May 31, 2009

1970s comics ads: Gritboy!

Here we have "The Adventures of Gritboy" from Defenders #63 from 1978! Grit was a newspaper that kids could sell to earn some extra cash:


Yep, he sure did have a problem! And you know what it really was? He (and his buddies) wore the exact same clothes every day!







The actual final panel ought to go like this:

2 comments:

ShadowWing Tronix said...

They have plenty of shirts. It just happens to be 10 versions of the same shirt, like Ben 10.

Degu said...

I bet that shirt was gettin awful gritty after weeks of constant wear.