Tag: Comic Book Ads

Retro Rewind Episode 11: Retro Comic Book Ads Video

Episode 11 of my Retro Rewind show is now up on YouTube. In this episode, we flip through an old comic book to take a look at all the cool old ads found inside. I’ve done these type of posts here on the blog where I scan the ads and give a few sentences about them, but I thought it would be fun to try the concept in video form. So you can watch the video below, and let me know what you think of the concept in this form. Hopefully you like it, and if you do, please take a second and hit the LIKE button on the video, and be sure to subscribe to the channel so you don’t miss any future episodes.

by The Retro Rambler

M.A.S.K. Insert From 1986

Earlier this week I was thumbing through some 80’s comics books looking at the classic ads when I came across this absolute gem. At first I thought it was just a short comic story insert featuring M.A.S.K., but then I found that immediately following the short, four page comic, was a few pages of M.A.S.K. merchandise! As soon as I saw it, I knew I wasn’t the only one who would be interested in all this cool stuff, so here in it’s complete glory is the complete 12-page insert! And probably the coolest, yet weirdest, part about all this is the fact they were giving away an actual Chevy Camaro. When you think that the majority…the VAST majority…of people who would see this were kids, it makes the giveaway kind of a head scratcher. But anyway, don’t let that ruin your fun! Enjoy looking through this awesome insert from 1986.

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by The Retro Rambler

Retro Comic Book Ads #3

Old comic books often act as a time capsule. They’re full of advertisements of products from long ago, and can tell us a lot about the culture of the time in which they were printed. Some of those products are still with us, while others are not. I often like to crack open the pages of a long forgotten comic book and just browse the advertisements found inside with which to take a trip back in time to another era. Let’s open one of those time capsules here today and see what we find….

This week’s time capsule is Superman #30 from DC Comics, that came out in 1989. The Superman titles have always one of my favorite books to read, but this is from the era just before I started to read his stories on a regular basis. I picked up in the summer of 1990, and read consistently up until about 1998. Let’s see what old advertising goodness is hidden behind this cover.

How appropriate this is to find an ad for Morning Funnies Cereal since I just did a post detailing my love for the cereal a short while ago. You can check out the full article here, but I’ll add to it and say that it was a great idea to spend advertising dollars on it to run in a comic book since the whole gimmick to the cereal is that the box is covered with comic strips. Makes perfect sense.

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It wouldn’t be a comic book from the late 80’s without some advertisements for video games, and Nintendo specifically. These look like some lesser known titles, but Taito was big in the arcade world with Space Invaders and Super Chase H.Q. being two of their bigger titles. I think Bubble Bobble was a moderate success on the Nintendo, but the other three games I have no recollection of.

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