The Vintage Skatemag Advertisement gallery has been updated with 30 ads from a rare, east coast skateboarding magazine called Skate, The International Skateboarding Magazine. With that addition the total number of adverts in the galley has reached 704! Some notable additions include very early ads from Zorlac and Santa Monica Airlines, in addition to the usual assortment of brands normally associated with the 70’s, like this classic with Tony Alva with no ad copy whatsoever. Skate magazine hailed from Melbourne, Florida. This issue is pretty slick, and the magazine probably would have been able to find a good sized audience if the bottom of the industry had not fallen out within the year.

I just added 62 advertisements from Volume 2 Number 6 of Skateboarder Magazine (1976) to the Vintage Skatemag Advert Gallery, bringing the total in the gallery up to 674 ads! 1976 was a good year for skateboarding.

Walt Disney’s The Beagle Boys #37, published by Gold Key in 1977. This issue does not feature any skateboarding stories or illustrations outside of another sales club advertisement with a Huffy 24″ Action Tail that you can earn as a prize for selling stuff, thus ending the mystery of what boards were in those illustrations, thanks to the plate-of-shrimp lattice of coincidence and my current lack of freelance work.

No, it’s not Tony Hawk in a Depend commercial, if only… Can you imagine? “When you need Extreme®! bladder control…” Nope. It’s just a couple commercials for Qnol health supplements. The commercials are short and to the point, with very little skateboarding. Both shot on location in his warehouse. The marketing materials are amusing in that they quote Tony’s lines from the commercials as if they were casual statements of his and not a script written for him.

Super Skate Spray! While sifting through hard drive buried treasures I rediscovered these pics from a 2018 auction, and remembered Super Skate Spray from the Vintage Skatemag Ad Gallery. It came from the Lubri-Kote company in Texas, circa 1976. There does not appear to be a Lubri-Kote anymore, but there is an international Lubrikote company based in India that was founded in 1975. Are they related? Who knows. Maybe Super Skate Spray was so successful that it launched an international lubricating empire…

The Wisconsin Department of Transportation has a program aimed at curbing impaired driving called Zero In Wisconsin. Their newest campaign posters can be seen at various rest areas, bus stations, and other locations. These posters feature people engaged in various Extreme!® sports and the tagline “Do this drunk!? That would be Crazy!” At first I was a little bit confused by this, because it almost seems like a suggestion and not a warning. As in, “That WOULD be crazy, let’s try it!” Turns out I’m not the only one. It’s not just a poster, but also a TV commercial, both of which were shot in the bowl at the 4 Seasons skatepark in Milwaukee. – Thanks to Daminal for the tip.

Little Audrey must have been popular to warrant 2 consecutive titles published in 1967. Playful Little Audrey #70 only features skateboarding on the cover, but Little Audrey and Melvin #33 has a skateboard storyline as well. Melvin looks like a twerp.

Out of my OCD/ADD is born the glory of the Skateboarding in Comic Books gallery. While staring at the large box of comic books I’ve been scanning in preparation for posts, I started having a hard time remembering which ones I had posted already. I also ended up buying a duplicate of a title that already owned. I needed to fix that. You are welcome. Enjoy.

RebelliouS Kids! is the functional thirst quencher that kids allegedly love! In fact, they love it so much that they designed the packaging themselves! It’s got vitamins and electrolytes, but no sugar. There is an obvious missed opportunity to call it Stinkbug Strawberry. – Thanks to MC for the pic.

I know you’re thinking $178 is a bit much for a giant Rick and Morty themed wall sticker, even if it is skateboard related and licensed to boot! At about 39″ x 39″ that’s only about 12¢ a square inch! What a bargain!