the stuff that gets advertised in comic books

I remember the first time I read American comic books I was genuinely distracted by the ads, because Finnish comic books only had ads in the inside and back covers, never in the middle of the story.

Also, Finnish comic books always had at least two 24-page stories in them, often more. Back when I read it, the local X-Men book always had two 24-page stories in one monthly issue... The Finnish X-Men was running a few years behind the American title, and I remember there was a genuine concern about what would happen once the Finnish X-Men caught up the American one, because they only released one 24-page X-Men book a month. Oh, how things have changed!

I miss those crappy Howard Rogofsky and Robert Bell ads.

The first month's worth of Marvel comics I ever got on import were around the time the new seasons' Saturday Morning Kids TV came out: I was absolutely mind-boggled at i. the number of channels and ii. the number of shows I had never in a million years heard of. The only one I can now remember is the Berenstein Bears though.

When I worked in a comic shop and my duties included bagging and pricing the back issues I became very very familiar with late 80s and early 90s back cover ads: ON THE 1,315,893RD DAY WE RESTED.

The Bullet Boys album sleeve must have been printed on more DC back covers than actual albums, by some astronomical factor.

Modern comics need to have more ads for bogus bodybuilding programmes and devices which facilitate the viewing of ladies' underwear.

Modern comics need to have more ads for bogus bodybuilding programmes which facilitate the viewing of ladies' underwear.

I'm glad this thread came up, because I was reading some 80s Batman stuff this morning, and I found THE GREATEST of all the Hostess Superhero Ads, which I will post tomorrow.

Also, I miss the double-splash ads for the new fall Saturday Morning line-ups.

prob too big for ILX

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y298/hukl/hawkhostess.jpg

further sideline - does nintendo ds actually stand for anything? at all?

It's "dual screen", isn't it?

Forget it... just enjoy your Hostess Cup Cakes.

a man can hardly read a funnybook these days without someone making him feel bad for his dope smoking habit.

Weren't all those 'tobacco is whacko IS YOU@RE A TEEN' adverts paid for by cigarette companies?

Don't feel bad, ian. For some reason my proposed "Date rape is my anti-drug" full-pager was rejected.

Weren't all those 'tobacco is whacko IS YOU@RE A TEEN' adverts paid for by cigarette companies?

They were inept enough for me to think that's the case.