Sea Monkeys Advertisement

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 advertisement. Classic return of a kids sea monkey advert. Sea monkeys are the timeless gift. In 2006 according to the filings of this lawsuit sales were at 3 4 million. Seriously i have one of the ads in an old comic book that is the font and capitalization for the low price of 1 25 you are promised instant pets that will hatch in one second when water is added and who are so eager to please they can even be trained.

And if you re interested in advertising. Other members of that generation now in the creative industries started stocking sea monkeys back into pop culture as nostalgic throwbacks to their youth. Nobody did this better worse than howie mandel who produced a tv show called amazing live sea monkeys. Sea monkeys were von braunhut s most lucrative toy and still are.

The plot was excruciatingly early 90s a trio of sea monkeys of the advertised variety are ripped from their microcosmic underwater life after a mad scientist played by mandel zaps them with a growth ray. Guaranteed to live 2 years. A 1978 comic book ad for sea monkeys with art by the comic book artist joe orlando who would serve as vice president of dc comics and associate publisher of mad magazine. Can t get too much of these great briny friends.

Bbc earth recommended for you. Sea monkey tv ad. First they were just miniature shrimp with an incredibly short lifespan.