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Category Archives: What I Miss About Comics
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.
Posted in What I Miss About Comics
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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A Hundred Horrific Pages for Half a Buck!
A buddy of mine chased down a well-worn and well loved comic that he had once owned and lost to the vagaries of time and fortune. It’s DC Super Spectacular No. 4 and was published by DC Comics in 1971. … Continue reading
Mail Order Muscles
Charles Atlas is the body builder that everybody knows from comic book advertisements, but if you actually bought and read comic books regularly any time between the 1950s through the 1970s, you would be just as familiar with the name … Continue reading
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Tagged 1973, comics, Joe Kubert, Joe Weider, muscles, Tarzan
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Go-Kart or Speed-Bike?
So you scraped together the two bucks and waited patiently for the instructions to arrive in the mail while you pictured yourself buzzing the town on your boss GO-KART or sweet SPEED-BIKE! Wouldn’t it be great?! Imagine all of the … Continue reading
Posted in What I Miss About Comics
Tagged 1973, comics, Fantastic Four, go-kart, Jack Kirby, reprint, speed-bike
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Fandom Before the Internet
This is what Red Sonja looked like back before the internet when comics were sold at newsstands and convenience stores, and the only way to see how comics were made was through obscure, mail-order magazines.
Posted in What I Miss About Comics
Tagged 1976, comics, F.O.O.M., fandom, Marshall Rogers, Red Sonja
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You Look Like a GANGSTER!
Here ya go, kid! Do me a favor — run this across the street for me.
Posted in What I Miss About Comics
Tagged 1970, ad, Blair Products, Fantastic Four, Marvel
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A Weighty Request
When you have about an inch of column space and are competing for eyeballs with Sea Monkeys, switchblade pocket combs and get-rich schemes, subtlety is a luxury advertisers in comic books could not afford.
Posted in Curious Clutter, What I Miss About Comics
Tagged 105, 1970, color, Fantastic Four, Fat, John Romita, Marvel Comics, newsprint, Stan Lee, weight
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Peace Through Superior Firepower
So for a $1.98, am I protecting myself and my loved ones with steely fists or a board I can carry anywhere?
Posted in What I Miss About Comics
Tagged 1975, 25¢, comic, Hulk, Karate, martial arts, Marvel
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2 to 6 Inches Guaranteed
I found this unlikely claim in issue #186 of The Incredible Hulk published by Marvel Comics in 1975. I’m wondering what the folks at Tall-Up provided for 35¢ and how they could possibly guarantee results. All ages? No gimmicks? Really? … Continue reading
BEYOND the Spinning Rack of Comics
I guess the thing I miss most about comics is the newsstands and druggists that once carried the 4-colored treasures I eagerly plucked from spinning racks or wooden shelves. I would spend what was probably an inordinate amount of time … Continue reading
Posted in Curious Clutter, Trash or Treasure, What I Miss About Comics
Tagged 1956, Anthony Perkins, black and white, buxom, cheap, cheesecake, detective, Diane Webber, girlie, James Dean, pasties, Psycho, scandal, sex on the campus, SHOW, strippers, tawdry, trash, vintage, vintage ads
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You No Canna Refuse
Back when movies were cultural touchstones made for adults, they were not as heavily merchandised as they are today. A soundtrack album may have been released and a paperback novelization would be on a shelves in bookstores, and that was … Continue reading
Posted in Blast from the Past, What I Miss About Comics
Tagged 1970s, Cartoon, comics, gangster, iron-on transfer, movies, Sad Sack, tee shirt, The Godfather
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Fat Sacks of CASH
Apparently, some time around the middle of the twentieth century this fellow was making FAT SACKS OF CASH selling America’s Greatest Family Newspaper GRIT. At least that was the potential promise to young entrepreneurs willing to sell this weekly publication … Continue reading
Posted in What I Miss About Comics
Tagged 1967, advertisement, comic book, comics, Grit, Marvel, newsprint, Two-Gun Kid, vintage
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