Universal Monster Army

I wasn't sure where I should put this so the Mods can move it to the right spot if needed.
Let's see some of your fave ads from old comic books whether they be monsters , race sets , cereal or really anything.
Today I was looking at one of my later issues of House of Mystery and thought this was a bit humorous on the BC. So I'll start with this.

(http://i396.photobucket.com/albums/pp47/WickedLester666/OJ.jpg?t=1300575068)

Show them your heels. He sure did.
Show them you're a heel. Did that too.

This one always disturbed me:
(http://www.tomheroes.com/images6/COMICAD_pet_monkey.jpg)

Firstly, who had a salt water tank set up back then so that the sea horses would live for more than a day or two?

The truly horrific one is for a monkey.  Yes, some people do have them as pets, but these poo-flinging animals can be quite a handful.  Of course, I would have loved to send away for either of these things as a kid.

(http://blog.nj.com/ledgerupdates_impact/2009/04/large_seahorse2.JPG)

(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_iIgGzjVNEAk/TLKMbABaArI/AAAAAAAAFK8/APhAInr7fII/s1600/monkeys_fling_poo.jpg)

Rob

Rob
I remember those ads. Even back then I thought it was so wrong.

(http://i396.photobucket.com/albums/pp47/WickedLester666/OJ.jpg?t=1300575068)

What about the GLOVES, Juice?

This one for the Aurora Monster Scenes line of model kits. Vampirella was anatomically correct with visible camel toe. Mothers were appalled but young boys were enthralled.

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/auroramonster-1.jpg)

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Quote from: monsterphile on March 19, 2011, 07:02:44 PM
This one always disturbed me:
(http://www.tomheroes.com/images6/COMICAD_pet_monkey.jpg)

Firstly, who had a salt water tank set up back then so that the sea horses would live for more than a day or two?

The truly horrific one is for a monkey.  Yes, some people do have them as pets, but these poo-flinging animals can be quite a handful.  Of course, I would have loved to send away for either of these things as a kid.

(http://blog.nj.com/ledgerupdates_impact/2009/04/large_seahorse2.JPG)

(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_iIgGzjVNEAk/TLKMbABaArI/AAAAAAAAFK8/APhAInr7fII/s1600/monkeys_fling_poo.jpg)

Rob

Hey, that may be me in that monkey photo. I may sue.

You don't throw underhanded, do you, Gary?

Quote from: Unknown Primate on March 19, 2011, 08:38:58 PM
You don't throw underhanded, do you, Gary?

No, I have a wicked slider.

Lucky!  I have to use both hands!

It's the sheer volume of poop that necessitates your two-handed toss.

I eat good.

Cool ads, BTW - brings back tons of memories!

A favorite of mine...
(http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/ss74/FRANKENSTIEN53/A0011056.jpg)
Mcdee

And these are very cool...
(http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/ss74/FRANKENSTIEN53/scan0007-1.jpg)

(http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/ss74/FRANKENSTIEN53/MagazineMonsterAd006.jpg)

(http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/ss74/FRANKENSTIEN53/MagazineMonsterAd005.jpg)

(http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/ss74/FRANKENSTIEN53/MagazineMonsterAd008.jpg)
Oh to be 12 again!
Mcdee

Quote from: Mcdee on March 19, 2011, 09:22:09 PM
And these are very cool...
(http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/ss74/FRANKENSTIEN53/scan0007-1.jpg)

(http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/ss74/FRANKENSTIEN53/MagazineMonsterAd006.jpg)

(http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/ss74/FRANKENSTIEN53/MagazineMonsterAd005.jpg)

(http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/ss74/FRANKENSTIEN53/MagazineMonsterAd008.jpg)
Oh to be 12 again!
Mcdee

Being 12 today would SUCK. I'd only be 12 again if I could do it from the late 50s to the 70s.

Can't forget our Heros...
(http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/ss74/FRANKENSTIEN53/a66dc03.jpg)

(http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/ss74/FRANKENSTIEN53/a65dc01.jpg)

Mcdee

I got suckerd in with the ad on back of alot of comics that got you about 100 toy soldiers and vehicles for $1. When I got them they were hard, extremely flat and thin plastic things that hit the trash pronto!  Buddy

I think those sets were called penny flats. This was my favourite ad:

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Roman.jpg)

I didn't know it at the time but the artwork was by the incomparable Russ Heath!

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These two ads were powerful contributing factors in the warping of my impressionable young mind:

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/AuroraMonsterKitAd1963-1.jpg)

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Aurora.jpg)

cl:)

Great stuff Hep.
This has to be one of my fave ads from that era. I remember having the Woods Edge set and being pretty disappointed when it showed up over a month after sending away for it.

(http://databathing.com/Comics/House_of_Mystery_1973-04/house32.jpg)

(http://www.tomheroes.com/images6/COMICAD_pet_racoon.jpg)

(http://www.tomheroes.com/images5/COMICAD_baby_turtles.jpg)

Always wanted these except I wanted a version that actually worked...
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Wb7gmBhM3z4/TRtbYgrlbuI/AAAAAAAADc0/EKfoOtXlLCs/s1600/xray-glasses.gif)

(http://www.tomheroes.com/images/COMICAD%20gag%20gifts.bmp)

If only x-ray specs worked, our airport security woes would be over.

(http://www.tomheroes.com/images7/COMICAD_lucky_ludens.jpg)

(http://www.tomheroes.com/images/COMICAD%20venus%20flytrap.bmp)

(http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g107/backlotcharlie/HTCBBad1-2.jpg)

I think I tried to talk my parents into letting me send away for this:

(http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/1966nuclearsub.jpg)

Apparently this is what looked like in person (made of cardboard) and apparently it does NOT use Nuclear power.  lol

(http://www.boingboing.net/jpb%20ewb%20in%20rocket%20ship.jpg)

Similar items that probably didn't live up to the hype:

(http://www.saynotocrack.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/tripod-machine-gun-lg.jpg)
(http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/tank.jpg)

...or this contest...
(http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/1967gemini.jpg)


Yeah, a baby raccoon is bound to head into a disaster just klike the monkey. 

Rob

Quote from: monsterphile on March 20, 2011, 12:09:44 PM
Apparently this is what looked like in person (made of cardboard) and apparently it does NOT use Nuclear power.

That's not the Polaris Sub. It's some kind of jet, but they were both made of printed cardboard.

I wish somebody would turn up a news story on the winner of the Gemini craft!

I sent away for the Jiu-Jitsu booklet on this page because I too wanted to be tough.

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/ComicBookAd.jpg)

It didn't work, primarily I imagine because the buggers didn't send it. That's what comes of stuffing Canadian money into an envelope addressed to a dodgy U.S. company.

:(

Quote from: Mike Scott on March 20, 2011, 12:50:00 PM
That's not the Polaris Sub. It's some kind of jet, but they were both made of printed cardboard.

Oh, here it is:
(http://www.hmsresolution.org.uk/images/resoultion.jpg)

Maybe it's not such a bad prize afterall... :laugh:

I used to love the Johnson Smith and Abracadabra Magic Shop ads, with their assortments of cheap joke and magic items...I ordered an assortment of joke gum at one point, I think it cost all of $1, but I got some sticks of onion gum, bloody gum, hot pepper gum, and garlic gum.  Wow, what cool days those were.  The gum took a million years to arrive, but it was all worth it.  The memories are priceless.

Here's a bunch of wacky vintage comic book ads on my blog: http://terrybeatty.blogspot.com/2011/01/todays-blog-is-brought-to-you-by.html (http://terrybeatty.blogspot.com/2011/01/todays-blog-is-brought-to-you-by.html)

Quote from: Hepcat on March 20, 2011, 09:09:50 AM
I think those sets were called penny flats. This was my favourite ad:

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Roman.jpg)

I didn't know it at the time but the artwork was by the incomparable Russ Heath!

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Great memories of this ad...always wanted it, thanks for posting.

This how Bobby started his Toy Ranch...one square inch at a time.

(http://www.mopo.ca/uploaded_images/texas-ranch-land-710985.jpg)

Quote from: Scary Terry on March 20, 2011, 02:45:09 PM
Here's a bunch of wacky vintage comic book ads on my blog: http://terrybeatty.blogspot.com/2011/01/todays-blog-is-brought-to-you-by.html (http://terrybeatty.blogspot.com/2011/01/todays-blog-is-brought-to-you-by.html)

Terry
Great ads. The only reason I've seen these all before is cuz I have a few thousand comics on CD. I really liked the multi-gym one. Little guy builds up and knocks down a big mouth co worker and actually gets promoted with a hand shake from the boss telling him he IS the man. Now it would be fired ,arrested and sued.

Quote from: Wicked Lester on March 20, 2011, 09:38:11 AM
Great stuff Hep.
This has to be one of my fave ads from that era. I remember having the Woods Edge set and being pretty disappointed when it showed up over a month after sending away for it.

