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Post by richardwrite on Jul 7, 2015 10:07:53 GMT -5
Anybody remember that newspaper that used to advertise in comic books in the 60s and 70s, trying to get kids to be paperboys for them: GRIT was the name. Did any of you sign up? For that matter, did anyone send away for Charles Atlas' fitness material because of it being in your favorite comic book? Or try to order some X-Ray glasses? P.S. I admit to being very upset that I could never go to Palisades theme park that Superman loved so much.  |
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Post by Crimebuster on Jul 7, 2015 10:24:19 GMT -5
GRIT was just a little before my time, but I did sell this stuff for a short period in the mid-80's:  |
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Post by marvelmaniac on Jul 7, 2015 10:28:48 GMT -5
I sent away for the Charles Atlas program in 70/71???
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2015 10:34:13 GMT -5
I did that once - the Newspaper Job thru Grit and I did not fair too well and my Parents made me quit after one month.
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Post by richardwrite on Jul 7, 2015 10:34:55 GMT -5
Did it stop the bullies from Kicking sand in your face? |
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Post by The Captain on Jul 7, 2015 11:06:34 GMT -5
I myself never did any of these things, but my wife did sell GRIT when she was just a wee lass. Because of my job, I have spent a lot of time in Williamsport, PA over the past 5 years and I took some pictures of the GRIT building in the downtown area to share with her; even though the paper is no longer in publication, the building still has a prominent "GRIT" sign on it.
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Post by marvelmaniac on Jul 7, 2015 18:46:26 GMT -5
Did it stop the bullies from Kicking sand in your face? Not really... Most of it was Isometrics and I have still seen some of the exercises that were in the Charles Atlas Course used in Physical Therapy today. I just went through a Right Scapula issue and was doing PT at home that I learned about online and I incorporated some of the Shoulder exercises I remebered from the CA course into my routine. Pain is now 95% gone, was it the PT, Muscle Relaxers or Charles Atlas??? |
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Post by Jesse on Jul 7, 2015 23:04:21 GMT -5
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Post by Confessor on Jul 8, 2015 6:24:57 GMT -5
I sent away for the Charles Atlas program in 70/71??? And you've been beating up bullies on the beach ever since, right? EDIT: Dammit, I see richardwrite got there first.  |
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Post by Prince Hal on Jul 8, 2015 8:37:51 GMT -5
Never sold, nor even saw a copy of GRIT, but I grew up in the urban sprawl of Northern NJ. I think GRT's demographic was rural America. Did finally see a copy, though, when I worked in a large bookstore with an extensive selection of magazines in the late 70s. All I ever sent for were the "hundred Civil War soldiers in a box..."  which turned out to be plastic flats. I was woefully disappointed and forever cured of the desire to send money for anything through the mail.  |
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Post by Trevor on Jul 8, 2015 10:44:38 GMT -5
I was always fascinated by those Grit ads, both for reading it and selling it, but never took the selling plunge. This thread made me research it and see that it is still around. I think it's a monthly now, and sold at Tractor Supply sort of places. I checked it out the other day but was not nostalgic enough to buy a copy for my Comic Fringe box. Iirc, it was a cool read as a kid in the early 70s. |
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Post by Randle-El on Jul 8, 2015 11:04:11 GMT -5
I started reading comics after the era during which GRIT was heavily advertised in comics, but I have lots of bronze age back issues with those ads in them. In retrospect I thought it was kinda weird seeing those ads directed at kids. In my neighborhood, I only ever saw little old ladies selling GRIT.
Anyone even know why the paper was called GRIT anyway?
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Post by DE Sinclair on Jul 8, 2015 11:40:51 GMT -5
I started reading comics after the era during which GRIT was heavily advertised in comics, but I have lots of bronze age back issues with those ads in them. In retrospect I thought it was kinda weird seeing those ads directed at kids. In my neighborhood, I only ever saw little old ladies selling GRIT. Anyone even know why the paper was called GRIT anyway? Great Reading In Toilet? |
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Post by Trevor on Jul 8, 2015 13:19:08 GMT -5
Anyone even know why the paper was called GRIT anyway? From its website: |
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Post by Confessor on Jul 8, 2015 17:42:11 GMT -5
I grew up in England and knew that I couldn't send away for things like GRIT or any of the other groovy things you saw in the pages of U.S. comics. I think my parents must've explained to me that the offers weren't open to UK residents. I did, however, send away to the original Forbidden Planet shop in London (from an ad I saw in Marvel UK's Star Wars Weekly comic) when I was 8 -- so that would've been 1980 or so -- for the Star Wars novelization and the Brian Daley Han Solo at Stars End novel. That was my one and only experience of sending away for anything I saw advertised in a comic. I still own both books today, although my copy of the SW novelization is dog-eared from endless re-reading. |
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