Comic book fishing equipment sales pitch

[F14A-B]

What y’all think? lol I took that picture off a friends collection of comic books. This ad is 1977..

[MN Fisher]

12 minutes ago, alonerankin2 said:

What y’all think? lol I took that picture off a friends collection of comic books. This ad is 1977..

My first fishing gear in the mid-60s was from exactly that...an ad on the back of a comic. Me and dad heading out with the 'Comic Gear' circa 1967

[F14A-B]

2 hours ago, MN Fisher said:

My first fishing gear in the mid-60s was from exactly that...an ad on the back of a comic. Me and dad heading out with the 'Comic Gear' circa 1967

Haha wow, that’s totally awesome!!

what a great picture! 

[Spankey]

Remember those ads from the 60’s and early 70’s. Never had to mail order anything like that. The stuff was probably ok to fish with back then. Growing up I was lucky enough to have a couple of hardware stores my dad and grandfather would be in and they had fishing and hunting supplies there. Real cool and a nice find you have there. 

[BrianMDTX]

I’m almost 64. And to this day I distinctly remember “Star drag! Found only on best reels!” 

[GRiver]

@MN Fisher that too cool!!

[throttleplate]

13 hours ago, MN Fisher said:

My first fishing gear in the mid-60s was from exactly that...an ad on the back of a comic. Me and dad heading out with the 'Comic Gear' circa 1967

Dig the Barracuda

[scaleface]

I bought one of those without the rod and reels. Got a box of lures. Mostly stamped out spoons. I remember a purple spinnerbait. 

[padlin]

You can buy the reels off eBay, something like $20 each, you could make a killing if you still have them.

 

Although if you had sunk the $13 in the stock market in 1965 you’d have $13000, so maybe the reels weren’t a great investment.