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Volume 3 • No. 5, shown at left, featured the popular story "We're on the Money"

Volume 4 • No. 6, shown on the right, featured 
"The Beauty of Black Majolica."

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1987 Volume 1
No. 1 - Black College Libraries: Darkie Toothpaste on Its Way Out; The Butler Smoker's Stands; Blacks & the US Constitution; A List of Reference Books on Black Collectibles.
No. 2 -  Remembering Jackie Robinson; What is Black American Exonumia; The Romance of Aunt Jemima; The Negro World's Fair.
No. 3 - Black Philately For the Collector; Only Man Ever Hanged for Smuggling Slaves; Black Baseball Memorabilia; Black Greeting Cards; Kobe Toys; Selma.
No. 4 - Coon Chicken Inn; Mardi Gras Doubloon From the Zulu Social Aid Pleasure Club of New Orleans; Golliwoggs; Belle Dolls.
No. 5 - In Search of Johnny Griffin; Freetown Village; Collecting Porcelain Art; Let's Play Cards; Trademark of the 20's and 30's; Relating Black History Through Dolls. 
No. 6 - James Weldon Johnson Honored on US Postage Stamps; Originals or Reproductions- Part 1; Kwanza; Army Patches; The Black Soldier In WWI; Collection of Thimbles; Kitchen Collectibles. 

 
1988/89 Volume 2
No. 1 - Music Sheets; Black Rag Dolls; Collecting Old Photographs Part 1; Original & Reproductions - Part 2; Black Post Cards; Black Sports Heroes on Models.
No. 2 - Collecting Old Photographs - Part 2; Black Promotional Products by The F&F Mold & Die Works Co. of Dayton, Ohio; Black Folk Artists in Tennessee; Black Dolls & Us; Black Post Card Collecting; Money Under the Bed.
No. 3 - The Congressional Black Caucus; The Black Lagoon Monster; Collecting Souvenir Spoons; Folklore Dolls; Collecting Works By Black Authors; Black Money.
No. 4 - A Christmas of the Past; Uncovering The Covers;  Collecting Items Made For The Tourist Trade; Collecting Souvenir Spoons -Part 2; Collecting Black Paper Dolls - Part 1.
No. 5 - Aunt Jemima - Part 1; Kiddie Kollectibles; Children's Books; Cream of Wheat; Collecting Black Paper Dolls - Part 2; Black Sports Heroes on Medals - Part 4; Negro Version of the Twenty Third Psalm.
No. 6 - Black Businesses - Part 1; A Historical Overview Prior to Reconstruction; Thomas Day - Cabinet Maker; Aunt Jemima - Part 2; Food Products; Cover Story or Cover Up; A Profile of Artist Thomas Blackshere; List of BMCA Charter Members. 

 
1989 Volume 3
No. 1 -(Copy) - Tobacco Trail of Black Collectibles; Black Business- Part 2; Reconstruction Era in the late 20th Century; Rag Pickers; Black Figural Walking Sticks & Canes; European Memories of a Black Collector; Black Sports Heroes on Medals - Part 5.
No. 2 - African Americans and the Sheet Music Industry; Black Collectibles: A Selected Biography of Recent Literature; Collecting Children's Books; Celebrity Dolls; American Black Eagles - "Freedom is Not Free".
No. 3 - Black Matchbooks Can Light Up Your Collection; Black Expositions; How to Preserve Lovely Bisque Dolls; Mechanical Banks and Toys; Brown Koko Goes Hallowe'enin.
No. 4 - Black Trade Cards; The Blacker The Berry The Sweeter The Juice - The Berry Gordy Collection; With This Faith- Collection of Bishop George Augustus Stallings.
No. 5 - We're on the Money (Black Figures On Money Minted in the US); Tablescraps: Mementos of the Roosevelt/Washington Dinner; History of Robertson's Golly; Shindana Dolls; Medallia Tributes to Louis "Sachmo" Armstrong.

 
1990/91 Volume 4
No. 1 - A tribute to Fashion Designer  - Patrick Kelly; Preserving History at the Black Fashion Museum; The Dance Theater of Harlem; Madam C.J. Walker & The Madam Walker Collection; Black Hair Styles Through The Years; Black Toys That Survived; Stereographs, Black America in 3D; The Barbara Lackesmith Collection; Collecting Ethnic Costume Dolls;  Collecting Movie, Radio & TV Memorabilia; Porcelain Collectibles.
No. 2 - Care & Protection of Collectibles; Kong-Anglo Influence in N. America and The Caribbean - Part 1; Africa's Prehistoric Artists; Collecting Coins; Black Advertising Blotters; Magazines Emerging in the '60's; A Special Tribute to Sammy Davis, Jr.; Collecting the Legacy. 
No. 3 - A Religious Collectible-ICONS; Impact of the Black Woman in the West; Who Were Those Buffalo Soldiers?; Those Black Kitchen Collectibles; A Rare Collection of Ancient African Art; How Sweet It Is - Collecting Candy Containers; Wax Dolls by Francisco Vargas; Stone Art of the Ancient Nubian; Art as an Investment; Identifying Prints -Clues for Wood Engravings; Edmonia Lewis. 
No. 4 - Gold Dust Twins Still Golden; Black Images in the Comics; The Jocko Statue; The Black Shasha Family of Dolls on Parade; Black Print Makers; Learning to Read Africa's Book of Stones; Care of Valuable Books.
No. 5 - FOURTH ANNIVERSARY ISSUE. Retrospective of Articles Appearing in Volumes 1 thru 4.
No. 6 - Collecting Pushkins Stamps; The Beauty of Black Majolica;  Collecting Majolica Porcelain; Blacks on Cereal Boxes; Collecting the Legacy: Slave Shackles - An Interview with Gloria Lowery Tyrrell; Avon Collectibles; Black Sewing Collectibles Reproductions; Preserving Collectibles.

 
1992/93 Volume 5
No. 1 Black Tobacco Jars; Black Minstrel Keepsakes; Harry Roseland's Pictures of Colored People; Foreign Stamps Honoring African Americans; By Golly-Golliwoggs; The Ginny Doll Celebrates 40th Birthday; Bill Joyners' World African Civilization - Time Chart.
No. 2 - Collecting African American Figurines; Political Cartoons of the Reconstruction Era; Paper Mache in Motion; Stamp Collecting; Blacks on Lunch Pails; A Black Journalist Looks at the Black Press; World African Civilization Time Chart.
No 3 - Alex Haley: A Photo Journal Legacy; Erection of the Buffalo Soldier Statue; African Art Postage Stamps; ABC's of Bisque Figures; Dolls With Personality Plus - Daddy Long Leg Dolls; Children's Treasures; World African Civilization Time Chart - Part 3. 
No. 4 - Seven Decades of of Black Cast Film Posters; Collecting Collector Plates; Artist Sculpture Dedicated to Malcom X and Marcus Garvey; Christmas Greeting Cards Through the Years; Collecting and Preserving Cloth Dolls; How To; The Low-Down on Appraising.
No. 5 - 18th and 19th Century Anti-Slavery Tokens of England; Above The White Foul Lines-Baseball; Former Negro League Memorabilia Show;; The Topsy Turvy Doll; The Color Green In Black Baseball; The Bronzes of Ife; The Joy of Collecting Composition Dolls; The Low Down on Appraising - Part 2.