Who Here Remembers This Ad in Your Old Comic Books?
 

The ads I remember best were those old Hostess ads, where the superhero would fight off a circus ape or something by throwing it a Twinkie.

I liked the page that had a bunch of ads on it with everything from the "life size" frankenstein, to the x-ray specs.

SemenMonkeys.com

Comics went downhill when they stopped the letters page and cool ads. Hiking them to $2.50+ didn't help either.

I remember those........if you find the x-ray specs ad, post it.

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Yeah they had the same bullshit ads in every single comic book. :)

I miss the days when comic books were under a dollar each, and meant for kids instead of the 3-4 dollar "graphic novels" they are now.

www.xrayhunter.com :glugglug

I always wanted a seamonkey

Gee, I don't remember THOSE exact ads being in comics :1orglaugh

I like how the ads made them look so humanoid, yet if you ordered and got them, they'd look more like a microbes in a science lab.

Lotsa disappointed kids when they got their real sea-monkeys.....

I still remember those captions.........."Lifelike!" "They're really real!" "Sea Monkeys!"

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I remember the Sea Monkeys ad...but $13.95?! They sell them at the store here cheaper than that...and that ad was from the 1970s!

South Park did a Sea Monkey episode.

Actually that ad originally was from the 70's, but they re-touched it up it looks like, and those are today's prices............unless they had the internet back in the 70s that I didn't know about.

Archie was the original gangsta. He was pimpin multiple bitches back in the 1930s! They all wanted his cock!

Okay.

I'm pretty sure they were originally $1.95. I guess I could walk 20 feet over to the boxes of 1970s comics I have here and take a look.

That I missed! Too bad for me. Who wanted the Sea Monkeys, and what was it about? That must have been hilarious.

I liked the xray ads and the muscle building ads.

love that one! there was a slightly different version of that one too, I remember.......a little longer.

This reminds me of the SouthPark episode with the Sea-Men!

It's a classic!

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I think they were all made by the same guy...Charles Atlas

Yeah thats a classic too.. haha lots of good memories.

i had sea monkeys :)

actually like 2 years ago LOL

I do ...
that particular add actually.

I think it was "Popular Mechanics" or something like that I first saw it.

I got one for you ...hopefully ...hang on

Nope its on a different hard drive.
About 7 years since I downloaded it from Usenet ...

It's a collection of those old "crime magazine" covers.
With captions like - "Mommy never liked what Dad did to her - so she kill him."

There "retro" but no more extreme then what many here post on their sites for "attention".