Novelty Mart, Dept. 63

A full-page NOVELTY MART ad from a 1950's comic book is too good to not share without giving it the BLOWN UP treatment. Seriously, all of the expertly illustrated images below are featured in one ad, but everything is so small in print you kind of miss the beauty of it all, (not to mention the eye strain trying to read the text.) As I did with the last post, I've separated the images for maximum WOW Factor! You know you want Sandy with her wavy red hair and rubber wonderskin! And who wouldn't wanna knock the block off'a "Kid Puncho!" And that's only the beginning: remote control cars, electric film projectors, and a Blondie that coos! And jeezo, look'it those prices! Which one shall they send you? Or maybe you'll just take them all?

Barbie's Photo Album

From the same great October 1964 Jack and Jill issue as the images in our last post (HERE) is a cute two page photo album themed ad for Barbie toys and The World of Barbie Annual Magazine. Instead of just scanning both pages in as usual I edited each picture separately and blew them up larger... because just like Barbie's 60's styled hair-- LARGER is always better!

See more from The World of Barbie Magazine by clicking HERE!

Bosconauts, Buffalo Bee and More!

To get AEET's March Madness 2014 Fest up and running, here's a quick / small assortment of cool 'n unusually cute ads from an old 60's Jack and Jill Magazine for kids. Toys, soda pop, cereal themed board game fun-- what else do you need? How about more from this issue in our next post? Sure thing!

Talk About Sharp!

Earlier this month I posted about a girl and her refrigerator that featured neato images of a fridge literally come to life-- click HERE if you missed it! Today I have some scans from a mid century Cutco Cutlery and Carving Guide containing illustrations which to me appear to be from possibly the same uncredited artist-- but this time with a much sharper focus on knives doing what knives should and should NOT do! It's a fun style, and really livens up this wonderfully designed booklet.

Chocolate Chip Cookery Comes to Town!

This is a fun little mid century (or earlier) Baker's Chocolate booklet featuring cute illustrations and tasty recipes for livening up those desserts with the single greatest invention in the history of sweets-- the chocolate chip! Cookies, cakes, pudding, and more-- boyoboy get cookin'!

Hansel and Gretel Get Well

An AEET first! Guest blogger Pappy (from Pappy's Golden Age Comics Blogzine) sends in some super scans of a neat old get well card he found recently. Says Pap: "It's from 1950, and I'm not sure why the story of H&G fits into the get well category, but it's kind of cute. It glosses over why H&G were in the woods (father hoping someone would find them and adopt them, rather than hope they get killed by wolves), but it doesn't change the fact that the old lady is a cannibal and Gretel pushes her into an oven to kill her by fire. There isn't much a storyteller could do to soften that aspect of the story." Haha, indeed-- and thanks for sharing! Be sure to check out all of Pappy's great posts over at the FIRST and ORIGINAL golden age comics blog by clicking HERE!

No and Yes

In our last post we saw a girl who loved refrigerators, now in today's post we see an even younger girl on the downward sliding path to serpent obsession. She has to be told "NO!" quite a bit along the way by her elders, (as well as some unfortunate trips to Sunday school), but someday those dreams of big 'ol mesmerizing snakes will be fulfilled! To quote Dr. Julian Karswell, "...snakes and ladders. An English game. You see, if you land at the foot of the ladder you climb all the way to the top. But if you land on the head of the snake, you slide all the way down again. Funny thing, I always preferred sliding down the snakes to climbing up the ladders." I have a feeling someone else thinks this way too ;) This is a cute little story from 1962, published exclusively for the use of church folk, with fabulously cute artwork by Robert E. Barry!