Monday PSA: New Stars for Old Glory!
Filed under: Comics
While almost all of DC Comics’ public service ads show their age in one way or another — they were published 40-50 years ago, after all — there are a handful that are truly, hopelessly outdated:
► How about the PSA predicting the far off future of 1976?
And now we can add one more to the list: a PSA that celebrates adding the 49th star to the American flag.
To be fair, it does mention that “next year” Hawaii will become the 50th state, and it gives a nice quick history of the flag. Still, there’s something a little depressing about this PSA in that it was written knowing it would be irrelevant in a year.
This PSA was found in Adventure Comics #266 as well as the other DC comics from November 1959. This ad was written by the king-of-PSAs Jack Schiff, with art by Bernard Baily.
Grandpa: It’ll be a cold day in hell before I recognize Missourah!
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January 19th, 2010 at 5:04 am
Actually, I like it, maybe for the same reason you found it depressing.
January 19th, 2010 at 5:18 pm
Actually, my grandparents’ summer home, bought in 1959, had little plastic American flags on all the light pull-cords–and I remember them all being 49 stars! I wonder what happened to them all?
January 25th, 2010 at 6:12 pm
I thought it was Lisa that asked Grandpa about the flag…
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