Truth is Stranger Than Comic Fiction Department. Vintage comic “Gasp”1967 Story: The Devil’s Businessman
A ruthless businessman with gangster tactics rising to national leadership – a comical idea in 1967… with Donald Trump leading in the polls in 2016, not so much.
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If the seed of the American Dream was planted during the dark days of the Depression, germinated at the New York Worlds Fair of 1939, it was nurtured and cultivated during the sacrifices and deprivations of WWII. By wars end
If the seed of the American Dream was planted during the dark days of the Depression, germinated at the New York Worlds Fair of 1939, it was nurtured and cultivated during the sacrifices and deprivations of WWII. By wars end
Though it would be my parents generation, those who lived through the Great Depression and later rolled up their collective sleeves, pitched in and sacrificed for the greater good in their fight against tyranny-who would be knighted by Tom Brokaw
Though it would be my parents generation, those who lived through the Great Depression and later rolled up their collective sleeves, pitched in and sacrificed for the greater good in their fight against tyranny-who would be knighted by Tom Brokaw
For over half a century, Americans soaring confidence had always promised a sugar-frosted future filled with frost free fun and abundance and economic prosperity. But that Buoyant bubble of optimism has since gone bust. Along with our jobs, retirement funds
For over half a century, Americans soaring confidence had always promised a sugar-frosted future filled with frost free fun and abundance and economic prosperity. But that Buoyant bubble of optimism has since gone bust. Along with our jobs, retirement funds
American Dream Foreclosed Whether a split level or a McMansion, the American Home has been the very embodiment of the American Dream. Once the mark of achievement, the suburban home was a solid investment, the guarantee of a secure future.
American Dream Foreclosed Whether a split level or a McMansion, the American Home has been the very embodiment of the American Dream. Once the mark of achievement, the suburban home was a solid investment, the guarantee of a secure future.
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Where do you find this stuff? Hilarious!
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I am an avid collector of all sorts of pop culture going back 70 years. This particular comic was from a collection of underground comic books that had belonged to my once upon a time hippie husband, long before i met him.
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The collection may have been primarily undergrounds but that particular comic (Gasp # 1, March 1967) isn’t an underground; it’s a newsstand comic, like the ones published by DC and Marvel.
The publisher, ACG (American Comics Group) had been publishing comics about the supernatural since the late 1940s. In the mid-1960s they began putting superheroes into their comics as the lead features in the hopes of increasing circulation the way Marvel had a few years earlier. Their heroes, alas, were nowhere near as good or as popular as the Marvel characters, and the superhero leads apparently did not attract many new readers, while losing old readers who preferred their supernatural stories, so in 1967 they returned to stories of horror and suspense with the new Gasp comic.
Here’s a link to an entry about the comic, including a picture of the cover: http://www.comics.org/issue/20781/
As you can see, it was a regular 12-cent newsstand comic. (Undergrounds were at least twice as expensive. For instance, the first issue of Zap, which came out in 1967, was 25 cents.
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You are absolutely right. I realized that after I wrote that, and noticed the publisher. Thanks for pointing it out.
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