Comic books in 'Promotional'

Vol. 1, # 6, Decenber 3, 1955 issue. Cover price $0.10.

Written by Christopher Hastings. Art by Tom Grummet and Tom Palmer. Promotional comic spotlighting the history of Popsicles, and Summer time adventures of the Flavor Force, as they battle the Anti-Flavor Foundation! 12 pages, full color.

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Popsicle Gift List (1955) Featuring Popsicle Pete was a promotional booklet published by the Joe Lowe Corp. This Popsicle Pete booklet was distributed as an advertising giveaway premium at grocery stores. It provides color illustrations of prizes that could be obtained by redeeming coupons from Popsicles, Fudgsicles, Creamsicles and Dreamsicles. Includes baseball gloves, baseballs, footballs, small cap guns, cameras, a pocket knife and other gifts. 8 pages, full color, newsprint, 7.5" x 5".

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Popsicle Gift List (1959) Featuring Popsicle Pete was a promotional booklet published by the Joe Lowe Corp. This Popsicle Pete booklet was distributed as an advertising giveaway premium at grocery stores. It provides color illustrations of prizes that could be obtained by redeeming coupons from Popsicles, Fudgsicles, Creamsicles and Dreamsicles. Includes baseball gloves, baseballs, footballs, small cap guns, cameras, a pocket knife and other gifts. 8 pages, full color, newsprint, 8.25" x 5".

1st Printing - 20 Pages to color, to count, to play! Hours of fun! Softcover, 7" x 10", 20 pages, B&W.

Promotional comic for Caterpillar diesel farm tractors. 24 pages, full color.

Add to cart CGC 8.0 $589.00 or Best Offer View scans Paper: Off white to white Label #4641074025 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

1st Printing. Promotional Comic produced by Outdoor Power Equipment Institute & Frank Burgmeier Co. No date given, not numbered. (W/A) Vaughn Bode. "Powermowerman to the Rescue" Will Powermowerman and his sidekick, Clipper, halt the evil demon Scamp's evil plot to crush power mower safety? 7" x 10", full color, 16 pages, all newsprint.

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Choice Hotels International Edition - WRITTEN BY BOBBI JG WEISS AND FRANK STROM. ART BY CINDY MORROW, STEPHANIE GLADDEN AND MIKE DECARLO. COVER BY PHIL MOY. "Who said that?" "What's crawling down my neck?" "Everyone's watching me!" The Girls are all paralyzed by a peculiar paranoia! Plus, the Gangreen Gang's first POWERPUFF comics appearance! FC, 32 PG. Cover price $1.99.

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The Powerpuff Girls Burger King Edition is a standard size, full color, 36-page comic with all new material. Also in the Burger King series: Dexter's Labroatory #1. Cover price $1.99.

Published to publicize Arizona's rock station, 98 KUPD, and its star disc jockey, Dave Pratt. Written by Dave Pratt, illustrated by Marat Michaels and Chuck Drost. Rare. 6 1/2-in. x 10 1/4-in., 16 pages, B&W with red spot color. Cover price $5.00.

Story by Lee Basford, Jonathan Costello and Jonathan Burroughs, Illustrated by Steve Baker, cover by Fluid. Prequel comic to Sega's The House of the Dead: Overkill that was originally a pre-order bonus, but later packaged in with the collector's edition. The graphic novel chronicles the relationship of the main two characters, Isaac Washington and Varla Guns before the events of the game take place. Ashcan size, 5" x 7", 32 pages, B&W with some color.

Deluxe promotional publication introducing Milton Caniff's "new daily and Sunday feature, Steve Canyon." There's a one-page Caniff bio, four pages of sample daily and color Sunday strips, sample newspaper ads, photos, and several newspaper articles. 11.25-in. x 16-in.; 16 pages; partial color. Probably published in 1947.

1933 - Rare Promotional Press Book. Detailed contents with numerous illustrations thoroughly lays out this extensive newspaper campaign that ran for several weeks and featured 12 different Mickey Mouse puzzles. First page is a letter to "Mr. Editor" from Walt who touts this as a "Circulation Builder" and mentions how local movie theaters could help with the promotion. Page two details "How To Run This Contest." Page three is for the theater's involvement and titled "The Exhibitors' Tie-up" and includes images of two glass slides as well as a handout "Guide Sheet" featuring images of the 24 different Mickey cut-outs that were to appear in the newspapers. The pages that follow feature a wide variety of ads to run in order to build interest prior to the start of the contest. These are followed by examples of all 24 cut-outs and text pertaining to daily promotion as the campaign went along. Additional photos include Walt with Mickey and movie stars with the giant Mickey Charlotte Clark doll such as Mary Pickford and Eddie Cantor. 12" x 18", 16 pages, B&W on newsprint.

