during the golden age of comics!
Mail-order Mysteries: Real Stuff from Old Comic Book Ads! By Kirk Demarais is a COMPENDIUM of CRAP available to the innocent and the gullible for purchase via the back of comic books during the heyday.
BUT THAT'S NOT ALL! Also included within is The Deadliest Man Alive COUNT DANTE (deceased), creator of the Dance of Death!
Apparently this guy was real, and so was that hair, since he moonlighted as a hairdresser.
Wikipedia: Count Dante
And a love-slash-lie detector (wha?) made by NINTENDO back when Donkey Kong was just a twinkle in Shigeru's baby blue's.
Wikipedia: Love Tester
Check out the book at your local Border's Boo, oh shit, that's right... er, upload it onto your iPad or order the physical manifestation from Amazon.
THE BOOK:
http://www.amazon.com/Mail-Order-Mysteries-Real-Stuff-Comic/dp/160887026X
THE AUTHOR:
http://www.kirkdemarais.com/
Wikipedia: Count Dante
And a love-slash-lie detector (wha?) made by NINTENDO back when Donkey Kong was just a twinkle in Shigeru's baby blue's.
Wikipedia: Love Tester
Check out the book at your local Border's Boo, oh shit, that's right... er, upload it onto your iPad or order the physical manifestation from Amazon.
THE BOOK:
http://www.amazon.com/Mail-Order-Mysteries-Real-Stuff-Comic/dp/160887026X
THE AUTHOR:
http://www.kirkdemarais.com/