(http://databathing.com/Comics/House_of_Mystery_1973-04/house32.jpg)

I don't remember that one. I remember these three though:

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/PennyFlatRevolution.jpg)

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Civilwar.jpg)

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/PennyFlatWWII.jpg)

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I don't really remember who made which set but I did get an 4" x 6" cardboard foot locker with H.O guys and either N or maybe Z scale plastic tanks. Comparing scale the soldiers were like 18' tall.

One of the main suppliers of these sets was Helen of Toy Co. There is actually a book out there somewhere with pics of all the stuff they sold.

(http://www.tomheroes.com/images/COMICADtask%20force%20toys.jpg)

(http://www.thortrains.net/armymen/reviews/nhot1h.jpg)

Great ads that I'm sure including myself sucked thousands and thousands of boys sending allowance money in on crap.

(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/124/350159452_36dcf808e2_o.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/37203498(*at*)N00/350159452/)
MegoTMP action figures ad (http://www.flickr.com/photos/37203498(*at*)N00/350159452/#) by Therin of Andor (http://www.flickr.com/people/37203498(*at*)N00/), on Flickr

Mego "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" action figures advertisement, Marvel Star Trek comic, 1980. The 3.75" Rigellian was actually a Saurian. I sent "Heroes World" an enquiry letter from Australia and they only had the alien figures left. Of course, they've turned out to be the rare ones. I almost got to visit the "Heroes World" in Michigan in 1984, during a trip to USA, but we phoned ahead and they nothing Star Trek in stock.

Was a Romulan not part of the set?

:o

Quote from: Mike Scott on March 20, 2011, 12:50:00 PM
That's not the Polaris Sub. It's some kind of jet, but they were both made of printed cardboard.

I wish somebody would turn up a news story on the winner of the Gemini craft!

Gemini Craft story on this page (http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2011/01/07/comic-book-legends-revealed-294/)

Here's the sub-

(http://gallery.unrealspawnboard.com/albums/userpics/10006/polaris2.bmp)

The kids are in a "Jet Rocket Space Ship"!

(http://gallery.unrealspawnboard.com/albums/userpics/10006/Jet%20Rocket%20Ship.bmp)

one I've never seen live & in color is the Kraft AreoJet  Training Space Ship-

(http://gallery.unrealspawnboard.com/albums/userpics/10006/Kraft.bmp)

This ad continued the process of warping my already fevered young mind:

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Rothad.jpg)

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Quote from: Street Worm on March 21, 2011, 04:04:45 PM
Gemini Craft story on this page.

Thanks! And thanks for the jet ad, too!

Quote from: Mike Scott on March 21, 2011, 04:36:39 PM
Thanks! And thanks for the jet ad, too!

Ditto
Pretty interesting story. I think I'd rather have 200 models and a spaceship full of ice cream myself.

I think the Moon Monster has been shown in another thread here some time back.  It's a B&W poster.

I've seen 2 Moon Monsters-

This one-

(http://gallery.unrealspawnboard.com/albums/userpics/10006/mURI_temp_d8c7488b.jpg)

& this one-

(http://gallery.unrealspawnboard.com/albums/userpics/10006/mURI_temp_05685f91.jpg)

no info on either one, though~

I had the first Moon Monster. It was pretty cool for what it was tho it had heavy creases from being folded up for who knows how long. The freebie "terrifying" masks were pretty cheesy. Basically a cartoony looking monster on heavy paper that you put a string thru to wear. At least that is the version I got. I don't recall what the 4 x 5 photos were.

Quote from: Hepcat on March 21, 2011, 11:12:55 AM
Was a Romulan not part of the set?

:o

No, the 8" TOS Mego set had the rare Romulan. When TMP came along, Mego tried two sizes: 3.75" (to compete with "Star Wars") and 12". There weren't any Romulans in TMP, just Klingons and some new UFP races.

Shameful. It's the Romulans who proved to be the longest standing rival to the Earthings and their Federation of satellite races.

:o

Quote from: CreepysFan on March 21, 2011, 09:46:15 PM

   

This was the ad that ALWAYS grabbed my attention as a kid, and one i pestered my parents with.  Their responce was to treat me like a gorilla in the Apes movies :  NO,  NO.  Has anyone ever answered this ad, I'd love to know what the Moon Monster actually looked like.

       

(http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo156/CreepysFan/moon.jpg)

Very cool! Do you remember in which comics it ran or what year it ran? My memory of that specific ad is really vague.

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Quote from: Street Worm on March 22, 2011, 04:50:27 AM
I've seen 2 Moon Monsters-

This one-

(http://gallery.unrealspawnboard.com/albums/userpics/10006/mURI_temp_d8c7488b.jpg)

Nice! I like that one.

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Quote from: Hepcat on March 22, 2011, 09:49:18 AM
Very cool! Do you remember in which comics it ran or what year it ran? My memory of that specific ad is really vague.

My cuz had the first one, too (and the cheesy masks).  He had me highlight it up with Day-Glo paints!

Quote from: Hepcat on March 22, 2011, 09:43:56 AM
Shameful. It's the Romulans who proved to be the longest standing rival to the Earthings and their Federation of satellite races.
:o

As a Romulan supporter, you definitely need to view my Romulan slideshow:
http://photopeach.com/album/17vypjf (http://photopeach.com/album/17vypjf)

So then Mr. Spock has been a Romulan agent all along!

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Quote from: Scary TerryComics used to be chock full of offers to turn the readers into muscle-bound "he-men." What did they think we all were, skinny (or chubby) little nerds? Oh -- wait a minute....

This was the classic muscle builder ad:



;)

I forgot about those old comic book ads.  I always wanted the X-ray glasses.  Did anybody else have a mean mom that wouldn't let you get that stuff?

Wiser moms maybe!

;)

This long running ad for Sea Monkeys is among the most classic ever:

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/ASeaMonkeys.jpg)

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Not a comic ad, but an inside-cover ad in a theatre program for a 60s stage show musical, based on a popular Aussie kids in the mid 60s. I love the hard-sell approach:

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2640/4181068358_55a87f663a_o.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/37203498(*at*)N00/4181068358/)
Magic Circle Club Barbie ad (http://www.flickr.com/photos/37203498(*at*)N00/4181068358/#) by Therin of Andor (http://www.flickr.com/people/37203498(*at*)N00/), on Flickr

Those freakin' flat toy soldiers appear to have been the bane of our shared existence! I remember drooling over how many tanks and jeeps I was going to get (thinking they would be the same size as my regular army men toys) only to be extremely disappointed when they finally arrived in the mail.

P.S. I love that Moon Monster poster. Someone should do an action figure, three dimensional statue or model kit of that figure. I'm pretty sure nobody owns the rights to that character.

Quote from: Hepcat on March 26, 2011, 10:45:21 AM
Wiser moms maybe!

;)

This long running ad for Sea Monkeys is among the most classic ever:

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/ASeaMonkeys.jpg)

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I had Sea Monkeys!! Until my brother kicked over their little red home.

(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_X6RoqT2dZwo/TM_nYzMgqUI/AAAAAAAAATg/cHSLIc3RLxM/s1600/sea_monkeys.jpg)

Quote from: ChattyLMS on March 26, 2011, 10:29:43 AM
I forgot about those old comic book ads.  I always wanted the X-ray glasses. 

I have a pair that I believe are vintage.  They belonged to my grandmother's brother. 
(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5108/5562649551_9ba557fa73_z.jpg)
(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5099/5563225834_c124a7d41d_b.jpg)

...and here I am looking at all of you naked...and getting nauseous!
(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5302/5563225738_db4a070bf0_b.jpg)

Rob

Quote from: Scatter on March 26, 2011, 07:48:47 PM
I had Sea Monkeys!! Until my brother kicked over their little red home.

Sea Monkeys are sold in far fancier packaging with elaborate living quarters included these days.

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/seamonkey.gif)

Originally they were marketed not only through comic books but in those little canisters dispensed through vending machines. I remember them for a quarter.

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Rob--- I'm wearing a lead apron from now on.

Remember this comic from the '70's? Every page was an ad.

(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab97/monolith_06/sc044a0bc2.jpg)

Quote from: Monolith on March 27, 2011, 01:14:26 AM
Rob--- I'm wearing a lead apron from now on.

Remember this comic from the '70's? Every page was an ad.

(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab97/monolith_06/sc044a0bc2.jpg)

WOW! I had that. I can't remember how many times I looked through that at all the cool stuff. I think it disappeared around 20 years ago when I sold over half my comics.

Quote from: monsterphile on March 26, 2011, 10:31:41 PM
I have a pair that I believe are vintage.  They belonged to my grandmother's brother. 
(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5108/5562649551_9ba557fa73_z.jpg)
(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5099/5563225834_c124a7d41d_b.jpg)

Cool! How well do they work? What do you see looking at your fingers?

