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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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5 comments:

  1. Tom Falco8/19/2015 4:33 PM

    I like the premise, too bad the gags aren't funny.

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  2. Anonymous8/19/2015 7:20 PM

    These are great! So much funnier than most strips today. And they're well drawn.

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  3. Ger Apeldoorn9/03/2015 1:18 AM

    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.

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  4. Ger Apeldoorn9/03/2015 1:21 AM

    And more in the Gridgeport Telegram. The scope of the jokes seems hindered by the fcat they are using real ads.

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  5. Ger Apeldoorn9/03/2015 1:25 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."

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