Sea Monkeys Ad 1970s

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Sea monkeys ad 1970s. These facts might not be readily apparent if your knowledge of these tiny creatures was gleaned by reading any of the sensationalist ads that appeared in comic books throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Courtesy the strong national museum of play. Harold decided to market sea monkeys in 1957. Three generations of americans who have been enticed by ads in.

Sea monkeys are not actually monkeys but they do come from the sea and are real living things contrary to popular belief and urban legend. Originally the sea monkeys didn t sell at all. Created by charles chiodo edward chiodo stephen chiodo. Before you knew it the sea monkey orders were flying in.

Sea monkeys were intensely marketed in comic books throughout the 1960s and early 1970s using illustrations by the comic book illustrator joe orlando. It wasn t that no one was buying them it was that no one wanted to sell them. Many purchasers were disappointed by the dissimilarity and by the short lifespan of the animals. The series follows the comic misadventures the professor three sea monkeys he has accidentally enlarged to human size.

They were thought of as mere fish food for many years until harold von braunhut a man who is famous among toy enthusiasts for inventing x ray spex discovered. Aquarius bill and dave and their next door neighbors daughter sheila has befriended the sea monkeys. We all knew they weren t going to look like the illustration. To be specific they are artemia salina or brine shrimp in layman s terms.

Sea monkeys it s not surprising to learn that the man who patented x ray specs harold von braunhut was the same entrepreneur who passed off brine shrimp as trainable pets. Mar 19 2012 for many of us sea monkeys were our first encounter with deceptive advertising. The monkeys are a hybrid species of brine shrimp known as artemis nyos. So harold got the idea to place an ad for instant life inside comic books.

These showed humanoid animals that bear no resemblance to the crustaceans. Trade publication ad for sea monkeys 1972. With john mariano lawrence steven meyers vernon wells howie mandel. Of course sea monkeys aren t monkeys at all or even actual denizens of the deep for that matter.