Another constant in the backs of Marvel comics was Grit.
Selling Grit to be more exact.
When I was a kid I thought it was selling something like sand but on closer inspection I eventually worked out it was a US newspaper!
The ad promised prospective sellers baseball bats, bikes, cameras, torches and all manner of stuff that American kids wanted.
British kids like me would have been happy with a candle and a bag of chips. We seemed to live in the middle ages in comparison!
Did you actually sell Grit?
I had a friend who did.You got credits for every paper you sold,then cashed those credits in for prizes.He didn't actually make money,he sold about a billion papers and earned enough credit for a battery operated radio.The radio itself was nice, but he could have got it sooner by picking blueberries or haybales,there was plenty of farms around that always needed Summer help.
ReplyDeleteha ha, I laughed at that Brian... a billion papers and you got a battery radio! Sounds like Grit wasn't the bonanza it looked like!
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