Oreo Cookie maze

What's the ad for?

Oreo Cookies
Year
1985

Spotted in

The scoop

Oreo cookies..."Milks Favorite Cookie," but  where does the name come from? Wikipedia says this...

"Oreo comes from the Greek root for appetizing as in orexin or orexigenic (appetite stimulating) or anorexic (loss of appetite). There are many theories pointing to the origin of the name 'Oreo', including derivations from the French word 'Or', meaning gold (as early packaging was gold), or the Greek word 'Oros', meaning mountain or hill (as the original Oreo was mound shaped) or even the Greek word 'Oreo', meaning beautiful or nice. Other theories are that the 're' from cream was 'sandwiched' between the two Os from cookie, or the word 'just seemed like a nice, melodic combination of sounds'. A TV spot for the Got Milk? campaign showed a false etymology where, when at a board meeting to decide the name of the cookie, one of the members is asked for his opinion; the member, who just ate a cookie and does not have any milk to wash it down responds "I don't know," which is heard by the board member as "Oreo."

Bubble Yum Maze

What's the ad for?

Bubble Yum
Year
1982

Spotted in

The scoop

Another maze and another contest from Bubble Yum. You could win some cool prizes like a Panasonic Reggie Vision with video cassette recorder and sound camera. I'm not even sure what that is. Looks like a VCR to me.

Comics form the 70's and 80's always had advertisements for gum. I don't recall seeing many ads for gum in comics today. Maybe I'm just not reading the right comics.

Chewy Newtons

 Oh, look another maze. Fig Newtons, man do they even make these anymore? I haven't had one since I was a kid. Here we also have Apple Newtons...not quite the same ring to it. They also came out with Blueberry, Cherry, Strawberry and Grape Newtons but sorry, they had no banana newtons.


Back in the day Doctors believed most health problems to be related to digestion problems. They recommended having a biscuit and some fruit. This led fig lover Charles Roser to come up with Fig Newtons in 1891. You can't make this stuff up. The dude must have been rich after that idea. I'm a lover of many things, figs not one of them but maybe I could come up with something cool with something that I love...it will probably just turn out rude and crude.

Life Savers, Circle of disapointment

Found this in Blackhawk 254, from DC comics. 1983. I was never a fan of this series but somehow have a single issue sitting in my reader box, which is a box of old comics I had as a kid...no bags, no boards. The ad is in itself nothing special. What is special, or should I say annoying is the maze. Let`s say you found a copy of Amazing Spider-Man 238 featuring the first appearance of the Hobgoblin. It`s in great shape, what a score. Then while flipping through the book you come across this ad...and it`s been solved. That means written in. There goes the value of that book...Okay, so now you've all seen my geeky side, but to all the collectors out there, haven`t you run across this ad and it`s been filled in by some kid? Were you that kid?

Lets go back to Lifesavers for a moment. Do you know what the first flavor was? Pep-O-Mint. Mr Clarence Crane wanted to create a candy that would survive the summer heat...So on a hot summer day Mr Crane pronounced..."Let there be candy...with a hole in the middle. Tweet, Tweet, Twiddle, Twiddle."