More comic book advertisements

An earlier post looked at some comic book ads from when I was a kid. Several comments mentioned some other memorable ads and I've included some of those below...


I couldn't find the Charles Atlas ad with the kid getting sand kicked on him, but this one was close... What little kid didn't want gigantic muscles? And these guys are "small" by today's body building standards.


And then you have the famous X-Ray glasses for only $1.25. What a deal!



We also see some ads related to buying stamps and foreign currencies that were also mentioned in another comment. (click on the images to enlarge to read)

And then finally we we see below the ads that were designed to allow kids to take jobs to sell stuff to win rewards that let them buy toys. I remember thinking winning the remote controlled race cars and airplanes would be cool, but it seems I was generally more into the "winning" side of things than the part where you have to "sell" stuff to get there... (All seriousness aside, all kids should have to sell stuff. I wish they'd knock on my door everyday to sell me something! NOT!)

Comic book advertisements

I was looking through some old comic books from when I was a kid and realized the advertisements are now more interesting than the comics.

Sea Monkeys - this is probably the classic advertisement all kids remember. (click on images to enlarge)


And does anybody remember the "Hubba Bubba" western duels on Saturday morning cartoons with the sheriff and the bad guy seeing who could blow the biggest bubble? Some kids at school would put a whole pack in their mouth to try to blow giant bubbles.

Here's a Spiderman toy I remember my brother had. It had a little pulley in it and Spidey could pull himself up with his web.

Looking through the comics it's clear that me and my brother were into comics with alot of fighting, and most of the ads reflect toys aimed at kids into fighting. I actually think we might've ordered these Roman soldier toys (I vaguely remember the catapults).

Here are some other cool little kid toys. Here are the Revolutionary War variety.

And the World War II variety




I thought this Battlestar Galactica ad for the "gold, not silver" Cylon was cool too. Check out Commander Adama in the background.