Color Me Happy

As a kid in the spring of 1979 nothing would have made me happier than a KISS coloring book. I have made mention of this before and the standard comeback has always been, “the only colors of KISS are Black and White”. Not so true, there is silver, the gorgeous orange glow of the LOVE GUN/ALIVE II stairs, the red of Gene’s almighty blood, the blue, green, red, and purple shimmer of the DYNASTY costumes…the list goes on and on. Imagine entering your local Woolworth department store and finding a KISS MEETS THE PHANTOM OF THE PARK coloring/adventure book. The excitement that would run through your veins as your mother places your very own, THE RETURN OF KISS 1979 WORLD TOUR coloring and connect the dots magazine on the cash register counter. The smiles would be almost impossible to scrape off from our faces.