365 Days of DC House Ads, Day 362: Will these house ads save this blog...or ruin it?

House ad for Showcase #76 (August 1968); printed in House of Mystery #174 (May-June 1968)
Ad designed and lettered by Gaspar Saladino

365 Days of DC House Ads, Day 359: The year everybody got the power of super-jumping for Christmas

House ad for Green Lantern/Green Arrow #113; Batman #309; Superman #333; and The Brave and the Bold #148; (all March 1979) printed in House of Mystery #266 (March 1979)
Ad designed and lettered by Gaspar Saladino, ad art unsigned (José Luis Garcia-López?)
Two of these four issues had fantastic Christmas covers by one of my top five Batman artists, Jim Aparo!



Covers of Batman #309 and The Brave and the Bold #148, both covers with pencils and inks by Jim Aparo and colors by Tatjana Wood
By the way, what were the crooks on the cover of B&B #148 doing? Why, that's simple...they were buttlegging!

365 Days of DC House Ads, Day 358: Banded together from remote genuses

House ad for Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew! #1 (March 1982); printed in Batman #345 (March 1982)
Comic cover art: pencils by Scott Shaw, pencils of Superman figure by Ross Andru, inks by Bob Smith
Ad designed and lettered by Gaspar Saladino

365 Days of DC House Ads, Day 355: In space, no one can hear Superman being a jerk

House ad for Lois Lane #81 (February 1968); printed in Detective Comics #372 (February 1968)
Ad designed and lettered by Gaspar Saladino


Cover of Lois Lane #81, pencils and inks by Neal Adams, letters by Gaspar Saladino
Wha...this can't be? It surely must be some sort of mistake or misinterpretation!

Well, yes.


Panels from "No Witnesses in Outer Space!" in Lois Lane #81, script by Leo Dorfman, pencils and inks by Kurt Schaffenberger
There's no way that this isn't The Greatest Lois Lane Story Ever.

365 Days of DC House Ads, Day 354: Heroes with A-peel

House ads for Showcase #77 [Angel and the Ape] (September 1968); printed in (top) The Brave and the Bold #78 (June-July 1968); (bottom) Wonder Woman (1942 series) #176 (May-June 1968)
Ads designed and lettered by Gaspar Saladino



House ad for Angel and the Ape (1968 series) #1 (November-December 1968);
printed in Wonder Woman (1942 series) #179 (November-December 1968)
Comic cover art: pencils and inks by Bob Oksner
Ad designed and lettered by Gaspar Saladino



House ad for Angel and the Ape (1968 series) #2 (January-February 1969);
printed in Wonder Woman (1942 series) #180 (January-February 1969)
Comic cover art: pencils and inks by Bob Oksner
Ad designed and lettered by Gaspar Saladino



House ad for Angel and the Ape (1991 limited series) #1 (March 1991);
printed in [Batman:] Legends of the Dark Knight #15 (February 1991)
Ad art: pencils by Phil Foglio, inks by Keith Wilson, colors by Tom Ziuko

See also.

365 Days of DC House Ads, Day 348: There's no place like gnome

House ad for The Superman Family #182 (March-April 1977); printed in The Superman Family #181 (January 1977)
Ad art: pencils and inks by Neal Adams (Superman), pencils and inks by Kurt Schaffenburger (Lois, Jimmy, Supergirl); designed and lettered by Gaspar Saladino
...otherwise known as the month Superman Family became a Dollar Comic: 80 pages of brand-new, no-reprint stories!


Left: Cover of The Superman Family #181, pencils by Ernie Chan, inks by Vince Colletta
Right: Cover of The Superman Family #182, pencils by Curt Swan, inks by Neal Adams
...also known as the month Superman and Supergirl accidentally killed Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen by flying them into outer space.

