Oh, I’m pretty sure this could have been avoided.
So, believe it or not, I got my hands on two more boxes of 20+ year old comic book promo materials, and am currently unearthing even more wonderful delights of comics retail past…such as this item from the cover of Blackthorne Preview Magazine (February 1989):
For those of you too young to remember, or otherwise don’t know what this was all about, here you go:
You’re welcome.
Also in this Blackthorne Preview Magazine: an advertisement for the original comic book publication of Street Poet Ray (as pal Andrew discussed just the other day):
Some of the details are lost at that size, so click on it for a better look…if you dare.
I actually kind of like that street poet ray thing you posted. The examples that andrew used weren’t as good, but *shrug*
Of course, you know Mikester…
If you happen to come across any promo material for a certain “Strange Doctor”, you’d keep me in mind, right?
;-)
~P~
You know, I’m pretty sure the Avoid the Noid video game was the first piece of commercial software I pirated when I was a kid.
On the Twitter, you mentioned something about Speedball promotional material…Any chance of seeing that down the line?
LITTLE KNOWN FACT: It was the recent bootlegging of Street Poet Ray comics that ignited the revolution in Libya. Check out the sick burn against “Moammar K.” in the first comic in the preview ad and tell me it isn’t true.
(For those of you in internet land too young to remember, the proper transliteration of “Moammar El-Gadhafi” was a running gag throughout the Reagan years, when Libya was briefly the Symbol of All That Is Evil, the reputed Cobra Commander to Reagan’s Duke.)
(Also: Caspar Weinberger thought he was Flint, but we all know he was Tripwire at best.)
“Perhaps it’s the Noid who should have avoided ME.”
Okay, let me try that latter part of my comment again, after coffee:
(But it says “Moammar K,” right? How is that Gadhafi? For those of you in internet land too young to remember, the proper transliteration of Moammar El-Gadhafi was debated often, going so far as to become a running gag throughout the Reagan years, a period when Libya was briefly the Symbol of All That Is Evil, and Gadhafi the Cobra Commander to Reagan’s Duke. Spelling his name with a K was quite common when Street Poet Ray was speaking The Truth.)
(Also: Caspar Weinberger thought he was Flint, but we all know he was Snow Job at best.)
“The most unusual collection we’ve ever offered.”
And that was the best thing the publisher could say about it.
— MrJM
Ah, the Noid. What marketing genius green-lighted that sack of crap? That impossibly successful and pernicious sack of crap. I understand it narrowly beat out “Eschew the Shrew” and “Shun the Hun”.
Were there Noid pogs? There should have been.
Yeah, right.
As for Smallville, Sterling, it’ll probably end just like this: http://d1466nnw0ex81e.cloudfront.net/iss/600w/114/111141/5387331_1.jpg
Because mass-hypnosis can never be avoided, right?
I worked at a Waldenbooks in the late ’80s, and had charge of the comics rack. We were sent one issue of STREET POET RAY. As I recall, it was the only Blackthorne comic not in 3-D that we ever carried. I could never understood why that, of all the dozens of titles Blackthorne published, it was selected for the honor.
We did not sell a single copy–and that though it remained on display for several months; the order to return it was slow in coming.
Hemorrhoids in 3-D? No thank you, Mike. ;)
“Laser scanned covers”? I’m in!
Thanks for reminding us about Domino’s long-forgotten Mascot. Even if the rest of the public’s forgotten about him, those of us who saw this guy sure haven’t. He’s too memorable to bleach out entirely. This also gave me the initiative to do a blog entry about the little guy:
http://sundaycomicsdebt.blogspot.com/2011/03/avoid-noids-boid-toids-oi.html