Comic books in 'Promotional'

Gibson's Department Store Classics Illustrated Merry Christmas (1969) Giveaway "A Christmas Adventure." Reprints Picture Parade # 4 (1953), with new cover. 1 of 5 ad. variations. 24 pages. Some may include an added .25c New Price sticker.

"Merry Christmas" Classics Illustrated Christmas (1969 Giveaway) "A Christmas Adventure." Join Santa as he travels around the world and learn how Christmas is celebrated in other countries. Reprints Picture Parade # 4 (1953), with new cover. 1 of 5 ad. variations. 24 pages. Some may include an added .25c New Price sticker. Cover price $0.25.

"Merry Christmas" Classics Illustrated Christmas (1969 Giveaway) "A Christmas Adventure." Join Santa as he travels around the world and learn how Christmas is celebrated in other countries. Reprints Picture Parade # 4 (1953), with new cover. 1 of 5 ad variations. Klines department store variant not listed in Overstreet. 24 pages. No price.

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Advertising Broadside issued in 1939 to promote Click Magazine. Printed on heavy cardstock. 10.5" x 13.5", single-sided, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Booklet on the history of transportation. Produced for the United Transportation Union. Text with illustrations. 5.5-in. x 8.5-in.; black and white; 64 pages on white paper with cardstock covers. No date (1970s?). Similar text but different art from "Cliff Merritt's Scrapbook People on the Move."

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Booklet on the history of transportation. Produced for the United Transportation Union. Text with illustrations. 5.5-in. x 8.5-in.; black and white; 64 pages on white paper with cardstock covers. No date (1970s?). Similar text but different art from "Cliff Merritt's Scrapbook People on the Move."

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Booklet on the history of transportation. Produced for the United Transportation Union. 5.5-in. x 8.5-in.; black and white; 64 newsprint pages with cardstock covers. No date (1980s). Similar text but different art from "Cliff Merritt's Scrapbook of Man on the Move."

Vol. 2, No. 4 - June 1953. 5.5" x 8", 24 pages, full color.

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Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Jack Cole, Charles Biro, Bob Wood, Fred Schwab, Fred Guardineer, Rafael Astarita, Frank Frollo, Maurice Gutwirth, Jack Romer, Richard Dean, George Nagle, Ken Fitch, Joe Penner, Hal Raynor, Will Harr, Claire Moe, Dick Ryan, and Bob McCay (credited as Winsor McCay, Jr.). An early comics anthology published by Harry Chesler, as a giveaway for Cocomalt, a powdered-drink company. Cocomalt sponsored a popular radio show featuring comedian Joe Penner, who appears here in short comic strips. Early stories and art by comics legends Jack Cole (creator of Plastic Man) and Will Eisner. featuring radio comedian Joe Penner. A rare Little Nemo in Slumberland strip drawn by Bob McCay, son of original Nemo artist Winsor McCay (credited here as Winsor McCay, Jr.), plus a one-page strip featuring Little Nemo's Impy. Also featuring early stories by Charles Biro and Bob Wood, later the minds behind the notorious Crime Does Not Pay comic. Cover is also by Biro. Little Nemo in Slumberland; Insurance Ike; Officer Skelly; Tommy the Bear Scout; Cowboy Joe Penner; Put On Your Own Radio Show; When the Berry Blossoms; Boodini the Great; The Wild Cat; Lucky Coyne; Impy; Myrth-Parade; Spots; Sky Menace; Senior Symphony; Brain Teasers; Bib and Tucker; Round Table Adventures; Dan Hastings; Adventures In Goobyland; King Kole's Kourt; Animal Crackers; Laughing At Life; Don't Look Now; Nothing But the Truth; Tell Me? Mr. Wise Guy. 48 pages, Full Color.

Collection Of The Worlds Best Christmas Stories, Songs, and Poems (1954) is a promotional comic published by Cities Service Petroleum, Inc. 16 pages, full color, 7-in. x 10.25-in., with no cover price.

Advertising Broadside issued in 1941 to promote Collier's Magazine. Illustration by Earl Oliver Hurst. Printed on heavy cardstock. 11" x 16", single-sided, full color. Cover price $0.05.

Colonel MarVELous Milk Processing Instructional Comic Book Promo. 6 1/2-in. x 3 1/2-in. 16 Pages, Paper Cover, Full Color.