365 Days of DC House Ads, Day 346: Don't talk to strangers

House ad for Showcase #80 [The Phantom Stranger] (February 1969); printed in Batman #209 (February 1969)
Ad designed and lettered by Gaspar Saladino
Neal Adams cover? You know what that means...here's a bigger, full-cover version!:


Cover of Showcase #80, pencils and inks by Neal Adams, Phantom Stranger logo by Gaspar Saladino

365 Days of DC House Ads, Day 344: They hate these posters!

House ad for Our Army at War #203 [Sgt. Rock's Prize Battle Tales,
a.k.a. 80-Page Giant #G-56] (February-March 1969); printed in Batman #209 (February 1969)
Comic cover art: pencils and inks by Joe Kubert
Ad designed and lettered by Gaspar Saladino

365 Days of DC House Ads, Day 341: Uh, Jonah, you got a little..on your face...no, the other side...yeah, right there...no, over to the...

House ads for All-Star Western (1970 series) #10 (February-March 1972);
(top) printed in Batman #237 (December 1971); (bottom) printed in Our Army at War #240 (January 1972)
Ad art: pencils and inks by Tony DeZuñiga
Ad designed by Sol Harrison (?) or Ben Oda (?); lettered by Gaspar Saladino Ben Oda

365 Days of DC House Ads, Day 340: Atomic twin powers, activate!

The question on everybody's lips—along with that dee-licious holiday-only limited-edition Gingerbread Kiss Chapstick—is...

House ad for Firestorm (1978 series) #1 (March 1978); printed in Detective Comics #475 (February 1978)
Ad designed and lettered by Gaspar Saladino
Well, turns out he's this guy! Advertising in the very same issue! Convenient, huh?


House ad for Firestorm #1 (March 1978); printed in Detective Comics #475
Ad art: pencils and inks by Al Milgrom
Ad designed and lettered by Gaspar Saladino

365 Days of DC House Ads, Day 335: I llits t'nevah dnuof tahw m'i gnikool rof

And so we begin the countdown of the last 31 DC House Ads of 2013. Hope you've been enjoying it so far, and if I've missed any of your favorites, let me know in the comments and I'll try to fit them in somewhere (no promises, but it would help if you can provide the comic and issue number). Also: look for plenty of Christmas ads in the upcoming month!

I'll be sad to close the door on our House Ads, but I've got something fantastic and bombastic planned for 365 Days in 2014. In the words of Rocket J. Squirrel, now here's something we hope you'll really like! You can put your guesses and suggestions in the comments for that as well, although remember, this is not the Legion of Super-Heroes Election and I am not prone to bribery on behalf of Ultra Lad. This is a not a voting procedure, so please, no wagering.


House ad for Justice League of America (1960 series) #110 (March-April 1974); printed in Batman #255 (March-April 1974)
Ad designed and lettered by Gaspar Saladino (?)

365 Days of DC House Ads, Day 334: November comes in like an explosion and goes out like an explosion

House ad for Justice League of America #139 and DC Super-Stars #12 [Superboy] (both February 1977) printed in World's Finest Comics #243 (February-March 1977)
Comic cover art: JLA #13: pencils and inks by Neal Adams, colors by Anthony Tollin
DC Super-Stars #13: pencils by Curt Swan, inks by Murphy Anderson, colors by Tatjana Wood
Ad designed and lettered by Gaspar Saladino

365 Days of DC House Ads, Day 330: Even 3,700 years in the future, Carmine Infantino is still designing sidewalks

House ad for Green Lantern #66 (January 1969); printed in Date with Debbi #1 (January 1969)
Comic cover art: pencils by Mike Sekowsky, inks by Murphy Anderson
Ad designed and lettered by Gaspar Saladino

365 Days of DC House Ads, Day 325: Hey! Cavegirl! Leave Kamandi alone!

House ad for Anthro #4 (January-February 1969); printed in Wonder Woman (1942 series) #180 (January-February 1969)
Ad designed and lettered by Gaspar Saladino
Prehistoric days! Before they invented bellybuttons!


