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Mail-order mysteries : real stuff from old comic book ads!

Demarais, Kirk2011
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What do you really get for 99 cents plus shipping and handling? Mail-Order Mysteries answers this question, revealing the amazing truths (and agonising exaggerations) about the actual products marketed in comic book advertisements throughout the decades.
Main title:
Mail-order mysteries : real stuff from old comic book ads! / by Kirk Demarais ; afterword by Jesse Thorn.
Author:
Demarais, Kirk, authorThorn, Jesse, author of afterword, colophon, etc
Imprint:
San Rafael, California : Insight Editions, c2011San Rafael, California : Insight Editions, [2011]©2011
Collation:
156 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 26 cm.
Contents:
Superpowers and special abilities -- War zone -- House of horrors -- High finance -- Better living through mail order -- Top secret -- Trickery -- Oddities.
ISBN:
9781608870264 (hardback)
Dewey class:
790.132
Language:
English
BRN:
432915
LocationCollectionCall numberStatus/Desc
Library at the Dock-Art and CultureARTS 790.132 DEMAAvailable
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