Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Bizarre Things I Have Found In My Collections #1

An irregular, in many senses of the word, feature I will put on this blog.  As I go through my various collections, I am struck by the very strange things that have managed to find their way into our popular (and not so popular) culture.  Here, I will showcase some of these oddities.

The first is a back cover ad from the February 1981 issue of Warren's "The Rook" magazine.  The main character of this magazine is the grandson of H.G. Wells' time traveller from The Time Machine.  This back cover ad, which ran on numerous issues of the magazine, has nothing to do with that.  Though the products that are being advertised are from another science fiction giant, which, one assumes due to copyright infringements, goes unnamed.  See if you know which it is....


Two things: One, the "[E]xciting adventures from the disco to the outer limits of space" sound just brilliant.  And two, I think I'd really like one of those jackets.  They look pretty badass.

That's it for this installment.  Next up, an ad for Saturday morning cartoons from a 1967 Superman comic book, featuring Moby Dick, action hero whale of the seven seas!