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Title: Hostess Fruit Pie Comic Ads
Post by: styx on August 22, 2012, 05:31:28 PM
Yesterday while at Wal-Mart waiting in line there was a large display selling Hostess Fruit Pies (wow a $1 now!) and on an impulse I bought one as it reminded me of my childhood and reading comics with the HFP comic ads in them....now this was very creative advertising!

(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2kjisMm3M9Y/Sdy-X14dzeI/AAAAAAAAIYk/u33LegF1g04/s400/Penguin+Hostess+Fruit+Pies+1.jpg)
Title: Re: Hostess Fruit Pie Comic Ads
Post by: fourcolorfigs on August 22, 2012, 06:50:57 PM
Great topic!  Here's my childhood favorite!

(http://i1168.photobucket.com/albums/r497/srpyle_1970/Hulk_advert.jpg)

Loved Hulk as a kid, and Wendigo scared the heck out of me!

Love that Herb Trimpe artwork, too!

Title: Re: Hostess Fruit Pie Comic Ads
Post by: fourcolorfigs on August 22, 2012, 06:56:46 PM
Could not resist now that you have got me going!  Here's another Hulk add, this one with a villain created just for the Hostess ads:

(http://i1168.photobucket.com/albums/r497/srpyle_1970/Hulk_advert2.jpg)

Those plant dudes freaked me out as a kid!

Title: Re: Hostess Fruit Pie Comic Ads
Post by: Weird WWII on August 22, 2012, 07:09:44 PM
This is my favorite.

Brian

(http://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x350/weirdwwii/Web%20Site%20Use/Marvel-Zombies-eat-the-neighbours-hostess-pies-ad.jpg)
Title: Re: Hostess Fruit Pie Comic Ads
Post by: styx on August 22, 2012, 07:16:35 PM
One of my favs with Green Arrow...shooting Fruit pies to the kids! The cable car is about to fall you say? Well, I am not worried I have Hostess Fruit Pies!!!!  lol

(http://www.seanbaby.com/hostess/images/v2greenarrow01.jpg)

Here is a website to a nice collection:

http://www.seanbaby.com/hostess.htm
Title: Re: Hostess Fruit Pie Comic Ads
Post by: leonmallett on August 23, 2012, 01:06:35 PM
One of my favs with Green Arrow...shooting Fruit pies to the kids! The cable car is about to fall you say? Well, I am not worried I have Hostess Fruit Pies!!!!  lol

(http://www.seanbaby.com/hostess/images/v2greenarrow01.jpg)

Here is a website to a nice collection:

http://www.seanbaby.com/hostess.htm

I was going to look for that one Styx - it is my favourite too! :)
Title: Re: Hostess Fruit Pie Comic Ads
Post by: obsidian3d on August 23, 2012, 08:20:26 PM
Wow, the amazing storytelling in those is truly riveting! Just imagine how proud the people who worked on those must be. :P
Title: Re: Hostess Fruit Pie Comic Ads
Post by: DS615 on August 28, 2012, 10:25:49 PM
I was thinking the reverse.
Those one page ads are more engaging and with better story telling than any of the comics have had in the last decade.

Probably makes the current writers feel kinda bad they can't even reach HFP levels of ability.
Title: Re: Hostess Fruit Pie Comic Ads
Post by: sirrah on August 28, 2012, 10:38:16 PM
I've never eaten a Hostess fruit pie, but I spent my childhood in awe of their purported mystical capabilities.
Title: Re: Hostess Fruit Pie Comic Ads
Post by: styx on August 29, 2012, 01:11:14 AM
I've never eaten a Hostess fruit pie, but I spent my childhood in awe of their purported mystical capabilities.

If you live in the US, Wal-Mart has them....at least in the south, they suduced me while I was waiting in line. I saw the display and my mouth watered for a lemon one (so I got one for lunch the next day). About a $1 but very filling, I recall when they was a quarter....yea I AM THAT OLD...well not that old but you get the point.  lol

I would be snared in a trap if I was a super villian...
Title: Re: Hostess Fruit Pie Comic Ads
Post by: Doomsdave on August 29, 2012, 04:05:03 AM
I fondly remember these ads in my comic books.  I remember the pies too.   :D
Title: Re: Hostess Fruit Pie Comic Ads
Post by: The Gray Ghost on August 29, 2012, 03:34:33 PM
I've never eaten a Hostess fruit pie, but I spent my childhood in awe of their purported mystical capabilities.
I never cared for the fruit pie that much, very little fruit in them.
I always wanted Dolly Madisons Zingers
Title: Re: Hostess Fruit Pie Comic Ads
Post by: supervike on August 29, 2012, 07:46:22 PM
Loved the comics and loved the pies!  (far too much, I'm afraid)
Title: Re: Hostess Fruit Pie Comic Ads
Post by: Cosmotiger on August 29, 2012, 09:05:06 PM
I fondly remember these ads in my comic books.  I remember the pies too.   :D
  Yep, me too.  I think they still sell them around here (Minnesota).  The pies, I mean.  Not comics with corny advertising for pies.   

I also notice that Hostess pies form the crossover tie between the DC and Marvel universes.  :D
Title: Re: Hostess Fruit Pie Comic Ads
Post by: styx on August 30, 2012, 12:31:37 AM
I just had a laugh a moment ago, we should take our painted super hero figures and use that comic editor program out there and make our own Hostess Fruit Pie commercials...maybe with Crossover figures or anything goes? Of course you must have product placement in it.....hrm, maybe a contest?
Title: Re: Hostess Fruit Pie Comic Ads
Post by: Cherno on August 30, 2012, 12:38:37 AM
(http://i1168.photobucket.com/albums/r497/srpyle_1970/Hulk_advert.jpg)

I love how in the last panel, Hulk randomly starts smashing innocent trees even though he didn't start this kind of "unfinished business" in the beginning of the story... Totally random! :D
Title: Re: Hostess Fruit Pie Comic Ads
Post by: Cosmotiger on August 30, 2012, 03:41:07 AM
Hulk hate Ents!