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Offline Frog

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I'm just waiting for the adjustment for inflation
« on: April 08, 2014, 01:25:55 AM »
other than that, it's all I dreamed!

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Re: I'm just waiting for the adjustment for inflation
« Reply #1 on: April 08, 2014, 02:30:50 AM »
Yup. I know I finally hit pay-dirt with "screen printing my own t-shirts" after trying to hustle GRIT newspapers, Cloverine salve and American Seeds . . .
The hardest part now is to figure out which "neat" prize to select . . . oh, and where to stack all those singles and fives . . .
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Re: I'm just waiting for the adjustment for inflation
« Reply #2 on: April 08, 2014, 10:04:05 AM »
One needs to be a certain age to know what this is about. I am one who also saw those ads on the back or inside cover of just about every comic I bought. I don't seem to remember the t-shirt part though...

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Re: I'm just waiting for the adjustment for inflation
« Reply #3 on: April 08, 2014, 10:18:11 AM »
are you sure this is not a current ad from Bangladesh?

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Re: I'm just waiting for the adjustment for inflation
« Reply #4 on: April 08, 2014, 10:26:17 AM »
A modified Grit ad from the November 1968 Fantastic Four special, I took to my plumbed reading room. This, in fact, is the specific issue that seriously got me going in Marvel Comics back then.
By then, I was well past the age to sell Grit or Clover Brand Salve, but as a youngster, I was a great salesman for Cub Scout fundraisers (mistletoe) as well as earning my way to YMCA camp "by selling these delicious Adams and Brooks Butter Toffee Peanuts, They're only $1.00, would you like to buy one?"
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Re: I'm just waiting for the adjustment for inflation
« Reply #5 on: April 08, 2014, 10:54:54 AM »
  In hindsight I wish I would have bought one or two of the Deming Ranchettes.
$5.00 a month and I would have owned some prime property in Deming New Mexico!

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Re: I'm just waiting for the adjustment for inflation
« Reply #6 on: April 08, 2014, 11:09:35 AM »
Hey, if one ate enough (or at least bought enough) shredded wheat from Nabisco, they could have built an empire, one square inch at a time.

Last I heard, the land was lost due to failure to continue paying taxes.

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Re: I'm just waiting for the adjustment for inflation
« Reply #7 on: April 08, 2014, 11:12:46 AM »
Best part, FELLOWS is $1.00 to $5.00 per WEEK!

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Re: I'm just waiting for the adjustment for inflation
« Reply #8 on: April 08, 2014, 03:35:58 PM »
A modified Grit ad from the November 1968 Fantastic Four special, I took to my plumbed reading room. This, in fact, is the specific issue that seriously got me going in Marvel Comics back then.


I have one of those wrapped in plastic at home...

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Offline tpitman

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Re: I'm just waiting for the adjustment for inflation
« Reply #9 on: April 08, 2014, 03:48:04 PM »
The only comics I ever bought with any regularity (other than Mad) was Sgt. Rock. I doubt comics today feature characters who smoke, but then things were a little different then.
The last one I bought was about 10 years ago -- in an antique store.
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Re: I'm just waiting for the adjustment for inflation
« Reply #10 on: April 08, 2014, 03:55:16 PM »
My dad has a "fabulous freak brothers" comic book. Classic!

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Re: I'm just waiting for the adjustment for inflation
« Reply #11 on: April 08, 2014, 04:09:17 PM »
My dad has a "fabulous freak brothers" comic book. Classic!

You have to realize that there is a contingent of members here upon whom many of those '60's and '70's characters were modeled.
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Re: I'm just waiting for the adjustment for inflation
« Reply #12 on: April 08, 2014, 04:57:48 PM »
My dad has a "fabulous freak brothers" comic book. Classic!

You have to realize that there is a contingent of members here upon whom many of those '60's and '70's characters were modeled.

I deny that. Well, OK, you got me.

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Re: I'm just waiting for the adjustment for inflation
« Reply #13 on: April 09, 2014, 06:24:35 AM »
My dad has a "fabulous freak brothers" comic book. Classic!

You have to realize that there is a contingent of members here upon whom many of those '60's and '70's characters were modeled.

I don't know nuthin' about any "Eggs" Ackley, Mr. Snoid, Ed Everyman, Artsy Fartsy . . .
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Re: I'm just waiting for the adjustment for inflation
« Reply #14 on: April 09, 2014, 07:05:53 AM »
  Of course, my personal favorite was Zap!