“Would you rather see an ad about a new game . . . or a new computer . . . or a new movie?”
Here’s an oddity from Marvel in the eighties: a 1985 comic book ad asking readers to completely a survey about advertisements. I see that “toys and models” is one of the options that were offered for types of ads that we would like to see, and knowing how toy ads slowly disappeared from comic books as the eighties and nineties went on I am left wondering if we did this to ourselves. Did enough readers submit the survey without checking that option that Marvel lost the toymakers as advertisers?
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