The auanauts was a great introduction to scuba diving and adventure. It was rare continue reading comic book adverts of the 1960s70s. Comic book ads from the1950s and 1960s barrys pearls of comic. The ads also included recruitment of youngsters to act as salespeople for products such as greeting cards and the national newspaper grit. Sep 10, 2014 its been so long since ive opened up a new comic book, i dont even know if they still run ads anymore.
Television set was most likely made by lido products and came in many different versions back in the 60s. Jan 24, 20 comic book ads from the1950s and 1960s i do miss old comics. Both boys popped up, without billing, alongside their mother in the film the. Sure, they were almost certainly ripoffs, but who cares. Etsy is the home to thousands of handmade, vintage, and oneofakind products and gifts related to your search. Items similar to my greatest adventure 47 comics, gifts, silver age books. From the heyday of comic book mail order ads, a look back at the top 10 best. Sep 20, 2011 mailorder mysteries presents original comic book ads alongside photos of what actually arrived in the mail, accompanied by some clever descriptions of what the purchaser imagined and what the manufacturers sent.
A celebration of that emergence, marvel comics in the 1960s. Being born and raised in scotland meant an intermittent supply of such comic books capers. Comic book advertisements are a common feature in american comic books mainly from the. Great comic books of the sixties by billy ingram 1995 article. This one is actually pretty stripped down compared to the others, without very much text at all, and this is the first ad of theirs ive seen where theyve used a cartoony character rather than a photo or realistic drawing. Mailorder mysteries and hey skinny are both instant nostalgia. I was never really a fan of the stories except superman and richie rich, but for some reason i loved the advertisements. It is absolutely spot on when it comes to what made marvel great during this period of comic book history. They had lives beyond the bitter tomb of the grit newspaper.
Most of these magazines way back then were brought over to glasgow as ballast on cargo ships delivering goods and produce from. Grit and atlas and other comicbook ads the classic. See more ideas about vintage advertisements, vintage ads and ads. Approximately 30,000 children collected dimes from more than 700,000 american small town. How many of us who grew up in the 1960s and early 70s were lured by those enticing ads promising. Just based on this ad, i like wallace brown better than grit they actually encourage everyone to participate in this not just boys.
Vintage comic book ads that were too good to be true. I dont think i ever ordered anything else from a comic book after that. If id been a kid in the 60s who wanted to earn money, this seems like a better and somewhat more legitimate option than a lot of the other choices out there. Apr 11, 2012 11 shameless comic book ads that cost us our allowance. It stated that superman was a character that appeared in action comics and superman magazines, so i had to have some. A truck zoomed by blasting us with a frigid breeze in its passing. This ad actually turned out to be more educational for me than i was expecting. However, it is important to remind filmgoers that these characters have been around since the 1960s. As a kid i grow in the world of television heros, the aquanauts was that tv show that really excited me. Thanks, wikipedia, who goes on to say regarding their ads in comic books. Delightful treasures from vintage comic book ads by kirk. I do remember being quite indignant, though, about the old grit ads, whose application for salesmen clearly asked, are you a boy. Children of the 1960s and 70s first learned one of lifes great lessonsyou get what. Who doesnt remember the fullpage ad featuring the humiliation of the 97 lb.
There is a lot to be said about archives and masterworks, they are a relatively inexpensive way of getting old stories. Comic book ads from the1950s and 1960s barrys pearls of. These ads were in almost every comic book i remember. This is why as kids, every so often wed come across an ad in a. From the 40s to the 70s, ads for grit would appear regularly in comics, not necessarily offering subscriptions but recruiting newsboys to sell. Many generations of comic book readers are now familiar with these characters as a result of full length feature films. The evolution of american comic book superheroes begins with the birth of superman in june 1938 and ends with the death of captain america in march 2007. So this is our fourth installment of grit, with the previous ones being from 1963, 1972, and 1980.
