Other than Outcault’s Yellow Kid and Buster Brown, there was little in the way of comic strip character-based advertising in the first decade of the twentieth century. So I was really taken aback when I chanced upon this advertisement in a June 1907 issue of the Tacoma Ledger. Gustave Verbeck produced his Terrors of the Tiny Tads strip from 1905-1914, but I never got the impression that it had the sort of popular recognition at the time that would make the characters attractive to the advertising world. Nonetheless, here we have a corset ad produced by the Tiny Tad Company that apparently got national distribution.
Hello, Allan—I suppose that, if Verbeek used Outcault as his model, he also produced cuts to advertise various products. I doubt if they stopped at corsets. Outcault had Buster pushing guns, clocks, clothes, and various hardware, so watch out for other Tiny Tad ads.–Cole Johnson.
So this is how comics became a vast waist land.
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