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In the early 1960s, Seika Note Co. Ltd.
of Japan began to add characters from cartoon magazines and television to
its range of children’s stationery. They had already produced notepads and
sketchbooks to tie in with Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet And
The Mysterons, and considering the popularity of the Anderson shows in
Japan, Joe 90 merchandise naturally followed.
Illustrated left are two notepads. The
first features Joe in a spacesuit with a camera, floating close by a Gemini
capsule about to dock with a satellite which looks suspiciously like
Thunderbird 5. The second has Joe in a flight suit in front of an aerial
dogfight between Joe's fighter jet and two other planes.
The inside front cover on both notepads
features monotone drawings of the Rat Trap and the cottage, the inside back
cover has plan view line drawings of Mac's car, and the back cover features
do-it-yourself cut-out special glasses. There are 36 blank pages to write
notes on.
Seika Note also produced a Joe 90
sketchbook.
40 pages, ¥20. |