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The Ads

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JuliantheUnknown

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The Ads
« on: June 02, 2020, 09:20:00 AM »
Does anybody else find these ads - some of them over a hundred years old to be as equally fascinating as the stories - sometimes if not more so? They
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SuperScrounge

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Re: The Ads
« Reply #1 on: June 02, 2020, 01:11:12 PM »
It's funny how those things I'd have ignored as a kid is so fascinating to me now.

I suppose the one I found most interesting was an ad for the Secret War Time Flying Rotor.

My favorite part of this ad reads, "Perfected by American scientists from captured Nazi airforce data".  :o

Gee, where's the ads for kids to fly their own V-2 rockets?  ;) "Tired of those crosstown rivalries? Well, launch a pre-emptive strike..."
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The Australian Panther

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Re: The Ads
« Reply #2 on: June 03, 2020, 03:00:48 AM »
Oh Absolutely! Real social history! Sometimes the Ads are more interesting than the comics. Which is why its disappointing when people scan and don't scan the ad pages.
Cheers! 
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