Yes, you too can be a somebody just like one of Liverpool’s favorite sons!
This was an unusual ad to appear in a comic book along side the un-ironic muscle and part-time career ads being that it was a sarcastic ad for an acidly sarcastic music magazine — the late, great Creem Magazine.
Creem called itself America’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll Magazine, and it was rude, crude and outrageously funny. It made Rolling Stone feel like a copy of Prevention. Sadly, Creem is no more while Rolling Stone grinds on living decades past it’s relevancy.
My guess is that the ad was a test. You could send 25¢(!) for a sample copy of the magazine or $3 for the sample mag and the neat Boy Howdy shirt by Crumb. I wonder how well they did with the ad.
The Creem ad appeared in Captain America and the Falcon no. 184 published in 1973.
Falcon is going to appear in Captain America: Winter Soldier, but I doubt if he’s going to turn into a werewolf or sport the groovy red and white threads.
