Category: Advertisement

If You Can Remember The 60s . . .

. . . you weren’t there.

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Yeah . . . I’m kinda glad I wasn’t there.

(Ad from Justice League of America #57, cover dated November 1967)

Random Ad

Still working through War of The Gods and, as it was published in 1991, it still has those full page collections of ads where you could learn to “draw supercharacters” or get a “Marvel/DC price guide” or build muscles including “Bull-Like Shoulders“!

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or even get a “Live Chameleon FREE!” when you buy 200 Live Meal Worms but the one that caught my eye was in the top right:

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Now there’s nothing unusual about getting 30% off the cover price of new comics – hell, I’m up for that, but what really puzzled me was the bloke at the bottom of the ad:

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Who is he? What is that contraption that is shooting arrows both away from and towards it? Why is one of those arrows heading to his glasses? And perhaps most importantly of all . . .

What the hell does that have to do with

getting 30% off comics?!

The Crossover Event Of 1991

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Surely that was Armageddon 2001, wasn’t it?

This house ad appeared well after War of The Gods had started and was an example of what George Perez complained about – DC didn’t do a great deal of prep for this event as Armageddon 2001 was already planned for the summer.

Crisis House Ad

Came across this house ad for what was then titled DC Universe: Crisis on Infinite Earths in Green Lantern #186, cover dated March 1985:

GL 186 Crisis Ad2As the first issue of Crisis was cover dated April ’85, just one month later, I can only guess that the ad was done months in advance which is why it still had the original series title.

Sill, it’s sort of nice to see that even at that early stage, the tag-line of “The DC Universe will never be the same” was in place.