What are some of your favorite OLD SKOOL ADS???

[Rickdogg]

I've always loved to browse through beat up Silver and Bronze books and just view the funny little ads they have. What are some of your favorites? Please post a scan if possible

[blowout]

I always used to like the adds for x-ray specs, as a kid i always thought it would be real cool to have a pair.

[ubiquiti]

The skinny guy who gets sand kicked in his face, then he buys some program that makes him all buff, and he goes back to the beach and scares the bully away.

Also the "earn top pay as a draftsman" ads...they usually had a funny little story where the peon tells off his boss and quits and goes and becomes a "draftsman"

 

[chrisco37]

Seamonkies!

 

Chris

[lighthouse]

My choice would be the ads that ran in the late 50's for the bicycle with the automatic transmission...

 

The ad itself was okay... but the price on the bike was $139.95.

 

Now how much success do you think they had pimping an item that costs 1,400 TIMES as much as the comic it's in?

 

Yeah, lemme pop open a comic of Ultimate Spider-Man and do some shopping for things costing $3,148.85...

 

Mommy? Can I buy this bike in the Archie comic? It's only three thousand dollars!

[Arty]

I couldn't find the beach ad but this is very similar.

From Fight Comics 52 (1947) very funny stuff

 

 

 

[supapimp]

real life size pigmey monkees that fits in the palm of your hand for only $4.99!

[ArAich]

 

Way to go Jack...slaughter that hog...

[aardvark88]

Used to collect stamps b4 I collected comics, so it was only natural for me to cut up my Inc. Hulk 180, 181 to get the Marvel Value Stamps.

[Dano]

I totally sold seeds. Dan.

[Darthdiesel]

Hands Down...the Hostess Pastry ads LADEN with sexual innuendo out the ying yang!!!

[ArAich]

I totally sold seeds.

 

Believe it or not I totally sold Grit....

[chrisco37]

Mmmmm, Mmmmmm....gotta love those Hostess "pies".

 

Chris

[MonumentalCo]

There are a ton of really great comic ads. This has always been one of my favorite things in comic books.

 

Tom

 

[Dano]

The Grit guy always looked so happy and loved... plus what a great Grit carrying bag! Dan.

[MonumentalCo]

Not Bronze or Silver, but how about this Golden Age ad. The ad is for kids to join the Sentinels of Liberty Club. Club members received a metal Captain America badge and a membership card.

 

Tom

[Bugaboo-migration]

I always remember the adds where you could order like a hundred toy soldiers and they came in their own storage chest.......then....when you finally got them......they were pieces of plastic that were almost microscopic and the storage chest was a small cardboard box with graphics.

 

But man.....the add was COOL ! ! !

[Darthdiesel]

Was Grit the first MLM multi-level marketing pyramid scheme that paved the way for later popular catalog sales ventures like (Sc)Amway and Quixtar or the Herbalife, and Candle party, tupperware bs that innundates and weakens our society and economy today?

[Guest]

I always found those LaSalle "Do it at home" College adds to be hilarious! " NoW With A DeGree FroM LaSalle YoU Can EArn $5000 MoRe a Year At yOuR CurrEnT Job!" Suuuuuuuuuuuuuurrrrrrrrreeeeee we could.

[ArAich]

I could have been a poster boy for the Grit, Burpee seed and Greeting card ads.

I actually made money at them. One year I made like $50.00...man I was cool..

 

And since I'm not sure that your being sarcastic or not darth...Grit was a newspaper...Geez any dork knows that...