On March 23, 1983, President Ronald Reagan made an audacious announcement: America would weaponize space.

For 14 years, Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher have scoured thrift store VHS piles for comedic gold -- the public access mayhem, odd workout videos, shot-on-video Christian proselytizing, and other sorts of ephemera that only the dawn of home video can provide.

In 1969, a French comic book took readers to the stars.