whats yr fave advert inna comic ?

I always wanted a footlocker full of toy soldiers. And my own nuclear submarine would've been nice.

deffo that footlocker full of toy soldiers.

I also liked all those ads in '80s marvel comics warning against child abuse.

the fake ads for Get Ugly products in 2000AD were always good for a laugh. "Stick on Ears! They grow on you!" "Flabbon - Use as part of your calorie uncontrolled diet!" and so on.

build yr own electric guitar (science kit), with cartoon of kid groovin' away on his little cardboard box effort. ha

SHITTEST adverts in UK comics were for STAMPS - 200 different!! With FREE pack of fifty hinges! Fuck off! For *this* I lose half a page of SERGEANT STREETWISE? Most tempting ads were for boardgames - Buccaneer and that one about the lost city of the incas (?).

My US comic reading era was the mid-80s when all the adverts were crap so to talk of sea monkeys and GRIT would be fake nostalgia on my part, great though those ads were. My main ad memories therefore are:

i) infinities of sweet products, explorers finding a chew bar as big as a mountain range, totally fucking peasy anagram advert to find the five flavours of chew ("PPELA", "GIF" etc.)

ii) New Season Saturday Mornings on NBC feat. Punky Brewster. I should ask Americans one day what all these dreadful-looking cartoons were.

iii) Fake 'comics' interrupting the actual comic, worst offenders being Cap'n Crunch and the Spinjas. Says something for bottom-of- barrell late-80s comic art that the style was so house it could be imitated so totally.

iv) Endless endless TSR adverts for the Forgotten Realms etc. These I hate much more now cos of my time working in the comic shop - when you bag the comics all you see is whatever is on the back.

mmm, big box of soldiers, nice. I also wanted a pair of Tony Dorsett endorsed Pony Trainers. Then they finally came over here, and they were rubbish.

This wonderful website has got every Hostess Twinkies superhero strip, btw: twinkies

tom, fire away with the cartoons. i relish the challenge. ;)

I'd need my old comics for reference so maybe next week Jess.

i bet foofur was in there. maybe the smufs, but everyone knows them. something scary starring bears.

Ah, Seanbaby.com -- site of the gods. May I call your attention to this page and how you need to see the 'Rock and Roll Space Fiends' episode?

SEA MONKEYS!

The Hostess ads (integrating their pastry goodness w/ superheroes and villians almost as lame as The Clockmaster) were a staple of my youth. Same w/ that Spalding ad featuring Dr. J and RICK BARRY!

Most memorable back cover - ad for the Star Wars console game back in the early 80s (vector graphics). I think the company was Parker Brothers. Shot of a kid in sunglasses getting his game on (w/ the game reflecting in his glasses) - you could see straight up his nose, and he had a FAT, crusty booger stuck to the inside of his nostril. Disgusting.