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Let's Make A TV Ad For Free Comic Book Day

There is to be no Free Comic Book Day TV ad this year. At least not officially. Not enough stores used last year's ad, and apparently creating a new one is too expensive.

Sure, if your shoot involves live action in comic stores, fancy computer graphics and employing an actual agency. But what if you could do it on the cheap? Using, well, comic book fans?

Some of you know my career hasn't always been a comic book gossip columnist but an advertising copywriter. Put on hold a bit after redundancy last year and the opportunity to turn my comics reportage full time, I'm still freelancing for a number of London agencies. So I should at least put my money where my mouth is.

Here's a script for a Free Comic Book Day TV ad that I think might work.

FLASH COMICS #1 is dropped onto a shop counter, seen from above.

VO: This comic sold for almost half a million dollars.

ACTION COMICS #1 dropped on top.

VO: This comic sold for a million.

DETECTIVE COMICS #27 dropped on top.

VO: And this comic sold for over a million.

An FBCD book is dropped on top.

VO: But this comic is free.

Another FBCD book is dropped on top.

VO: And this comic.

More FBCD books dropped on top. Lots and lots of them.

VO: And this comic. And this comic. And this and this and this and this and this and this and…

Hard cut to shot of store, address, details.

VO: Free Comic Book Day is on Saturday, May 1st. Come on by and get your free comic.

So what do we need? Someone who can provide reasonable facsimiles of the above comics – both the vintage ones and the upcoming free ones. We could use free ones from previous years of course but I'd prefer this year's ones.

Then someone who can film the above scene. Should be very cheap and we could ship you the comics.

Then someone who can do the voiceover. Anyone got Samuel Jackson's number?

Then someone eho can edit the aspects together and procide it in a number of formats.

Then a shop who wants to actually run this ad, so we can put their shop at the end – it could be viral, online only.

Oh and, um someone from Free Comic Book Day to say it's okay. Especially if we use the logo.

So… anyone up for it?

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