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Quote from: monsterphile on March 26, 2011, 10:31:41 PM
I have a pair that I believe are vintage.  They belonged to my grandmother's brother. 
(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5108/5562649551_9ba557fa73_z.jpg)
(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5099/5563225834_c124a7d41d_b.jpg)

...and here I am looking at all of you naked...and getting nauseous!
(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5302/5563225738_db4a070bf0_b.jpg)

Rob

Rob, that's the first pair I've ever actually SEEN. AWESOME!! Of course, like all growing boys, I wanted a pair. For purely experimental purposes of course.  :D

I never pulled the trigger because a couple of my friends who sent money to buy something from one of those ads in the comic books never received their merchandise. Now I wish I had taken the chance.

Quote from: Scatter on March 26, 2011, 07:48:47 PM
I had Sea Monkeys!! Until my brother kicked over their little red home.

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/ASeaMonkeys.jpg)

OK, I know EVERYONE is thinking it, so I'll say it--------------Sea Monkey Mom is HOT!

Quote from: Radioactive Rod Whitenack on March 26, 2011, 06:36:58 PM
Those freakin' flat toy soldiers appear to have been the bane of our shared existence! I remember drooling over how many tanks and jeeps I was going to get (thinking they would be the same size as my regular army men toys) only to be extremely disappointed when they finally arrived in the mail.

P.S. I love that Moon Monster poster. Someone should do an action figure, three dimensional statue or model kit of that figure. I'm pretty sure nobody owns the rights to that character.

Yes, Rod.  We got a naval edition of those flat servicemen.  Also, the ad mentions waves---------and we thought we would get some cool tidal wave thing.  The were female personnel.  Ewww!

Quote from: Sean on March 27, 2011, 02:18:46 PM

OK, I know EVERYONE is thinking it, so I'll say it--------------Sea Monkey Mom is HOT!

You're.........not............right.

Wicked Lester--- Here's a scan of a page from the Superhero catalog/comic.
I ordered from it back in the day, I got the Conan coin/ medallion and the Howard the Duck button. I still have both of them. Wish I got the Spiderman coin too, but I didn't.

(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab97/monolith_06/sc044a4140.jpg)

Quote from: Hepcat on March 27, 2011, 09:59:27 AM
(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5302/5563225738_db4a070bf0_b.jpg)

Cool! How well do they work? What do you see looking at your fingers?

The way they "work" is that it creates a double image of whatever you're looking at and they don't overlap perfectly, so it appears as though the section that does overlap, is the bones underneath.  I guess that's why the ad had the people looking "through" their own hand and not cracking safes.

Oh, and Scatter, you might want to have that mole on your thigh looked at by a doctor!

Quote from: monsterphile on March 27, 2011, 05:56:46 PM
The way they "work" is that it creates a double image of whatever you're looking at and they don't overlap perfectly, so it appears as though the section that does overlap, is the bones underneath.  I guess that's why the ad had the people looking "through" their own hand and not cracking safes.

Oh, and Scatter, you might want to have that mole on your thigh looked at by a doctor!

I'm not even going to ask why you were looking at my thigh region.

Quote from: Hepcat on March 23, 2011, 12:51:54 PM
This was the classic muscle builder ad:

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Charles.jpg)

;)

I loved this add.  Though it gave me a completely WARPED view at what women wanted in a man.  I learned later that socking another grown man in the jaw while wearing boy shorts on the beach was NOT the way to a girl's heart. :o

I apologize if this was already posted:

(http://www.steveconley.com/pages/chest.jpg)

Quote from: monsterphile on March 27, 2011, 05:56:46 PM
The way they "work" is that it creates a double image of whatever you're looking at

I got a pair from a friend for my thirteenth birthday, and I couldn't believe that I finally owned something that was advertised in one of those cool catalog pages of a US comic. (Later, my brother and I realised that the Aussie printings of US comics had similar ads, but for a Sydney-based shop called Weirdo's Magic Shop in the city, and we made an epic trip there one day!) We also found a local toy shop that sold some of these products, such as smoking monkeys (little plastic monkeys that puffed on tiny cigarettes that you could light), also so-called "real live snakes" (little cylinders of dense black carbon, that grew and grew into a huge, lightweight, carbon "snake" when you lit it), black-face soap, fake vomit, fake doggie doo complete with plastic flies, and Sea Monkeys (we actually bought a little vial of regular brine shrimp, not the highly commercial version, and followed the instructions, but they never hatched). I also finally found a Venus Fly Trap, which were finally permitted to be sold in Australia in the early 80s, gaining huge popularity because of their appearance in a flyspray TV commercial.

Did you ever see what was covering the eyeholes of 3D Specs? After a few weeks, my specs got wet and I was horrified to notice that the black substance had parted ways. The specs certainly weren't working any more, so I split open the cardboard "lens" - and it contained a black feather! You know how you can split a feather along its "veins"? The lines of feather "veins", and the distance between them, combined to create the optical illusion of seeing bones through skin.

Oh, and I posted once before, I had the "Monster S-i-z-e Monster", too:

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3184/2990416472_a43acca0ab_o.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/37203498(*at*)N00/2990416472/)
Frankenstein (1975) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/37203498(*at*)N00/2990416472/#) by Therin of Andor (http://www.flickr.com/people/37203498(*at*)N00/), on Flickr

Quote from: Therin of Andor on March 28, 2011, 03:34:29 AM
I got a pair from a friend for my thirteenth birthday, and I couldn't believe that I finally owned something that was advertised in one of those cool catalog pages of a US comic. (Later, my brother and I realised that the Aussie printings of US comics had similar ads, but for a Sydney-based shop called Weirdo's Magic Shop in the city, and we made an epic trip there one day!) We also found a local toy shop that sold some of these products, such as smoking monkeys (little plastic monkeys that puffed on tiny cigarettes that you could light), also so-called "real live snakes" (little cylinders of dense black carbon, that grew and grew into a huge, lightweight, carbon "snake" when you lit it), black-face soap, fake vomit, fake doggie doo complete with plastic flies, and Sea Monkeys (we actually bought a little vial of regular brine shrimp, not the highly commercial version, and followed the instructions, but they never hatched). I also finally found a Venus Fly Trap, which were finally permitted to be sold in Australia in the early 80s, gaining huge popularity because of their appearance in a flyspray TV commercial.

Did you ever see what was covering the eyeholes of 3D Specs? After a few weeks, my specs got wet and I was horrified to notice that the black substance had parted ways. The specs certainly weren't working any more, so I split open the cardboard "lens" - and it contained a black feather! You know how you can split a feather along its "veins"? The lines of feather "veins", and the distance between them, combined to create the optical illusion of seeing bones through skin.

Yes, I did notice that the center of the "lens" had a feather in it.  I used to have a hard plastic smoking Dachund, but I'm not sure if it's still around anywhere.  I do have a cheap hollow smoking monkey.  I remember all of those cool gift shop "magic" items (especially from Adams) that were also advertised in comics like Smoke from your fingertips, Whoopee cushioons, etc.

Rob

I was a big fan of Monogram's three Fred Flypogger kits by Mouse as a kid primarily due to these cool ads that ran in DC comic books:

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2450/3645491723_83bc1afa9b.jpg)

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Those Slim Jim ads are fabulous!

I was very impressed when this ad appeared in 1964 for Aurora's new kit:

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/AuroraSuperman.jpg)

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Here's the ad for the Batman models:

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/batman_model.jpg)

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Hostess had the best pitchmen possible in Aquaman and crew:

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Hostess2.jpg)

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Hostess.jpg)

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I gotta say I always enjoyed the old ads of a muscle guy on a beach and a skinny guy with a girl.  Then the muscle guy takes the girl away.  But then, the skinny guy drinks protein and wins the girl back.  Classic!  Drink protein and nobody will take your girlfriend.

Question?  Why didn't the muscle guy already have a girlfriend and the skinny "weakling" have one?

Here's one from the '70's I'm sure you'll like...

(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab97/monolith_06/IMG_3390.jpg)

This one I got in The Brave and the Bold #97 from 1971...

(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab97/monolith_06/IMG_3387.jpg)

This one was on the back of one of my comics, I forgot which one now...

(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab97/monolith_06/IMG_3383.jpg)

That Land of the Giants ad was from Hawk and Dove #2 from 1968.
Here's one from the back of a Superman comic from 1971...

(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab97/monolith_06/IMG_3381.jpg)

 

I really wish I could find one of these giant monster posters.  I've looked on e-bay and other sites, but nothing.

Quote from: Therin of Andor on March 28, 2011, 03:34:29 AM
I got a pair from a friend for my thirteenth birthday, and I couldn't believe that I finally owned something that was advertised in one of those cool catalog pages of a US comic. (Later, my brother and I realised that the Aussie printings of US comics had similar ads, but for a Sydney-based shop called Weirdo's Magic Shop in the city, and we made an epic trip there one day!) We also found a local toy shop that sold some of these products, such as smoking monkeys (little plastic monkeys that puffed on tiny cigarettes that you could light), also so-called "real live snakes" (little cylinders of dense black carbon, that grew and grew into a huge, lightweight, carbon "snake" when you lit it), black-face soap, fake vomit, fake doggie doo complete with plastic flies, and Sea Monkeys (we actually bought a little vial of regular brine shrimp, not the highly commercial version, and followed the instructions, but they never hatched). I also finally found a Venus Fly Trap, which were finally permitted to be sold in Australia in the early 80s, gaining huge popularity because of their appearance in a flyspray TV commercial.

