Monday, March 9, 2009

Works Like Magic—Guaranteed!

I downloaded these scans† of an old comic called Panic, from the same weirdos who brought us Mad. The following ad was on the inside back cover of issue #1. It doesn't take a rocket surgeon to figure out that the poor little suckers who bought these "walkie talkies" actually received 2 fancy paper cups connected with a string ("the conductor line").



† Note that each of the 3 .zips contain 4 files with extensions .cbr and .cbz. I looked them up and found they're just renamed .rar and .zip files, archived comic books. There must be some goofy apps out there decompress and display each image page by page. I just corrected the extensions and let OS X and StuffIt Expander do their jobs.

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