Sea Monkeys Ad

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.

Sea monkeys ad. Though they weren t marketed that way von braunhut did call the brine shrimp sea monkeys and exotic saskatchewan brine shrimp in his ads. First they were just miniature shrimp with an incredibly short lifespan. The world s only instant pets are back and better than ever. Sea monkeys are the timeless gift.

Guaranteed to live 2 years. There are a few upsetting truths about sea monkeys. Sea monkeys are a novelty aquarium pet a type of brine shrimp that undergoes cryptobiosis developed in the united states in 1957 by harold von braunhut the shrimp are intended to be added to water and almost always come bundled in a 3 pouch kit with other required pouches and instructions sometimes a small tank and or supplementary pouches may also be included with the product. 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.

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. Originally sea monkeys didn t sell at all. Can t get too much of these great briny friends. According to hogan he called them sea monkeys.

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