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February 18, 2009

Still A Top Ten All-Time Comics Ad

right up there with the Sea Monkeys, Robert Bell's psuedo-Thor ad, the Look Who's Smiling Now guy and the two tiny men advertisement that ran on the back of The Comics Journal

posted 7:45 am PST | Permalink

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