Post Your Promotional Comic Books Here!!!! 7 7

[BOOT]

 

 

 

Wow, love it! the artwork on this one is beatiful! – more information?

First issued in 1966. Deals with the same themes as the Lou Reed song called "Heroin" for The Velvet Underground, the proto-punk band in 1964 that appeared on their 1967 debut LP. Really grim stuff about heroin addiction leading to total personal downfall. A real issue then and now.

 

Produced by the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in cooperation with the Public Health Service, Health Services and Mental Health Administration, and the National Institute of Mental Health. It was reissued in 1969.

 

A really thick pulpy comic that is worth a read. If you like the VU you might like this.

 

Can't say how well this actually worked at prevention, but far from being camp, this shows the grim reality of the making and unmaking of a junkie.

[BOOT]

Very cool books being posted here and I'm especially enjoying the write-ups by Dr. Love and Boot.

It's definitely given me a better appreciation of this area of collecting.

I always enjoy seeing your books, too! Thanks for sharing!

[BOOT]

1943 Red Ryder Victory Patrol Club Kit

 

Front Cover...(The outer wrap is heavier card stock)...

Yours is in great shape! This one's more worn, but the comic is protected well inside.

 

Love how the addresses are hand-written!

[damonwad]

Very cool books being posted here and I'm especially enjoying the write-ups by Dr. Love and Boot.

It's definitely given me a better appreciation of this area of collecting.

I always enjoy seeing your books, too! Thanks for sharing!

You're welcome, Boot.

 

Back to the promos, do you (or anyone here) know if the 1942-44 Victory Patrol's each have a different Super Book of Comics included inside.

[MrBedrock]

1943 Red Ryder Victory Patrol Club Kit

 

Front Cover...(The outer wrap is heavier card stock)...

Yours is in great shape! This one's more worn, but the comic is protected well inside.

 

Love how the addresses are hand-written!

Someone had to have a sore wrist after writing all of those addresses! It is amazing that they even survive complete given all of the cool stuff a kid could cut out of the outer wrap (decoders, badges, coupons, membership cards), much less the interior comic. I imagine there are quite a few that are missing the "cover".

[Junkdrawer]

[Marty Mann]

This is not really a promotional comic but it was packed inside the box

of a RED RYDER CARBINE purchased a few years ago. It is a reprint

from RED RYDER COMICS #48.

 

 

mm

[vaillant]

Wow, great, many thanks for showing!

What is teh VU? I surely enjoyed the Spider-Man issues dealing with the theme, not as much as the O'Neil Green Lanterns, for different reasons.

 

First issued in 1966. Deals with the same themes as the Lou Reed song called "Heroin" for The Velvet Underground, the proto-punk band in 1964 that appeared on their 1967 debut LP. Really grim stuff about heroin addiction leading to total personal downfall. A real issue then and now.

 

Produced by the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in cooperation with the Public Health Service, Health Services and Mental Health Administration, and the National Institute of Mental Health. It was reissued in 1969.

 

A really thick pulpy comic that is worth a read. If you like the VU you might like this.

 

Can't say how well this actually worked at prevention, but far from being camp, this shows the grim reality of the making and unmaking of a junkie.

[BOOT]

What is teh VU?

[BOOT]

Picked up another version of this and noticed...

 

One copy is the 1937 version...

 

One copy is the 1946 version...

 

from the same New York bank!

 

A successful comic promotion!

[BOOT]

More from Kurt's commercial world...

[vaillant]

Ah, so VU = Velvet Underground?

[The-Collector]

Sweet books esquire it seems you and I have very similar tastes. Only scan I can contribute at this time:

 

[Sqeggs]

Couldn't resist this one.

 

[Arkadin]

Will Eisner couldn't resist satirizing literary sensation Truman Capote in the Spirit.

 

 

Tooty Compote

 

 

Truman Capote in the famous photo from his then just-published first novel "Other Voices, Other Rooms"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited February 8, 2015 by Arkadin

[BOOT]

Here's an Evinrude outboard motor comic in original mailer, from 1961. (Please excuse it's not GA)

 

Also some other versions with different motor models...

 

[BOOT]

Some of these GE promos are common, some are not. Here's one with the original mailing envelope.

[BOOT]

Here's a promo comic for tourism in Montana, with the original mailing envelope. Check out the postage meter art.

[BOOT]

This promo is for Wyoming. Another version was issued with a slick painted outer cover.

[BOOT]

Here's a 1962 catalog for Vital promos, that came with a complete line of samples...