Look at some inside pages by clicking customer images under the cover. Superman annual 1960 comic book by dc 26 issues, 30 covers oct 1960 to oct 2009. Im sure i found all these opportunities in comicbook ads. Did you ever sell grit or order 200 plastic army men. Having to be so cynical see more ideas about cynical, nostalgia, vintage comic books. Id envisioned people actually using the grit paper as kindling for their fires. During the first threequarters of the 20th century, grit was sold across the country by children and teenagers, many recruited by ads in comic books from the 1940s to the 1970s. Anybody remember that newspaper that used to advertise in comic books in the 60s and 70s, trying to get kids to be paperboys for them. A lot of ads in old comic books just wanted your money. Grit carried a fullpage ad offering valentine cards for seven cents each. Its well known, and there is a whole industry that thrives on it. He grew up amid the happening hollywood scene with big brother beau bridges.
Weve been selling comics since 1961 our first sale. For some reason, the covers of dc comic books of that time 6569 reached out to me, they made me want to buy as many of them as i could, and lunch money went less for lunch and more and more for comic books at the nearest drug store after school. See more ideas about classic cartoons, childhood memories and saturday morning cartoons. May 31, 2016 i earned a pocket watch and possibly other small prizes that i cant recall. The comic section for january 1, 1950, carried the following sunday comic strips in blackandwhite. Comic book ads from the1950s and 1960s i do miss old comics.
Many young children loved to read about the 1960s superheroes. While some complain of formatting, anything lacking in the book was easily compensated for in pure content. Comic characters often receive grim and gritty reboots. Nov 28, 2014 things those of us of a certain age yearned for as kids reading american comic books xray specs, sea monkeys et al. The strange world of comic book ads say no to crack. Fantastic ads like these ruled the back of my beloved comic books with every issue. Many of the toy and video game ads are awesome, but you also see many other ads that showed up for decades within many different comics. I was caught the excitement in the underwater world. Oh well, that was the charge, and that s what we had to pay. Turns out russ created the two most famous comic book toy soldier ads and they are probably among the most widely remembered and most reprinted ads ever seen in comic books of the era. They could relate to the characters human emotions.
Wikipedia says the paper used comic book ads to solicit juvenile salesmen from the 1940s through the 1970s. Oct 28, 2011 robbins was active in the early underground comics movement, creating the first allwomen comic book, it aint me, babe, and has written several books on the history of comics, including. When i was a kid, my brother collected comic books. With the headline instant live sea animals i initially assumed it was some generic knockoff of seamonkeys but then i noticed that it actually used the term seamonkeys in the description. Wow, just look at how happy that kid is with his sack full of cash. In the real world people were laughing, being indoors sansrunny noses and frigid fingers.
As a kid, i first discovered comic books in 1965 when i saw the tag at the end of the superman tv show that was then in reruns. My most lucrative business was selling lancaster vegetable and flower seeds at 10cents a packet. Its been so long since ive opened up a new comic book, i dont even know if they still run ads anymore. I also started scanning some of the advertisements found within the comic books. Todays is from the 60s, then weve got this one from the 70s and this one from the 80s. Almost every comic book in the 1970s had ads recruiting boys to sell grit.
Great advertisements from the golden age of comic books, a large size paperback that reprints in colour comic book ads from the forties and fifties. Awesome comic book ads of the past informations about retrospace. The first time i ever saw comics for sale was in 1979, when the place we called the icee shop got a comic rack. If they dont, its a shame, because a lot of the enjoyment came from these strange little adverts directed at kids. As a fan of silver age comics, i couldnt have been more happy with marvel comics in the 1960s. Here are some comic books i remember reading when i was growing up. Not in the northeast, but it was big in rural america. Many times, these are even more memorable than the comic book itself. The strange history of comic book advertisements syfy wire. No matter what youre looking for or where you are in the world, our global marketplace of sellers can help you find unique and affordable options. So, in tribute to that power of imagination or is it gullibility. Yes i know they were pants now but at the time i imagined these things really worked. These classic ads in the back of comic books tricked kids from the 50s through the 80s.
It was rare continue reading comic book adverts of the 1960s 70s. We spoke to russ directly on 1804 to talk about his classic comic book ads. Classic comic book ads collection by victor alvarez. An issuebyissue field guide to a pop culture phenomenon presents a stepbystep look at how a company that had the reputation of being one of the least creative in a generally moribund industry, emerged as one of the most dynamic, slightly irreverent, and downright original. Approximately 30,000 children collected dimes from more than 700,000 american small town homes during the 1950s when the publication still carried the subtitle. Here are a 10 crazy vintage comic book ads i recently stumbled across. I was in the first grade, and i decided to spend my candy money on a micronauts comic book instead.