For his upcoming book Mail-Order Mysteries, author Kirk Demarais assessed dozens of craptacular items you could purchase from the sensationalist comic book ads of yore. Here’s his video ...

Plus, special Halloween, Christmas, and Easter stories. The book is available in paperback or hardcover and covers 26 issues, rounding out to a massive 600-page tome.

Advertisements: House ads for other DC romance comics. TIME FOR LOVE No. 8 (1969) Time for Love publisher Charlton Comics occupied the low rung on the industry ladder, with substandard writing ...

As part of the new Marvel Legacy not-a-relaunch, Marvel Comics has created a number of “retro ads” for the not-relaunched series. We have shown you plenty of examples in the past, and today we ...

As part of the new Marvel Legacy not-a-relaunch, Marvel Comics has created a number of “retro ads” for the not-relaunched series. We were the first to ...

While most vintage comic book products didn't deliver as advertised, one actually did. The ad said: "Darling Pet Monkey." It showed a cute little squirrel monkey sitting in the palm of someone's hand.

But there were other ads in those old comic books, placed by companies who wanted you to give them other people’s money. All you had to do was hit the pavement and sell their products door to door.

What a marvel-ous home. Vintage comic books and figurines fill an “abandoned” house discovered by urban explorer Devin Dark, who suspects the ’80s and ’90s merchandise is worth “millions ...

Cracked.com takes a look at a dozen vintage comic-book ads, and pins the sad tale of disappointment on the ever-happy donkey of \[…\] Skip to main content. Open Navigation Menu.

Did you know that in the 1950s and '60s, two Alabama politicians and Martin Luther King used comics to publicize their points of view in the civil rights movement? It's true. A comic book about ...

Real Vintage Christmas Ad. As claimed in the Reddit post, the in-question ad appeared in the Dec. 12, 1969, issue of Life magazine, as archived on Google Books (page 33). (Google Books) ...