Favorite comic book ads

[Therin of Andor]

Sea-Monkeys by Therin of Andor, on Flickr

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

[Sean]

A Tootsie-Roll Ice Cream Bar!!?

[Hepcat]

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

[Sean]

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?

[marsattacks666]

Sea-Monkeys by Therin of Andor, 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?

[Hepcat]

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:

[60sThru80s]

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?

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.

[Hepcat]

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:

[CreepysFan]

   

Cheerios cereal ad from Harvey comics.

   

[Hepcat]

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

[Hepcat]

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:

[gursikh11]

It sucks.

[houseoftheunusual]

It sucks.

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

[Therin of Andor]

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


Toy ads by Therin of Andor, on Flickr


GI Joe toy ad by Therin of Andor, on Flickr


More toy ads by Therin of Andor, on Flickr

[neonnoodle]

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!