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 …
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A cartoon about a ghostbusting dog? Can’t see that lasting more than a season!
One of the secondary joys of rereading my own comics as part of my Silver Age Reread is rereading the ads. Sometimes house ads for other books = But …
I know it’s black Friday but these ads will not help you find fabulous bargains
They are, after all, more than 50 years old. Still, this seemed like the day to do another post about the DC advertising I encounter in my Silver Age reread. …
It’s 1967 and the space race is ON!
Comics got in on the space race before the space race was a thing. DC was sending chimps into space before Sputnik, as on this Murphy Anderson cover. Likewise Titano’s …
