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Tag Archives: comics
Flying a Kite at Night?
I was flipping through an old comic when I came across this advertisement which made me think of the truly terrible 1979 version of Dracula starring Frank Langella as the count and Laurence Olivier recycling his awful accent from A … Continue reading
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Posted in Halloween, What I Miss About Comics
Tagged 1975, comic, comic book, comics, Halloween, horror, humor, Illustration, monster, USA, vampire
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Doodles on the Couch
I’m back to doodling on the couch in an inexpensive but halfway decent sketchbook and watching my favorite streaming channel Tubi. Yes, Tubi is supported by advertising, but the commercials are a lot less obtrusive than the other streamers and … Continue reading
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Posted in It Came From the Sketchbook, Weird World of the Roku, What's on TV?
Tagged Cartoon, cartoons, comics, fun, horror, It Came From The Sketchbook, Joe Williams, Monsters, Sketch
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AAAAAY! Wear the Fonz!
This Fonz T Shirt ad appeared in Justice League of America No. 138 published by DC comics in 1977.
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Posted in What I Miss About Comics
Tagged 1977, ad, Batman, comic, comic book, comics, DC, Fonzie, Happy Days, JLA, USA
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What I Miss About Comics – Perfectly Legitimate Ads
This along with a number of other classified style advertisements for perfectly legitimate products and services appeared in Marvel Spotlight No. 25 published by Marvel Comics in 1975. It was a comic adaptation of Ray Harryhausen’s 1958 fantasy epic The … Continue reading
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Posted in What I Miss About Comics
Tagged 1975, comics, Marvel, movie adaptation, Ray Harryhausen, Sinbad
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Hypnotize!
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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
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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
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Tagged 1973, comics, Fantastic Four, go-kart, Jack Kirby, reprint, speed-bike
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