{"id":20194,"date":"2015-07-19T10:53:31","date_gmt":"2015-07-19T14:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=20194"},"modified":"2015-07-19T10:53:31","modified_gmt":"2015-07-19T14:53:31","slug":"the-grimmest-comic-book-ad-ive-ever-seen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2015\/07\/19\/the-grimmest-comic-book-ad-ive-ever-seen\/","title":{"rendered":"The grimmest comic book ad I’ve ever seen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Imagine you’re a kid in 1943, and you open your copy of Captain Midnight<\/em> #8<\/a> to find, not an ad for a teacup-sized monkey …<\/p>\n

\"TeacupMonkey\"<\/a><\/p>\n

… or X-Ray Specs …<\/p>\n

\"XRaySpecs\"<\/a><\/p>\n

… or even those infamous sea monkeys …<\/p>\n

\"SeaMonkeys\"<\/a><\/p>\n

… but instead an inner cover that promises, “If they win … only our dead are free.” <\/p>\n

\"CaptainMidnight8May1943\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I know there was a war on, but this is the stuff of nightmares. <\/p>\n

“Only the host who will fall before the enemy will know peace. Civilization will be set back a thousand years.”<\/p>\n

Yikes!<\/p>\n

If I was a kid back then, I don’t think I’d’ve believed even Captain Midnight could have saved me from that<\/em>!<\/p>\n

Instead of reading the comic, I might have thrown it aside and hidden under the bed. Especially since my only hope of survival—a Polaris nuclear submarine—<\/p>\n

\"NuclearSubComicsAd\"<\/a><\/p>\n

—wouldn’t be for sale in the backs of comic books for decades!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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