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For sale: Saturday Morning Cartoon ads from 80's comic books

PostPosted: Sun Sep 22, 2013 12:39 pm
by Zackmak
I grew up with Saturday Morning Cartoons, and of course, this is when my fixation with Smurfs started. Back then, in the 70's and 80's, comic books were famous for advertising the 3 network's (NBC, ABC, CBS) cartoon lineups, that were to begin in September. Since the smurfs were on TV practically throughout the 80's, I decided it would be neat to collect these ads for that decade that featured them. And it didn't hurt that the ads featured all my other favourite characters/shows, too.

In searching for a complete set, I had to go find and buy old comics that carried the ad (not all comic titles carried the ads, so it was a bit frustrating), and because I was already doing the legwork to search these out for my collection, it would not be too much extra effort to put aside a second set, for selling to another interested collector of smurfs (or retro cartoon characters, in general).

So this is what I recently decided to post for selling. It's the complete set of Saturday Morning Cartoon full-colour advertisements from the big three TV networks featured in comics from 1980-1989. Between NBC, CBS and ABC, there are close to twenty ads (not every network advertised every year), many are double-page spreads. Has all the Saturday morning cartoon characters you can imagine!! Perfect for wall art. All ads are mint condition, unremoved from original comic. I only have one set of these and it's only available as a set. I also found a 1990 and 1991 ad, so I'll throw those in as well. Below is a sample of the kind of ads these are. Also below, is a list of characters you will find throughout these ads. The set is $85 U.S. (plus shipping)

Characters include:

Smurfs
Alvin and the Chipmunks
Spiderman
Hulk
Karate Kid
Nintendo characters
Pee Wee Herman
Hulk Hogan
Richie Rich
Scooby Doo
Fonzi and the Happy Days gang
Thundar
Gummie Bears
Plastic Man
Heathcliff
Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and other Super Heroes
Wuzzles
Muppet Babies
Berenstein Bears
Saved By The Bell
Alf
Pac-man
Fraggle Rock
Archie
Foofur
Mr. T
Pink Panther and Sons
Snorks
One To Grow On ads
Going Bananas
Kidd Video
Q-bert
Donkey Kong
Get Along Gang
Dungeons and Dragons
Payor's Place
Meatballs and Spaghetti
Gilligan's Planet
Sylvester, Bugs Bunny, Tweety, Daffy, and other Looney Tunes
Pandamonium
Shazam
Space Stars
Bullwinkle
Flintstones
Kwicky Koala
Trollkings
Tarzan and Lone Ranger
Blackstar
Popeye
Tom and Jerry
Fat Albert
Zorro
Mork and Mindy
Laverne and Shirley
The Little Rascals
Monchhichis
Rubik's Cube
The Littles
Punky Brewster
Kissyfur
Dink the the Dinosaur
California Raisins
Raggedy Ann and Andy
CBS Storybreak
Garfield
Rude Dog
Kid n' Play
John Candy
Mario Brothers
Rick Moranis
Space Cats
Chip & Pepper
Pro Stars Jordan, Gretzky and Bo Jackson
Macaulay Culkin
Yogi Bear
Captain N

and more....

PostPosted: Sun Sep 22, 2013 12:40 pm
by Zackmak
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