This ad for another brand of poppers shows a bomb shattering a city. Ubiquitous in Seventies gay media, many poppers ads employed bullets, guns and other death images.




Here, poppers are associated with a superhero, "Captain Rush. Another poppers brand was called Kryptonite, after the rock that can kill even Superman.




A popular gay icon, Michelangelo's David has been presented in many versions, including big-dicked and leather-clad. Here, David's slingshot is replaced by poppers "power-pack pellets."


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