iFanboy Mini - Episode #141 - Old Ads: Green Lantern #51
Josh is back with more old comic book ads. Really old, from Green Lantern #51, from 1967.
In this classic old Green Lantern comic book, Josh peers back in time
to see what we can learn about the youth of the past, looking through
the old ads in this vintage issue. It turns out that 41 years ago,
young boys did a lot more than watch TV and play video games. Also, why
the disrespect for the armless?
Special thanks to Tad Stones for this one.
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Comments
If you were still doing minis, I'd suggest one on old letter sections. Same ranting as today but much slower.
Posted by Tad on 09/29/08 at 10:55 AM
I had one planned based on the letter columns in the Spider-Man Omnibus. We certainly never ran out of ideas...
Posted by josh on 09/29/08 at 11:32 AM
When I got into comics a few years ago, I happily found out I love seeing ads from 70s-early 90s because it was cool little bit of history where I really felt I knew what society was like in those times and like you said, there were more active, less roundy people.
Posted by HermitHomeboy on 09/29/08 at 12:08 PM
You guys could totally do a big video show on 'Storage Unit', Bad Villains, and even Old Ads if you wanted to. I understand why they need to go, but I hope you guys can do these again in the future. It will be missed....
Anywho, great vid; I would imagine the best ads came during this period. So much bad kid's crap, it makes our stuff look so much better in terms of toys and whatnot. I bet they rotoscope those kids with the guns, sure it was an ad for a contest but it was actually a realistic picutre of Congo refugee kids fighting the government. Remember when The Phantom was just as big as a name as Captain America or Nick Fury? Yeah me neither...DAMN YOU BiLLY ZANE!!
Posted by TheNextChampion on 09/29/08 at 02:05 PM
You gotta be careful with this stuff. Else you could end up like Bart Simpson and jeopardize your parents' marriage with your mail order shinanigans.
Where's my spy camera? Where's my spy camera?
Posted by drakedangerz on 09/29/08 at 02:38 PM
iFanboy should start an organization to help the armless do something without arms, or something.....
Great Show.
Posted by GreenLantern2814 on 09/30/08 at 11:17 PM
Just a nitpick, but he Def Leppard drummer had one arm, not no arms. So technically he was posed to show off the one arm he had and hide the one he was missing. Still sleazy, but less so than you made out.
Posted by OmegaFlight on 10/01/08 at 10:37 AM
It was fun. THanks Josh.
Posted by CAM on 09/29/08 at 10:46 AM