Why You Didn't See More Product Placement In Stephen King's It!

Maybe it's just me...

...but maybe making Pennywise your spokesman was a bad move for Kool-Aid!

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

Also note--8 flavors of Kool-Aid?!?! Pity your poor forefathers, who couldn't enjoy the 91 (!) flavors available in modern times.

From Looney Tunes #175 (1956)

When Krusty Goes Bad!!

The only thing creepier than clowns?

Evil arsonist clowns!!!

Sadly, nothing remotely resembling this happens anywhere on the inside of this comic. There's not a damned clown anywhere, in any of the stories, let alone an evil arsonist clown!!

Which makes me just the tiniest bit skeptical about the "adapted from true police and FBI cases" slug.

Nah, it must have really happened! Who could make something like that up?!?

Justice Traps The Guilty #50 (1953)

The Tears Of A Clown!

Look, the Joker gets all the press, but he's nowhere near the top crime clown.

Now this guy...

Well, he seems motivated. What's Jeremiah Meeth's beef, anyway?

Maybe, just maybe, you're in the wrong profession, Jeremiah...

Anyway, the result is a colossal clown crime wave! (Click to embiggen for full riotous rioting!)

Now that's more like it. None of this random "having my face cut off" crap--this is real, hilarious clown crime!!

Those were the days...

From Superheroes #2 (1967)