Mail Order Monsters

[Hepcat]

I felt ripped off everytime I opened a package from one of those Monster comic book ads!  You'd would have thought it would have taught me a lesson or something. Yet here I still sit. Sending money to strangers for monster crap. 

Believe me, you have plenty of company in that regard on this board.

[Hepcat]

Captain Company STILL owes me an Aurora long box Hunchback model that i ordered from Famous Monsters back in 1965  ... I don't want to sound pessimistic, but sometimes i think i may NEVER get it!  Do you think they realize i've moved a few times since then??

I'd suggest you email James Warren just to make sure.

[Frankenmarx]

I remember clearly feeling like the 7ft Frankenstein was a let down, but here I am trying to find one to replace it for several hundred times the cost.  My mom wouldn't let me get the bat that I wanted...or those sexy, tempting sea monkies.  Didn't one monkey always wear a crown in the ads?

[horrorhunter]

I remember clearly feeling like the 7ft Frankenstein was a let down, but here I am trying to find one to replace it for several hundred times the cost.  My mom wouldn't let me get the bat that I wanted...or those sexy, tempting sea monkies.  Didn't one monkey always wear a crown in the ads?

You're trying to cast that time travel spell, dude. The one we all try to realize. But, a focus makes it more effective. Your focus is the Frankenstein poster.

Maybe your mom thought those little Sea Monkey ads were titillating as well. She didn't want her little boy to witness the debauchery of the Sea Monkey orgy that might ensue. It might have been like a porn shoot with the little crowned one as the star.

[Frankenmarx]

He did look a little like Ron Jeremy.

[Frankenmarx]

I forgot what I meant to type after all that stuff about sea monkey porn.  The orig. post in this thread showed the ad for the ghost that "you control."  Does anyone know how the control part worked?  I'm guessing it was on a string that you moved?  I think the ads for the bat said they were remote control items, too.  They flew like real bats.  Did anyone have one of those who can describe it?

[Therin of Andor]

I well recall the episode of "The Brady Bunch", where the girls attempt to scare the boys - and create a ghost-on-a-wire that resembles the famous comic book ghost.

I'm sure people have seen my pics of...

* a recent lookalike Scholastic eraser of the Moon Monster's child?:


Moon Monster and son by Therin of Andor, on Flickr

* Sea Monkeys. In the late 70s, my brothers and I actually bought a little vial of regular brine shrimp eggs, not the highly commercial version, and followed the instructions, but they never hatched:


Sea Monkeys ad by Therin of Andor, on Flickr

* My Monster S-I-Z-E Monster poster of Frankenstein's Monster:


My Monster S-I-Z-E Monster poster of Frankenstein's Monster by Therin of Andor, on Flickr

* Magic Art Reproducer:


Magic Art Reproducer by Therin of Andor, on Flickr

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.

[marsattacks666]

LOL! Blowing their noses you say? I was thinking more like wiping their ... uh, never mind. You know what I mean. 

Hey-yoooooo!!!!

[Scatter]

I had the Sea Monkeys, and they hatched........but my brother Jay spilled the thing over before any monkey eroticism could be observed.

[Count_Zirock]

I had the Sea Monkeys and, indeed, witnessed their matings. Even saw a couple of males locked in death-battle with their pincers. I don't know how many "generations" were hatched before I finally got tired of keeping them up and flushed them! A former friend sent me a retro set with a glow-in-the-dark sunken pirate ship at the bottom of the tank, and a lighted cover. I've never set it up, for fear my cats would knock it over. Maybe after I move, I'll finally set it up.


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[Mord]

I had the Sea Monkeys, and they hatched........but my brother Jay spilled the thing over before any monkey eroticism could be observed.

There are many sites dedicated to monkey eroticism on the internet (I've heard).

[Scatter]

There are many sites dedicated to monkey eroticism on the internet (I've heard).

True.........and changing your screen name to "Drom" when you're logged into them is tissue-thin disguise my friend.

[Mord]

True.........and changing your screen name to "Drom" when you're logged into them is tissue-thin disguise my friend.

Damn it, Rettacs, don't give away my secrets.

[zombiehorror]

Came across this image from a link in another thread.  Anyone else see the resemblance, life-size funhouse moon monster!?!?!  Not sure which came first and any similarities are probably coincidental!




http://www.laffinthedark.com/articles/adc/adcb7.htm

[Dr. Madd]

I had the Sea Monkeys and, indeed, witnessed their matings. Even saw a couple of males locked in death-battle with their pincers. I don't know how many "generations" were hatched before I finally got tired of keeping them up and flushed them! A former friend sent me a retro set with a glow-in-the-dark sunken pirate ship at the bottom of the tank, and a lighted cover. I've never set it up, for fear my cats would knock it over. Maybe after I move, I'll finally set it up.


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So, you're the one responsible for the mutant Sea Monkey Invasion of 1979