Tuesday PSA: Buzzy Gets Tips on Choosing a Profession!
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Another Buzzy public service ad from 1950s DC comics, this one — as the title suggests — is about choosing a career (and you want to be a social worker, right? Oh, c’mon, it’s a great job. Really. Promise. Cross my heart. please?)
If only it were as easy to convince people of your point of view in the real world as it seems to be in Buzzy’s world.
It seems rather ironic that in a public service ad in a comic book, drawing = loafing
The Adventures of Jim Halley: Career Counselor For Hire. How was this never a comic book? If Mr. District Attorney or Sue and Sally Smith, Flying Nurses can be published, then so can this.
This PSA was found Adventure Comics #188, and can be found in other DC comics from May 1953. This ad was written by prolific PSA penner Jack Schiff, with art by persistent PSA-partner Win Mortimer.
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December 9th, 2009 at 10:12 am
Apparently, part of Jim Halley’s pitch includes dressing for success. Mike the reformed loafer sure is looking dapper these days.
December 9th, 2009 at 1:42 pm
I can almost hear “Social Workers, assemble!”
December 9th, 2009 at 9:51 pm
Somebody has to know how to help people without blaming them for the jams they get into or the way they act.
Wow, that sounds like a marvelous thing.
Your Obedient Serpent is one of the worst job hunters around; I’m not even sure where to look to find out where to LOOK. I need to find a Jim Halley myself; too bad there don’t seem to be many around these days. Once you get out of college, “career counseling” seems to have given way to “headhunters” and “temp agencies”.
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