Sea Monkey Ads In Comic Books

Vintage comic book ads that were too good to be true.

Sea monkey ads in comic books. In today s comic books you don t see the advertisements you used to no ads with outrageous promises to be taller or more muscular. Sea monkeys were intensely marketed in comic books throughout the 1960s and early 1970s using illustrations by the comic book illustrator joe orlando. Sea monkeys could be ordered by mail directly from the sea monkey headquarters. Im weltweit umfassendsten index für volltextbücher suchen.

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. 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 name instant life was replaced with the more market friendly sea monkeys a moniker inspired by the brine shrimps long tails and ability to live in water. Comics i was never going to be spider man no matter how i tried to swing from washing lines or scale neighborhood walls or tumble out of trees.

To me every comic book page was filled with valuable relevant. First they were just miniature shrimp with an incredibly short lifespan. By jorge khoury sep 28 2008. 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.

I had no filter no ability to ignore advertising as non content. Comic book squirrel monkeys long time comic readers might remember ads in the pages of 60s 70s comics selling live squirrel monkeys for only 25. Around the same time von braunhut founded. George has the story of one fan who bought one which resulted in an er visit and 28 stitches.

Many purchasers were disappointed by the dissimilarity and by the short lifespan of the animals. My enthusiasm for imitating peter parker always ended in disaster and bruised limbs. These showed humanoid animals that bear no resemblance to the crustaceans. He secured the services of cartoonist joe orlando who designed and illustrated a series of comic book ads.

One of the ubiquitous and most intriguing ads that could be found in the pages of a comic book were those for sea monkeys an underwater family of weird little mammalian fish that you could keep all to your own. An updated ad campaign began to appear in comic books in 1964. But if you look in older comic books you ll see a treasure trove of sneaky ads. Originally sea monkeys didn t sell at all.

Verlag info datenschutzerklärung nutzungsbedingungen hilfe. Obviously being a superhero was not all. There are a few upsetting truths about sea monkeys.