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Tuesday, November 16, 2004
A Message From the Past
Can ads in old comic books predict the future? Not a common theory I admit but I have found something in the pages of Special Marvel Edition #11 (itself a reprint of Sgt. Fury #13) that just might be on to something.
The image posted above might look like our current president but it's from an ad for the Locksmith Institute that appeared in the pages of a comic book from 1973. That's not all though. Check out the top part of the ad. Seems our presidential doppleganger has a "security" problem. Homeland security maybe?
Investigating the whole ad we find perhaps other predictions.
Seems Joe (a name not far off from George) has been laid-off, in debt and is looking for work. This is not an uncommon situation for many people in Geroge W. Bush's America.
In the second panel Joe and his girlfriend Jane (I guess, the character development in this ad leaves one wanting) decide that an education from the Locksmith Institute would be a good idea, what with all the violence today. Didn't the Bush Administration decide not to renew laws outlawing certain types of guns? I'm sure that will have no negative effects on the violence in this country.
Here we see Joe get the feeling he's got a personal instructor right there with him. Could that be Dick Cheney guiding him along? Is it the oil lobby that act like an "invisible hand" in what seems like a lot of Bush's decisions?
Joe will "get all the jobs" he wants with his new education is being a locksmith. Does the include president even if he hasn't had a lot of experience in government? Hmmm, that one's stretching it a bit. That being said "electric key machine" would be a good name for a band. That is if you decide to start a band in 1966.
The ad ends with Joe finding success as a locksmith. As long as people are afraid of the world out there Joe will be profiting. Now that doesn't sound like early-21st century United States at all.
(A hearty Brill Building thanks to Dorian for helping me with the scans here)
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