This week’s Game Ads from the Days of Yore goes into the world of comic book advertising. As video games became popular, they over took the ad space that toys once held in comic books. I picked this ad simply because it demonstrates both one of the many types of odd game ads there were in comics and how low kids had to go in order to get information on the hottest games of the time.
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Original post by Paul and software by Elliott Back
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