Adventures in Comic-Boxing: WHO ELSE Finds Pirate Gold?

In the beginning, Donald Duck found pirate gold, in the aptly titled early classic "Donald Duck Finds Pirate Gold"! 

He "found it again" in this more recent issue...

...Along with an intrusive UPC code.

But, along the way, there were others...

Yes, really! See below!

(Click to Enlarge!) 

Forget that "pirate stuff", you mercenary divers, Aquaman delivers the REAL 

"(pirate) golden treasure"! 

Ad taken from SUPERMAN #362 (DC Comics, Cover Date: August, 1981) and probably too many more comics to count!  

Adventures in Comic-Boxing: Worst Product Spokesperson Ever!

The honor of being the "Worst Product Spokesperson Ever" doesn't come easy, but I'd have to say that at (or very near) the top of the contender list would be... The Joker - seen here in one of those ubiquitous 1970s Hostess Fruit Pies ad from SUPERMAN # 301 (DC Comics, Cover Date: July, 1976) and other titles of the period.  

The Joker tries to distract the police with Hostess Fruit pies, in order to escape. 

But, tasty as those fruit pies are, the law still prevails!  

But what is it that makes The Joker the "Worst Product Spokesperson Ever" ?   

...Try THIS!  

There were many, many (...and did I say many?) of these Hostess ads throughout the '70s and into the early '80s but, in what must be THE GREATEST ONE OF THEM ALL, The Joker says "[He doesn't] like them!" !!!

I'm guessing Hostess "stopped the check" after that remark! 

...And the cop's final line just makes it all the more... um, "sweet"!  

Adventures in Comic-Boxing: "Bat-and-Switch" Advertising!

To celebrate "Batman Week", or "the 80th anniversary of Batman" - or just because Batman is so great in general, we present the following...

Batman has always been great at "pulling surprises out of his utility belt" (...perhaps I should rephrase that, but let's move on), and he certainly does so in an ad appearing in SUPERMAN # 380 (Cover Date: February, 1983) and, presumably, other DC Comics with similar cover dates!

By this time, we'd all become used to seeing the Caped Crusader, his various DC "super friends" (lower case intentional), Marvel Comics characters, and even Warner Bros. characters in ads hawking (...why didn't they use "Henery Hawk"?) Hostess Cup Cakes, Twinkies, and Fruit Pies!

(Click to enlarge all that Hostess Cup Cake Bat-Goodness!)

So, when reading SUPERMAN # 380, I just expected more of same, when I turned the page and saw THIS. 

Oh sure, Batman's gonna turn things around with some Hostess baked goods as he always does in these ads... BUT, WAIT... Something NEW has been added!  

Instead of THIS...

...We get THIS! 

Holy "Bat-and-Switch" Advertising, Batman! 

It sure looked like another of those ubiquitous '70s Hostess ads to me!  

Just look at 'em together!  Would anyone think this was at all cricket?  

Okay, okay! So it's "cricket"! Please don't hurt me! 

At least we now have an answer to the age-old Bat-question: "Where does he get those WONDERFUL TOYS?"