After adding the first issue of 312 zine from 1990 to the zine gallery, a reader sent in some pictures and details about a Welfare Skateboards deck he bought from Sluggo. There’s an ad for Welfare in that issue, so that definitely tracks. However, there’s also an ad for Sluggo Skates… So I’m confused, and the fog of time is not helping. Check out some early 90’s Chicago skateboarding ephemera from Matt S.

Check out this merch tied into the 1964 TV series Stingray from the UK. It was a Gerry Anderson production similar in style to Thunderbirds. Even though it was off the air in 1965 after 39 episodes, someone thought a skateboard with a Stingray graphic would make some money. There are other Stingray graphics/models from the 60’s and 70’s but they are not related to the TV show. There was however, another licensed Gerry Anderson Stingray board made in the 90’s. In the show, the Stingray was a nuclear-powered combat submarine used by the World Aquanaut Security Patrol to keep the oceans safe.

I hadn’t planned on posting Tyler Skate Machine until I made the mistake of digging into it a little. It turns out the Skate Machine, a toy from Sungold meant to be used with their Galaxy Warriors line of toys is pretty much a ripoff of the Cheapskate from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, which makes sense since the Galaxy Warriors were set up to be an off-brand version of Masters of the Universe in the first place.

– Thanks to Bobcat for the tip.

I just added two Chicago based zines to the 80’s zine gallery, which I may have to rename because after scanning it I realized that Brian Sluggo’s 312 zine might actual be from 1990. The other is Chi-Town Shred #7, which marks the 4th issue of Chi-Town Shred that I’ve uploaded so far, with a couple more to come later.

Jughead volume 2, number 37 was published in September of 1992. It features two stories with skateboarding in them, Love Connection, and the Things We Do For Love. There’s also a Sales Leadership Club advert in which you can earn a Nash Beach Bum skateboard.

You’re looking at Sharky, Volume 1 #4 published by Image Comics isn 1998. You’d think with a skateboard featured prominently on this glorious cover that one would show up again on the inside pages. Alas, this is not the case. This is puzzling, but the whole comic book is puzzling. It’ shard to read, hard to follow, and feature a zombified (and evil) Captain America and Vampirella. Apparently Vampirella was on loan from another imprint. I’m not sure a how they got around Marvel with the Captain America zombie.

It’s time for another installment of crap Commodore 64 skateboarding games, and this time I’m showing Skatin’ USA, a 1990 release by Atlantis Software, a UK company that would go out of business in 1992 after an 8 year stint. It looks like the premise of the game is an American kid on a skateboard battling English Punks. Seems like those two parties ought be be natural allies and not enemies!

The Adventures of Willy Beamish is a classic point and click game developed by Dynamix and published by Sierra On-Line in 1991. From the game box, advertisements and splash screen you might think that skateboarding figures heavily in the storyline. I’ve scrubbed through hours of gameplay and I only found a few sequences. The frog is more important to the storyline, but that didn’t stop me from wasting a good chunk of time on this post. Besides, it’s been a while since I’ve made a vintage video game post.

Consummate wrestling showman and lousy, racist human being Hulk Hogan died on July 24, 2025. In 1991 he made the movie Suburban Commando which has a few skateboarding scenes in it and features a skateboard in the poster art. The Hulk starred as an intergalactic warrior who had to take some down time on earth. He has a run in with kids on skateboards and he Wilsons it pretty comically. Somehow he becomes an expert skateboarder at some point in the plot after acquiring a 6 wheel battle skateboard. I’ve only seen a few clips from the movie so I don’t know how prominently it features, but the stunts are over the top, with lots of cut scenes showing a double doing crazy flips in the air, and shots from the knees down only. This movie seems like it would fall into he “so-bad-it’s-good” category. Notice the generic Powell Peralta board in the stills.

This bootleg is one of the funniest crappy/80’s bootleg deck I have ever seen. The Thrill Seeker graphic looks like He-man getting busted attempting to devein a giant shrimp. He-man doesn’t look happy at all and the shrimp seems scared a hell. It was found on ebay, but it didn’t sell. I’m not surprised, because the seller listed it as a “Conan the the Barbarian” deck, so all the true Masters of the Universe fans missed this one. He looks a little overstuffed, like a bright pink Stretch Armstrong. Turns out you can get a licensed Masters of the Universe He-Man decks via a collaboration between Super 7 and Element. Despite being licensed, it still looks like a bootleg or at best, a toy store board. Trying to find better pictures of the He-Man deck turned up more carppy boards from Sk8 Bali.

– Thanks to David ODK for the original post idea that I just couldn’t leave be…