Did you ever see what was covering the eyeholes of 3D Specs? After a few weeks, my specs got wet and I was horrified to notice that the black substance had parted ways. The specs certainly weren't working any more, so I split open the cardboard "lens" - and it contained a black feather! You know how you can split a feather along its "veins"? The lines of feather "veins", and the distance between them, combined to create the optical illusion of seeing bones through skin.

Oh, and I posted once before, I had the "Monster S-i-z-e Monster", too:

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3184/2990416472_a43acca0ab_o.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/37203498(*at*)N00/2990416472/)
Frankenstein (1975) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/37203498(*at*)N00/2990416472/#) by Therin of Andor (http://www.flickr.com/people/37203498(*at*)N00/), on Flickr

Here's a scan of a cool ad that ran on the back cover of DC comic books in 1967:

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/06-07-2011105301PM.jpg)

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Quote from: CreepysFan on July 08, 2011, 03:17:40 AM

   

  OMG, I had one of the Mattel M-16 guns.  Haven't thought about that in years.  Didn't take long for the trigger to tear up though, after that it was just loose and wouldn't make the noise anymore. 

There's something disturbing about the M-16 ad seeing it TODAY.  Regardless, I had a toy M-16 and loved it.  2 neighbors had metallic blue Tommy Guns.  Nobody went around killing people with them back then.  What the hell happened?

The League of Hysterical Mothers of America Opposed to Just About Everything got its way - again.

>:(

Quote from: Hepcat on July 08, 2011, 09:17:23 AM
The League of Hysterical Mothers of America Opposed to Just About Everything got its way - again.

>:(

Well, Vietnam with dinner every night probably didn't help...........

(I was a big Monkey Division fan, myself~  ;)

Quote from: Hepcat on July 08, 2011, 09:17:23 AM
The League of Hysterical Mothers of America Opposed to Just About Everything got its way - again.

Quote from: CreepysFan on July 08, 2011, 12:55:49 PM
Too bad kids couldn't target the Mother's soap operas in retaliation, just to get a point across.

Yesterday's actual news bulletin: "Mills & Boon romance novels cause disease because they don't promote a safe sex message."

Ah, those were the days!! When you could still scare the hell out of a cop at night with your NON orange-tipped M16!!

BUT NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooooo.................

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Now you know why I'm a Constitutionalist Libertarian.

I love old comic book ads! Thanks for sharing everybody.

I scanned a complete Heroes World Superhero Catalogue from 1978. You can see it on my Facebook page for my blog --

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.106171122793057.9428.105941686149334 (http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.106171122793057.9428.105941686149334)

I was unable to post a visual picture of each, so I apologize. You have to click on the link.

http://media.ebaumsworld.com/picture/Mikemisat/hypno.jpg (http://media.ebaumsworld.com/picture/Mikemisat/hypno.jpg)

http://badbanana.typepad.com/weblog/images/2008/01/14/5.jpg (http://badbanana.typepad.com/weblog/images/2008/01/14/5.jpg)

Quote from: Monsterama2000 on July 09, 2011, 06:18:40 PM
I love old comic book ads! Thanks for sharing everybody.

I scanned a complete Heroes World Superhero Catalogue from 1978. You can see it on my Facebook page for my blog --

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.106171122793057.9428.105941686149334 (http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.106171122793057.9428.105941686149334)

Very cool catalogue! Did you order anything from it?

???

Quote from: Hepcat on July 09, 2011, 10:49:18 PM
Very cool catalogue! Did you order anything from it?

???

No. I picked this up at my local comic shop earlier this year for 25¢.

(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6125/5932792672_3d58eb3ea0.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/37203498(*at*)N00/5932792672/)
Cubelube (http://www.flickr.com/photos/37203498(*at*)N00/5932792672/#) by Therin of Andor (http://www.flickr.com/people/37203498(*at*)N00/), on Flickr

Did your Rubik's Cube need lubrication in 1982?

Some facts..The two moon monsters are as follows. The really cool looking one on top was sold from 1962 and after. The one in the Bottom of which I also own was first sold when the Monster fan club was started in late 1958 and is very rare...The x-ray glasses  with the plastic frame are the first generation...Yes they are vintage....The 7 Feet Monster size monsters are out there but are selling as high as $500.00 or more for each...I sold a total of 11 7 feet plastic Frankenstein and 9 7 feet Boney the skeleton....Mistake now I only own two of each...I sold them back when eBay was new... Belief me when I say this the ones the collectors are now selling on eBay for $500.00 most were mine....The owner of Honor House gave them to me in 1985...He gave me 13 Frankenstein and 11 Boneys...In the original packages and I like a moron sold them from $40.00 to $215.00...each...I want to put my collection in some type of museum now this 7 feet monsters are not as rare as my two 7 feet Monster Ghost, the Johnson Smith and the Melton company ones...and my Polaris sub...etc..

Quote from: houseoftheunusual on July 29, 2011, 03:37:57 AMThe 7 Feet Monster size monsters are out there but are selling as high as $500.00 or more for each...I sold a total of 11 7 feet plastic Frankenstein and 9 7 feet Boney the skeleton....Mistake now I only own two of each...I sold them back when eBay was new... Belief me when I say this the ones the collectors are now selling on eBay for $500.00 most were mine....The owner of Honor House gave them to me in 1985...He gave me 13 Frankenstein and 11 Boneys...In the original packages and I like a moron sold them from $40.00 to $215.00...each...

Well since you got them for nothing you still realized an infinite return on your "investment". The owner of Honor House was infintely more of a moron than you were.

:-\

Quote from: Monsterama2000 on July 09, 2011, 11:23:20 PM
No. I picked this up at my local comic shop earlier this year for 25¢.

I used to get these back in the late 70's. They had cool Joe Kubert covers. My folks would always get me the latest Stan Lee hardback book (Origins, Son of Origins, etc) for Christmas and they'd order them from this catalog. I think they also ordered one of those marvel coins for me. I have three of them, Conan, Spider-Man and Hulk but I think there's a Fantastic Four one if memory serves.

Quote from: Hepcat on July 29, 2011, 09:17:14 AM
Well since you got them for nothing you still realized an infinite return on your "investment". The owner of Honor House was infintely more of a moron than you were.

:-\

Funny that you say this...Ready for this his werehouse manager told me that those he  had given me were his last...Here is the part that made me cry. A month before I had gone there he said they had put tons of them in the garbage. Along with subs and all the stuff they had....At the time I said who cares, but today after eBay I now cry!!!

Ebay has certainly enabled the old adage that one man's trash is another man's treasure.

;)

QuoteOMG, I had one of the Mattel M-16 guns.  Haven't thought about that in years.

Ha! Just seeing this post! LOVE the Mattel M-16! Very unique toy gun for it's time......or really any time! You could get short or long bursts....pull the bolt back once-9 shots with a pull of the trigger...BUT...if you pulled the bolt back 6 times you got a continuous stream of 50 shots! And each shot is disturbingly loud! The wife comes to the top of the stairs and tells me to cut-it-out every time I fire this thing!  Buddy


(http://i530.photobucket.com/albums/dd344/bigbud3/basementtoys074.jpg)

(http://i530.photobucket.com/albums/dd344/bigbud3/basementtoys076.jpg)

(http://i530.photobucket.com/albums/dd344/bigbud3/basementtoys075.jpg)

Back of the box...........

(http://i530.photobucket.com/albums/dd344/bigbud3/basementtoys077.jpg)

Quote from: bigbud on July 29, 2011, 08:31:34 PM
LOVE the Mattel M-16! Very unique toy gun for it's time......or really any time! You could get short or long bursts....pull the bolt back once-9 shots with a pull of the trigger...BUT...if you pulled the bolt back 6 times you got a continuous stream of 50 shots! And each shot is disturbingly loud! The wife comes to the top of the stairs and tells me to cut-it-out every time I fire this thing!

I'd love to give a frustrated kid with your typical modern mother a gun like this one for Xmas. He'd be delighted; she'd be aghast.

;D

Did you find the Marauder on Fleabay?

???

Gee...........Buddy HAS one. Color me shocked.  ;D

Had the sucker so long I'd have to give it some thought as to where I got it......Buddy

Gary (Scatter) don't be a Naught!   Buddy

Buddy's mailing address should just be 'Kresge's'.... ;)

My favorites were Sears and Montgomery Wards......best Christmas catalogs ever!   Buddy

Quote from: bigbud on July 29, 2011, 09:14:52 PM
My favorites were Sears and Montgomery Wards......best Christmas catalogs ever!   Buddy

We used to wait around for the Sears catalog and the JC Penney catalog.  Just IMAGINING we were getting anything outta those was fun. 

