Advert for TOP SPOT (1958)

Here's a half page advert for Top Spot No.2, a comic published in 1958 that was aimed at the male teen/adult audience. All part of a drive in some British comics of the 1950s to try and appeal to older readers (long before the current trend to do so). The ad appeared in Sun Weekly; no relation to the daily paper that later used the name.

Top Spot didn't prove successful unfortunately, despite desperate attempts to lure its target audience of "young men" by putting cheesecake shots on the covers. You can read my blog post about the comic here:
https://lewstringer.blogspot.co.uk/2011/01/top-spot-clint-of-1958.html

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