Tag Archives: ad

You Look Like a GANGSTER!

Posted on August 17, 2021 by Joe

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 | 2 Comments

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 →

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Too Good to be True

Posted on May 28, 2015 by Joe_Williams

Even the grade school boys at which this ad was squarely aimed knew this was too good to be true.

Posted in What I Miss About Comics | Tagged 1967, ad, comic, Marvel, tank, Western | Leave a comment

YECCH!!! Looks, Feels Real!

Posted on January 28, 2014 by Joe_Williams

The Finger Factory? Was it a cottage industry or was there a brick and mortar building where workers punched a time clock to crank out life-like severed fingers?

Posted in What I Miss About Comics | Tagged 1977, ad, coffin, comic, comic book, Iron Man, Marvel, severed finger, super-hero | 1 Comment

Just Like O.J?

Posted on December 9, 2013 by Joe_Williams

How’d that work out?

Posted in What I Miss About Comics | Tagged ad, Avengers, CO2 Comics, comic book, comics, football, homicide, murder, O.J. Simpson, stupidity, tragedy, vintage, waste | Leave a comment

$8.00 Adonis

Posted on September 17, 2013 by Joe_Williams

Who knew that perfection was available for less than ten American dollars?

Posted in News | Tagged 1973, ad, bald, Captain America, Cartoon, comic, comic book, comics, Falcon, hairpiece, Marvel, monster, USA, vintage, werewolf, wig | 2 Comments

Mini-Paul McCartney Meets Richard Nixon

Posted on August 12, 2013 by Joe_Williams

Only it’s not really Paul McCartney. It is Richard Nixon, however.

Posted in News | Tagged 1973, ad, comic, comic book, humor, impeach, Nixon, President, Richard Nixon, Richie Rich, The Beatles, Watergate | Leave a comment

I’d Like to Sell the World Some Seeds

Posted on July 29, 2013 by Joe_Williams

Posted in What I Miss About Comics | Tagged 1973, ad, Cartoon, CO2 Comics, comic book, comics, Harvey Comics, humor, Sad Sack, seeds, stranger danger, vintage | Leave a comment

BJ – Like BJ Thomas, Right?

Posted on July 1, 2013 by Joe_Williams

As I wrote last week, we had cable television in Southern New Jersey in the late 1970s so we did not have to suffer the garbage that the broadcast networks were airing in lieu of genuine entertainment. We were probably … Continue reading →

Posted in Blast from the Past, Curious Clutter | Tagged 1980, ad, BJ, BJ and the Bear, crime, gangster, humor, Illustration, March 22 1980, NBC, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Saturday, television, vintage | Leave a comment

Invasion of the Clutter Monkeys

Posted on June 24, 2013 by Joe_Williams

Once again, whilst on a mission to de-clutter, I found myself completely diverted from my mission by a chunk of clutter. In a four drawer file cabinet that has a whole story of it’s own I uncovered a forgotten folder … Continue reading →

Posted in Blast from the Past, Curious Clutter | Tagged 1970s, 1979, 1980s, ad, cable, HBO, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, New Jersey, Phantasm, Storer, Westville | Leave a comment

Glows in the Dark!

Posted on April 22, 2013 by Joe_Williams

It seems that everything old is new again.

Posted in What I Miss About Comics | Tagged ABC, ad, comic, comic book, comics, Dark Shadows, DC Comics, Hemlock Grove, Illustration, model kit, monster, soap opera, television, vampire, vintage, werewolf | Leave a comment

To Each His Own

Posted on April 15, 2013 by Joe_Williams

Posted in What I Miss About Comics | Tagged 1972, ad, CO2 Comics, comic book, Marvel, Mr. Universe, muscles, vintage | 2 Comments

Horribly Realistic!

Posted on September 17, 2012 by Joe_Williams

There was a long period in comics where you could always count on ads featuring either fake vomit or artificial dog droppings. I always wondered where this sort of stuff was made. Was it a factory that specialized in novelty … Continue reading →

Posted in What I Miss About Comics | Tagged 1967, 1973, ad, artificial, comic, comic book, Fantastic Four, humor, Jack Kirby, practical joke, puke, Stan Lee, vintage, vomit | Leave a comment

Analog Computer?

Posted on September 10, 2012 by Joe_Williams

Isn’t that a contradiction in terms?

Posted in What I Miss About Comics | Tagged 1971, ad, analog, analog computer, comic book, comics, Fantastic Four, kit, Marvel, science, vintage | Leave a comment

TRS-80 SAVES Metropolis!!!

Posted on August 6, 2012 by Joe_Williams

Ricky Rotten sent me an article celebrating the 35th anniversary of Radio Shack’s personal home computer the TRS-80 also less-than-affectionately known as the TRaSh-80.