When Hostess Baking ceased operation in 2012, a chapter of comics history ended...
This wonderfully-looney series of ads featuring all the major comics characters from Archie to Spider-Man to Casper the Friendly Ghost to Wonder Woman appeared in comics for almost a decade, featuring some of the best artists in the business including Neal Adams (above with Dick Giordano), Gil Kane, John Romita Sr, Curt Swan, Jim Starlin, and Frank Miller doing the rendering!
Note: You can see a complete set of the Marvel and DC ones HERE!
Bonus: the original art for this ad...
BTW, Hostess' nigh-indestructible pastries have since returned to supermarket shelves...but the comic advertising never did!
