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Category Archives: What I Miss About Comics
Temporary Tattoos
Back when only bikers, sailors and circus freaks had tattoos, kids could exhibit their countercultural zeal and longing to be different like everyone else by donning a tee-shirt emblazoned with a garishly colored, usually rudely humorous decal. Along the boardwalks … Continue reading
Posted in What I Miss About Comics
Tagged Cartoon, comic, comic book, comics, Eerie, humor, iron-on, Jersey Shore, New Jersey, tattoo, tee shirt, Warren
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Flying a Kite at Night?
I was flipping through an old comic when I came across this advertisement which made me think of the truly terrible 1979 version of Dracula starring Frank Langella as the count and Laurence Olivier recycling his awful accent from A … Continue reading
Posted in Halloween, What I Miss About Comics
Tagged 1975, comic, comic book, comics, Halloween, horror, humor, Illustration, monster, USA, vampire
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AAAAAY! Wear the Fonz!
This Fonz T Shirt ad appeared in Justice League of America No. 138 published by DC comics in 1977.
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Tagged 1977, ad, Batman, comic, comic book, comics, DC, Fonzie, Happy Days, JLA, USA
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Marvel Treasury Editions
80 glorious over-sized pages of Hulk stories by some of the greatest members of Marvel Comics’ legendary bullpen of writers and illustrators. The treasury editions were printed on newsprint like the regular comic books, and they were usually sold at … Continue reading
Posted in Curious Clutter, What I Miss About Comics
Tagged 1978, Hulk, Marvel, Treasury Edition
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What I Miss About Comics – Perfectly Legitimate Ads
This along with a number of other classified style advertisements for perfectly legitimate products and services appeared in Marvel Spotlight No. 25 published by Marvel Comics in 1975. It was a comic adaptation of Ray Harryhausen’s 1958 fantasy epic The … Continue reading
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Tagged 1975, comics, Marvel, movie adaptation, Ray Harryhausen, Sinbad
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What I Miss About Comics – Wally Wood
This is an independently published comic by master illustrator Wally Wood. It also features work by Spider-Man and Doctor Strange co-creator Steve Ditko! Marie Severin who is one of my all time favorites provides colors. This issue is really the … Continue reading
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Tagged 1969, action, adventure, comic, Wally Wood
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Confronting Destiny
It’s not necessarily a ringing endorsement of the product that Chipper is selling, but it seems he has come to a greater understanding of human nature and of himself. I wonder what else he tried to peddle.
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Tagged 1974, comic, comic book, Marvel, Sinbad, The Golden Voyage of Sinbad
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Out of Context Comics
A panel from The Phantom from March 22, 1980. I’m not sure what’s going on here. I never really got into daily newspaper comic strips preferring comic books instead. I would get a chuckle from the humor strips, but wasn’t … Continue reading
Posted in Curious Clutter, What I Miss About Comics
Tagged 1980, comic strip, March 22 1980, The Phantom
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