Sea Monkey Ads In Comics

Yeah the drawing on the ad makes it look like sea monkeys are living beings with human faces that can look at you and weird crowns on their heads.

Sea monkey ads in comics. 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. They re supposed to be a family and the whole family is naked together. Initial comic book ads weren t as bizarre as the ones that everyone remembers. With almost no experience of any kind of advertising at all i hardly ever watched tv and 2 out of the 3 channels that existed had no ads i was particularly susceptible to it.

I could buy sea monkeys which just like the drawings would grow to be a tiny. Sea monkeys that could live in a goldfish bowl and be trained to perform tricks. 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. From shrimp to sea monkeys.

Sea monkeys are actually brine shrimp. And they re naked that s what got me. Sea monkeys x ray specs and more attacking the young imagination with advertising copy. X ray specs guaranteed to make everything see thru.

The first ads were just for kids. That always weirded me out too. Comic book rip off ads. It wasn t until harold noticed the little shrimps tails that he came up with the decade spanning iconic moniker.

Some customers felt misled by the cute humanoid illustrations of the sea monkeys in the comics as well as the fact they do not live for very long contrary to what was stated in the ads.