Posted By Dan Greenfield on Feb 22, 2025 | 4 comments

A 50th ANNIVERSARY SPOTLIGHT on the beloved advertisements…

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UPDATED 2/22/25: The beloved and ubiquitous Hostess comic-book ads debuted 50 years ago, in the winter of 1975! Perfect time to reprint this tasty morsel from Feb. 2020. Plus, check out 13 Groovy Bronze Age DC COMICS HOSTESS ADS (click here) and your indispensable HOSTESS COMIC ADS Checklist (click here). You get a big delight in every bite! — Dan

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The other day we showed off 13 GROOVY BRONZE AGE DC COMICS HOSTESS ADS — a small fraction of the more than 350 such advertisements that were spread among five comics publishers from 1975 to 1982. (Click here. You’ll love it.)

But we’re a full-service website, so we want to bring you the other side of the Big Two: 13 GROOVY BRONZE AGE MARVEL HOSTESS ADS.

In their own way, they’re even wackier than the DC ones because they tend to lean more on the details of the Marvel Universe, which makes for some wonderfully campy moments.

For example, the Cosmic Cube gets distracted by… Twinkies?! Yep. Check out that Captain America entry.

And of course, if you’re going to have a run of Spidey strips, Aunt May’s gotta be kidnapped sooner or later, am I right?

So crack open a box of your favorite snack cakes and dig these 13 GROOVY BRONZE AGE MARVEL HOSTESS ADS:

There were a surprising number of Captain Marvel ads. This is just one of them.

Look! Wendigo AND the Abomination AND Fruit Pies!

Hey, even Nick Fury makes an appearance!

This might be the best layout of them all.

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MORE

— Dig These 13 Groovy Bronze Age DC COMICS HOSTESS ADS. Click here.

— SWEET! Your Indispensable HOSTESS COMIC ADS Checklist. Click here.

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Source: Mike’s Amazing World of Comics. Click here.