Sea Monkey Ads In Comics

Comic book rip off ads.

Sea monkey ads in comics. Sea monkeys are actually brine shrimp. They re supposed to be a family and the whole family is naked together. Sea monkeys x ray specs and more attacking the young imagination with advertising copy. 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. The giant monster advertisement was a classic and the. From shrimp to sea monkeys. That always weirded me out too.

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 pale bloated and tethered to weighty blocks of. The first ads were just for kids. 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. 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.

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 monkeys that could live in a goldfish bowl and be trained to perform tricks. The ads in comic books first drew my attention when i was a very little girl. And they re naked that s what got me.

It wasn t until harold noticed the little shrimps tails that he came up with the decade spanning iconic moniker.