The artist, Tom Lovell, had quite a career doing pulp magazine covers and paintings of the American West. And Siamese cats in whiskey ads.
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Just because you look like a serial killer doesn’t mean you can’t look snazzy too!
Fun Fact: This ad came out a month before the first episode of The Addams Family on TV.
Another Fun Fact: Gent magazine was once subtitled “Home of the D-Cups.”
Continue readingRemember back when certain folks insisted seat belt laws were a violation of our civil rights?
John Blake seems like one of those guys who would protest face masks and social distancing.
Fun Fact: Before 1980, only 11% of Americans used seat belts. This ad is from 1970.
Continue readingSome ads are easier to Mach than others.
Dude totally can’t believe they stuck him in a room with a stupid gramophone.
Continue reading“It’s a killer-diller!”
“You bet, almost before you know it, a daily 10 minutes with ‘MINI-GYM’ builds you into the kind of real ‘he man’ material bosses want most… and girls go for fastest!” — It pays to read the tiny, tiny type!
Alas, I had to settle for the crappy Trax sneakers from Kmart.
The day Bill told off his boss
The boss’s name is Mr. Bemis. I wonder if he’s any relation to Henry Bemis, the fellow in episode 8 of The Twilight Zone — “Time Enough at Last” — in 1959?
It’s fun to be fooled, but it’s more fun to fool others.
Fun • Magic • Mystery
It’s Fun to be fooled — but it’s More Fun to fool others
Multiplying Billiard Balls
Loaded Cigars
St. Peter’s Lesson
The Floating-Dancing Handkerchief
Nickels Change to Dimes!
Amazing Finger Chopper Trick
Secret Wonder Mirror
Vanishing Key Mystery
Lit Cigarette Vanishes and then reappears!
Send all orders to The House of a Thousand Mysteries
Dept. AC5-61
Trumbull, Conn.
Beat Down the Flames
I have a theory about this ad. When the rangers arrive, they find the Lee family has perished after their cotton clothing caught fire. Two of the last three panels show the forest in pristine pre-fire condition, which indicates that the Lee family is in the afterlife and blissfuly unaware of their horrific deaths.
Continue readingYou had me at “Modern Trampoline Construction”
I’m guessing the primary purpose of this device was to make it easier for bullies to determine who to kick the crap out of.
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