I am on a bit of a gum kick so I thought I would stay on topic for the site. Here is an another interesting a Amurol-made artifact from 1983, Fantastic Four Gum. The gum, like Big League Chew, also came in a pouch and contained a 100 “chunks” in 4 different flavors – strawberry, orange, grape and watermelon. I liked to pretend that these gum chunks sloughed off the Thing’s rocky hide and that Mr. Grimm’s soft center was comprised of soft sweet marshmallows, that I could get to if only I could chew enough of these chunks.
Some fun things that stand out on this ad:
- The Invisible Woman is big in the face. It looks like she got botox.
- The Thing sells out his catch phrase for this chunk gum – “It’s Big Bubble Blowin’ Time!” C’mon Ben you are better then that.
- The flavors seem arbitrarily assigned, they don’t make any sense. Not sure what they could have done with that, but Sizzlin’ Strawberry for the Human Torch and Wallopin’ Watermelon for the Thing would have been a good start. Any suggestions for Mr F and the Invisible Woman?
- Some weird invisibility going on there, on the pouch. Sue’s powers seem to misfiring and crisscrossing her ample pelvic region.
‘Nuff Said… Click on Ad for a Larger Version
FF bubble gum? Never knew it existed. Thanks for the useless knowledge! ;)
Useless knowledge is all I got…
It’s all I gotz as all. It’s what makes the blogs go ’round!
this gum was the bomb!!! I use to get a bag of it and would mash up the “chunks” into a multi colored or monochromatic ball and then chew from there. I loved this stuff :)
Awesome mara! Nothing like a big multi-colored gumball. I still can’t resist doing it when I get a pouch of chiclets.
I chewed this as a kid, early-mid 80′s. I have often thought about this gum, it was that good. It was so good in fact, I would chew and swallow every piece in one sitting. I couldn’t help it, and back then I thought 7 years later I would poop out a giant multi-colored gum turd, that fear never stopped me. Now that is some good gum!!! Bring it back!!!