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Tag Archives: Fantastic Four
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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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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A Weighty Request
When you have about an inch of column space and are competing for eyeballs with Sea Monkeys, switchblade pocket combs and get-rich schemes, subtlety is a luxury advertisers in comic books could not afford.
Posted in Curious Clutter, What I Miss About Comics
Tagged 105, 1970, color, Fantastic Four, Fat, John Romita, Marvel Comics, newsprint, Stan Lee, weight
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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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The Fantastic Four From Liverpool
The guy on the right is Ringo or possibly Jerry Lewis. The other guys are John, George and Paul or possibly any one of the members of Freddie and the Dreamers.
The Last Thing I Remember…
…was laughing hysterically at this guy’s hair-do.