1979 blue background variant. Promotional educational brochure published by Harvey Comics for the Comics Magazine Association of America and distributed to comic book publishers, covering the innovative new color coding technique about to be implemented in the industry. The inside of the brochure explains the advantages of using the system, the one-inch color coded stripe being added to the top of every page of a comic magazine, and how the process works to simplify rotating comic stock magazine. The backside provides a handy sample calendar for publishers. The front cover features the top stars of the major comic book publishers, Superman, Archie, Casper, Dennis the Menace, Spider-Man, and Bugs Bunny. 6 3/4" x 10 1/4", primarily b&w/text interior, 4 pages.

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1981 yellow background variant. Promotional educational brochure published by Harvey Comics for the Comics Magazine Association of America and distributed to comic book publishers, covering the innovative new color coding technique about to be implemented in the industry. The inside of the brochure explains the advantages of using the system, the one-inch color coded stripe being added to the top of every page of a comic magazine, and how the process works to simplify rotating comic stock magazine. The backside provides a handy sample calendar for publishers. The front cover features the top stars of the major comic book publishers, Superman, Archie, Casper, Dennis the Menace, Spider-Man, and Bugs Bunny. 6 3/4" x 10 1/4", primarily b&w/text interior, 4 pages.

Columbia Bicycle promo containing questions and answers that children may have for Santa Clause. Softcover, 7.5" x 10", 24 pages, B&W.

Comic Book Your Policeman (1954) is a promotional comic book produced by the Hale Nass Corp. Two comic book stories are featured, one a Sherlock Holmes parody. 16 pages, full color, 6.75-in. x 10-in., all newsprint, no cover price.

Comic Fables (circa 1890) is a very early promotional comic distributed by Washburn-Crosby, makers of Gold Medal Flour. Features full color comic fables with morals, all showing Gold Medal Flour as the solution to a social delimma. A great example of advertising art circa 1890. Full color, 8 pages, 3.75-in. x 5.5-in.

Activity book featuring King Features Syndicate characters used as a piece of the King Features Comic Weekly Club Membership kit used as promotional material by Whitman publishing. 5-in. x 8-in., 8 pages, Red and yellow.

Membership sign up form included with Comic Weekly Club Kit, featuring King Features Syndicate characters used as a piece of the King Features Comic Weekly Club Membership kit used as promotional material by Whitman publishing. 5-in. x 8-in., blue on white.

Large scale sticker featuring King Features Syndicate characters used as a piece of the King Features Comic Weekly Club Membership kit used as promotional material by Whitman publishing. 5-in. x 8-in., Sepia tones.

Copyright date 1974. A promotional brochure explaining the benefits of and the ways comics could be used as a teaching tool in the classroom. Features sample strips and cartoons of the Peanuts, Steve Canyon, Dick Tracy, Beetle Bailey, Broom Hilda, Dennis the Menace, the Phantom, and more. 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 8 pages, black and white.

Promotional poster for Comics on Parade #2. This item was sent to Newspaper Stands throughout the country, and is exceedingly rare due to the habit of Newsstands to simply throw this item away once the advertisement run is over. 10 1/2-in. x 14-in., full color.

Retailer promotion circa 1986. Color die-cut folder holds the following: cover for Axa #6 (published in 1986), Mayfair Games catalog 1985 and an 18-in. x 12-in. promotional piece from Paramount Pictures previewing Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (coming Christmas 1986). NOTE: there probably was more advertising brochures in this folder. 9-in. x 12-in. Full color.

El Capitan Theater Hollywood Exclusive Edition limited to 1500 copies printed. John Romita, Jr Cover. (W) Stan Lee (A/CA) Jack Kirby Just In Time For Marvel's The Avengers, Relive The Story That Started It All - Digitally Remastered And Recolored In Modern Style By Jean-Francois Beaulieu (The Wonderdful Wizard Of Oz)! Loki Hatches A Plot Against His Hated Stepbrother Thor, Drawing Earth's Mightiest Heroes Into The Fray! Reprinting Avengers (1963) #1. Cover price $3.99.

Educational underground mini-comic book by the Do It Now Foundation delivering an anti-drug message. Art by Michael Bedard. 5-in. x 5 1/2-in., sepia tone on yellow paper, 12 pages.

Mini-Comic included with video game by THQ. (W) Timothy Truman (A) Cary Nord. Reprints Conan #34 along with 4pg interview with the lead programmer. FC, 4 5/8" x 5 3/4", 32 pages.