I'm with ya Sean! I think I spent more time pouring over the Christmas catalogs than anything else in December. Use to circle the stuff I wanted hoping Mom would get the hint.....seldom worked as I had half the catalog circled!  Buddy

Quote from: bigbud on July 29, 2011, 08:31:34 PMYou could get short or long bursts....pull the bolt back once-9 shots with a pull of the trigger...BUT...if you pulled the bolt back 6 times you got a continuous stream of 50 shots! And each shot is disturbingly loud! The wife comes to the top of the stairs and tells me to cut-it-out every time I fire this thing!

Your wife sounds like an incredible stick-in-the-mud. How did she grow so old so quickly?

:o

Aw, she's OK.....I recognize that I'm perpetually a kid. Somebody has to act the adult. She had me putting stuff on E-Bay pretty regularly, but it hasn't been mentioned in about a month....so I haven't put anything on. The toys are smiling. Buddy is smiling......  Buddy

I thought it might be both fun and edifying to take one specific comic and scan every single ad in it.  Sort of like a time capsule. Accordingly, I reached in my beater box and pulled out a comic that graced the newstands just over fifty years ago:

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/23-08-201172931PM.jpg)

I found these ads interspersed among the 130 story panels and other features. I started the numbering with the cover as page 1:

2 Inside Front Cover

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/21-08-201182539PM-1-1-1.jpg)

13

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/21-08-201182446PM-1-1-1.jpg)

15

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/21-08-201182555PM-1.jpg)

26

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/21-08-201182457PM-1.jpg)

27

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/23-08-2011120943AM-1.jpg)

30

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/21-08-201182522PM-1.jpg)

31

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/21-08-201182531PM-2.jpg)

32

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/21-08-201182543PM-1.jpg)

33 Inside Back Cover

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/21-08-201182548PM-1.jpg)

34 Back Cover

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It's no wonder the Aurora monster model kits were a smash hit with youngsters. Check out these ads that appeared on the back of DC comics in 1963-64:

Rip Hunter 17

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/20-09-201184028PM.jpg)

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/20-09-201184025PM.jpg)

Rip Hunter 19

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/20-09-201184035PM.jpg)

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/20-09-201184032PM.jpg)

Combined with the fabulous box art by James Bama, kids didn't stand a chance of resisting these on store shelves!

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Not a comic book ad, but an old newspaper ad:

Halloween specials at PayLess, 1969:

http://www.universalmonsterarmy.com/forum/index.php?topic=590.msg249097#msg249097 (http://www.universalmonsterarmy.com/forum/index.php?topic=590.msg249097#msg249097)

Here are scans of three more super cool Aurora monster model ads from the back covers of some of my DC comic books:

Rip Hunter 23

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/15-10-201145730PM.jpg)

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/15-10-201145726PM.jpg)

Hawkman 6

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/15-10-201145618PM.jpg)

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/15-10-201145614PM.jpg)

House of Mystery 154

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/20-09-201183950PM.jpg)

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/20-09-201183947PM.jpg)

  cl:)

Those scans sure bring back a lot of memories.

I sent away for this Jiu-Jitsu booklet. The bastards never sent it to me. I guess ripping youngsters off for a buck was how they made them tough.

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/23-10-201174748PM.jpg)

Here's another oft seen and sure to impress ad from the same Adventures of the Fly 8:

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/23-10-201174752PM.jpg)

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/29-06-201172349PM.jpg)

:o

Twinkles was for a number of months my favourite cereal as a kid. I loved the stories on the back! Here's a cool ad for a Twinkles 45 rpm record from the back cover of the August 1961 Uncle Scrooge:

Uncle Scrooge 34

(https://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/edited-image_zpsltilupb1.jpg)

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/26-10-201175151PM.jpg)

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I remember when they actually had the records on the backs of the cereal boxes. The Jackson 5 I believe were on Alpha Bits and weren't there Halloween specific ones with spooky sounds etc?

Quote from: Hepcat on August 24, 2011, 10:34:46 AM
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Mmmm, after seeing these ads in US comics over many, many years, it finally turned up in our local Magnamail mail order catalogue. My mother agreed to order me one for my birthday (I was about 14 - 1972?), and the result was very underwhelming, especially the tiny box it arrived in! While it appears to be a large, commercial overhead projector (only just starting to become popular in schools in the 70s), it was extremely tiny and required no power source to operate. The ad misleadingly shows the artists using the device from a distance, but the barely-visible superimposed image you are supposed to trace can only be seen on the paper if you press your eye to the viewer. (Then you can't really control your pencil very well.) Mine had a hairline crack in the base, where the upright pole was supposed to connect, so there was enough wobble to be annoying. When copying a 2D artwork, the source material had to be pinned upside down on a wall. It was hopeless trying to get enough light to fall on a 3D object. The trickiest thing was directing light across the source material to illuminate the image clearly - I spent a long time trying to direct a goosenecked desk lamp at the right angle (that I had to return to to my Dad's desk as soon as possible). I used the device once, then hid it in a drawer.

My old pantograph was more fun.

I guess they couldn't get away with that nowadays. I think most ads in comics now are for video games.

Get a load of these ads from the 1966 Fearbook:

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/26-10-201162512PM.jpg)

First one for my holy grail monster item:

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/26-10-201162528PM.jpg)

Then these as well:

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/26-10-201162531PM.jpg)

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/26-10-201162536PM.jpg)

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/26-10-201162524PM.jpg)

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/26-10-201162541PM.jpg)

Plus the back cover of course:

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cl:)

Quote from: Hepcat on October 29, 2011, 03:51:23 PM
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Had both of these, but not branded as "Addams Family". Both very cool!

Quote from: Hepcat on October 29, 2011, 03:51:23 PM
Get a load of these ads from the 1966 Fearbook:

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/26-10-201162512PM.jpg)

First one for my holy grail monster item:

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/26-10-201162528PM.jpg)

Then these as well:

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/26-10-201162531PM.jpg)

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/26-10-201162536PM.jpg)

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/26-10-201162524PM.jpg)

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/26-10-201162541PM.jpg)

Plus the back cover of course:

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/26-10-201162519PM.jpg)

cl:)

awesome!

Have you guys ever seen one of these? I found this on the Secret Fun Blog today!

(http://img715.imageshack.us/img715/1985/ghostriderad.jpg)

Here's the actual mask too!

(http://img829.imageshack.us/img829/5898/ghostriders.jpg)

(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6213/6334108452_4257bc608e.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/therinofandor/6334108452/)
Sea-Monkeys (http://www.flickr.com/photos/therinofandor/6334108452/#) by Therin of Andor (http://www.flickr.com/people/therinofandor/), on Flickr

I really wanted these to be much more than brine shrimp hatchlings!

A Tootsie-Roll Ice Cream Bar!!?

And best of all it probably didn't cost an arm and a leg like most premium ice cream novelties these days!

;)

Quote from: Wich2 on March 19, 2011, 07:38:35 PM
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What about the GLOVES, Juice?

Ha!  Or how about the Bruno Magli shoes that he said he never wore, yet there are 50 pictures of him wearing them as a CBS sideline reporter?

Quote from: Therin of Andor on November 11, 2011, 02:11:15 AM
(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6213/6334108452_4257bc608e.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/therinofandor/6334108452/)
Sea-Monkeys (http://www.flickr.com/photos/therinofandor/6334108452/#) by Therin of Andor (http://www.flickr.com/people/therinofandor/), on Flickr

I really wanted these to be much more than brine shrimp hatchlings!

This particular ad, brings so many wonderful memories. I remember reading my comic
books and seeing the ad. I may have ordered the sea monkeys too?

Here's a scan of the ad for the Aurora Batman kit that ran on the back of DC comic books cover dated June 1966:

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/15-11-201163308PM.jpg)

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QuoteThis particular ad, brings so many wonderful memories. I remember reading my comic
books and seeing the ad. I may have ordered the sea monkeys too?

Same here on the memories. Let's face it, most of these (like the Sea Monkeys) were crap. But for those of us lucky enough to have read the hundreds of ads for x-ray specs, throw your voice, life-size monster ghosts, and submarines that cost $3, the imagination of an 8-year-old provided much more fun in our minds than any of the real products for sale.
The real product ordered would have disappointed me (especially the submarine). But my imagination as a kid NEVER disappointed me, and left me with very fond memories.

Here's a scan of the ad for the Aurora Superman kit that ran on the back of DC comic books cover dated January 1965:

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/16-11-201173552PM.jpg)

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I remember that one! Rocky & Bullwinkle I really liked; Cheerios not so much. It wasn't sugary enough.

;)

I'm a great fan of Uncle Remus and his Tales of Brer Rabbit so I love this ad from the back cover of Lone Ranger 94:

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/15-11-201174942PM.jpg)

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/15-11-201174933PM.jpg)

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(http://cdn-www.cracked.com/articleimages/wong/comicads/cabin1.jpg)


It sucks.

Quote from: gursikh11 on December 08, 2011, 05:46:47 AM
(http://cdn-www.cracked.com/articleimages/wong/comicads/cabin1.jpg)


It sucks.

Even though it sucks you now how much would one of these sell for today..

