Pulp Fiction, 1953 · page 9 of 116
Fifteen Western Tales, January 1953 — page 9: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
# What This Page Shows This is an advertisement page from a pulp magazine promoting "Joan the Wad," a mail-order lucky charm or mascot. The page features testimonial letters from purported customers claiming the item brought them financial luck, romantic success, and improved health and employment. The ad includes a heading "CHAD says WOT NO LUCK!" and decorative illustrations of figures climbing or dancing along the margins. At the bottom is an address in Cornwall, England where readers can send money to receive the mascot.
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i SEND FOR JOAN THE WAD- Thousands say:— SHE HAS THE SECRET In several million booklets you may have read extracts from testimonials received from as®far back as 1930. We just take them at random. We posses more than twelve thousand unsolicited testimonials, and we know from chance remarks that many who swear by Joan, never trouble to report to us. Having so many we can’t possibly publish them all, nor can we constantly be changing our advertisements, and we have been content to keep to those originally published, but such is the immense interest being. displayed we thought we would depart from our rule in a small measure and just publish 3 or 4 of the huge number that have come in recently. Remember, similar testimonials have been. coming in unceasingly ainme 130. NEVER WITHOUT MONEY “Tt received one of your Histories about three weeks ago, and it has brought me luck. Before I received your’ book I was. always without money, but now, thanks to you, I am never without money.” (Mrs.) G. O., Glos. LOST HIS JOAN—LOST HIS LUCK “Please let me know how much to send for ‘Joan the Wad’ and ‘Jack O’Lantern.’ I had them both in 1931, but somehow lost them in hospital two years ago. I can honestly say ‘that since losing them nothing has - seemed to go right with me. I know what good luck Joan can bring by honest facts I have really experienced . I certainly ‘know that ‘Joan the Wad’ is more than a lucky charm.” Mr. E. S. S., Liphook, Hants. MARRIED A MILLIONAIRE “« | Two of my friends have won £500 each since receiving your mascots, and another has married an American millionaire . . . Please forward me one’ ‘Joan the Wad’ and one ‘Jack O’Lantern’.” C. E, Levenshulme’ + BETTER JOB, MORE MONEY, LESS HOURS, IMPROVED HEALTH “My dear Joan ... She has brought me continual good luck and her influence spreads to every sphere ...I1 have got a much better job . greater wages . less working hours ... and my health has greatly improved. I have ‘always been a lonely kind of person, but... a friend of the opposite sex, she is also lonely ... great opportunity for comradeship offered. So you see how the influence of Joan works. My pockets have always been full and I have had many wishes and desires fulfilled . I would not part with Joan for her weight in gold, she is much too valuable in every way. Her powers extend all over the world, and she works un- ceasingly for the full benefit of her friends and adherents. She rides in my pocket day and night and never leaves me.” D. H. Leeds, 9. Just send Two ‘Dollar notes or an International Money Order and a large self-addressed envelope to: JOAN’S COTTAGE 3, LANIVET, BODMIN, CORNWALL, ENG. and I will send you both. ae and Mascot., — IODOOLK