Jim Harmon's nostalgia catalogue

This is a good old book for those who remember sending in a dime and a boxtop and eagerly awaiting a radio premium. It is filled with information, but especially photographs of the rings, decoder badges etc. that we all wished we had saved but wore out in usage. My copy is old, but I would not part with it.

For those growing up around the time of World War II, this brings back a lot of memories -- not all of them perfect. The author covers radio premiums, comic books, novelty catalogues, pulp magazines, and Big Little Books, among other things -- all items kids of the era had interest in. Photographs of the premiums are enlarged, so they seem about the same size as kids would remember them being. The author makes a few minor mistakes (e.g., the TV Captain Midnight premiums were "decoders," not "Code-O-Graphs") but all in all has provided an entertaining reminiscence of a time long gone, alas.