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Thursday, February 26, 2009

Our Way Catalog, Part 1

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This awwwwwesome ad is from the catalog of Our Way Studios, who produced oodles of stationary and stickers emblazoned with DC and Marvel Comics' stars in the 1970s.

As you can see, the Aquaman stand-up (drawn by Neal Adams) is dead center, as it ought to be. Interesting to note that, while the two companies' characters do appear in the same ad, they pretty much stay to their respective sides (except for Wonder Woman, who, considering her DC sales figures, might have been considering jumping ship).

Jeez, I really miss ads like this--they made the product (whatever it was) look like so much fun.


As you maybe could guess, this ad is courtesy F.O.A.M.er Brian Heiler, who did a whole post on the Our Way Studios catalog over on his blog Plaid Stallions. Thanks Brian!

4 comments:

Doug said...

I had completely forgotten about these! I had some of these! Spider-Man I remember and Flash too!

Wow.

It astounds me how much stuff I've gotten rid of in my life that I would really enjoy having again!

Anonymous said...

except for Wonder Woman, who, considering her DC sales figures, might have been considering jumping ship.

So what would a Marvel Wonder Woman have been like in the 70s?

Wings1295 said...

Okay, I'm a "child of the 70s" and I don't remember ever seeing these. Would have been fun, and don't look like they were TOO expensive.

Anonymous said...

I had these. I loved Aquaman, Batman, and the Flash, but hated the Infantino Robin and Swan Superman. I thought they didn't "fit."

I think I still have the Aquaman somewhere...!

As I recall, I found these at Kay-B-Toys.