Sea Monkeys Ads Comic Books

Sea monkeys could be ordered by mail directly from the sea monkey headquarters.

Sea monkeys ads comic books. Sea monkeys x ray specs and more attacking the young imagination with advertising copy. X ray specs guaranteed to make everything see thru. In 1960 sea monkeys began to appear in comic book ads although without their soon to be famous name. From shrimp to sea monkeys.

Yep those kid submarine and sea going monkeys in the old comic books and of course the comic book flat soldiers american revolution and roman armies sets had a roman set but it got lost of course somehow nuts. How many of us who grew up in the 1960s and early 70s were. In early advertising they were marketed as instant life and sold for 0 49. Lack of sales forced von braunhut to take a step back and re tool the brand.

The first ads were just for kids. The giant monster advertisement was a classic and the. Comic book rip off ads. February 18th 2015 at 6 05 pm wayne says.

You know how the story goes. From shrimp to sea monkeys enticed by those ads in the back of comic books generations of children from around the world have grown up nurturing naming and staring wide eyed in fascination at the little creatures whose resemblance to monkeys does require a little imagination. Old comic book ads x ray specs sea monkeys kit charles atlas workout if something seems to good to be true. It wasn t that no one was buying them it was that no one wanted to sell them so harold got the idea to place an ad for instant life inside comic books to market directly to kids.

Originally sea monkeys didn t sell at all. There are no monkeys in the sea and x ray vision. Initial comic book ads weren t as bizarre as the ones that everyone remembers. A polaris submarine more than seven feet long which i dreamt of traveling in along the forth clyde canal avoiding the ghostly weeds the garbage discarded shopping trolleys and the imaginary gangsters pale bloated and tethered to weighty blocks of.