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Skywald Comics
The image above is the first cover from one of the more oddball comics firms of the 1970s, Skywald Publications.
You can read the whole of issue number one of Nightmare here, at the Internet Archive, which also features several other full comics from Skywald.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Apr 25, 2013 -
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Category: Business, Eccentrics, Comics, 1930s
Suntory Whisky
Nine shots and he can still walk! That must be some weak booze....
Posted By: Paul - Thu Apr 18, 2013 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, 1960s, Asia, Alcohol
Follies of the Madmen #203
Turkish Airlines - Wingo TVC - English from Robotika Films on Vimeo.
I don't know... That bird reminds me of too many other incompetent fictional birds. Especially the klutzy Launchpad McQuack. I'm not feeling in good hands--or wings--here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Apr 01, 2013 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Business, Advertising, Air Travel and Airlines, Europe
Follies of the Madmen #202
"Fun to play with, not to eat!" "Impossible to eat!" And why did the last commercial change the refrain to "impossible to BEAT"...?
Yeah, right, impossible to eat. How many of these imitation foodstuffs were forcefed or enticingly offered to unsuspecting younger siblings who scarfed them down?
Posted By: Paul - Fri Mar 15, 2013 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Food, Toys
Follies of the Madmen #201
The message here? Sloppy panties imperil the elderly and the nation's health care policies.
More in extended >>
Posted By: Paul - Fri Mar 01, 2013 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Elderly, Underwear, 1940s
Follies of the Madmen #200
50 Jahre Orion (TV Ad) from MovieBrats Films & Animation on Vimeo.
200 dumb and/or silly ads! How did we get here? What did we learn? Where are we going? Will the public ever wise up? The answers remain enigmatic.
But this over-the-top ad seems his fitting for such a milestone.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Feb 17, 2013 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Business, Advertising, Products
Follies of the Madmen #199
Special smokes for wimps!
Posted By: Paul - Thu Feb 14, 2013 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Television, Tobacco and Smoking, Wimps, Milquetoasts and Cowards, 1960s
Follies of the Madmen #198
Sloggis? Really? Isn't that the worst name for briefs?
Still in business, so it must work, I guess.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Feb 07, 2013 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Weird Names, Underwear, 1980s
Borden Ice Cream Ads
I watch only one half-hour of TV per week--THE SIMPSONS--so I am not really qualified to assert this. Maybe a reader can clarify. Are there such things nowadays as TV ads for ice cream? I think not. In the 1950s, Americans had to be trained to consume luxuries like ice cream. Now we eat it automatically, three times a day! So why waste money on ads?
Posted By: Paul - Wed Feb 06, 2013 -
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Category: Addictions, Eating, Business, Advertising, Television, Junk Food, 1950s
Follies of the Madmen #197
As gross-outs go, the notion of a giant head raining its dandruff on helpless humans (or is that a normal-sized head raining on shrunken doll people?), is pretty far up the scale. Not sure, however, that it makes me want to buy the product.
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jan 24, 2013 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Disasters, 1940s, Hair and Hairstyling
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