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 still familiar to me.

Whoever held the camera back then knew just how to catch the poses, the angles, the attitude. Figures frozen mid-action in expertly constructed dioramas, all sold as play.

Another booklet catalogued, scanned, and archived.


CITATIONS:

Scans: [ REDACTED ]
Original Distributor: Hasbro Europe
Creative Agency: UNKNOWN
Creative Director: UNKNOWN
Photographer: UNKNOWN

 

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Paul Panfalone

Paul Panfalone is a Cleveland, OH based artist and toy photographer. He spent his childhood dreaming up stories using action figures in the backyard of his home in East Aurora, NY, appropriately nicknamed “Toytown”. Now as an adult (sort of), he imagines new worlds with those same figures and lives their adventures through the lens of his camera, much like he did back home, over thirty years ago.

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1991 G.I. Joe Benelux Catalog