Comments on: The Strange World of Comic Book Ads

By: inlarry

inlarry — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 03:54:06 +0000

I remember ordering one of the GQF incubators out of my Boy’s Life as a kid for around $10. I got my little plastic incubator, with the wire screen and a little piece of foil (a reflector), and my 6 eggs. Followed the directions, and I guess I got lucky and managed to hatch 4 chicks if I remember correctly. The down side, they didn’t give you all the stuff to care for them post-hatching. But with a cardboard box, old pie tin and another bulb we made a little home, and I think 2 of them survived from there. Eventually set the grown birds free on a teacher’s farm.

And, like another response, did the Olympia Sales club thing, went for the (I think) $2/item at the time. Made about $50 I think, products seemed on par with school fundraiser crap. Did it a couple times before the neighbor’s got tired of buying shit.

By: guasilas

guasilas — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 00:19:10 +0000

And look how influential these ads were, they practically explain all of Bush junior.: Own a small ranch, Machine guns to go to war (well, he did stay in Texas for Viet Nam, but sending others to Iraq is ok), Superman versus Muhammad(Ali), Airport security now a teenage fantasy of strip tease machines, and if you are the right banker, M. Bernanke will give you a million, or even a hundred million for nothing.

By: Dre

Dre — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 19:13:48 +0000

Wow to go back for just one day – looking back what I remember most fondly was running home from the school bus every day to see if my Hovercar had arrived.

Somehow I thought i was going to fly inside the thing around town LOL imaging the disappointment when I saw a plate sized piece of plastic that needed two D batteries to hover three inches off the ground via the controls which were attached with a four-foot wire.

Thanks for taking me back all those years.

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By: voodooplaya37

voodooplaya37 — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:05:52 +0000

the polaris submarine has been and forever will be a mystery to me. like most kids in the 60s and 70s who read comics, i wanted one, but my real inspiration for getting one wasnt the comic ad. my neighbor who lived on the corner got one and it looked exactly like the picture. it was relatively the size seen in the picture (relative to the size of a 10 year old boy) is was red and wasnt simple cardboard but a kind of coated cardboard material kind of like a plastic or acylic fiberglassing. it had a contol panel that looked really realistic. now the kicker is it wasnt new his mom had gotten it from some people she worked for. the damn thing was impressive to the extreme. i have sat in it many times until he and i had a fall out. so, i sold pop bottles for a couple of days after school to raise the money to order one. to my surprise what i got was light years away from what my friend had in his yard. it was cardboard that had to be assembled similar to the cardboard dollhouses still sold. it was kool but a disappointment because it wasnt what my friend had. it was silver gray colored about six or seven feet i guess. it had the conning tower fake controls, it had missles that fired by rubber bands. his didnt have missles or torpedos but the holes for them were still in the sub. for years i was puzzled as to why his looked just like the comic ad and was more substantial and mine was mearly a cardboard cutout. a few rains destoryed mine. his, kid in the neighborhood over the years dismantled it and only the nose cone was still in existance when i was 20, though it was weathered and faded. this was the early 70s so i chalked the differences in them up to inflation.lol! with the internet i have learned that others shared my experience and no one had my friend anthonys with the polaris. so it will always be a mystery to me. was the one sold by the comic ad a knockoff of a more substantial one sold by a major catalogue house catering to high end clientel? so far i cant say.

By: voodooplaya37

voodooplaya37 — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:31:41 +0000

those were some wonderful times!

By: Rick

Rick — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:52:32 +0000

Nice to know I wasn’t the only naive kid back then!

I once sent for the “You Can Learn Karate” course from a comic book. For 99 cents you got a poorly Xeroxed copy of some pages the “Sensei” had put together. Some were too dark and you couldn’t read them and some were too light and you could’t make out the photos. Needless to say, I never recieved my black belt.

The flat soldiers are known as “Comic Book Flats”(Seriously) and are collector’s items now.

I also was a “GRIT” paper boy for about a year. Actually, it wasn’t too bad a deal. I got a nickel for every paper I sold for fifteen cents.
The worst part was when my family moved and I could no longer deliver their paper. They kept sending the damn things which were then forwarded to my new address.

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