Anyone ordered these items from comic book ads back in the day?

I ordered the Sea Monkeys. They were just these dried out things in a plastic pouch. They were supposed to come to life when you put them in water- they didn’t. Probably just as well.

Had the sneezing powder.
I now think it was either fibreglass powder or asbestos.

Sorry to my brother.

I did with the Bazooka Joe gum comics , saved lots to get the walkie talkie , and friend sent for the sub witch was a cardboard box .

Miniature spy camera and X-ray specs, was a perv from a young age.:rockon:

RickC said:

I did with the Bazooka Joe gum comics , saved lots to get the walkie talkie , and friend sent for the sub witch was a cardboard box .

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I always wanted one of those subs.

This episode of "Get A Life" features a sub.

Funny you posted this. I was just thinking about this the other day. I used to see all this crazy shit in these magazines and thought the stuff was so cool. Always wanted to order the stuff but never ended up ordering any. I think it was either skater magazines or Metal Magazines.


Reminds of the "get 12 music albums for 1 cent" deal by Columbia House, then you had to buy a whole whack of them over the next few years or something like that.

Good thread!

The sea monkeys are actually brine shrimp, and are kinda cool - you can still buy those at any toy store. The X-Ray specs were simply cardboard glasses with slits that gave a "double-vision" illusion, so no naked girls for me The hypno-disk was only a swirly graphic and didn't do anything. Always wanted that submarine, though.

R the Man said:

Good thread!

The sea monkeys are actually brine shrimp, and are kinda cool - you can still buy those at any toy store.

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I ordered the sea monkeys too. lol

My favourite was the grey plastic toy submarines that came in boxes of cereal such as Cheerios and Frosted Flakes.

They had a place to put baking soda in, and would dive and surface in my bathtub. Simpler times!

Always wanted the x ray specs.
The sea monkeys were just brine shrimp but they were so glamourized.
I remember the Charles Atlas ad too with the scrawny guy getting sand kicked in his face on the beach.

i use to see Sea Horses advertised on these ads. Where they at

When I was a very skinny teenager growing up in the US the comic books had Charles Atlas ads and similar. I saw one ad that promised to help me gain weight and bulk up, so I sent $5 ($31.54 USD today) to a Toronto address and waited forever for my super weight gain instructions to arrive. I remember it telling me to work out like crazy and eat Wheatabix. I had no clue what Wheatabix was as it was not sold in the US. Internet was not yet available to the public so no Google back then. I guessed it was something like shredded wheat. Got Mom to buy me shredded wheat and worked out like crazy. I was already in good shape so it had no net effect. Live and learn.

malata said:

i use to see Sea Horses advertised on these ads. Where they at

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A pet store specializing in salt water tropical fish.

In a metropolis the size of the GHS there must be two or three.


* By the way and perhaps a blinding flash of the obvious, the above is a male seahorse they brood the eggs in a pouch to protect them until they hatch and then voilà.

I got the spy camera. I remember you had to mail away for the film and it was fairly pricey. Ditto for getting the film developed, if I recall correctly. Never took a single picture with it.

Oh wow, I was the target market for these, maybe 1970. Joy Buzzer, Mystery Light Bulb, Bag of Laughs, Bug Ice Cubes, Black Soap, Mini Spy Cam, and the X-Ray Specs - those are the ones I remember sending away for.

The Joy Buzzer lasted years and years, and was genuinely funny. Bag of Laughs was cool, as toys that talked or anything like that were still pretty rare then.

The main value was the process of saving up your money and going through the process of ordering the stuff. Very grown up

KK

Same question as to the submarine which was made to appear to be the next development in undersea warfare -- probably you'd have been damn lucky not to have drowned.

The two brothers that sold Charles Atlas and Ben Weider muscle building equipment made a fortune and donated the Ben Weider community Center in Montreal.


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