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Tag Archives: 1973
Chasing the Cool Kids
Back in the 1970s Marvel Comics was trying to chase an audience beyond the typical comic reader which was comprised chiefly of seven to twelve year old boys. Somebody thought a rock album based on their most popular character would … Continue reading
Posted in Blast from the Past, Curious Clutter, What I Miss About Comics
Tagged 1973, Cartoon, comic, comic book, comics, Creem, humor, magazine, Marvel, Spider-man, USA
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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
Posted in What I Miss About Comics
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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Turned On & Supernatural Effects
Back in the ’70s while my parents shopped for clothes and boring stuff, my younger brother and I were left to our own devices wandering the toy and record sections of the department stores that anchored the shopping malls. Invariably … Continue reading
Posted in What I Miss About Comics
Tagged 1973, black light, comic, Hippie, Sad Sack, vintage
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Benicio, Zat You?
I recently went to see the new Thor movie which I didn’t really care if I saw or not, but my son insisted. Thor was not one of my favorite characters when I was first reading comics. I had come … Continue reading
Posted in What I Miss About Comics
Tagged 119, 1973, comic book, comics, Marvel, The Avengers, The Collector, Thor, vintage
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Be a Somebody!
Yes, you too can be a somebody just like one of Liverpool’s favorite sons!
Posted in What I Miss About Comics
Tagged 1973, Boy Howdy, Captain America, comic book, comics, Creem, Falcon, John Lennon, Liverpool, magazine, Marvel, music, Robert Crumb, rock, The Beatles, vintage
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Look Who’s Smiling Now!
No, I don’t know him either.
Posted in What I Miss About Comics
Tagged 1973, Captain America, comicbooks, comics, Marvel
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$8.00 Adonis
Who knew that perfection was available for less than ten American dollars?