Tuesday, June 16, 2020

Wildroot Cream-Oil Hair Tonic

Here's a small selection of cartoony ads from the 50's for an old time hair tonic cream oil. This Wildroot product originates back to the 1800's and is apparently still available today for those extra slick lookin' gents out there. These ads were sometimes laid out as a 2 or 4 panel selection of cartoons in some magazines, and illustrated in a variety of appealing commercial art styles from cartoony to more realistic. I'm not sure who the artist is on these I've posted here today, but I especially love 'em in this very cute, very funny, one panel gag style lay-out for comic books.









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4 comments:

  1. Brian BarnesJune 16, 2020

    Yeah, those are all really cute, though I'm not sure how much a joke #4 is!

    Obviously #2 is my favorite, it's got the two most classic parts of the old style single panel gags -- the island and the pretty girl.

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  2. Mr. CavinJune 16, 2020

    I like the way the desert island fellow is letting the tree do his fishing for him.

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  3. Mr. KarswellJune 18, 2020

    Because there's no place on Earth that slick backed hair is more essential than on a desert isle! haha... thanks for the comments :)

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  4. LaceyNovember 07, 2021

    The sole sponsor of The Adventures of Sam Spade, Detective, on ABC in 1946, for 157 episodes on CBS in 1946–1949, and finally for 51 episodes on NBC in 1949–1951. A great radio show.

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