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 …
Category: advertising and commercials
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 …
I am old enough to remember when this was cool …
While reading some late 1970s comics for my Silver Age reread, I came across this ad. Man, did it take me back. I wouldn’t have paid much attention to this …
A couple of quick images from the comics of 1970
First, this Neal Adams shot [edited to get name right] from Thor #179. It’s not a great story: Loki swaps minds with Thor and Odin can’t help because he’s sealed …
Advertising in comics from the end of ’69.
Do they still sell song books? Back in that era lots of us practiced plucking guitar to popular tunes — though not me, I was musically useless. I’ve never heard …
Now I want to see Oscar the Grouch as one of Batman’s eyes on the street
The November (cover dated) comics where I saw ABC’s Saturday morning schedule advertised also had ads for another kids’ show on another network. Though I couldn’t have known it at …
Existential depression!
I imagine most of the people nerdy enough to read these blog posts know that back in the 1970s,, DC and Marvel comics included Hostess snack ads — Twinkies, cupcakes, …