Cover of Anthro #4, pencils and inks by Howie Post

365 Days of DC House Ads, Day 324: Great sun of Krypton, why? Why didn't I run this on July 3rd?*

House ad for Superboy (1949 series) #159 (September 1969); printed in Wonder Woman #184 (September-October 1969)
Ad designed and lettered by Gaspar Saladino
*Because I hadn't found it yet. Instead, I'm still happy to have posted this house ad, which asked the musical question "Where's Flop?"

But right now, a super-gorgeous cover by the greatest hero of the Expanding Earth, Neal Adams!


Cover of Superboy #159, pencils and inks by Neal Adams, letters by Gaspar Saladino
This cover falls square into the theme of that old familiar comic trope: "This scene does not appear in this comic book!" There is no "rain of the Supermen" (see what I did there?). Superboy sends out four, count 'em, four Superboy robots around the world. And they never fall from the sky at the same time. However, this comic does feature the first DC Universe Earth-1 appearance of The Giant RKO Logos! Seriously, these things are taller than Italy. That means each of these gargantuan radio masts is more than 800 miles tall! Their giant footprint casts a shadow that withers over two billion bushels of crops! To build them took the entire mining output of Asia, Europe, and Africa for six hundred years! They extend to outermost layer of the atmosphere, the "exosphere!" (Thank you, Wikipedia, for that last fact.)


Panel from Superboy #159, script by Frank Robbins, pencils by Bob Brown, inks by Wally Wood
Also in this comic book: this scene!

365 Days of DC House Ads, Day 322: Unbelievable or fantastic? (Either.)

House ad for Teen Titans (1966 series) #25 (January-February 1970) and Strange Adventures #222 (January-February 1970); printed in Detective Comics #395 (January 1970)
Comic cover art: Teen Titans #25: pencils and inks by Nick Cardy, letters by Gaspar Saladino
Strange Adventures #222: pencils and inks by Murphy Anderson, letters by Gaspar Saladino
Ad designed and lettered by Gaspar Saladino
Hey look: in the ad, Adam Strange is fighting by day, but on the cover, it's all happening at night!


'Coz that's the way they roll on Rann.

365 Days of DC House Ads, Day 321: A Date with Debbi, Fatsy, Patsy, and Minus

House ad for Date with Debbi #13 (January-February 1971), and The Three Mousketeers (1970 series) #5 (February 1971) printed in Aquaman #55 (January-February 1971)
Comic cover art: Date with Debbi #13: pencils by Stan Goldberg, inks by Henry Scarpelli
The Three Mouseketeers #5: pencils and inks with Phil Mendez
Ad designed and lettered by Gaspar Saladino

365 Days of DC House Ads, Day 319: Put on your 3-D glasses now!

House ad for Showcase #97 [Power Girl] (February 1978); printed in Batman #296 (February 1978)
Ad art from the cover of Showcase #97: pencils by Joe Staton, inks by Joe Orlando; ad designed and lettered by Gaspar Saladino

365 Days of DC House Ads, Day 318: Batman versus The Guy With 1,000 Fonts

House ad for Batman #198 (February 1968); printed in Teen Titans #13 (January-February 1968)
Comic cover art: pencils by Carmine Infantino, inks by Murphy Anderson, colors by Jack Adler, letters by Gaspar Saladino (frame); pencils by Bob Kane, inks by Charles Paris (inset)
Ad designed and lettered by Gaspar Saladino

365 Days of DC House Ads, Day 317: I remain uncertain whether these are new or not

House ad for Binky's Buddies #1 (January-February 1969) and Date with Debbi #1 (January-February 1969);
printed in Wonder Woman #180 (January-February 1969)
Comic cover art: Binky's Buddies #: pencils and inks by Bob Oksner
Date with Debbi #1: pencils and inks by Samm Schwartz
Ad designed and lettered by Gaspar Saladino