prince planet chewing gum

This is an ad for Yusei Shonen Papi (Prince Planet to me!) chewing gum from a 1965 issue of SHONEN MAGAZINE.

This gum came with all sorts of great Papi merchandise, and some of the sticks of gum had Papi art printed actually on the gum, with non-toxic ink I hope.

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robin menko

Menko card of Robin from RAINBOW SOLDIER ROBIN, from my small collection of Menko cards.

Menko cards are a Japanese phenomenon, a baseball card type of thing that are used in a flip card game popular among Japanese schoolchildren from the 40s until the 80s.

Rainbow Soldier Robin is of course the 1966 Toei black and white television cartoon created by Shotaro Ishinomori.

Fun fact: I bought my Menko cards from Bob "Flaming Carrot" Burden at an Atlanta convention sometime in the 1980s.

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Just what the world needs, another blog. This one's a place for me to put artifacts and articles about Japanese cartoons from the years 1960 to around 1985-1990 - "classic anime". Astro Boy, Speed Racer, Prince Planet, Amazing Three, Cyborg 009, Gatchaman, Mazinger Z, Getta Robo, Aim For The Ace!, Asteroid Mask, Gigantor, Hurricane Polimar, Captain Harlock, Captain Future, Flying Phantom Ship, Lupin III, Space Cruiser Yamato, Galaxy Express, Mobile Suit Gundam, Space Runaway Ideon, Super Space Fortress Macross, Super Dimension Century Orguss, Starzan S Okawari Boy, Crusher Joe, Dirty Pair, Patarillo, Urusei Yatsura, Giant Gorg, Dougram, Grandizer, Heidi, Animal Treasure Island, Unico, Ringing Bell, Future War 198X, Galatt The Great, Round Vernian Vifam, Rose Of Versailles, Blue Noah, et cetera, ad infinitum. I'll also be featuring reminisces and unearthed data about American anime fandom of the 70s and 80s.

I published the print fanzine LET'S ANIME from 1990 until around 1999, and many articles from the print zine will be appearing here. If you have links or news about new releases of old anime, feel free to let me know.

-Dave Merrill

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