Sea Monkeys Ads Comic Books

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

Sea monkeys ads comic books. Yep those kid submarine and sea going monkeys in the old comic books and of course the comic book flat soldiers american revolution and roman armies sets had a roman set but it got lost of course somehow nuts. You know how the story goes. There are no monkeys in the sea and x ray vision. Overnight orders were flying in and the sea monkeys began their long career striking the imaginations of millions of children.

From shrimp to sea monkeys. Old comic book ads x ray specs sea monkeys kit charles atlas workout if something seems to good to be true. A polaris submarine more than seven feet long which i dreamt of traveling in along the forth clyde canal avoiding the ghostly weeds the garbage discarded shopping trolleys and the imaginary gangsters pale bloated and tethered to weighty blocks of. Lack of sales forced von braunhut to take a step back and re tool the brand.

Sea monkeys could be ordered by mail directly from the sea monkey headquarters. Sea monkeys that could live in a goldfish bowl and be trained to perform tricks. If today s generation y and z ers accuse us baby boomers of being cynical and distrustful well i for one blame it all on comic books. Originally sea monkeys didn t sell at all.

February 18th 2015 at 6 05 pm wayne says. From shrimp to sea monkeys enticed by those ads in the back of comic books generations of children from around the world have grown up nurturing naming and staring wide eyed in fascination at the little creatures whose resemblance to monkeys does require a little imagination. X ray specs guaranteed to make everything see thru. It wasn t that no one was buying them it was that no one wanted to sell them so harold got the idea to place an ad for instant life inside comic books to market directly to kids.

The giant monster advertisement was a classic and the. In early advertising they were marketed as instant life and sold for 0 49. Comic book rip off ads. The first ads were just for kids.