As promised, more Hasbro toy ads from that issue of the "Chicago Tribune", Feb 9, 1969, comics Section 8:

(http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5034/7224836860_ca9a8d16d7.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/therinofandor/7224836860/)
Toy ads (http://www.flickr.com/photos/therinofandor/7224836860/#) by Therin of Andor (http://www.flickr.com/people/therinofandor/), on Flickr

(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7077/7224837076_1f14ab9181.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/therinofandor/7224837076/)
GI Joe toy ad (http://www.flickr.com/photos/therinofandor/7224837076/#) by Therin of Andor (http://www.flickr.com/people/therinofandor/), on Flickr

(http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5340/7224836468_1d340c5ac9.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/therinofandor/7224836468/)
More toy ads (http://www.flickr.com/photos/therinofandor/7224836468/#) by Therin of Andor (http://www.flickr.com/people/therinofandor/), on Flickr

The Sea Monkeys were awesome because you GREW your creatures--like cultures...grew them as nature does!  No, but seriously.  Some of my Sea Monkeys got pretty big.  I got really lucky the first time out with Sea Monkeys.  But I really wanted them to be little orange people like in the ad.  We didn't get them through the mail, by the way, but got them at the local toy store.

I did mail order the joke gum around 1975, and I believe Abracadabra Magic Shop was the ad it was ordered from.  Took about a month for them to arrive.  There was the Onion Gum, the Hot Pepper Gum and the Bloody Gum--two or three sticks of each, thrown individually paper-wrapped, but unlabeled, into an envelope.  A Pucker Gum was available but was not included in this $1 "assortment."

So these I dutifully took to school.  There was one friend who loved practical jokes as much as I did (the snapping gum, squirting flowes and suchlike).  We examined the sticks of gum and tried some.  The Hot Pepper Gum was pale but had little red flecks, and when chewed was mildly spicy, not really hot.  The Onion Gum was just pale, and smelled like onions before it got chewed; tasted very oniony, but surprisingly, it was not horrible.   Maybe it might have been if unexpected.  Most odd was the Bloody Gum, unwrapping the stick we saw it was dark, dark, dark red.  I broke off a little piece and chewed it.  It had no flavor, was just sugary.  My buddy chewed up the rest of the stick and then ran off and tried to scare people, purposefully drooling this red food coloring gum-juice onto the playground.  Some image! 

Another good Daisy ad from the back cover of Felix the Cat 10:

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/01-07-201262727PM.jpg)

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/01-07-201262724PM.jpg)

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I remember gazing excitedly at this ad for Salada Baseball Coins that ran in DC comics cover dated June 1962. Here's a scan of the ad from my copy of Flash 129:

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/01-08-2012122118AM.jpg)

In Canada these coins were issued with Shirriff backs in Shirriff Potato Chips, Puddings and Jelly Desserts. Here are scans of a few of these coins from my present day set:

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%202/29-07-201245438PM.jpg)

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%202/29-07-201245409PM.jpg)

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Here's another Twinkles ad from the back cover of Tom and Jerry 200:

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/06-12-2012104225PM.jpg)

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Here's the back cover to issue #34 of Fly Man (the God awful renaming of the Adventures of the Fly):

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/29-03-201340925PM_zpsfbdeff6e.jpg)

And a couple of interior ads from Fly Man 36:

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/29-03-201340938PM_zpscfb8862c.jpg)

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/29-03-201340941PM_zps8638ed84.jpg)

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Here are back cover scans of cool ads from a few of my Monster World magazines:

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(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/19-05-201363705PM_zpsf96b2098.jpg) (http://s1101.photobucket.com/user/Balticprince/media/Comics/19-05-201363705PM_zpsf96b2098.jpg.html)

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(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/19-05-201363713PM_zps3f97e756.jpg) (http://s1101.photobucket.com/user/Balticprince/media/Comics/19-05-201363713PM_zps3f97e756.jpg.html)

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(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/19-05-201363719PM_zpsee05ed47.jpg) (http://s1101.photobucket.com/user/Balticprince/media/Comics/19-05-201363719PM_zpsee05ed47.jpg.html)

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This ad is an all-time classic. It may be the record holder as far as greatest number of total back cover appearances:

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/09-06-201331021PM_zps9edb9551.jpg) (http://s1101.photobucket.com/user/Balticprince/media/Comics/09-06-201331021PM_zps9edb9551.jpg.html)

Did anyone here on this board actually become an American Seed Company sales agent?

???

Here's another classic ad that had a good long run:

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/22-06-201374605PM_zps519ccac3.jpg) (http://"http://s1101.photobucket.com/user/Balticprince/media/Comics/22-06-201374605PM_zps519ccac3.jpg.html")

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The Addam's Family house was a BLAST to build and paint in the 60's!
Thank you kindly for this blast from our past!  8) 8)

Here's a scan of another old classic:

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/23-06-201372048PM_zps9bf056ab.jpg) (http://s1101.photobucket.com/user/Balticprince/media/Comics/23-06-201372048PM_zps9bf056ab.jpg.html)

:)

Here's a scan of a comic book ad for Aurora's American Astronaut kit:

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/08-06-201375541PM_zpse619b931.jpg) (http://s1101.photobucket.com/user/Balticprince/media/Comics/08-06-201375541PM_zpse619b931.jpg.html)

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The one for the X-Ray Spex is my favorite. ;)

Here are a couple more DC back cover ads for Aurora model kits from late 1966:

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/08-07-201375600PM_zps401d7a0c.jpg) (http://"http://s1101.photobucket.com/user/Balticprince/media/Comics/08-07-201375600PM_zps401d7a0c.jpg.html")

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/08-07-201375607PM_zps07f1143a.jpg) (http://"http://s1101.photobucket.com/user/Balticprince/media/Comics/08-07-201375607PM_zps07f1143a.jpg.html")

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It cost a fellow only a dime to muscle up in 1963. That's because all it took was hard work; no steroids required.

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/08-07-201375654PM_zpsf3754c40.jpg) (http://"http://s1101.photobucket.com/user/Balticprince/media/Comics/08-07-201375654PM_zpsf3754c40.jpg.html")

:)

While Aurora is well known for its Thunderjet HO-scale slot cars, these Speedline cars meant to compete with the Mattel Hot Wheels have been largely forgotten:

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/14-07-201330857PM_zps6be78037.jpg) (http://s1101.photobucket.com/user/Balticprince/media/Comics/14-07-201330857PM_zps6be78037.jpg.html)

:-\

Here's an ad for an all-time classic toy from the back cover of Batman 208:

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/14-07-201330903PM_zpsdf8dd98f.jpg) (http://media.photobucket.com/user/Balticprince/media/Comics/14-07-201330903PM_zpsdf8dd98f.jpg.html)

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Thought this was a good one...

(http://home.comcast.net/~cougrr/zhope3.JPG)

Quote from: jimm on September 02, 2013, 04:55:04 PM
Thought this was a good one...

(http://home.comcast.net/~cougrr/zhope3.JPG)

I had both of those growing up.  I remember using the scar and eye for halloweens.

Here's a scan of another one of the great Daisy B-B Gun ads that graced the back covers comic magazines in the sixties:

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/Comics001/016_zps1a32f9c3.jpg)

This one appeared on DC comics cover dated July 1968.

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Real enough to get yourself shot by a cop!

Quote from: Hepcat on December 01, 2013, 02:52:24 PM

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/Comics001/016_zps1a32f9c3.jpg)

Here's a scan of a cool ad from the back cover of DC comics cover dated November 1968 for Aurora's UFO from The Invaders show:

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/Comics001/014_zpsebdf7870.jpg)

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Here's a scan of the cool back cover ad from the one-shot Warren Super Heroes magazine cover dated October 1966:

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/Comics001/002_zps5020b034.jpg)

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Captain Company ran ads for some very cool Warren T-shirts on the back covers of Warren magazines in 1976-77:

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/Comics001/26-08-201380946PM_zps4f150afe.jpg)

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/Comics001/26-08-201380949PM_zpsd0da7148.jpg)

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/Comics001/025_zps3101f390.jpg)

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/Comics001/026_zps0bc514f1.jpg)

Did anyone ever order any of these shirts? Does anyone still have any?

???

(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3IZ18Ty3hlA/TiOCjloWFoI/AAAAAAAAAPM/MYSl7ZQDT_o/s1600/comicad.jpg)

(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/192/485704564_35ae45ff51_b.jpg)

(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mohtPKPyi54/TdxQDTh8zBI/AAAAAAAABIw/3p_4seqwWtU/s1600/w274p6ad.jpg)

(http://scottbrothers.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/hauntingcomicad.jpg)

Cool! In which magazine(s) did those ads appear?

???

Quote from: Hepcat on February 14, 2014, 07:35:33 PM
Cool! In which magazine(s) did those ads appear?

???

Those Johnson Smith ads were scattered throughout various comics for years. I have a box around here somewhere full of old catalogs and some of the items that I ordered out of them back in the day.

Those items would be nice to see in the Weekly Finds thread!

