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Main • #74

Garfield

Release year:1998
Category:Main campaign
Collections:Main Campaign
Times published:5
Printed tagline:got milk?

Notes

MilkAdMan main campaign number; see Placements for issue evidence.

Also documented: Garfield — Boys’ Life May 1999 back cover — Format: Back-cover magazine placement — Back-cover placement recovered from the complete Boys’ Life issue. (source)

Also documented: Original period print - Garfield - GM standard — Printed tagline: got milk? Format: Original magazine / newspaper print tear-sheet· English — Original 1998 paper image shows the lasagna/pizza Garfield composition with got milk? and no web/phone contact line. This upgrades the child from rebuilt visu (source)

Main image

Garfield

Bamboo Trading: extra-581.583 family near-imageless; dealer desc: from a 1998 magazine

Credits

Photographer / credited image source:Jim Davis illustration + Colin Cooke photo
How certain the credit is:A — agency-side archive metadata

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Variants of this ad (3)

Different printed versions of the same ad are grouped here.

Garfield — GM — standard
Year:1998
Version type:Ad version
Difference:Version of main #74.
Notes:Milk Ad Collecting Central distinguishes this ad beneath the subject's image link.· authentic period print remains the historical-fidelity target. Exact original-period image.

Images of this version

Where it was published

PublicationIssue/datePageFormatSourceNotes
Publication unresolved1998Collector-documented versionsourceMilk Ad Collecting Central distinguishes this ad beneath the subject's image link.
Publication unresolved1998Original period print / tear-sheetsourceOriginal 1998 paper image shows the lasagna/pizza Garfield composition with got milk? and no web/phone contact line. This upgrades the child from rebuilt visual reference to authentic period-object evidence.
Garfield — GM — whymilk.com
Year:1998
Version type:Ad version
Difference:Version of main #74.
Notes:Milk Ad Collecting Central distinguishes this ad beneath the subject's image link.

Images of this version

Where it was published

PublicationIssue/datePageFormatSourceNotes
Publication unresolved1998Collector-documented versionsourceMilk Ad Collecting Central distinguishes this ad beneath the subject's image link.
Garfield — GM — 1-800-WHY-MILK
Year:1998
Version type:Ad version
Difference:Version of main #74.
Notes:Milk Ad Collecting Central distinguishes this ad beneath the subject's image link.

Images of this version

Where it was published

PublicationIssue/datePageFormatSourceNotes
Publication unresolved1998Collector-documented versionsourceMilk Ad Collecting Central distinguishes this ad beneath the subject's image link.

Where it was published

PublicationIssue/datePageFormatSourceNotes
Family CircleJan 5, 1999Print adsource
Good HousekeepingFeb 1999Print adsource
HealthJan/Feb 1999; Mar 1999Print adsource
Ladies' Home JournalFeb 1999Print adsource
RedbookFeb 1999Print adsource
Boys’ LifeMay 1999Back coverBack-cover magazine placementsourceBack-cover placement recovered from the complete Boys’ Life issue.