• When you click on links to various merchants on this site and make a purchase, this can result in this site earning a commission. Affiliate programs and affiliations include, but are not limited to, the eBay Partner Network.

Archived

This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.

Inappropriate Ads in Comics

Started by stroszek,

80 posts in this topic

lizards2

lizards2

Posted
Posted
I'd love to know how those things were shipped, and from where.Imagine trying to ship a live mammal via the PO in this day and age?

 

Not mammals, but when I was in the PO last spring someone had a big order of baby chicks in - you could hear them cheeeping from in the back all the way at the front window. I think the femailman said they call the recipients to get them to pick them up ASAP.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Dr. Balls

Dr. Balls

Posted
Posted

Shad - thanks for the info on Count Dante. I've always been intrigued with those ads. It's too bad the book doesn't hit the public domain for 40 more years. I think you could revitalize it out of nostalgia.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Dr. Balls

Dr. Balls

Posted
Posted
I'd love to know how those things were shipped, and from where.Imagine trying to ship a live mammal via the PO in this day and age?

 

Not mammals, but when I was in the PO last spring someone had a big order of baby chicks in - you could hear them cheeeping from in the back all the way at the front window. I think the femailman said they call the recipients to get them to pick them up ASAP.

 

Yep, chick mailing here in Montana is big. Every year they're peeping it up at the post office. Which is so odd, because we have a large farm store that sells them as well - they must have better pricing through mail order...

Link to comment
Share on other sites
shadroch

shadroch

Posted
Posted
Well, here's a magazine ad from around the same time.....yes...it's for Meth.

 

 

 

3msa8.jpg

 

I like how this one singles out females. Notice the "her" used near the end. Just a little sexist lol

 

 

Mother's Little Helper. It's what gets her thru the day.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Dr. Balls

Dr. Balls

Posted
Posted
We all know about the various ads for terribly disappointing junk from comic books, but what are the truly inappropriate ads? The ones that just don't seem like they should be in books read by kids?

 

I found this one in an issue of Love Romances from 1961. I don't know if this ad was common in 1961 books since I don't have many, or if this was specially targeted for "mommy's copy" of the romance books. Either that or kids were more sophisticated back then.

 

sjOSIel.jpg

 

At 38" high, it must have been for kids.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
chrisco37

chrisco37

Posted
Posted
We all know about the various ads for terribly disappointing junk from comic books, but what are the truly inappropriate ads? The ones that just don't seem like they should be in books read by kids?

 

I found this one in an issue of Love Romances from 1961. I don't know if this ad was common in 1961 books since I don't have many, or if this was specially targeted for "mommy's copy" of the romance books. Either that or kids were more sophisticated back then.

 

sjOSIel.jpg

 

At 38" high, it must have been for kids.

 

It's for kids that want a high end lemonade stand.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
bcphillips119

bcphillips119

Posted
Posted
We all know about the various ads for terribly disappointing junk from comic books, but what are the truly inappropriate ads? The ones that just don't seem like they should be in books read by kids?

 

I found this one in an issue of Love Romances from 1961. I don't know if this ad was common in 1961 books since I don't have many, or if this was specially targeted for "mommy's copy" of the romance books. Either that or kids were more sophisticated back then.

 

sjOSIel.jpg

 

At 38" high, it must have been for kids.

 

It's for kids that want a high end lemonade stand.

 

And learning their ABC's. 123 on the back?

Link to comment
Share on other sites
DeliBebek

DeliBebek

Posted
Posted
We all know about the various ads for terribly disappointing junk from comic books, but what are the truly inappropriate ads? The ones that just don't seem like they should be in books read by kids?

 

I found this one in an issue of Love Romances from 1961. I don't know if this ad was common in 1961 books since I don't have many, or if this was specially targeted for "mommy's copy" of the romance books. Either that or kids were more sophisticated back then.

 

sjOSIel.jpg

 

At 38" high, it must have been for kids.

 

It's for kids that want a high end lemonade stand.

 

And learning their ABC's. 123 on the back?

"Mult [sic] Flute Fibreboard" :) One of these would make good comics packaging.
Link to comment
Share on other sites
Theagenes

Theagenes

Posted
Posted

Some of these ads that offer sex advice are actually fronts for dispensing birth control which was illegal at the time at many states. This was one of the ways Margaret Sanger and other birth control advocates advertised.

 

The artistic and model photos (as well as anything with the words French or Paris) are of course euphemisms for porn.

 

To put things in context and relate it somewhat indirectly to comics, this particular issue also contained the first published work by a young Robert E. Howard.

 

 

SFint.jpg

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Dr. Balls

Dr. Balls

Posted
Posted
Some of these ads that offer sex advice are actually fronts for dispensing birth control which was illegal at the time at many states. This was one of the ways Margaret Sanger and other birth control advocates advertised. [/img]

 

Huh. Interesting! And people say comic books rot your brain.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
chrisco37

chrisco37

Posted
Posted
Some of these ads that offer sex advice are actually fronts for dispensing birth control which was illegal at the time at many states. This was one of the ways Margaret Sanger and other birth control advocates advertised. [/img]

 

Huh. Interesting! And people say comic books rot your brain.

 

So you send my $5 in to learn how to be a babe magnet and you get birth control instead?

 

The guy sending in $5 to score doesn't need birth control. He wasn't banging in the first place.

 

Talk about bait-and-switch.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Go to topic listing