:)

Quote from: Hepcat on February 15, 2014, 02:29:31 PM
Those items would be nice to see in the Weekly Finds thread!

:)

Yeah, I gotta dig that stuff out...so much junk, so little time.

Quote from: Sean on March 27, 2011, 07:54:00 PM(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Charles.jpg)

I loved this add.  Though it gave me a completely WARPED view at what women wanted in a man.  I learned later that socking another grown man in the jaw while wearing boy shorts on the beach was NOT the way to a girl's heart.  :o

I'd say it's about time you filled us in on the rest of your story.

;)

Here's a scan of the ad for the Aurora Tarzan kit from the back cover of the DC comics that were on newstands in September 1967:

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/Comics001/005_zpsfcf3f01a.jpg)

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"Me, Tarzan, getting light-headed from model glue! Me kinda like! Not stop smiling!"

Here's a scan of a back cover ad from DC comics that were on sale in the early fall of 1965:

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/Comics001/015_zps9ce4a9ec.jpg)

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'LOVE this topic and all the pics.
It's simply amazing that an one time someone could profit from a $1.49 sale (plus postage and handling). CHEERS!  8) 8) 8)

Super cool topic!

Quote from: The Batman on April 11, 2014, 11:37:16 PM
'LOVE this topic and all the pics.
It's simply amazing that an one time someone could profit from a $1.49 sale (plus postage and handling). CHEERS!  8) 8) 8)

Super cool topic!

;D

Here's a scan of a back cover ad from the DC comics that were on sale in the spring of 1966:

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/Comics001/006_zpsee06f2e2.jpg)

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(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4254/35060199860_c5000e232d.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/Vq9FWu)
Comic ads by Ian McLean (https://flic.kr/p/Vq9FWu) by Ian McLean (https://www.flickr.com/photos/therinofandor/), on Flickr

I created this from memory.

I've tracked down the respective months when the DC comics with these fabulous Aurora monster model ads hit the newsstands:

September 1963

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/20-09-201184028PM.jpg)

January 1964

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/20-09-201184035PM.jpg)

September 1964

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/15-10-201145730PM.jpg)

December 1964

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/15-10-201145618PM.jpg)

August 1965

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/20-09-201183950PM.jpg)

It's no wonder the Aurora monster model kits were a smash hit with youngsters! Combined with the fabulous box art by James Bama, young fellows didn't stand a chance of resisting these kits on store shelves.

8)

I find it very cool and interesting that when someone is selling X comic that the ads on the back are of more value than X comic itself.
These are really awesome to put in a frame for wall art. Ive done that myself. 8)

WL

Quote from: Hepcat on March 19, 2011, 07:59:38 PM
This one for the Aurora Monster Scenes line of model kits. Vampirella was anatomically correct with visible camel toe. Mothers were appalled but young boys were enthralled.

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/auroramonster-1.jpg)

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Has anybody noticed how different Aurora's Vampirella character was, from her character was in her magazine?

We have a whole thread on that very subject:

http://www.universalmonsterarmy.com/forum/index.php?topic=30550.0 (http://www.universalmonsterarmy.com/forum/index.php?topic=30550.0)

:)

Hep, thanks for that link. 

One thing I've enjoy about Hubby is that he remembered what concepts were attracting to him as a child - not just a boy, but apparently children at certain ages.

For example, the Gross-Out Word Choice for foods... calling red beans & rice by "spider-bellies & gooey eggs".  If I asked if they wanted Red Beans & Rice (which they always devoured), they'd sneer and shake their head, disinterested to say the least.

But when Hubby asked if they wouldn't like "spider bellies and gooey eggs", they were ALL excited for that dish. 

He understood cauliflowers were clouds and brocolli was 'buttered trees' and the kids could be monsters only if they ate those.  So they naturally gobbled them, each and every time.  I sat back in amazement.  "How do you know this?"  He remembered it from his days as kid - sometimes, that's only a week ago, so, well...

Looking at these ads reminds me of the powerful effect that fantasies - gore and goo and gross-outs - can be powerful agents for children.  That thread on Vampirella seems to have a few accurate notices of that, but one thing that isn't mentioned - a finely honed body-structure might be too brittle, so she needed those "hips & legs of a horse"... actually, no horse's anatomy looks like those.  Those are hog hinds and legs.   Perhaps the writer was being kind when he used "horse".  ha ha

Quote from: ChristineBCW on May 25, 2018, 03:26:52 PM"How do you know this?"  He remembered it from his days as kid - sometimes, that's only a week ago, so, well....

What puzzles me is that so many adults completely forget what it was like to be a kid and what was appealing to them when they themselves were kids.

???

Yes.  Personally, I had great reasons - I was a 'late' child in the, uh, production and was raised around my parents and their pals - always adults who praised and lauded articulation, vocabulary, gadgety skills, etc.  Package that with Every Child's Desire to be older, do older things, and well... stilted childhoods don't need to be bad but they can be sterile and devoid.

As parent of now-former Elem students and still a weekly volunteer at that Elem, I see so many 30-ish parents that seem to have slammed those memories away.   They become something between Thoughtless and Inconsiderate.  And stunningly uncreative - ANTI-creative, sometimes. 

We do well when demonstrations over time pay off and see those folks have considered thoughts ("What if - ?") and display some memory dredgings.  But I hear so many tales of broken childhoods and hordes of 'things' instead of good family tales, and all they see now are 'things' and almost acidly avoid filling their kids' lives with Things instead of themselves.  Good.  BUT WHAT ABOUT GOOD FAMILY TIMES, then?  That's something they don't always know how to construct.  "I've never seen it so I can't imagine how to do it" - this is that Thoughtlessness. 

Well, I know this era of society is different from the Babyboomers.  There were "things galore" then, too - just look at these comic ads.  But Aurora and Revelle etc models didn't require an adult's budget.  Nor did comics at 10-12 cents a piece, where $2-3 worth could fill the neighborhood kids' afternoons for a week. 

There aren't cereal-box baseball cards.  Now, they're expensive and - like comics - are only to be treasured, not traded, not passed around from one hip-pocket to another, not tacked into bicycle spokes.

The TV shows - a constant railing exercise for me - are so anti-child-centric, or else kids' networks (like Disney) have 17-20 minutes of product advertising in a 30-min period.  NO. 

Well... this is why God invented boxsets and media-players.  I'm pretty sure of that.

Quote from: ChristineBCW on May 27, 2018, 07:20:25 AMWell, I know this era of society is different from the Babyboomers.  There were "things galore" then, too - just look at these comic ads.  But Aurora and Revelle etc models didn't require an adult's budget.  Nor did comics at 10-12 cents a piece, where $2-3 worth could fill the neighborhood kids' afternoons for a week. 

There aren't cereal-box baseball cards.  Now, they're expensive and - like comics - are only to be treasured, not traded, not passed around from one hip-pocket to another, not tacked into bicycle spokes.

The TV shows - a constant railing exercise for me - are so anti-child-centric, or else kids' networks (like Disney) have 17-20 minutes of product advertising in a 30-min period.  NO.

Truth. Kids' shows these days seem to be designed specifically to sell a toy line based on the show based on the toy line.

:(

'Found a 1971 Thor comic book in my work desk and took it home today.
- Arnold S. promoted arm power wrist bands
- Polaris Nuclear Sub over 7 feel long, $6.98, big enough for 2 kids, rockets that fire, real periscope, firing torpedoes, electronically lit instrument panel, with hours and hours of adventures
-High pay job in drafting (since PC's don't exist yet)
- powerful ram jet engine, use over and over again
- hypnotic whirling coin
- Hercules wrist bands
- $100 is yours, selling Christmas greeting cards
- boys! earn $1 to $6 per week selling Grit in your spare time, no, really Grit is a good sounding name easy to sell, rush coupon today !

Every line above cracks me up.  Spit-laffs... Polaris subs, 2 kids inside, hours of adventures.  Lordy, I'd have loved something like that.  "Father, could I mount the missiles as a propulsion system, and maybe make it to the moon?"  Hours later, I'd return to earth.  Father's greenhouse with that busted-out glass roof.  "It's the only one with that, Father - I'm sure I'd see it."

(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-I1Y-WeZEyNA/UAujzDI6VmI/AAAAAAAAIk4/TE5a_qvTbo0/s1600/optiIMG_0398.jpg)

Selling GRIT?! Long forgotten memory. I tried that when I was maybe 11-12. I got 16 cents an issue commission. Spent entire Saturday afternoons ringing doorbells. That was as big a waste of time(when I COULD have been watching monster movies) as selling packets of seeds.
Kids,sell only 4000 packets of and win a bike. Yeah,ok. Does anyone on here even know somebody that did that?
::)

TheBatman's pix - is that the control-cockpit of the Polaris "fun for hours" Submarine?  A nuke, no less!! 

(Wow - well, actually, what else would I have expected?  Only Tommy Lee Jones would go find an old pigboat when facing contemporary Steven Seagal.)

