It's rare to see any music ads in a comic book, and i find it especially odd to see one for the Mothers of Invention. I wonder if it worked.

Note that you can't order the albums directly. You have to write to them, and presumably you get a catalogue back, and then you can send away for the album and then they ship it to you.

In a time of amazon.com, let alone iTunes, that seems like an awfully long time to have to wait for music.

This image is from Fantastic Four #73, Apr 1968.

Marvel comics at the time were supposedly pretty big with hippies, so I'm not so shocked to find out about such an ad. I'm also interested to see if it worked. I guess it depends if you see more ads.

While i'm only up to 1968 on screenshots, i've read up to 1974, and i don't remember seeing any other music ads (other than the BMG/Columbia House clubs, which, it's interesting to note, didn't even have a category for "rock" in the 1970s).

Also, other than one ad for "psychedelic lights", i haven't seen anything else advertising to hippies. The targeted demographics were children and people in dead end jobs.

But looking at Kirby's artwork in 1968, and Lee's bizarre concepts, it's no surprise that hippies, and maybe even the Mothers themselves, were fans.