2 COMICS 1968 * MISSION IMPOSSIBLE & THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E.

NOTE: This Item is being sold in LORING, Ontario

DELL COMICS – MISSION IMPOSSIBLE - 1968 ISSUE #4 Based on the TV show starring Peter Graves, Martin Landau & his real life wife Barbara Bain, Greg Morris & Peter Lupus. Interesting advertisements will promise to show you how to develop “Spaceman Strength and Endurance” or how to make extra money if you know just 10 people.

GOLD KEY COMICS – THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E ISSUE #16 This comic is also based on a TV show starring Robert Vaughn, David McCallum and Leo G. Carroll. Napoleon Solo’s splitting headache gets an explosive THRUSH cure! You’ll also enjoy reading the ads from 1968 for great mail order items such as X-Ray Specs, a device to throw your voice or a Polaris Nuclear Sub big enough for 2 kids that fires rockets and torpedoes! And check out the back cover to see an ad for the coveted Daisy BB gun – Canada’s version of the Red Ryder BB gun that Ralphie wished for in “A Christmas Story.”

SOME NOSTALGIA Back in the 60s my allowance was 25 cents a week. Of that my parents made me save 10 cents and I was allowed to spend the remaining 15 cents however I wished. So I was usually off to Mitchell’s General Store in Painswick to buy a pop or a comic book and some penny candy. A bottle of pop cost 10 cents but there was a 2 cent deposit on the bottle so you could buy one for 8 cents if you drank it in the store and left the bottle behind. (You won’t find a variety store today that would encourage young children to hang out in the store while they drink their pop.) That left me with 7 cents for penny candy. My real passion however, was comic books which I started out buying for 10 cents each until the price went up to 12 cents. Except for the classics that cost 15 cents and required my entire weekly disposable income. But even the 12 cent comic books left me with a little extra for some candy. I just had to be a little more discriminating about my choices. Somehow, I think that was the lesson my parents were trying to teach me. What would 3 cents buy me in candy in the 1960s? Well I could get 3 black balls for a penny and a licorice cigar or pipe for 2 cents. Or for 1 penny I could get a piece of Double Bubble Gum, which included a bonus of a mini-comic inside the wrapper and still have enough for a small pack of Popeye candy smokes. (The "cigar" word with "ettes" on the end is not permitted on Kijiji.) Please click on “VIEW POSTER’S OTHER ADS” near the top right to see my other Kijiji ads.

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