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Post by hondobrode on Feb 25, 2019 19:39:41 GMT -5
Hey Kids, want a grenade for $1.00Own a piece of Krypton!  As a kid, I thought that was the coolest piece of merchandising from anything Superman-related, and I wanted one. That never happened , but in recent years, I've seen a few for sale at conventions and eBay, and its not as impressive as the ad sort of leads you believe it was.
What a surprise
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Feb 25, 2019 21:08:08 GMT -5
You can find photos and write-ups of many of these items in...  |
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Post by EdoBosnar on Feb 26, 2019 3:45:25 GMT -5
You can find photos and write-ups of many of these items in... Since the famous, or perhaps notorious, X-ray specs ad is on the front cover, it reminded me of this blog post from some years ago, about one boy's mission to get a pair back in 1970. The post is a little longer, but well worth the read. |
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Post by MDG on Feb 26, 2019 9:06:21 GMT -5
I was reading a Gold Key Man from UNCLE the other day and saw this ad:
 I'm used to seeing ads for the Famous Artists school, usually with Norman Rockwell or Al Dorne in the ad, but I'd never heard of Ake Skiold. A little searching found this:  |
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Post by hondobrode on Feb 26, 2019 9:46:04 GMT -5
You can find photos and write-ups of many of these items in...
What a great idea for a book !
Just ordered my copy.
Thanks for the heads up Slam !
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Post by hondobrode on Mar 15, 2019 21:33:18 GMT -5
Update
It's a pretty quick read but quite fun.
I remember seeing most of these ads and as a wee young lad wondered about these things, since my short-sighted, narrow-minded, depressingly cynical mother would never let me find out for myself.
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Post by electricmastro on Jan 2, 2020 21:54:47 GMT -5
What seems like an item that was greatly coveted back in the day: a noiseless, portable typewriter (The Comics Magazine #2, June 1936).  |
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Post by urrutiap on Jan 2, 2020 22:51:46 GMT -5
Its funny that with going through my old back issues of Power Pack, Conan, Amazing Spider-Man and X-Men that the old timey rip off ads of bodybuilding and gag gifts from the 1930s to 1950s were still being advertised in comic books during the 1980s.
You'd think old junk ads like that would have gone away but they were still around even in the 1980s
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Post by jason on Jan 7, 2020 17:22:14 GMT -5
Eventually, the X-Ray Specs ads started using the words "appear to see throuh walls, skin, etc", basically covering themselves legally.
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Post by beccabear67 on Jan 7, 2020 18:17:55 GMT -5
I had/still have a heavy-duty Remington typewriter. Not noiseless. Also not all that portable either.  Åke Skiöld... I was guessing was Norweigan based on remembering a fan magazine titled TEGN (any Don Martin fanatics want an interview with him in Norge?) but it says at a wiki site he was Swedish. |
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