Great Moments in Comic Book Advertising
- November 4th, 2008
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“Your bound to find hundreds of exciting and unusual uses for me” Truer words were never spoken (shudder). The thinly veiled wink, wink, nudge, nudge, subtext to this ad is hysterical. “Made with startling detail” I am to assume means some kind of orifice in the vicinity of the crotch. How many 13 year old boys did they think would mail off their hard earned lawnmower money for the possible opportunity of a humiliating conversation with their mothers after retrieving the days mail.
Mom: “Jimmy! Why the hell is there a inflatable doll in the mail addressed to you?”
Jimmy: “I thought it would be a great burglar deterrent (read ad copy).”
Mom: “Why does it need a vagina then?”
Jimmy has spent the majority of his adult life in therapy.
Masto.
“Photos shown are of live models and not the products offered.”
Guess the advertising committee realized that photos of live models were more likely to elicit an impulse purchase than a 2 cent, 5’4″ beachball wearing a brunette or blonde wig (purchaser’s choice).
Senate subcommittees were all up on “horror” in comics yet managed to let this thing – much more horrifying in every way – slip in under their radar.