As requested, here are some places to look. Golden age comics are the best for this sort of silly stuff and many are public domain, so there are multiple places to look for them. Be warned, it is overwhelming. They churned out comics back then like they were gum wrappers.
https://digitalcomicmuseum.com/
https://www.pulpmagazines.org/old-comics/
https://www.comicweb.com/golden-age-comics.html
Feel like wading through the mess of the Internet Archive if you like: https://archive.org/details/comics
If you wish to brave the evil that is Reddit, there is: https://www.reddit.com/r/GoldenAgeComics/
If anyone has other resources, feel free to add them. Please no pirate sites, there’s a lot of “read today’s comics online for free” sites which would violate lemmy.world ToS.
Interesting that there’s a razor blade charm pendant option in this ad. This was in 1976, well before I’ve ever heard of cutting being a thing, which is the only reason I can think of that they’d have it.
Cocaine.
Oh good call, wasn’t thinking of that. I think of cocaine as more of an 80’s thing, but it was definitely a thing in the 70’s too.
Is this sub also for posting things found in comics that aren’t panels, like this?
… what the Kentucky fried fuck is that?
“Hey comic book reader! Here’s a lighthearted questionnaire on your opinions on Jews and negroes”
I’ve been going through old Archie comics, and there’s a lot of fakes and edits. Is it worth creating a sticky thread for posting about those when we find them?
I don’t see why not, but don’t think it will stop people from posting them any more than the rule 3 thread stops those.
Not so much for stopping people from posting, but more a handy reference / interesting collection of fakes/edits/etc. I’ll create the post and if it doesn’t carry its weight, we can unsticky it
Tried looking at Secrets of Love and Marriage and some other similar ones on digitalcomicmuseum.com. Mostly a bust, the genre tends to be really wordy and also just bad. I did find this, but context actually makes it worse. It looks normal, but the context is that they’re pretty much step siblings:
Another good idea is to get an image compression app. I tried a couple online sites, Sqoosh and Image Resizer, but those were having trouble on mobile for me.
So I ended up just DLing an image compression app from the play store, and it works great. The one I got was “Photo Compressor”. It has ads, but you can do multiple pictures at once to limit the ads.
I usually just take screenshots. It’s quick and easy and not massive in terms of images.
