought and were never used.
I don't have them with me anymore, I gave them to a friend who is a die-hard Star Wars fan as a bonus when I sold him my old Kenner action figures and vehicles between 2019 and 2021...
In an earlier post, I mentioned in passing Fantaciencia, a collectable encyclopedia which was first published since April, 1982 by Exclusivas Gráficas Catalanas (EGC) from Barcelona, Spain, and made its way to Peru through Distribuidora de Revistas Rímac, S.A., being sold at newsstands and supermarkets. Its complete title was Fantaciencia, Enciclopedia de la Fantasía, Ciencia y Futuro ("Fantascience, Encyclopedia of Fantasy, Science and Future"), and each weekly issue consisted of 16 pages plus a collectable 4-page spread at the center which was meant to be detached and kept separately. The first two issues came together with a folder meant to keep those spreads:
They also came with a 4-page insert which described the scope of the collectable encyclopedia:
And on the inner back cover of each issue, there was some additional
information:
After finding my old "brochure" drawing, I also ran into some old notebooks I kept from school between 6th and 9th grade, which were made by the Atlas paper and stationery company in 1980, and featured various science-fiction art examples in the front covers. After scanning them, I searched online, andd found out that most of them were originally front cover illustrations by German illustrator Johnny Bruck for different issues of Perry Rhodan novels. As an interesting note, I attended a German school, so I had heard of Perry Rhodan, but I never actually got to read any of those books...
So, the other day, while rummaging through my old stuff, I found this fake travel brochure I made back then when I was still in high school, some 40 years ago, around 1986 (plus or minus a year):
The travel agent's name is "Martian Tours", and as you can see, I drew it on a page taken from one of my school notebooks. And yes, I know by that time, the planets of the solar system hadl already for quite some time being found out NOT to be like in the old depictions from the science-fiction stories at all, but I was gong for a "pulp" look. After all, this whole "brochure" was nothing but one big pun.
This book (presented here as a series of posts on my blog first) is intended to help fans of science-fiction (or "speculative fiction", as it's known these days) and role-playing games to deal properly with geometrical objects with more than 3 dimensions (and less, too). I've seen many misconceptions when it comes to those, and I want to point them out and help avoiding them.
