1990 G.I. Joe Benelux Catalog
CATALOG REF:
BOX 73 : PROMOTIONAL CATALOG SCANS — BENELUX (1990)
CONTENTS: G.I. JOE CATALOG (BELGIUM / NETHERLANDS / LUXEMBOURG)
STATUS: INCOMPLETE SCAN (MOST TEXT NOT INCLUDED) — FILE C-001
CONDITION: STABLE (SLIGHT PRINT GRAIN IN SCANS)
TRANSLATION: NOT FILED
Date: 1991
Format: Promotional Dossier (multi-page catalog scan)
Subject(s): G.I. Joe figure photography for consumer marketing
Notes: Photography credited to unknown source; staging and lighting mimic field conditions
Stored: Box 73 / Binder A — Envelope A
Cross-Reference: Box 23 — Printed Ephemera (layout similarity to pulp covers)
ARCHIVIST NOTES:
This one is the most impressive of the lot. There’s 2 copies here, a well-worn one and a pristine copy. Logged both then removed the staples from the lesser of the two and laid out all of its spreads in front of me – looking at them now, they read like someone else’s field notes, but in a familiar way. An anonymous photographer staging Joe and Cobra for history’s children instead of history itself.
Yea, that was too much.
Benelux, 1990. Figures frozen mid-action in color-saturated backdrops, sold as play. To me, it looks like evidence. Whoever held the camera then knew just enough to catch the poses, the angles, the swagger. I keep these scans close, studying them like enemy propaganda. The catalog is bright, glossy, meant to disappear after Christmas — but to me it’s a ghost file from a photographer I’ll never meet.”
CITATIONS:
Scans: [ REDACTED ]
Original Distributor: Hasbro Europe
Creative Agency: UNKNOWN
Creative Director: UNKNOWN
Photographer: UNKNOWN
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