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scans_dailyThis public service page first appeared in BUSTER CRABBE# 1 from 1951, and was reprinted in DARDEVIL COMICS, CRIME DOES NOT PAY, BLACK DIAMOND WESTERN and MURDER TALES (now THERE's a title that doesn't beat around the bush over what the comic is about). It's typically great Frazetta art; check out the postures and body language, and the faces in the top right (which are just haggard enough). I suppose if it were done today, it might be about crack, showing a teenage girl wearing a short skirt getting in a car with some leering old men. ("She had become ADDICTED TO DOPE and had to SELL HER BODY to get some more dope for HERSELF") but here it's just a bit vaguer. (As an aside, I do get a vague nostalgic twinge whenever I see a PSA in old comics and magazines which suggest that someone with a problem "discuss it with their clergyman". That attitude seems to have been destroyed by scandal after scandal, just as horror movies seldom show a priest with strong faith that can fight the forces of darkness.)
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Date: 2009-04-13 07:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-13 09:16 pm (UTC)I still have that PSA that Frazetta did where the boardless hodads give up cigarettes and immediately: get in great shape, save enough money to buy custom surfboards, and pick up hot Frazetta babes. That's why I swore never to be a boardless hodad! If I can dig it up, I'll repost it.
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Date: 2009-04-13 11:34 pm (UTC)Man, drug addicts were so lame before the sixties.
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Date: 2009-04-14 01:46 am (UTC)He gives the kids free samples,
Because he knows full well
That today's young innocent faces
Will be tomorrow's clientele.
Here's a cure for all your troubles,
Here's an end to all distress.
It's the old dope peddler
With his powdered ha-happiness.
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Date: 2009-04-21 10:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-14 03:27 am (UTC)Well.
I once knew a guy who was behind writing a leaflet for this publishing company NOT REALLY on 'how (YOU'D BETTER) to say no'---but the leaflet was 'Okay, if you want to do drugs, here's how to do it right'.
Well, I found it a good idea. The government didn't. But I kind of that it's more down to earth than even *this* more common approach.
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Date: 2009-04-14 03:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-14 04:58 pm (UTC)