Wednesday, August 19, 2015

 

Obscurity of the Day: Addled-Ads



In their never-ending quest for sales, syndicates will offer editors a cartoon feature designed to complement just about any page of their newspaper, except maybe the obituaries. Addled-Ads, whose utterly superfluous hyphen was thankfully dropped by the time of the samples above, was offered by the Chicago Sun-Times' Field Syndicate for classified ad pages. The feature was drawn by Harry Lutke and the humorously mis-worded classified ads collected by Bob Schless.

The feature debuted on October 3 1949, and found few takers in newspaperdom. Addled-Ads limped along for a few years, but was put to bed sometime around November 1951.

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# posted by Allan Holtz @ 8:00 AM
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I like the premise, too bad the gags aren't funny.
# posted by Blogger Tom Falco : 8/19/2015 4:33 PM
 
These are great! So much funnier than most strips today. And they're well drawn.
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : 8/19/2015 7:20 PM
 
Looking for some more, I found that it was syndicated as well by the Chicago Sun and Times Co. I found at least one (with hyphen) on Oct 24 1949 in the Moberly Monitor-Index.
# posted by Blogger Ger Apeldoorn : 9/03/2015 1:18 AM
 
And more in the Gridgeport Telegram. The scope of the jokes seems hindered by the fcat they are using real ads.
# posted by Blogger Ger Apeldoorn : 9/03/2015 1:21 AM
 
Moberly has the first one as well, oct 3, 1949: "For Sale - A fine large dog. Will eat anything. Is very fond of children."
# posted by Blogger Ger Apeldoorn : 9/03/2015 1:25 AM
 
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