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Glock Printed Adverts

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Attach your copies of Glock ads here! To be stickied.
 
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Here is another Gun Digest advert - from 1992. The G22 pictured is serial number NP000 (I assume US as well, but obviously I cannot verify). Take note that the Glock, Inc. logo has changed from the 1990 advert.
 

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The infamous ad that's STILL making people fear they'll lose their eyebrows if they shoot a "C" model:

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HAH :p!!

I remember this particular ad very well indeed; it's basically what prompted me to look into, and later buy, a G22C myself - shortly after the add was published....:cool:
 
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THIS.....:laughabove:

Is why Glock reigns supreme.....:cool:

BTW, totally digging your adroit use of the word "embiggen"....;)
 
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Thanks very much for checking.

By '91 I'd have thought they'd have long had a Gen 2 in an ad.

Thanks!!
 
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I'll keep you in mind if I find the original, or run across another one.

As for #2, I'll mention that I recently noticed an abbreviated, skinny sidebar-type version of that ad that ran in several Glock Annuals I was browsing, including the 2000, 2001, and 2002 versions (on page 6 of each, if you have one of them handy). I have some experience in print-ad creation (for newspapers) from many years ago, and in my experience, they build a large ad first, then shrink/chop/resize it as needed to make it smaller for smaller "ad holes" in various newspapers/magazines. Based on that, I'd guess the original full-page ad was made no later than the late 1990s (although it could well have run in any later-dated magazine), but they wouldn't have run any of the ads until after they started using the pamphlets, so I'd educated-guess it was 1999 or earlier.

I'd also mention that this ad isn't really a general-purpose, wide-appeal ad. It seems to be targeted at new gun owners (or potential gun owners), not experienced shooters or law enforcement personnel, so it probably wouldn't run in print magazines aimed at those audiences. I'd primarily look at entry-level gun magazines for this ad, or perhaps specialized "New Owner"-themed issues.

Finally, this forum is a great source of information, as you have many serious collectors here. It's possible that a request for them to check their collections of LNIB-with-all-accessories Glock pistol boxes for the first known occurrence of this pamphlet might get you a few responses which could narrow-down the start-year possibilities, at least (as my response may have done, above).
 
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I'll keep you in mind if I find the original, or run across another one.

As for #2, I'll mention that I recently noticed an abbreviated, skinny sidebar-type version of that ad that ran in several Glock Annuals I was browsing, including the 2000, 2001, and 2002 versions (on page 6 of each, if you have one of them handy). I have some experience in print-ad creation (for newspapers) from many years ago, and in my experience, they build a large ad first, then shrink/chop/resize it as needed to make it smaller for smaller "ad holes" in various newspapers/magazines. Based on that, I'd guess the original full-page ad was made no later than the late 1990s (although it could well have run in any later-dated magazine), but they wouldn't have run any of the ads until after they started using the pamphlets, so I'd educated-guess it was 1999 or earlier.

I'd also mention that this ad isn't really a general-purpose, wide-appeal ad. It seems to be targeted at new gun owners (or potential gun owners), not experienced shooters or law enforcement personnel, so it probably wouldn't run in print magazines aimed at those audiences. I'd primarily look at entry-level gun magazines for this ad, or perhaps specialized "New Owner"-themed issues.

Finally, this forum is a great source of information, as you have many serious collectors here. It's possible that a request for them to check their collections of LNIB-with-all-accessories Glock pistol boxes for the first known occurrence of this pamphlet might get you a few responses which could narrow-down the start-year possibilities, at least (as my response may have done, above).
Thank you again for the insight. I know they came with 1995 G26/27 G2.5 packages. I’m trying to narrow down further like are they with original 1991 manual packs, 1990 manual packs?
Again, thank you much.
 
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Some more ads I ran across recently; all were from the magazine "Guns & Weapons for Law Enforcement", from July 1994 to July 1995:

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And this one, while not a Glock ad, seemed interesting, as it appears to be an ad taking a shot at Glocks (about the only service-caliber "plastic pistols" around at that time - 1994/1995). It was reminiscent of the early stages of the "Where's the Beef?" ad war between Ruger and S&W:

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Some more ads I ran across recently; all were from the magazine "Guns & Weapons for Law Enforcement", from July 1994 to July 1995:

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And this one, while not a Glock ad, seemed interesting, as it appears to be an ad taking a shot at Glocks (about the only service-caliber "plastic pistols" around at that time - 1994/1995). It was reminiscent of the early stages of the "Where's the Beef?" ad war between Ruger and S&W:

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Thank you so much. I’ll be buying up the 1994-1995 ones searching for these two I don’t have and didn’t know about!

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This was done in a American Handgunner. So a total of 5 ads in one magazine.


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