Zorcom Audio Adventures
Every now and again, I feel a bit guilty at the unorganized state of my comic collection. Inevitably, I start in on the task to finally organize the chaos but what starts out as a well intentioned dive into my comic boxes for the purpose of cleaning things up always ends with my getting nothing done. Nothing except reading through a bunch of comics that I rediscover in the process.
During my most recent excursion into the organization process, I ran across some old GI Joe issues. Being that this was one of my favorite comics series as a kid, I started paging through an issue or two. While reading one issue in particular (Issue 23, published May, 1984) I stumbled onto an advertisement for something called Zorcom Audio Adventures. You can see the ad from the comic up at the top of this article. Just what was Zorcom, you might be asking? That’s a good question and one that I was asking as well. On the face of it, the ads appear to be marketing a series of space adventures with a poorly designed hero who seems to be fighting some sort of alien race. The ad in this comic was selling an audio cassette-tape adventure and makes mention of both a poster set and a toy spaceship that you can buy in addition.
Intrigued, and armed with knowledge that there is nothing too obscure for the internet, I started digging a little deeper. Here’s what I found. (more…)
