A blast from the past
Once again, an ad from yesterday — late 1971 in this case — caught my eye during my ongoing Silver/Bronze Age reread. Iron-on patches had become popular in the 1960s …
Category: advertising and commercials
The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #372: ‘A Saturday Viewed in Hindsight’
Time for a somewhat melancholy rant!
The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #349: ‘Sunday At The Back of the Book’
Oh, the glorious stuff you’ll find!
A legion of monsters in your house! Can anything stop Dr. Deadly?
I’ve periodically looked at the model kits of the 1960s as part of my Silver Age reread. We have the classic horror models — —the superheroes — — and the …
Far out, man!
Flipping through one of my comics from 1971 for my Silver Age Reread, I came upon this ad. Posters, the environment, peace symbols, Easy Rider …
Would you buy a diamond ring from this comic book?
I’ve blogged before about some of the implausible stuff advertised in comics, like classes to become a dental assistant. This might be the weirdest yet. Even given comic-book readers skewed …
Holy crap! Reading comics can make me a tall, guitar-playing karate master with a he-man voice who works as a game warden!
I was going through Avengers #83 for my Silver Age reread — it’s one of those where I have the original issue — but once I got past the John …