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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2014 11:42:59 GMT -5
You know, like clip out the coupon, send it in, wait anxiously for something to arrive in the post.
Mine would be Archie related of course. I was still a kid, clipped out a coupon, added a US dollar and got my mom to post the letter. I was stoked!
I didn't know the ad was almost 20 years old...and that 25c Giant-Size Archies from 1970 weren't being published anymore.
The guys at Archie were still cool about it...they sent me 3 comics in the mail, and then staggered one per month for about 3 month after it, so I got 6 Archies! My very first dab at the mail order.
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Post by DE Sinclair on Jun 19, 2014 11:59:33 GMT -5
Not exactly the same, but I saw an ad for the Origins of Marvel Comics book in a then-current mid-120s issue of Avengers. I didn't want to cut out the coupon and ruin the comic, so I sent them a letter asking how I could get it without the coupon. Not surprisingly, I never heard back from them. A couple years later I found it in a bookstore and still have it to this day.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jun 19, 2014 12:05:12 GMT -5
DC comics throughout the 60s had coupons for Palisades Amusement Park.Free admission on certain days of the week as well as 2 coupons for a free ride.Since Palisades Amusement park was right across the Hudson River from New York City,I took advantage of it many times.
Marvel comics in the later part of the 60s/early 70s had classified ads with a few people selling old comic books.One of the long running advertisers was Robert Bell who also ran a thrift shop not far from where I lived.Thanks to the Marvel ad I found his store and became a steady customer buying back issue comics.Bought Fantastic Four #1 from him for $5 in 1969
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Post by Hoosier X on Jun 19, 2014 12:07:04 GMT -5
When I was very young and was only buying the occasional comic, I ordered the six-foot-tall Frankenstein's monster! It turned out to be a poster, with glow-in-the-dark eyes. We had it for years and we would hang it in the upstairs hallway for a few weeks around Halloween.
When I was a little older and started buying super-hero comics regularly, I cut out the coupon to order Son of Origins of Marvel Comics. I don't remember which comic it was, but I remember picking very carefully which comic to cut up. It was probably either a reprint or something I didn't buy very often (The Defenders or Power Man perhaps).
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Post by DubipR on Jun 19, 2014 12:20:35 GMT -5
I would say in the mid 80s, subscribing to some comics from Marvel.
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Post by MatthewP on Jun 19, 2014 12:32:57 GMT -5
I ordered one of these:  Everything was kind of flat rather than full 3 dimensional figures, but I was happy enough with them. The planes in particular were very cool. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2014 13:40:43 GMT -5
Some ad in a 1966ish Archie title that had something to do with, I dunno, a bike or something. Obviously, my memory of it is very vague. Never received a response, regardless.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jun 19, 2014 14:18:56 GMT -5
I remember BEGGING my parents to let me sign up for one of those 'sell stuff in your neighboorhood and win prizes' things... they eventually gave in, and the place was out of business.. the letter/form came back undeliverable. My young dreams of capitalism were crushed.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2014 14:28:04 GMT -5
This ad, or one very similar to it, fired my imagination with all sorts of imagined possibilities when I encountered it as a budding young numismatist circa age 11. If sending away for it netted any result at all -- even a catalogue -- I sure as heck don't remember it.  |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jun 19, 2014 14:29:01 GMT -5
I remember BEGGING my parents to let me sign up for one of those 'sell stuff in your neighboorhood and win prizes' things... they eventually gave in, and the place was out of business.. the letter/form came back undeliverable. My young dreams of capitalism were crushed. Was this it?  |
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Post by Hoosier X on Jun 19, 2014 14:37:16 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2014 14:54:15 GMT -5
I remember BEGGING my parents to let me sign up for one of those 'sell stuff in your neighboorhood and win prizes' things... they eventually gave in, and the place was out of business.. the letter/form came back undeliverable. My young dreams of capitalism were crushed. Was this it? Doubtful. Grit's still around, I think. The then-friend who lied to me about having seen Brother Power the Geek #3 on an out-of-town spinner rack sold it for awhile, come to think of it ... |
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Post by MDG on Jun 19, 2014 15:33:17 GMT -5
I stopped buying CREEPY at issue #34, though I'd still leaf through it at the stands. I ended up buying #54 less for the book itself (though I was interested in seeing the color story) than for an ad for the first East Coast Comics EC reprint.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jun 19, 2014 15:38:23 GMT -5
It was almost certainly for a price list. Maybe Howard Rogofsky...maybe Mile High...maybe someone else.
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Post by Crimebuster on Jun 19, 2014 16:23:43 GMT -5
I actually sold stuff for one of those companies doing comic ads in the mid-80's. Don't remember the name of the company but if I find the ad, I'm sure I'll recognize it. I never got rich doing it, sadly.
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