Monday PSA: Lost — A Free Education!

March 3rd, 2008

Filed under: Comics

Lost - A Free Education! Click for the full page.Fed up with always being overshadowed by fellow DC comics hipster Buzzy, Binky finally makes an appearance in a PSA — though he’s basically a passive observer, with Tim and nameless-grocery-delivery-boy getting the attention.

Click on the image to the right for the full ad.

This is at least the second PSA with a “stay in school” theme (the other was “Not Wanted: High School Dropouts“). I guess DC Comics and the National Social Welfare Assembly felt that this was a major problem among comic book readers in the ’50s and ’60s.

This particular PSA is from The Brave and the Bold #20, though it can be found in other DC comics from October 1958. It’s actually the second go around of this PSA, which first appeared in some October 1951 comics. It was printed yet a third time, in November 1966 comics. 15 years off a single PSA — that’s not too shabby. As usual, the script is by Jack Schiff (of course), with Win Mortimer on pencils and inks.

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4 Responses to “ Monday PSA: Lost — A Free Education! ”

  1. Arkonbey
    March 4th, 2008 at 7:01 am

    Man. Everybody in that comic is really mad! Don’t their brows get tired from scowling all of the time?

  2. Keith
    March 4th, 2008 at 7:42 am

    Their brows are dealt with in the follow-up comic: Stay Away From Botox, Kids!

  3. Arkonbey
    March 4th, 2008 at 11:41 am

    hah!

  4. Jillian
    March 4th, 2008 at 1:55 pm

    Heh, amusing coincidence: I only just today read this PSA about deaf people, starring none other than Buzzy.

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