Mailorder mysteries and hey skinny are both instant nostalgia. The list of the most valuable bronze age comic books. Etsy is the home to thousands of handmade, vintage, and oneofakind products and gifts related to your search. Toys around the clock vintage comic book characters. Delight in finding old childhood friends with toys around the clock, an online store featuring vintage toys, classic comic book characters, action figurines, cartoon memorabilia, retro advertising, dolls, and more. This is my favorite of the grit ads ive featured, since its actually in the form of a comic. Vintage mail order toys at gannons antiques and art. I was reading a 1980 xmen comic when i came across this tonight xmen comics. If todays generation y and zers accuse us baby boomers of being cynical and distrustful, well, i for one blame it all on comic books.
At least, thats what vintage comicbook ads would have you believe. Back when kids could actually afford to buy a comic a week, they were an amazing marketing tool for toy companies to reach their target audience, especially if you had toys that revolved around heroes. Here we have the story of chris, a prematurely grayhaired kid who doesnt have enough money to go have fun with his friends. In this instalment we span the years 1975 to 1988 and feature a dcheavy dose of amazing cover work from the likes of garcia lopez, dick giordano, dan jurgens, karl kezel, ross andru, jan duursema and jack kirby, along with dc adverts for stickons, medallions and superman. Welcome, vintage mates, to another selection of comic book art, covers and ads. Fumetti adult italian style damsels in distress vintage 1980s spanish.
The first time i ever saw comics for sale was in 1979, when the place we called the icee shop got a comic rack. I was in the first grade, and i decided to spend my candy money on a micronauts comic book instead. Its so much more colorful and entertaining than the others. See more ideas about comic books, vintage advertisements and classic comics. Old comic book ads xray specs sea monkeys kit charles atlas workout duration. Todays versions of toys in old comic book ads remember those ads you used to find in the pages of comic books gadgets and toys which were useless, dangerous, fake or just plain surreal onion. The book shows the advertisement for each item and a photo of what the item. Contact us due to minimal staffing for the safety of our employees and community, our phone lines are currently offline. This is an ad for an erector brand toy building set.
Tank trap was a classic helen of toy war game that featured 3d g. Watchmen, a twelveissue comic book limited series written by alan moore, illustrated by dave gibbons and published by dc comics, debuts. Gi joe black perfume old comic books what is the secret pin up posters cat ring old comics vintage tv print ads. Sea monkeys are not actually monkeys, but they do come from the sea and are real living things contrary to popular belief and urban. And have you actually purchased anything from a comic book ad before. This impacted and inspired me to turn a hobby into a passion and have an impact on the world, as little as it may be. Thats why you have to remember that even daisy pump guns arent toys and should probably not be advertised to children in the. I myself never did any of these things, but my wife did sell grit when she was just a wee lass. America was known as the land of plenty, and going by the vast range of toys and goods advertised, this seemed to be true. Its been so long since ive opened up a new comic book, i dont even know if they still run ads anymore. The list of the most valuable important modern age comics 1980s onwards. It makes one wonder if they were not simply all the same people operating under different names.
Being born and raised in scotland meant an intermittent supply of such comic books capers. Thank you to this weeks patrons timothy, henry flit, ronaldo. He wants to keep kids off the street because if he had a comic store with magic and yugioh when he was younger, it would have kept him from making regrettable decisions. Beginning of a dialog window, including tabbed navigation to register an account or sign in to an existing account. Ads for ideal evel knievel toys vintage advertisements, vintage ads, vintage posters, vintage. Youre not spending your pocket money on that cheap rubbish. The top 20 comic book stories of the 1980s berkeley place.
Remembering mattels mad scientist toys of the 1980s. Because of my job, i have spent a lot of time in williamsport, pa over the past 5 years and i took some pictures of the grit building in the downtown area to share with her. The strange history of comic book advertisements syfy wire. Employing various geometric shapes, children could draw brilliant designs of interconnected lines in several ways. Toy soldiers by giant, a large battlefield playmat, and among other accessories, the infamous exploding tanks. As a child i would stare at these ads with a begrudging fascination, knowing that even if they were available to order in the uk my mum would have surely said something like.