Conquerors of Space (1961) is a promotional advertisment in comic book form for the Power Mite II, a "big, easily assembled, climb-in, corrugated board capsule," designed to look like a real space capsule! Its main feature was a battery-powered control panel, complete with buzzers, levers, and blinkers. The comic also includes fun facts about flashbulbs on each page. Prepared by Johnstone and Cushing (an advertising firm that specialized in comic ads such as these) for the Photo Lamp Department of General Electric Company. 16 pages, full color, 7 in. x 10 in., newsprint.

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Consumer Comix (1975) is an educational giveaway used to promote awareness against consumer fraud and for better consumer awareness. This booklet was produced by Dennis Kitchen in conjunction with the Wisconsin Department of Justice. Art by Dennis Kitchen, Petre Loft and Peter Poplaski. The stories are funny, entertaining, and educational. 24 pages, B&W, slick cover.

Consy Coon Presents the Little Stream (circa 1950), by Jim Keefe and Jim Kellen, is a promotional comic book published by Kelly Press. 20 pages, green ink on vanilla card stock paper, 8.5-in x 11-in., with no cover price.

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Pillsbury Flour Mills 1944 Giveaway. 8 1/2-in. x 11-in. 22 Pages Brown and Blue Text with Illustrations

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Copper...the Oldest and the Newest Metal (1954) is a promotional comic book published by Commercial Comics. Miss Adams teaches her class of students about the ancient and modern uses of the metal copper. 16 pages, full color, 7-in. x 10-in., newsprint, with no cover price.

Produced by General Mills in 1979 and included in select boxes of Count Chocula, Frankenberry, and Boo Berry Cereals. Flexi-disc, 6", 33 RPM, Card Backed, Single Sided.

Counter Leg-wise (circa 1940) is a promotional giveaway distributed by Gotham Gold Stockings. Produced and published by the Vic Herman Studios, a comic book publisher active in the 1940's. 8 pages, light blue and black on white paper stock. The comic begins with a montage splash panel of a woman cleaning, dressing kids, cooking and playing golf, then continues with a comic book-styled presentation of the merits of Gotham Gold Stripe Stockings. Cut to a salesgirl at the stocking counter wondering how best to sell stocking when "everybody wears them" already. The other girl lifts up her skirt to show her legs and the new salesgirl shows her garters, demonstrating that Gotham Gold Stripe Stockings fit every size woman because of "coordinated proportions." The word denier, an indication of yarn size, is used in describing the stockings gauge, which relates to the number of threads used in 1.5-in. of fabric, and twist, which adds to stocking stretch, snag resistance and appearance. The five hidden features of Gotham Gold Stripe Stockings are described: krimp twist, camouflage heel, hidden sole, secret toe, and shadow seam. The reader is also told that the "gold strip" starts at the garterwelt (the use of garters was still common in the 1940's). Armed with the many advantages of Gotham Gold Stripe Stockings, the salesgirl sells her first customer several pairs of stockings.

IIHSC Promotional illustrated safety booklet (originally published by the Traffic Safety Association of Detroit). Contains full page cartoon sketches of 12 'crazy' driver types to recognize and avoid while out on the roadways. Art by Ernest W. Scanes, Echlin, Bill Nos. 5 1/2-in. x 8 1/2-in., 12 pages, black and white.

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Thom McAn shoes. Full color, 16 pages, 7-in. x 10.25-in., all newsprint, no cover price.

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1st Printing - Written by Justine Korman, Illustrated by Dean Yeagle. Free premium published exclusively for General Foods Corp. found in specially marked boxes of Post "Crispy Critters" Cereal. Softcover, 6.5" x 8", 32 pages, full color.

The Crop that did not Fail (1951) is a promotional comic published by the International Paper Company. Learn how growing trees as a crop not only helps the environment but also yields high profits for the farmer. 16 pages, full color, 7-in x 10-in.

Crosley's House of Fun (1950) was a promotional comic book published by the Crosley Division of the Mfg. Corporation. This fun booklet contains comic strips featuring Crosley appliances and also activities and puzzles. 36 pages, newsprint, full color, 8-in. x 10.5-in.

Cummins Power Tools (1955) is a promotional comic book distributed by the Oster Manufacturing Co. 16 pages, full color, 6.75-in. x 10-in., all newsprint, no cover price.

Cummins Power Tools (1956) is a promotional comic book distributed by the Oster Manufacturing Co. 16 pages, full color, 6.75-in. x 10-in., all newsprint, no cover price.

