In addition to his work on Mad Magazine, Mort Drucker also commissioned to draw movie posters and advertisements. Here's one from a series of 1970s ads for "Pursettes Tampons." These were all drawing in comic book style, but I don't think they were ever published in a comic book. The ads most likely appeared in magazines like Cosmopolitan or Seventeen. Pursettes were the stealth tampons. They were smaller than the tampons that might spill out of a woman's purse, causing her to to have to "get this tampon out of sight!" The ads banked on the concept of embarrassment about carrying tampons around.
Much more at The Shame of Menstruation site.
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