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Super Sea Monkeys Sea Monkeys The Time Machine Childhood Memories

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Sea monkeys ads comic books. There are a few upsetting truths about sea monkeys. In 1960 sea monkeys began to appear in comic book ads although without their soon to be famous name. Metal sign 18 95 metal sign 1970 sea monkeys for only 1 00 vintage look reproduction. These crazy sounding products advertised in the back of comic books.

You know how the story goes. Old comic book ads x ray specs sea monkeys kit charles atlas workout if something seems to good to be true. First they were just miniature shrimp with an incredibly short lifespan. February 18th 2015 at 6 05 pm wayne says.

Lack of sales forced von braunhut to take a step back and re tool the brand. Yep those kid submarine and sea going monkeys in the old comic books and of course the comic book flat soldiers american revolution and roman armies sets had a roman set but it got lost of course somehow nuts. Sea monkeys are a novelty aquarium pet a type of brine shrimp that undergoes cryptobiosis developed in the united states in 1957 by harold von braunhut the shrimp are intended to be added to water and almost always come bundled in a 3 pouch kit with other required pouches and instructions sometimes a small tank and or supplementary pouches may also be included with the product. Sea monkeys that could live in a goldfish bowl and be trained to perform tricks.

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. In early advertising they were marketed as instant life and sold for 0 49. 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. The science of x ray specs and sea monkeys.

X ray specs guaranteed to make everything see thru. Metal sign 18 95. 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.

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