WTF 1975 comic book ad: Learn magical ninjutsu from the "Killers of the Orient"

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Hi there! I'm a newbie to the comm. I collect comic books and I have a large collection of issues from the 70s and 80s. So expect a lot of that kind of stuff in my posts.

I thought I was immune to the drug-fueled weirdness that usually permeates the ads in 70s comic books. But this one legitimately surprised me:



Believe it or not, the surprise didn't primarily come from the bizarre and mildly racist assertion that the Japanese are X-Men mutants (though that is pretty weird). But mainly because this is the book I found it in:

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The strangest ads I've ever seen. 1 of 2

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Norton Company / Behr-Manning, 1951-52

"What doesn't belong in this picture?" they all ask, and then present a Salvador-Dali-would-be-proud surreal landscape of wildly disparate elements.  The answer in every case is bleak; what does not belong is whatever does not come from this company, or whatever has not been touched by man-made products.  Inevitably, it's the one completely natural thing in the picture that is "the stranger".



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See the rest of this series of bizarre Norton ads at Vintage Ads Dreamwidth!

"From now on every day is a motoring day."

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1915

Life, April, 1945

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