![]() Steve and Robin still work at Family Video, a popular video rental store which only just closed its doors (and its online store) for good in March of this year. The cover appears to be from the Maissue picturing Filipino dictator Ferdinand Marcos and including a reference to the space shuttle Challenger disaster just three months earlier: “NASA’s Fatal Mistake.” The article in question, however, was probably adapted from a September ’85 Newsweek piece entitled, “Kids: The Deadliest Game” about the perils of D&D. Eddie reads to The Hellfire Club an article from Newsweek regarding the dangers of teens becoming obsessed with Dungeons & Dragons.But the X-Men’s Hellfire Club were a key factor in Jean Grey’s Dark Phoenix story, and considering how often Stranger Things has flirted with those elements in Eleven’s story, they’re probably having some fun with us, too. Both the comics and historical Hellfire Club involved the elites of society, so Eddie has a fun sense of humor naming his club of outcasts that, even as it plays on the “satanic panic” around D&D. The Hellfire Club is a name with plenty of historical significance, but in the context of Stranger Things, it probably means more as an X-Men comics reference.The freaks always have the best taste in music. ![]() Former Black Sabbath and Rainbow singer Ronny James Dio’s solo albums had some truly legendary Dungeons & Dragons type album covers, so it figures that Eddie is a big fan.
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