I think it was the lack of the sound effect that disappointed me most about Slim Jims.
Well, turns out this in-your-face macho snack food angle had been in effect at least as early as the mid-70's, as this ad shows:
Pretty clever ad name, huh? I mean, sure it might be actually more effective to say that Slim Jims are so extreme even werewolves would eat them (which it actually implies at the end of the ad), and the final slogan of "a little less than a meal, a little more than a snack" could be worded less self-deprecatingly, but when most ads of these period are super-dry, super-quaint, or super queer, lines such as "...you can find it at the grocery store. Or at a lot of the places where you've been getting those sissy snacks" are a breath of fresh, modern air.
Of course, in a few decades time we get to the point where Machoman is yelling and whipcracking meat at your face. So you can decide for yourself whether we've advanced as a smoked-beef-snack eating species.
From Amazing Spider-Man #148, September 1975.
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The 8-10 weeks referred to how long it would take you to receive your first issue. It didn't mean that EVERY issue could take that long to reach you.
I subscribed back in the day but it ended up sucking because the comics would often come a week after it was released in the store, and I was often so impatient I'd end up buying it in the store the day it came out, so I ended up buying 2 of many issues. After a while I realized this was impactical and told myself I'd make myself wait for the subscription copy to arrive and not impulsively buy the newstand copy first.
The problem with that was that the subscriptions were mailed in nothing but a flimsy brown paper sleeve. Not brown bag, brown SLEEVE, meaning top and bottom were exposed. You simply slid the comic out of the sleeve. The paper was thin as tissue.
This meant the comic often came if AWFUL condition, especially if it rained or snowed. It looked like a dog chewed it up sometimes.
I ended up canceling the subscription.
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