I'd never had a chair turned over with a sheet or blanket thrown over it for 'camp outs', but this is one of those li'l things Hubby did for our kids, and all the neighbors joined in.  Any parent who wanted a night out has built-in babysitters AS LONG AS those houses offer to lay over a few chairs, toss a sheet or two over them and put blankets and pillows out there for 'camp outs'.  Who'da thunkit?

I mentioned the loss of baseball cards, comics, model-building but I also forgot that "paperboy" was often a first-job for even 12-13 year olds, like Hubby had.  WICKED's comment about spending his Saturdays selling "Grit" (?? what's this magazine about ?? is this a Boy's Life or Classics Illustrated type ??) made me remember this was my Hubby's other regret - that he couldn't send his own son to follow a long family tradition of being a paperboy.  ah well...

I had a paper route as a twelve year old in 1964.  I delivered thirty copies of the London Free Press every morning six days a week, eighteen of which I dropped on a hospital desk, ten within the halls of an apartment building next to the hospital and two to individual houses across the street. It was a dream paper route and left me flush with the princely sum of $2.76 per week of earnings!

The helicopter parents of this day and age would of course be horrified at the thought of twelve year olds off by themselves doing anything let alone delivering newspapers.  ::) We were all still free range kids back in the sixties though.

:)

Here are many of the ads that could have been found perusing the DC comics on the newsstand fifty years ago:

(https://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%203/General%20Album%203001/Ad%201_zpsbezk4pag.jpg)

Wow! What kid wouldn't want to fill his basket with all that cool stuff? Financing the purchases would be a problem though.

(https://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%203/General%20Album%203001/Ad%2016_zpsufovlxeo.png)

Wow! Tom Daniels! So cool!

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%203/General%20Album%203001/ad%2020_zpsuva4vdrj.jpg)

Anybody who ordered any of the penny flats was disappointed. The actual product didn't come close to what was portrayed in the ads.

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%203/General%20Album%203001/ad%2019_zpsfnms2t98.png)

We should have stocked up at your local variety store! Matchbox cars are still hotly collected these days.

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%203/General%20Album%203001/ad%2014_zpsw4w1hr8a.jpg)

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%203/General%20Album%203001/ad%205_zpsvabbclso.png)

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%203/General%20Album%203001/ad%2017_zpsxq0vdewz.jpg)

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%203/General%20Album%203001/ad%207_zpsemhseu64.png)

Yeah marbles! My marbles are one of the few items I still have from my formative years. That's because my father put them all in a tin cookie jar and saved them in his work room. I now have them proudly on display on top of my my pop/milk bottle pantry in one of those hexagonal goldfish bowls.

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%203/General%20Album%203001/ad%208_zpssrkizkxs.jpg)

(https://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%203/General%20Album%203001/ad%2012_zpswbnhdjpo.jpg)

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%203/General%20Album%203001/ad%2013_zpsrfz0felk.jpg)

Ahah! The solution to financing all the cool stuff advertised in the other pages!

;D

 $1.99 for a 204 figure Revolutionary War set? Man, those were the days!

Here though is a look at what you would have actually got for your $1.99:

(http://www.curiosityconsignment.com/sites/default/files/styles/max_650x650/public/2018-11/Vintage%20Plastic%20Revolutionary%20War%20Soldiers%20Playset%20Comic%20Book%20Mail%20.jpg?itok=9Ix4qRzn)

Revolutionary War Set - Doug's Soldiers (http://dougssoldiers.blogspot.com/2014/12/comic-book-toy-soldiers-204.html)

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Oh, cheap but CHEAP. Still, for under a penny per figure, quite a bargain.

Quote from: Mord on February 28, 2019, 02:09:53 PM$1.99 for a 204 figure Revolutionary War set? Man, those were the days!

Well then let's go back in time a couple of months! These are some of the ads that might have been encountered flipping through the DC comics on the newsstand in December 1968:

(https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/marvelmasterworksfansite/download/file.php?id=16453)

(https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/marvelmasterworksfansite/download/file.php?id=16446)

(https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/marvelmasterworksfansite/download/file.php?id=16447&t=1)

The Tom Daniel kits were wild cool! And the Pie Wagon was among the very coolest.

(https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/marvelmasterworksfansite/download/file.php?id=16448)

I always used to admire the Matchbox cars in the window of Steve's Variety/Gift Shop on Wortley Road in the early sixties. At $0.29 each (or was it $0.39?), admiring them was about as far as I got though. Matchbox car collecting I understand is particularly popular in the U.K. these days.

(https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/marvelmasterworksfansite/download/file.php?id=16452&t=1)

(https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/marvelmasterworksfansite/download/file.php?id=16449&t=1)

(https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/marvelmasterworksfansite/download/file.php?id=16444&t=1)

(https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/marvelmasterworksfansite/download/file.php?id=16450&t=1)

Interesting that Justice League of America 69 carried the above ad since it was aimed specifically at girls!

(https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/marvelmasterworksfansite/download/file.php?id=16451&t=1)

Many of the ads were of course for items young boys might appreciate as Xmas presents.

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Ads for items that would have made for dandy Xmas presents for boys absolutely dominated the ad space in the DC comics that could have been on any neighbourhood newsstand in November 1968:

(https://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/edited-image_zpsbn0ffhri.png)

(https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/marvelmasterworksfansite/download/file.php?id=16105&t=1)

(https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/marvelmasterworksfansite/download/file.php?id=16108)

(https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/marvelmasterworksfansite/download/file.php?id=16106)

(https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/marvelmasterworksfansite/download/file.php?id=16113&t=1)

(https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/marvelmasterworksfansite/download/file.php?id=16107&t=1)

(https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/marvelmasterworksfansite/download/file.php?id=16109&t=1)

(https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/marvelmasterworksfansite/download/file.php?id=16110&t=1)

(https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/marvelmasterworksfansite/download/file.php?id=16111&t=1)

(https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/marvelmasterworksfansite/download/file.php?id=16112&t=1)

Man, I still want some of those model kits and other toys today!

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But let's go back over sixty years! Here are the ads that would have been found in most DC comics hitting newsstands in February 1959:

(https://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/edited-image_zpscsrrz8z2.png)

I sent away for that Jiu-Jitsu book a few years later because I too wanted to be tough. I never received it though. I guess that explains why I wasn't all that tough as a kid.

And Ron F. in my grade six class in 1962 had one of those skull rings. It was super cool! I wonder how much one would fetch today?

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%203/General%20Album%203001/Feb%202_zpst9du65um.png)

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%203/General%20Album%203001/Feb%204_zpsbknesk0f.png)

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%203/General%20Album%203001/Feb%206_zpsotxi4pgh.png)

Oh man! I still love that Tootsie Roll bear!

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%203/General%20Album%203001/Feb%207_zpsslpszzah.jpg)

Now why would a company opt to advertise British Empire stamps in a publication bought primarily by American kids?  ???

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%203/General%20Album%203001/Feb%209_zpswygrshqy.jpg)

Hmmmmm. Methinks seeds or even greeting cards would be easier to sell door-to-door than sappy mottoes. Well maybe a young fellow could hit up his mother's church group or something....

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%203/General%20Album%203001/Feb%2010_zpsthvvftfd.jpg)

Wow! That's what I needed at the age of eight, a physique like Superman's! These days of course a runt like Superman couldn't even qualify for the Mr. Olympia contest.

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Here's a selection of the ads that ran in the DC comics hitting newsstands fifty years ago in June of 1969:

(https://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%203/General%20Album%203001/June%201_zpsqajqsqj1.jpg)

(https://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%203/General%20Album%203001/June%202_zpsgbb5pr3l.png)

(https://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/edited-image_zpsmfjhypay.png)

Yes indeed! This was the ad heralding the launch of Aurora's infamous glow kits!

(https://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%203/General%20Album%203001/June%204_zpswtcs3k0c.png)

(https://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/edited-image_zpsive5nskp.png)

(https://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%203/General%20Album%203001/June%2013_zpsxmcq5oxi.jpg)

(https://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%203/General%20Album%203001/June%2014_zpsivlkziq9.png)

(https://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%203/General%20Album%203001/June%2015_zpsbjl0igtt.jpg)

(https://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%203/General%20Album%203001/June%2017_zpseccbzlp0.jpg)

(https://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%203/General%20Album%203001/June%2018_zpshhkctp4r.jpg)

(https://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%203/General%20Album%203001/June%2019_zpsjrp0ryw9.jpg)

(https://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%203/General%20Album%203001/June%2020_zps4hlejcsq.jpg)

The introduction of Hot Wheels in 1968 had revolutionized the toy diecast auto industry. Hot Wheels cars were equipped with wide, hard-plastic tires that created much less friction and tracked more smoothly than the narrow metal or plastic wheels used by competitors such as Matchbox at the time.

Since 1968 over six billion Hot Wheels vehicles have been sold. Ten are sold per second these days! One of the key factors behind the ongoing sales success of Hot Wheels has been the complete lack of price inflation. The retail price per vehicle in 1968 was $0.98; the price today is still $0.98.

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