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Read this students, QUIETLY!
My Weekly Reader from the Spring of 1972. I found this in a crumbling folder of ancient homework and handouts from grade school circa 1972. Teachers would hand these out and make the students read them QUIETLY so they could cadge … Continue reading
Posted in Blast from the Past, Curious Clutter
Tagged 1972, bicycle, My Weekly Reader, school
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When a Kid Needs Money
Sung to the tune of When a Man Loves a Woman?
Posted in Blast from the Past, Curious Clutter
Tagged 1972, cards, cash or prizes, Christmas, comic book, crazy eyes, Ireland, Junior Scholastic, money, scary
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To Each His Own
Posted in What I Miss About Comics
Tagged 1972, ad, CO2 Comics, comic book, Marvel, Mr. Universe, muscles, vintage
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The Three Faces of Bobby Sherman
Hello, dear readers. Mrs. Crankipants here. I’m taking over the comics column this week as we harken back to a time when there were actually comics available and bought by legions of prepubescent girls. I’m talking about romance comics. I … Continue reading
Attaining the Unattainable
Did you know you could sleep with Raquel Welch for $1.98?
Posted in What I Miss About Comics
Tagged 1972, ad, Carcharodon carcharias, comic book, fantasy, Jaws, Joe Kubert, pillow, Raquel Welch, sex, shark, submarine, The Losers, vintage, What I Miss About Comics, World War II
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I Was a $1.98 Werewolf
Posted in Halloween, What I Miss About Comics
Tagged 1972, ad, comic, monster, rubber mask, vintage, werewolf
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Vampire Blood!
This was sort of a forbidden fruit for kids growing up in the early 1970s.
Posted in What I Miss About Comics
Tagged 1970s, 1972, ad, bat, Charlton, comic, comics, Dr. Shock, gag, Halloween, horror, humor, monster, Philadelphia, prank, Steve Ditko, The Many Ghosts of Doctor Graves, Vampire Blood, vintage, WPHL
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What I Miss About Comics – Coffee, Tea or Me
Tucked away in an issue of Special Marvel Edition No. 5 is yet another career training ad. This one is for career training for jobs in the airline industry, and it seems to push the fringe benefits of free airline … Continue reading
Posted in Blast from the Past, Stuff Joe Likes, What I Miss About Comics
Tagged 1972, airline, career training, comic, Howling Commandos, Jack Kirby, job, John Severin, Marvel, pilot, SGT. Fury, stewardess, vintage, war
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