This season, I decided to return to some of the drug stores that, unknowingly, made my Halloween a bit more magical. To haunt that seasonal aisle once again and document their spooky offerings in 2022.
Ad Nauseam: ALF #23 (Mascot Madness!)
You can find previous "Ad Nauseam"s here. Welcome back to Ad Nauseam: never ending articles inspecting promotions of yesteryear found in between the โBiffโs and โPowโs of clearance rack comics. Please send help.ย Tonight we crack open the capitalistic corpse of ALF #23 released December 1989. ALF (Alien Life Form) was a Marvel comic series …
Ad Nauseam: The Supernaturals
PAST COMIC ADS CAN BE FOUND HERE! I only decide to write my Ad Nauseum articles when the breath of the comic gods speaketh to me naturally. I let the comics find me, you see. The timing, price, and content has to be just right. One may call the process very sad SuPeRnAtUrAl. Which brings …
Monsters With A Side of Fries
In October of 1997, fast food chain Burger King featured four Universal Monsters as kids' meal toys. Universal Studios was in the process of reviving their catalog of classic horror films by remastering them for various official VHS releases. These fast food toys, amongst other various promotions, were Universalโs way of introducing the classic monsters …
Ad Nauseam: Ultimate Spider-man #4
Youโre not going to believe this, but, it seems thereโs been a sort of mishap in regards to the current edition of Ad Nauseum. Weโre not heading back to the 1990s to reminisce in the murky nostalgic mirth of discontinued candy, cereal, and action figures. No, my friends, for it is a new millennium! With …

