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Frazetta's anti-smoking ad

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selegue

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I've never seen this before. Apparently it was scanned from Vampirella 8 (Warren) but appeared in all the Warren mags.

 

I bet panel 2 convinced more teen-age boys to kick the habit than those little warning labels on cigarette packs.

 

57876-FrazCigAd.jpg

 

Jack, boardless hodad

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VintageComics

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I don't want to offend anyone...but panel 2 is so beautiful. I could stare at it for hours. I pretty much do every time I see it.

 

R.

 

 

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sterlingcomics

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I wonder if anyone can calculate the cigarette costs in today's dollars.

 

If this ad were made today, I bet they would talk about how he's never huffing when he and his girllfriend "Get it on". Also, if they didn't bring up the board, today's ad would talk about how you have "cigarette breath" and that it turns the girls off.

 

Then again, maybe the folks reading this back then thought girls were yucky... :)

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shadroch

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Ah,the 60s. :cloud9: When a pack a day habit ran $128 bucks a year.

Prices in NYC are pushing $8 a pack,and the state tax goes up another buck a pack in a few weeks.A pack a day smoker these days burns thru about $3300

in the City. Maybe $2000 elsewhere.

Glad I quit when I did. :acclaim:

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Guardian Comics

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Panel 2 is the girls back shot correct? I must be missing something but I just don't get it, but then again I don't get Ditko either. No wonder most of my original art is for sale, as apparently I don't have an eye for it :sorry:

 

Jim

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Jayman

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I think I have seen this ad throughout my life since I was about 8 yrs. old. (I remember thinking it was Vampirella!)

Panal 2 and 5 have been etched in my memory! :cloud9:

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selegue

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I wonder if anyone can calculate the cigarette costs in today's dollars.

 

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Calculated (not by me) on another group:

 

"I looked up how much a Liquid Shredder surfboard costs today ($300) and ran it through an inflation calculator. In 1970 it would have cost $55, so they'd have to give up 8.6 cigarettes a day to pay for one in a year."

 

Jack

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Panel 2 is the girls back shot correct? I must be missing something but I just don't get it, but then again I don't get Ditko either. No wonder most of my original art is for sale, as apparently I don't have an eye for it :sorry:

 

Jim

 

Curves and dimples my friend....it's all about the shadows.

 

;)

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Stronguy

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Smokes are about 25 cent each ($5/pack). That's $1825 a year @ 20/day. They would have to ~3.25 cigarettes/day to pay for it in a year.

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jools&jim

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Yep...that's a classic -- even the ads in those old Warrens were cool! I'm also pretty sure it was scripted by the late, great Archie Goodwin, and was maybe Frazetta's last comic book-style work? (shrug)

 

Lotsa talent on tap back in those days...

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seank

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I wonder if anyone can calculate the cigarette costs in today's dollars.

 

If this ad were made today, I bet they would talk about how he's never huffing when he and his girllfriend "Get it on". Also, if they didn't bring up the board, today's ad would talk about how you have "cigarette breath" and that it turns the girls off.

 

Then again, maybe the folks reading this back then thought girls were yucky... :)

 

Let's see, guy walking away with his arm around the hot babe saying he doesn't get winded...

 

Stamina's good for more things than surfing.

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CAP Freak

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I wonder if anyone can calculate the cigarette costs in today's dollars.

 

If this ad were made today, I bet they would talk about how he's never huffing when he and his girllfriend "Get it on". Also, if they didn't bring up the board, today's ad would talk about how you have "cigarette breath" and that it turns the girls off.

 

Then again, maybe the folks reading this back then thought girls were yucky... :)

 

Let's see, guy walking away with his arm around the hot babe saying he doesn't get winded...

 

Stamina's good for more things than surfing.

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JohnT

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Speaking of thought provoking ads - this one gave me a chuckle when I saw it in the back of the Spectacular Spider-man magazine:

 

vibratorad.jpg

 

:insane:I wonder if this ad was for the lonely ladies hm

 

:roflmao:

 

 

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