Hey ghouls 'n' goblins, this month, all month: thirty-one (count 'em!) frightenin' and enlightenin' advertisements full o' clippable coupons to let you Send Away for Scary Stuff! That's right, start hoarding your nickels and dimes (and "borrow" a stamp offa Mom), send it in through the USPS, get ready to wait six to eight weeks for delivery, and prepare for excitement, thrills, and probably disappointment when it arrives and you find out it's a miniature cardboard replica, a shoddy print on tearable cellophane, or an actual severed head but from one of your pals, not an enemy.
This advertising (and the ones for Hostess Snack Cakes) kept the comic book industry in business for decades, so it's your moral obligation to send away for some of this crap! Go ahead! Risk a stamp! Cut up your valuable comic book! Steal your shaky nerves for Send Away for Scary Stuff Month!
First up: haven't you always wanted a skull? Sure! We all do!
Johnson Smith advertisement from Lev Gleason comics cover-dated November 1950
And remember: You can smoke with it on!
More Macabre Mail-Order Merch tomorrow and all through October! Who sez a cute little stuffed bull can't present objets d'horreur?!?
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