Sea Monkey Ads In Comics

The ads in comic books first drew my attention when i was a very little girl.

Sea monkey ads in comics. Initial comic book ads weren t as bizarre as the ones that everyone remembers. Sea monkeys that could live in a goldfish bowl and be trained to perform tricks. The giant monster advertisement was a classic and the. It wasn t until harold noticed the little shrimps tails that he came up with the decade spanning iconic moniker.

They re supposed to be a family and the whole family is naked together. With almost no experience of any kind of advertising at all i hardly ever watched tv and 2 out of the 3 channels that existed had no ads i was particularly susceptible to it. That always weirded me out too. From shrimp to sea monkeys.

I could buy sea monkeys which just like the drawings would grow to be a tiny. How many of us who grew up in the 1960s and early 70s were lured by those enticing ads promising everything from x ray vision to frolicking crown wearing sea monkey pets for a mere couple of bucks. Yeah the drawing on the ad makes it look like sea monkeys are living beings with human faces that can look at you and weird crowns on their heads. The first ads were just for kids.

And they re naked that s what got me. Sea monkeys are actually brine shrimp. Some customers felt misled by the cute humanoid illustrations of the sea monkeys in the comics as well as the fact they do not live for very long contrary to what was stated in the ads. X ray specs guaranteed to make everything see thru.

Sea monkeys x ray specs and more attacking the young imagination with advertising copy.