1992 Miami herald article featuring yours truley.

A FAX, dated Sept 2, 1992, sent to me by Tom Tombusch of TOMARTS action figure magazine requesting participation in his Jeff Killian GIJoe book. Tom used 75 of my items in this book and ripped me off.

A letter by Kirk Bozigian stating that "You truly are the No. 1 GI Joe fan in the nation"

A September 1992 Dolls Toys and Teddy Bears article featuring myself and Glen Offeld. Glen was one of my swapmeet buddies. He was the only homosexual I was friends with. he had one of the worlds best Barbie collections and we traded all the time. Glen died of aids a few years later.

Remaing part of the Dolls Toys and Teddy Bears article. This part featured a picture of me holding Jonathan.

Our 3rd convention in Pasadena CA, July 24 & 25. This was a certificate of attendance presented to all those who participated.

A letter from Vinnie D"Alleva telling me "to be proud in knowing that I am among the few, the proud, the GIJoe Team". And that Hasbro was presenting me with a set of the 1993 summer GIJoe promotion Live action trading cards.

1993 summer GIJoe promotion Live action trading cards.

1993 summer GIJoe promotion Live action trading cards.

1993 summer GIJoe promotion Live action trading cards.

November 2, 1992 Detroit free press article featuring yours truly.

My 1993 Hasbro and Toy Fair passes. At this Toy Fair, Hasbro had me going around to a select bunch of manufactures (that Hasbro was not allowed into) to get their sales catalogs and product info. I was there spy...

A 1993 Toy Fair exclusive set of 8 Street Fighter II cards by Capcon.

A 1993 Hasbro Toyfair workbook. This was a salesmans selling and order tool.

1993 Toyfair Hasbro GIJoe Top Secret Battle Planer to help a salesman sell and take orders of GIJoe.

Other side of 1993 Toyfair Hasbro GIJoe Top Secret Battle Planer to help a salesman sell and take orders of GIJoe.

Hasbro ad announcing its licesencees

This is a 1992 color brochure inserted in GIJoe boxes. Hasbro calles this a cross-sell.

Other side of 1992 cross-sell.

This red flier was inserted in the Hasbro Toy Fair Brochure. There were 2 versions of this. One had a space for a pin. The wording on this version is as follows. G.I.JOE 100 CLUB. Welcome to the 1993 GI Joe Toy Faif and the 100 club. By receiving and wearing this pin, you will be one of only 200 people in the world to be recognized for your commitment to the spirit that is G.I.Joe. The "100" recognizes that you have sold more than 100,000 GIJoe toys and are officially part of the G.I.Joe team. We're glad to have you abord.

This is the second version of the red flier inserted in the Hasbro Toy Fair Brochure but offered to all other toy fair buyers. There is no mention of the pin.

This is a closeup of the pin. This was made by Jeff Killian. He had originnaly made this and gave it free to collectors who had 100 and over vintage GIJoes.

Catalog pages introducing some of the Hall of fame GIJoe stuff by New Demensions, a subsiderary of Hasbro.

Here is a Cobra Combat Command File Card given to me by Hasbro. This was a Create A Cobra item where you submitted details and facts about youself to create a cobra file card.

This is the order form from Jerrie Bombardier approving that I get the Cobra file card.

Hasbro corporate news letter introducing a new Hasbro logo change.

In 1992 I started working on my first book. In Jan 1993 I submitted a draft to be approved. Here is a cover letter from Vinnie D'Alleva about enclosing corrections to be made. It took me overe 1000 hours of work to submitt this draft.

This is the first cover sample I submitted to Hasbro which was later changed to its existing cover.

Vinnies hand written notes correcting my book.

A Janurary 1993 Toy Shop ad announcing my book.

The first copy of my book, fresh off the press.

Another 1993 Toy Shop ad for my book.

In April, 1993, Hasbro flew me out to Pawtuckett to undergo media training. A a couple days, they drilled and educated me on what and what not to say to the press about Hasbro and GIJoe.

This is me in fornt of the Hasbro offices.

Sandy Cabral, Hasbros marketing secretary for GI Joe. I dealt with Sandy on a weekly sometimes dail basis for a long time. Hasbro was lucky to have her in its employ. After this picture was taken she said...

hey wait a minute, lets take another with me pointing at you!


By the way, I have no photo, but I would like to make special mention for another Hasbro employee. Her name is Stephanie Shimkin Villari. She was allways so kind to me in my relationship with Hasbro.

A letter from Gary Serby about my trip to Hasbro RI and media training.

Air tickets, hotel, car and map for media training all paid for by Hasbro.

if i ever wanted to contact Allan Hassenfeld, I used this envelope.

24 page media training manual Hasbro gave me.

My first of several ads announcing no show for 1993 because of the planning of the big 1994 30th anni show in an undisclosed location on the east coast.

Collectors just could not wait till 1994 for another show. I got hundreds of requests for an event in 1993. Our 3rd convention was in Pasadena CA.

Another ad about the show.

A press release by Gary Serby about the Pasadena show.

A letter from Vinnie D"Alleva to collectors about the upcomming Pasadena event.

Flier about the official Hasbro Employee Ring. Two colors of stone were made. Black for executives and blue for employees.

The Hasbro Executive ring.

The Hasbro Executive ring.

The Hasbro Executive ring.

The Hasbro Executive ring.