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\"\"<\/a>Did you know you could sleep with Raquel Welch for $1.98?<\/em>\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This cheesy ad for an inflatable pillow printed with Raquel Welch’s likeness ran in comics for years, but I scanned it from Our Fighting Forces featuring The Losers<\/strong> No. 138 which was published by DC Comics in 1972. What’s interesting about this terrific Joe Kubert cover is how much it resembles the iconic poster for the blockbuster Jaws.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Of course, Joe Kubert had the concept 2 to 3 years before the advertising agency started kicking around imagery for the 1975 blockbuster that started the concept of Summer blockbusters. Also Joe used a U-boat rather than a Carcharodon carcharias.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Did you know you could sleep with Raquel Welch for $1.98?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[335],"tags":[595,359,970,726,785,734,972,976,975,974,971,821,973,336,3671,977],"class_list":["post-5006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-i-miss-about-comics","tag-595","tag-ad","tag-carcharodon-carcharias","tag-comic-book","tag-fantasy","tag-jaws","tag-joe-kubert","tag-pillow","tag-raquel-welch","tag-sex","tag-shark","tag-submarine","tag-the-losers","tag-vintage","tag-what-i-miss-about-comics","tag-world-war-ii"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-1iK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9455,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2012\/08\/21\/what-i-miss-about-comics-joe-kubert\/","url_meta":{"origin":5006,"position":0},"title":"What I Miss About Comics…Joe Kubert","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"August 21, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Sadly, last week marked the passing of a comics giant - Joe Kubert. 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