We leave the TV on to the Hallmark Channel for our dog many days, which means that I leave the house to the Golden Girls and generally arrive home to M*A*S*H. The episode that is on right now is one of the earlier ones with BJ Honeycutt and Colonel Potter. There is a scene where Frank Burns is searching Radar’s desk and pulling out comic books. The only problem – these are clearly 70’s era Marvel Comics, including The Amazing Spider-Man and The Avengers, characters that wouldn’t be created for almost a decade after the Korean War ended.
I may not know a lot of American history, but I know my comics. When this was filmed, back issues were cheap. Would it have killed them to send a prop assistant out to get some actual 50’s era books?
You’ve got problems running so deep they defy any attempt to even describe them.
Looks to not be the only time they got comic books wrong, see
http://www.finest-kind.net/interact/anachronisms.php
I note they don’t have the one you spotted.
On the other hand, if you see M*A*S*H as a commentary on the Vietnam war, the anachronisms are more a tip of the hand.