What I Miss About Comics…Celebrity Endorsements
Before anybody knew who they were. Do you know this couple? Well, she’s not really anybody, but she’s probably a nice person, a good wife and mother, and probably a fairly decent grandmother at this...
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Tucked away in an issue of Special Marvel Edition No. 5 is yet another career training ad. This one is for career training for jobs in the airline industry, and it seems to push the fringe benefits of...
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I know that all the kids out there who came across this ad lusted after the idea of becoming the envy of the neighborhood with this baby. I think I begged my parents for this more than once, but their...
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Miniature Chairman of the Board? …or was this kid in an episode of The Wire? This was another one of those Earn Cash or Prizes ads that ran for decades aimed at kids hoping that there was something...
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