Heading straight to TVTA’s Hostess Twinkies, Fruit Pie and Cup Cakes collection are these four fab ads featuring feisty face-offs between Batman VS Catman, Hawkman VS Golden Raven, Green Lantern VS a giant ice boulder, and Green Arrow VS a broken tram.
US. Weird War Tales. 1980.
US. Weird War Tales. 1980.
US. Weird War Tales. 1980.
US. Weird War Tales. 1980.
US. Kull. 1976.
US. Marvel Premiere 50. Alice Cooper. 1979.
US. Claw the Unconquered. 1978.
US. The Warlord. 1977.
US. 1978.
Some great retro ads just in to compliment two of TVTA’s favourite categories. You can see the original Saturday Morning TV section here and Superhero Hostess Twinkies, Cup Cakes and Fruit Pies here
For now, Here are the newbies. Thanks for looking.
NBC Saturday Morning TV featuring Spider-Man, the Smurfs, Mr.T, Alvin & The Chipmunks, and other cartoon favourites.
US. The New Mutants. 1985.
CBS Saturday Morning TV featuring Sylvester and Tweety, Bugs Bunny, Tarzan and others.
US. Weird War Tales. 1976.
Hostess Fruit Pies featuring Batman.
US. Weird War Tales. 1977.
Hostess Fruit Pies featuring Batman.
US. Weird War Tales. 1978.
Hostess Cup Cakes featuring Superman.
US. Weird War Tales. 1978.
Hostess Fruit Pies featuring Superman.
US. House of Mystery. 1981.
Hostess Cup Cakes featuring Wonder Woman.
US. Weird War Tales. 1980.
Hostess Cup Cakes featuring Red Tornado.
US. Ghosts. 1981.
Hostess snacks were the perfect ally of superheroes. What evil criminal or supervillain could resist such yumminess? The Penguin, The Robot Master, The Mummy, Sable Lady, Big Dome, The Home Wrecker… all these and more succumbed to the light, tender crust and real, fruit filling of Hostess Twinkies, Fruit Pies and Cup Cakes!
Hostess – famous for its Twinkies brand since 1930 – wasn’t content with striking an ad deal with just one comic universe, it went for two – snatching well-loved characters from both Marvel and DC publications. Batman, Iron Man, Aquaman, Spider-Man, Superman, Wonder Woman and many others all took on criminals with the help of Hostess snacks! In addition to costumed heroes, Hostess also employed the talents of Archie, Casper, Richie Rich, Roadrunner and other well-known comic characters.
The highlighted panels above show some of the quirky humour employed by the writers and artists to advertise the Hostess brand. There seemed to be no shortage of superheroes lining up to fight crime alongside those alluring little snack-cakes.
My Hostess comic strip collection numbers 44 different ones so far. Ha! Small portions indeed… there are literally thousands upon gazillions of these ads out there… okay, maybe not, but there are certainly a few hundred or so knocking around in various comic publications. Here are the scans of mine. Go grab a Twinkie and enjoy 🙂
Yumm, yumm… More to come… Keep watching this space!
Post updated Aug 2019 with new ads.
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