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Custom Edition Captain America is a promotional Chevrolet giveaway produced for the 2014 Detroit auto show. It reprints Captain America 4th series (2005) #8 "The Winter Soldier" Part 1, with the cover from #1. Bookend double-page ads for Chevrolet. FC, 28 pages.

4-page promotional item for the Superman Returns movie.

Promotional giveaway comic book from the neighborhood milkman. Stories include "Heroes of the Dawn" which highlights heroic stories of milkman saving the day, "the Fable of the Hikers and the Bear", "Mole Men from Mars!", and puzzles and more! 12 pages, full color.

Dairy Queen: Party Book (1960) is a promotional comic book distributed by the Dairy Queen National Dev. Co. Used for birthday parties and special occasions this booklet contains games and activities for boys and girls including ideas for invitations, place markers, party hats, table decorations, novelties, and party favors. Also contains a full color illustration for Diary Queen on the back cover. 16 pages, full color, 6.75-in x 10-in, with no cover price.

Stories and art by Phil Nowlan and Dick Calkins. Reprints of newspaper comic strips, produced as a promotional mini-comic. A giveaway provided by the Daisy Air-Rifle company. Similar to other promotional items of the early comics era, except that this represents one of the first appearances of Buck Rogers on the cover of a comic book. 5 1/2-in. x 7 1/2-in.

Daisy Handbook #1 (1946) features reprints of both Fred Harmon's Red Ryder, and Buck Rogers strips, plus two pages of art by Basil Wolverton. The majority of this pocket-sized publication is printed in black and white on pulp stock, but there are a few heavy stock, color advertising pages at the center of the book. One of the center ad pages features the Buck Rogers Atomic Ray Gun, just $1.00 back in 1946, but worth hundreds of dollars today in top-notch condition! 132 pages. Cover price $0.10.

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DAISY HANDBOOK # 2, published 1948 by the Daisy Manufacturing Company. Daisy Air Rifle ads were very frequently and prominently featured in comic books for many decades starting in the 1940's. This book is very unusual, because it has comic book features from several different publishers: DC, Fawcett, Dell and True Comics (Parents Magazine Institute). It also has a 10 cent cover price, rather than being a promotional giveaway. The book was primarily sold through the mail. The book is pocket digest size and 132 pages, including covers. The comics are in black and white. Features include Captain Marvel (Shazam), Robotman (who was a backup feature in Action Comics with Superman), Red Ryder by Fred Harman, the Boy Commandos, Ibis the Invincible, and the humorous "Culture Corner" by Basil Wolverton. There are also real fact features on Leonardo Da Vinci, Rudolph Diesel, and Cleveland Indians Hall of Fame baseball player Bob Feller. The center is an 8 page full-color Daisy catalog, featuring Red Ryder and showcasing such products as the 1000 shot repeater cowboy carbine, the number 118 pistol target set, the daisy pump gun (king of all air rifles), daisy bullseye shot, the Buck Rogers U 238 Atomic Pistol Holster Set, the Number 71 Daisy Repeating Water Pistol, and more. The back cover has an ad for a poster - "The American Boys' Bill of Rights", featuring a kid holding a rifle. Cover price $0.10.

Daisy Low of the Girl Scouts (1954) is a promotional comic book distributed by the Girl Scouts of America. Includes "The Story of Juliette Gordon Low," the founder of The Girl Scouts of America. 16 pages, full color, 6.75-in. x 10-in., all newsprint, no cover price.

Daisy Mae In Ham Sangwidges (1950) is #2 of 6 in the Oxydol/Dreft mini-comic series. The six titles in the series are: 1) Li'l Abner in "The Mystery O' the Cave!"; 2) Daisy Mae in "Ham Sangwidges!"; 3) John Wayne in "Cowboy Trouble Shooter!"; 4) Shmoo in "Washable Jones' Travels!"; Archie in "Mask Me No Questions!"; and 6) Mighty Mouse in "Mighty Mouse. The complete set was originally available via mail order and could be had for one Oxydol or Dreft box top or two wrappers from Ivory Soap plus 15c (offer expired August 31, 1950). This promotional comic is full color, 32-pages including covers, 6-5/8-in. x 3-14-in., all newsprint, no cover price.

Promotional signup card for mailing list for Dangerfield's Nightclub. Single sheet of cardstock with mailing list information on one half and Rodney Dangerfield image advertising the Sunday night showcase on the other half. Unfolded measures 5-in. x 6-in., B&W.