The Fabuleous Fifties

Smoke Gets In Your paper

Wednesday Advertising Day.

One of the most consistant of all comic strip using companies was Camels. They did various series of comic strip ads all through the forties and fifties, before switching to those much hipper photo ads in the sixties.It may have seemed they were aiming at kids witht their comic strip ads, but in hindsight it was more of a reflection of the perception from the froties and fifties that newspaper strips weren't for kids alone, or even primarily.

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