1st printing. Milk propaganda from 1930's. Story About young prince visiting his cousin and realized he needs more milk to keep up with his cousin. 16 pages, B&W, 10-in. x 6-in.

Vol. 4, No. 1. February, 1992. Published by Pro Set to promote their products. Cover and article on "The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles". 8 1/4" x 10 3/4". 28 pages. Full color.

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Produced by Truth, the organization that promotes non-smoking. Go Dae Hay, Shannon Slade, Lenny Wong, and Cye Mayo are 4 teenagers that team up to try and shut down Leopold Black and SMK Industries. 56 pgs. Full color. Measures 5-3/8" x 8-3/8"

1st printing. Produced by Truth, the organization that promotes non-smoking. Go Dae Hay, Shannon Slade, Lenny Wong, and Cye Mayo are 4 teenagers that team up to try and shut down Leopold Black and SMK Industries. 56 pgs. Full color. Measures 5-3/8" x 8-3/8"

Vol. 8 #10 - 1938. Comic strip "Stay Safe and Sound the Summer Round" in black and white and "Papermaking" in color on back cover. Letters, recipes and financials round out the contents. 8-in. x 10 1/2-in., 10 pages, B&W.

M113/M113A1 Series Vehicles (June, 1971) is a reprint of material that originally appeared in PS, The Preventive Maintenance Monthly, a publication of the U.S. Department of the Army. Amply illustraed by Will Eisner and the Will Eisner Studio. Contains detailed information on preventive matience for M113/M113A1 Series Vehicles 60 pages, B&W, 5-in. x 7-1/2-in.

1976. Promotional Issue that could be removed from Cheri Magazine. Significant because this was the first color printing of Crumb stories: "R. Crumb vs. The Sisterhood"; "Big Fine Legs"; and "Anal Antics". From the inside front cover: "You are about to read a 16-page abridged edition, in comic book-form, of a recently published Anthology of the Underground Comix of Robert Crumb, the guy who gave you Zap, Snatch, Jiz, Head Comix, Fritz the Cat, Mr. Natural & Dozens of others, brought to you as a gift from Belier Press (the publisher of the book) and editors of Cheri (the magazine into which it is bound). It is not otherwise intended to be sold to the general public." 8" x 10". 20 pages. Color. Adult.

Radio's Orphan Annie's Secret Society was published by The Wander Co., Manufactures of Ovaltine. This was given away as a promotional item to members of Radio's Orphan Annie's Secret Society. Includes games, stories, and more fun. During the late 1930s and early 1940s, every after-noon at 4:30 you could hear this introduction by broadcaster Pierre Andre blaring from every radio in the neighborhood, "Who's that little chatterbox? The one with the auburn locks? Who can it be? It's Little Orphan Annie." 12 pages.

Radio's Orphan Annie's Secret Society was published by The Wander Co., Manufactures of Ovaltine. This was given away as a promotional item to members of Radio's Orphan Annie's Secret Society. Includes games, stories, and more fun. During the late 1930s and early 1940s, every after-noon at 4:30 you could hear this introduction by broadcaster Pierre Andre blaring from every radio in the neighborhood, "Who's that little chatterbox? The one with the auburn locks? Who can it be? It's Little Orphan Annie." Full color, 8 pages, 5-in. x 7.5-in.

Radio's Orphan Annie's Secret Society was published by The Wander Co., manufacturers of Ovaltine. This was given away as a promotional item to members of Radio's Orphan Annie's Secret Society. Includes games, stories, and more fun. During the late 1930s and early 1940s, every after-noon at 4:30 you could hear this introduction by broadcaster Pierre Andre blaring from every radio in the neighborhood, "Who's that little chatterbox? The one with the auburn locks? Who can it be? It's Little Orphan Annie." 6" x 9", 12 pages, full color.