Legion of weirdos christopher mast recommended for you. Action league comic series 3 alex ross justice league 1. It was rare continue reading comic book adverts of the 1960s70s. How many of us who grew up in the 1960s and early 70s were. Look at some inside pages by clicking customer images under the cover. I think i got them at toys r us in tulsa, oklahoma, when i was a kid. Classic comic book ads collection by victor alvarez. If you read a comic book between the 1940s and 1980s then you were. This one is actually pretty stripped down compared to the others, without very much text at all, and this is the first ad of theirs ive seen where theyve used a cartoony character rather than a photo or realistic drawing. Heres an incomplete list of typical companies with their locations as printed in vintage comic book ads.
Watchmen, a twelveissue comic book limited series written by alan moore, illustrated by dave gibbons and published by dc comics. It reintroduced batman to the general public as the psychologically dark character of his original 1930s conception, and helped to usher in an era of grim and gritty superheroes from the mid1980s to mid1990s. Oh well, that was the charge, and thats what we had to pay. These classic ads in the back of comic books tricked kids from the 50s through the 80s. Fantastic ads like these ruled the back of my beloved comic books with every issue. No comic book has done more to push the genre forward, out of the primitive wordsandpictures realm and into something mythic and deeply psychological. Legendary comic book heroes toys, action figures and collectibles. Shop for dc action comics comic books on sale at s online toy store. Vintage comic book ads that were too good to be true.
Comic book fever a love letter to 70s and 80s comics. If they dont, its a shame, because a lot of the enjoyment came from these strange little adverts directed at kids. Silver age comics, old comics, old toys, vintage ads, childhood memories. So this is our fourth installment of grit, with the previous ones being from 1963, 1972, and 1980. Pages in category comics based on toys the following 41 pages are in this category, out of 41 total. Old comic book ads xray specs sea monkeys kit charles atlas workout. Todays versions of toys in old comic book ads wired. Collecting modern age comic books as an investment surprisingly modern age comic books can be quite valuable. Vintage comic book ads that were total scams 20 photos the funny pictures nostalgia. Most of these magazines way back then were brought over to glasgow as ballast on cargo ships delivering goods and produce from. Ht lowbrow comics, comicconmovie, 80s comic ads, scarymother.
Grit and atlas and other comicbook ads the classic. Sure, they were almost certainly ripoffs, but who cares. Awesome 1980s toys will make you nostalgic vintagetopia. With the help of elaborate ads that seemed to appear in every comic book released during the late 1960s and 1970s, the scientific marvels known as sea monkeys became one of the most popular toys of all time. This mad scientist toy was also sold with a short comicbook describing the scientists discovery of the alien creature. Hannibal of carthage and scipio of rome battle of zama with toy soldiers by timpo britains etc duration.
From the very early 1950s, through the mid 1980s, comic book companies printed the beloved, nowclassic advertisements for toy soldier sets in the infamous back page mailorder ads of most typical comic books. Every gallerys images are by their original company or artist. More than meets the eye tv toy commercials by hasbro. Revenge of the retro japanese toy adverts japanese toys, epoch. Even if it just had the battle between the aged superman and batman, it would have been worth the price of admission. Expand your options of fun home activities with the largest online selection at. Cool comic book toy ads from the 70s toys and funky. If youre an aging comic book fan, say in your late 40s or early 50s, comic book fever will scratch the hell out of any nostalgic itch youve ever felt about the hobby. No matter what youre looking for or where you are in the world, our global marketplace of sellers can help you find unique and affordable options. In case these new comics are too good to include cheesy toy ads anymore, heres a handful of vintage advertisements to fill the void.
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