A nameless young woman, dressed in a halter top and short shorts, is screaming. A hunched-over mad scientist in a blood-stained apron, with a deep gash above his forehead, leads his victim into a ...

You bought them at Korvette’s or Modell’s — boxed model kits of glue-it-yourself planes, trains and automobiles, monsters, spaceships and superheroes. And while many companies made model kits, the ...