Sea Monkeys Ads Comic Books

February 18th 2015 at 6 05 pm wayne says.

Sea monkeys ads comic books. 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. The science of x ray specs and sea monkeys. First they were just miniature shrimp with an incredibly short lifespan. These crazy sounding products advertised in the back of comic books.

Lack of sales forced von braunhut to take a step back and re tool the brand. In 1960 sea monkeys began to appear in comic book ads although without their soon to be famous name. Metal sign 18 95 metal sign 1970 sea monkeys for only 1 00 vintage look reproduction. 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. They promised results too good to be true but as kids we knew that if they were. 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. In early advertising they were marketed as instant life and sold for 0 49.

Metal sign 18 95. There are a few upsetting truths about sea monkeys. X ray specs guaranteed to make everything see thru. Metal sign sea monkeys comic book ad vintage look reproduction.

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. 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. Old comic book ads x ray specs sea monkeys kit charles atlas workout if something seems to good to be true.