Corporate Mascots, Icons and Spokesbeings
Crazy Cow Cereal
Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Aug 22, 2019 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Food, Advertising, Corporate Mascots, Icons and Spokesbeings, 1970s
Follies of the Madmen #437
1) A bicycle tire confusingly has the same name as a razor blade company.
2) The mascot for the tire is a hyper-dimensional polar bear. These creatures apparently represent all that is desirable in a tire.
3) Even with its magic powers, the hyper-dimensional polar bear does not act to save the victim directly, but makes the human boy do all the work.
4) Moral: buy our tires to avoid snake bites?
Source (page 20).
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jul 28, 2019 -
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Category: Accidents, Anthropomorphism, Bicycles and Other Human-powered Vehicles, Business, Advertising, Corporate Mascots, Icons and Spokesbeings, Comics
B. Prosperous
Continuing our ongoing theme of strange corporate mascots:From 1960-1962, B. Prosperous was the mascot of the Eastern Trust Company. He demonstrates a popular trend among mid-twentieth-century mascot creators, which was to slap a human head and limbs onto some inanimate object and call it a mascot.
Montreal Gazette - Mar 22, 1961
Posted By: Alex - Tue Jul 02, 2019 -
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Category: Corporate Mascots, Icons and Spokesbeings, 1960s
Jerry Pulls the Strings
Imperious coffee magnate is wooed by his future son-in-law's puppets.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Apr 02, 2019 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Corporate Mascots, Icons and Spokesbeings, Puppets and Automatons, Coffee and other Legal Stimulants, Marriage, 1930s, Love & Romance
Follies of the Madmen #407
"Murray Westgate portrays an Esso service station dealer who asks a woman driver if she wants Esso Extra gasoline, but she only wants her windows cleaned."
Not sure if Murray peeved attitude conveys the right message. Also, perhaps a bit too much thrilling window-scrubbing action?
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jan 21, 2019 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Corporate Mascots, Icons and Spokesbeings, Motor Vehicles, 1960s
Follies of the Madmen #404
Not entirely sure why any company would emphasize the sufferings of its "antagonist" so dramatically. It would be like saying, "Poor germs! Doctors are killing them all!"
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jan 02, 2019 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Advertising, Corporate Mascots, Icons and Spokesbeings, 1940s, Pain, Self-inflicted and Otherwise, Fictional Monsters
Follies of the Madmen #387
Don't be a "Pipestem Pete!" Also, how does "energy" fit into a very specific list of vitamins and minerals?
Posted By: Paul - Mon Oct 01, 2018 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Corporate Mascots, Icons and Spokesbeings, Food, 1950s, Bodybuilding
Sparky’s Hazard House
Although not as famous as McGruff the Crime Dog, Sparky the Fire Dog has been around for a while.
I am particularly interested in his "house of death by incineration" diorama.
Apparently you can still purchase one from this company.
You might also want their Hazard Farm model.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Sep 02, 2018 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Death, Destruction, Domestic, Education, Corporate Mascots, Icons and Spokesbeings, Children, 1950s
Follies of the Madmen #377
That is one hard-ass kids' shoes mascot!
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jul 30, 2018 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Business, Advertising, Corporate Mascots, Icons and Spokesbeings, Children, Shoes, 1940s, Feet
Virginia Slims Clothing
Dress in the tribal garments of your tobacco goddess.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jul 20, 2018 -
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Category: Fashion, Tobacco and Smoking, Advertising, Corporate Mascots, Icons and Spokesbeings, Women, Twentieth Century
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