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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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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 35ยข and how they could possibly guarantee results. All ages? No gimmicks? Really? … Continue reading
Too Good to be True
Even the grade school boys at which this ad was squarely aimed knew this was too good to be true.
YECCH!!! Looks, Feels Real!
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
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Just Like O.J?
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
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$8.00 Adonis
Who knew that perfection was available for less than ten American dollars?
Mini-Paul McCartney Meets Richard Nixon
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
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I’d Like to Sell the World Some Seeds
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
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BJ – Like BJ Thomas, Right?
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
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Invasion of the Clutter Monkeys
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
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Glows in the Dark!
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
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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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Horribly Realistic!
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
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Analog Computer?
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
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