Mego Comic Book Ads

[Mego Superboy Prime]

Always great stuff with those ads!! Love them now and as a kid.

[Afaninfull]

Thanks for posting the comic ads.

I am 43 (geez...how did THAT happen?) and I still remember that ad with the Goblin, Hulk, Falcon and Lizard. Mine was in a Marvel Team Up with Valkrye and Meteor Man. It's so funny how Reeve fan talks of being unconnected. Back then, Spiderman was a cartoon on TV after school and if you missed it, you had to wait until the next day. My daughter doesn't understand this...you just pop in the DVD. Plus, I remember gazing at that image for so long...I had a few comics and I burned them all in my little brain.

Anyway, I love that ad because I remember visiting my grandparents in '74 or '75 and having this ad with me. I had to attend some kinda family reunion thing and my grandpa went out and bought me Goblin and Lizard. I remember keeping the boxes as I would draw the pictures on the back.

A few years ago, I was looking through the comic bin and saw the Marvel Team Up. I bought it with the idea of using it as a backdrop for my Megos. I need to hunt down a couple of those other images. I would love to see any DC comics ads, too. I agree that the 1970's were the best decade to be a kid. It just seems my daughter is constantly "bombarded" with images and homework in a way I never was. Seems we had "space" and periods of quiet to allow our imaginations to run wild.

Thanks for posting and letting me revisit those times a bit. Going to the drug store and seeing all those comics on a spinner rack for 20 cents! Megos in a display box by the register at the Osco drug store and boxes of Ben Cooper wigglers!

We were so lucky!

[clemso]

Love those ads, its a trip down memory lane for sure. Always wanted the Fantastic Four as a kid, but it just never happened, so I used to drool over those ads.

[Brad]

Love the ads! Thanks for posting them.





I'm 46 years old, so most of you guys are just kids.

[LonnieFisher]

Awesome. I like to find them and rip them out of old comics. I have a few gathered together.

[Afaninfull]

I just saw a great D.C. ad that featured heroes on the bottom and the super foes on the top. It looks to be from 1974. Anybody know the publication month? I'm going to the comic store on Friday!

[HardyGirl]

I love those old ads. I love that they were drawn. Comic book ads today have lost their charm. They're photographed instead of drawn. Because it was fun to imagine what they looked like, what they'd be like to play with. I miss them.

[jimsmegos]

I love the old ads. I've actually been scanning the comic bins at area junk shops looking for the 70's era comic just for the ads. Keep 'em comin' John and thank you!

[Wise4671]

Thanks for all the great comments Gang and I really like that this post is bringing back memories of our youths. I went through yet another Monster box but only found 4 new ads to add. More to come ( I hope )

[samurainoir]

Steve Bissette just posted on his blog about drawing the line art for the Heroes World Catalogs alongside Joe Kubert and his other schoolmates at the Kubert school.
SRBissette.com - SpiderBaby Archives: Cutting Our Teeth

Given these days when everyone just uses Photoshop/Illustrator or similar programs, and having grown up with photocopiers as standard practice, it never occured to me that someone was actually recreating those images, packaging and covers as tiny hand draw line art. Definitely a lost skill-set in this day and age.

I still remember Tom Yeates laboring over drawing the best replicas he could of some select Berni Wrightson, Richard Corben, Neal Adams, and Frank Frazetta book covers, rendering them with DuoShade board. Exquisite little beauties they were, in and of themselves; but more often, we were banging our way through speed-penciling and speed-inking (to Joe’s precise eye) Batman, Spiderman, Superman, and Wonder Woman junk: flashlights, toy vehicles, etc.

[Iron Mego]

These ads fueled my lust for Mego figures.

[Marvelmania]

Here's some pretty cool ads from Heroes World here in the MM Library section.

The Heroes World Comic Book Ad Archive I Mego I Ivan Snyder I MEGOMUSEUM

[Wise4671]

Here's some pretty cool ads from Heroes World here in the MM Library section.

The Heroes World Comic Book Ad Archive I Mego I Ivan Snyder I MEGOMUSEUM

Cool Thank You for the link maybe some of the ones I'm posting can be added.

[Type3Toys]

Man, we had the life when we were kids!

[UnderdogDJLSW]

It just seems my daughter is constantly "bombarded" with images and homework in a way I never was. Seems we had "space" and periods of quiet to allow our imaginations to run wild.

Yeah, I'm 43, too. I feel like my daughter has barely enough time to breathe, let alone sit and read comic books and play like we used to as kids. She also cannot comprehend life without DVDs. Miss a Charlie Brown special and it was another 365 days to wait.

I love the old ads. Drawn ads had so much more adventure to them in my brain rather than an actual photo.