fmdog44
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- Houston, Texas
I liked Archie, Hot Stuff and all super heroes. I could not get enough.
In Florida, I have an 1950s Johnson and Co. catalog. I swear, you could order anything from them. Pistols, cigarettes, jokes and magic tricks and just tons of stuff. Must be at least 500 pages of things.
http://mentalfloss.com/article/30420/11-shameless-comic-book-ads-cost-us-our-allowance-money
Check these old comic book ads out and read the details of what you really got when you ordered. Make sure you read about the little monkey in a cup!!
Well you need to go book shopping with my son. He found books at a flea market often set up near a Rite Aid. He said he's pretty sure his haul would have cost $125 but he only paid $8. But wait a minute, really he got them for free. When he got home he found $8 in one of the books. When he was a long distance trucker, he had to stay over at a hotel one night. He cracked open the phone book and found $100 bill. I haven't even looked at a comic book in decades.
Man, you were rich
I used to enjoy the ads on the back page, like the X-Ray glasses ad
….they don’t work, btw