Why, look, another one of the adorable ads getting children to sell something cheap and useless so they can "win" cheap and useless toys...
See, just like Grit or seeds or greeting cards....
Hey, wait a minute!!
Holy Jack Chick, Batman!! You mean God is gonna give me roller skates, or a ukulele, or a Gabby Hayes fishing kit, or guns & arrows, or...I mean, if I'd known that, I'd have turned out real different, let me tell you...
So what the Father Mulcahey is going on here?
Ahhh...still just selling stuff. "Religious Wall Motto Plaques" instead of seeds or Grit. But still getting children to move your crap for you. Because your "friends and neighbors" are obviously the sinners responsible for today's ills.
Bonus cheap irony--the ad is on the back cover of:
That's right...a 1950s horror mag. This Magazine Is Haunted #17 (1954), hosted by "Dr. Death." Perhaps the best place to find kids willing to sell Christian trinkets...let's see, the lead story is about an actor who makes a deal with the devil to get his bloody revenge on the studio executives who wronged him. And then there's story about the cuckolded husband who poisons his wife and her lover in the jungle, and sells their bodies to headhunters. Or the man captured by vampiric mannequins (really!), is turned into a mannequin himself, and melted in the furnace.
Ah, Steve Ditko, you magnificent bastard....
Extra bonus research!! The address on the coupon--The FUNman, 4545 N. Clark, Chicago--this is what's there today:
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So....good....indeed!!!
See, just like Grit or seeds or greeting cards....Hey, wait a minute!!
Holy Jack Chick, Batman!! You mean God is gonna give me roller skates, or a ukulele, or a Gabby Hayes fishing kit, or guns & arrows, or...I mean, if I'd known that, I'd have turned out real different, let me tell you...So what the Father Mulcahey is going on here?
Ahhh...still just selling stuff. "Religious Wall Motto Plaques" instead of seeds or Grit. But still getting children to move your crap for you. Because your "friends and neighbors" are obviously the sinners responsible for today's ills.Bonus cheap irony--the ad is on the back cover of:
That's right...a 1950s horror mag. This Magazine Is Haunted #17 (1954), hosted by "Dr. Death." Perhaps the best place to find kids willing to sell Christian trinkets...let's see, the lead story is about an actor who makes a deal with the devil to get his bloody revenge on the studio executives who wronged him. And then there's story about the cuckolded husband who poisons his wife and her lover in the jungle, and sells their bodies to headhunters. Or the man captured by vampiric mannequins (really!), is turned into a mannequin himself, and melted in the furnace.Ah, Steve Ditko, you magnificent bastard....
Extra bonus research!! The address on the coupon--The FUNman, 4545 N. Clark, Chicago--this is what's there today:
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So....good....indeed!!!
As a Christian myself, this ad makes me sad.
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