• TV Guide: March 3rd-9th, 1979 (Gary Coleman on the cover and article "Gary Coleman: Sassy New Scene-Stealer")

• TV Guide: February 2nd-8th, 1980 (Gary Coleman, Todd Bridges, and Conrad Bain on the cover)

• TV Guide: December 6th-12th, 1980 (Gary Coleman and Todd Bridges on the cover)

• TV Guide: July 4th-10th, 1981 (Dana Plato and Gary Coleman on the cover and Dana Plato article inside)

• TV Guide: March 19th-25th, 1983 (Gary Coleman and former first lady Nancy Reagan on the cover)

• Diff'rent Strokes hardcover book, (TV and Movie Tie-Ins) by Gary Libman, Creative Education, 1983, 32 pages

• TV News: December 22nd-28th, 1979 (Gary Coleman on the cover)

• TV News: March 3rd-9th, 1979 (Todd Bridges, Conrad Bain, and Gary Coleman on the cover)

• TV News: August 23rd-29th, 1980 (Gary Coleman and Todd Bridges on the cover)

• SuperMag (vol. 4, No. 13; cast on the cover, article inside, photos and mini Gary Coleman poster inside)

• Bananas Magazine (#46, Gary Coleman on the cover, photos and article inside)

• Hot Dog Magazine (Gary Coleman on the cover, photos and article inside)

• TV Prevue (June 17, 1979 - Chicago Sun-Times) (cast on the cover, article inside)

• Jet magazine (Oct. 17, 1983; Todd Bridges and Gary Coleman on the cover, article inside)

• Scripts (various; I have scripts for the Christmas retrospective episode and the Nancy Reagan episode)

• Ebony magazine (February 1979, Gary Coleman on the cover, article, and pictorial - "Little Guy With a Big Career in TV")

• Railroad Model Craftsman magazine (1990, Gary Coleman on the cover, article and photos inside, Gary Coleman is a big model train collector)

• Book: Gary Coleman: Medical Miracle by Bill Davidson & The Coleman Family; Coward, McCann & Geoghegan; New York, 1981.

  I just found this book at my local library and hope to start reading it soon. It is 236 pages long, and contains several black and white photos of Gary Coleman. From the inside and back cover:

  "To the millions of admirers who watch him romp across the TV screen in the hit series Diff'rent Strokes and whose lives are touched by his high-voltage charm, Gary Coleman is a superstar.

  To the colleagues who work with him, he is a fellow professional--hardworking, creative, appreciative of the talent of others, generous with his own. To his friends in Hollywood and back home in Illinois, he is a rambunctious thirteen-year-old school kid who is also a famous person. To his parents, Sue and Willie, Gary is all those things and more--a formidably bright, near straight-A student who just happens to be a medical miracle.

  Gary Coleman is alive today thanks to a kidney transplant, "the gift of life" from a four-year-old Slavic-American boy killed in a hit-and-run accident in 1973. Gary had had a touch-and-go battle the first four of his five years, his own kidneys destroyed by a rare congenital disease. Without that transplant he could not have survived to entertain his legion of fans or to become the honorary Gift of Life chairman of the National Kidney Foundation.

  There are many fascinating aspects to the Gary Coleman story: breakthroughs in the field of organ replacement, the skill and dedication of his doctors, Gary's inner strength, the enduring faith of his loving parents. But most of all, Gary Coleman: Medical Miracle is a story of family courage: of a man who won a hard struggle out of rural poverty to make a better life for his wife and son; of a young woman who studied nursing, saw her son through three dramatic medical crises and must still make sure Gary takes his daily medication to fend off transplant rejection, and who had the insight to anticipate the psychological impact of the shortness that is a side effect of kidney transplants in the very young--and to open the door to the entertainment career that has made Gary Coleman a superstar.

  Gary Coleman: Medical Miracle is a heartwarming and inspiring family love story.

  Note: there is also a paperback version of this book called: Gary Coleman: A Gift of Life.

• Book: TV Superstars Scrapbook, by Steven Otfinoski and Ronald Lackmann; Weekly Readers Books; Middletown, Connecticut; 1984. 52 pages. Covers Diff'rent Strokes, The A-Team,, The Facts of Life and Knight Rider. Provides general info on the show, numerous pictures, and small bios of the main cast members.

• Gary Coleman poster: copyright 1979 Tandem Productions Inc./Marathon Graphics Limited, measures 22 x 28 inches

• Dynamite Magazine: Gary Coleman on the cover (Vol. 3, No. 4 - October 1978; Vol. 4, No. 8 - February 1981; Vol. 7, No. 7 - February 1984)

• Jet Magazine: October 15, 1981 - 'Todd Bridges, Janet Jackson Fall In Love In TV Series'

• Ebony Magazine: February 1983 - Todd Bridges and Janet Jackson

• Teen Beat Magazine: December 1980 - Todd Bridges; Dana Plato color special

• The Cincinnati Enquirer TV Magazine - July 15-21, 1979 (cast cover, article on Conrad Bain)

• Jet Magazine: December 17, 1984

Other items that I have or know about:

Diff'rent Strokes press kit (8x10 photos, biography sheets of the cast)
Diff'rent Strokes cast magnet (newer item)
Gary Coleman and Dana Plato articles and clippings
TV '80, TV '81, and TV '82 paperback books (info. on Gary Coleman)
1979 TV Comedians paperback (Gary Coleman chapter)
Cracked Magazine (7/82, Gary Coleman on the cover)
Cracked Magazine (#178)
1980 Bananas Yearbook (Gary Coleman on the cover)
McCall's Magazine - August 1981 (five-page article on Gary Coleman)
Diff'rent Strokes tickets from an actual taping
other Jet magazines with Gary Coleman and/or Todd Bridges on the cover
various 8x10 cast photos
autographed cast photos
publicity postcards with cast photos on the front and pre-printed autographs on the back
Gary Coleman fan cards (see the Picture Gallery for examples).