Saving the loveliest for last, here is the final card of the ones I collected (I think) from Wonder Bread. It's the cover of The ...

This card, reproducing George Perez's art, is of course Perez's own rendition of Joe Shuster's cover for Superman #1 ba...

Well, I'm only four discs into the complete U.N.C.L.E. series set. Besides the show episodes, the set also came with two ...

Of course, in the 70+ plus years since Action #1, there have been many more promo cards than just the Superman Vitamins we saw last we...

The Flash 302, October 1981, also featured this centerfold spread of Jay Garrick, Wally West, and Barry Allen, three “generations” of Fl...

From The Flash 302, October 1981, comes this one-page ad for Hostess Cup Cakes. You get a big delight in every bite! You also get som...

Well, we got us this hyar mousepad with Superman and Clark Kent mishmashed together on it. Actually, it's a lenticular image whic...

These are the last of John Holmes's covers for Ballantine's 1973 Lovecraft paperbacks. Ooh, pretty scary, kiddies! PS...

These three have a different look than the "weird head" covers. The one for The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath ...

These two covers, by Gervasio Gallardo, are what Ballantine's original covers were like. These were the 1971 printings of stories a...

Here are a couple of more covers from Ballantine's 1970s paperbacks of H.P. Lovecraft's tales. These are actually Volum...

OK. You're 16 years old and just got your driver's license. You're a book nerd who already read four grades above your ...

Dang it, I never got ALL 12 of the "set" of promo cards featuring DC headliners that were included in Superman Vitamins. Thes...

Cards 8 and 9 of the Superman Vitamins are shown below. And Howdy-Do to Allen, who was nice enough to mention that he hadn't seen...

Here are the next two cards (numberwise that is). Clark uses glasses "and other means" to disguise himself. Remember how he use...

Here are a few more of the Premium Cards from Superman Vitamins. Note that Batman was merely "upset" by the dea...

In the middle 1980s, the Alfred kids got PLENTY of Superman Vitamins. Not just because of the subject matter and the cool S-sh...

Here we have instructions for a very expensive model kit. As you can see, it includes tiny "wheat" light bulbs and a place fo...

One of the more amusing and interesting product labels is born by Dr Bronner's Soap. Turn your head every which way and read the advice...

Those "of a certain age" remember  2001: A Space Odyssey , and the Space Race, and the  yearning  to be "out there....