Monday PSA: Get Hip to Old Folks!
Filed under: Comics
The title of this PSA from September 1966 pretty much sums up the entire ad, and anything I say about would really be superfluous, so just go ahead and click on the image to the right to read “Get Hip to Old Folks!”
Once again, this PSA was written by Jack Schiff with art by Sheldon Moldoff. It appeared in various September 1966 issues of DC comics, including Adventure Comics #348 (the source of this scan), Detective Comics #355, Superman’s Girl Friend, Lois Lane, and World’s Finest #160.
This ad was provided by H from The Comic Treadmill, who has been generous enough to supply me with a multitude of PSA scans over the past few years. (And for H’s take on Adventure Comics #348, check out his recent post on the comic.)
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June 10th, 2008 at 7:55 am
“This is Mr. Green – he’s retired, but now he likes to hang around young boys!”
//perpetuating a pernicious modern stereotype
//Mr. Green better have a lawyer on retainer
June 10th, 2008 at 8:22 am
Why does he carry a broken piece of china around? Is identifying garnets really THAT important to him, or is there some deep, dark secret about Mr. Green that we’re not “hip” to?
June 10th, 2008 at 8:38 am
Maybe the real reason you should be “hip” to old people is not that they have valuable life experiences that they can impart to you, but the fact that they might cut you with a broken piece of china when you’re not looking.
June 10th, 2008 at 8:50 am
Jon: lol
June 10th, 2008 at 11:05 am
A few fun facts about Canada Geese Mr. Green did not mention:
They are ALL mean
They really resent being hit with french fries (I was actually aiming for the gull)
Seagulls are way smarter (the seagull got the french fry I threw to the goose – it was an accident I hit it in the head)
And they can shit twice their own weight daily, as evidenced by the shorelines of Toronto!
June 10th, 2008 at 7:01 pm
You know, I don’t think the boys were ragging on Mr. Green on account of his age in and of itself. They probably just assumed he was useless due to the twist ending in the last panel – Mr. Green had somewhere suffered a stroke paralyzing the side of his face.
June 17th, 2008 at 1:24 am
I like that what validates old people is that they’re still potentially useful to young people. It’s not that they’re, y’know, people who are worthwhile in their own right. :p
August 12th, 2008 at 6:23 pm
Not only does the goose look like a duck with a bad dye job, the coloration on the head is wrong anyway.
October 16th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
Wow – I’ve never found garnet just lying around. Perhaps all those campers in the 60s picked it all up, with the help of the decrepit and aged.
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