The StarSensor™ Never Lies!

When we were in high school, my buddies and I played Lazer Tag. We got the kits and played in our various backyards and across our neighborhoods. There are stories from those epic battles that are still used to regale friends and family with two decades later. (Yeah, I’m talking about the time John ran into a tree, full bore, at dusk.) But what I definitely don’t remember are these comic book ads for the game or the Lazer Tag Academy NBC Saturday morning show referenced in them. Logically, I suppose that makes sense considering by 1986 I was really only reading G.I. Joe and Uncanny X-Men regularly, and, without any younger siblings, I was too old to be really entrenched in the Saturday morning cartoon routine. But regardless, these are some fun time capsules for late ’80s toys and marketing…