NOTE: polybagged. 7-11 Exclusive. Released in conjunction with the Simpsons movie in 2007 during the "Kwik-E Mart" makeover of 7-11's. "The True Origin of Radioactive Man" written by Bill Morrison with art by Tone Rodriguez. "The Amazing Radioactive Spider" written by Batton Lash with art by Michael DeCarlo. "Planet of the Strange-O's" written by Jesse Leon McCann & Robert Graff with art by Hilary Barta. Full color, 32 pages, standard paper stock. Cover price $3.99.

NOTE: not polybagged or polybag is opened. 7-11 Exclusive. Released in conjunction with the Simpsons movie in 2007 during the "Kwik-E Mart" makeover of 7-11's. "The True Origin of Radioactive Man" written by Bill Morrison with art by Tone Rodriguez. "The Amazing Radioactive Spider" written by Batton Lash with art by Michael DeCarlo. "Planet of the Strange-O's" written by Jesse Leon McCann & Robert Graff with art by Hilary Barta. Full color, 32 pages, standard paper stock. Cover price $3.99.

Sean Ward has a Youtube channel where he makes videos of various superheroes. Cosplayers are the stars. This free subscriber edition is comprised of various short screenshots from these videos. Spider-man, Batman, Domino, Joker, Deadpool, Superman, Wonder Woman and more. Well designed and fun. 6 1/2-in. x 10 1/4-in., 24 pages, full color.

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Red Ball Comic Book was a promotional comic book distributed by Red Ball-Band Shoes. "Stories of Sports and Adventure" Reprints comics from various Parents' Magazine Press titles. 7.5-in x 10.25-in, 36 Pages, Full Color.

Vol. 23, No. 4. April 1943. Promotional Magazine produced by Coca-Cola. Though not a large magazine, production value was very high. 6.25" x 8". 28 pages. B&W.

Vol. 24, No. 3. March 1944. Promotional Magazine produced by Coca-Cola. Though not a large magazine, production value was very high. 6.25" x 8". 32 pages. B&W.

Vol. 24, No. 4. April 1944. Promotional Magazine produced by Coca-Cola. Though not a large magazine, production value was very high. This issue includes articles on Big Spring, Tx and Morton Downey. 6.25" x 8". 32 pages. B&W.

Vol. 25, No. 2. February 1945. Promotional Magazine produced by Coca-Cola. Though not a large magazine, production value was very high. 6.25" x 8". 32 pages. B&W.

Vol. 25, No. 3. March 1945. Promotional Magazine produced by Coca-Cola. Though not a large magazine, production value was very high. This issue includes articles on Boeing and post-war job training. 6.25" x 8". 32 pages. B&W.

Vol. 25, No. 5. May 1945. Promotional Magazine produced by Coca-Cola. Though not a large magazine, production value was very high. This issue includes an article on Coca-Cola advertising posters. 6.25" x 8". 32 pages. B&W.

Vol. 25, No. 6. June 1945. Promotional Magazine produced by Coca-Cola. Though not a large magazine, production value was very high. This issue includes an article on Ringling Bros. Circus. 6.25" x 8". 32 pages. B&W.

Add to cart GD- 1.8 $4.40 View scans Spine split 10%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Moderate.

Vol. 26, No. 3 - March 1946. Promotional Magazine produced by Coca-Cola. Though not a large magazine, production value was very high. 6.25" x 8". 32 pages. B&W.

Vol. 26, No. 5. May 1946. Promotional Magazine produced by Coca-Cola. Though not a large magazine, production value was very high. 6.25" x 8". 32 pages. B&W.

Vol. 26, No. 6. June 1946. Promotional Magazine produced by Coca-Cola. Though not a large magazine, production value was very high. 6.25" x 8". 32 pages. B&W.

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Vol. 27, No. 6 - June 1947. Promotional Magazine produced by Coca-Cola. Though not a large magazine, production value was very high. 6.25" x 8". 32 pages. B&W.

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Vol. 30, No. 4 - May 1950. Promotional Magazine produced by Coca-Cola. Though not a large magazine, production value was very high. 6.25" x 8". 32 pages. B&W.

Langendorf Bread giveaway Red Ryder Victory Patrol Super Book of Comics. Comic only. Does not include the cardstock triple fold-out wraparound cover with the map of Ryder's home, decoder, etc. Fred Harman's classic cowboy hero, along with his sidekick, Little Beaver, fought for justice in the wild west. This contains two comic stories in color and two Little Beaver text stories. Cover of comic is newsprint, 7 1/4-in. x 10 1/4-in., 32 pages, full color.