😂 10 Items you REALLY got from comic book ads
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Which of these would you have purchased??
The one that impresses you enough take you on a date?
None, why do these even exist, Dino Momma?
Longshot....but totally worth embarrassing myself in front of what's probably the better part of 80 thousand people. Nailed it.
@@yoblazes 😂🤗❤️❤️
@@kevinobill4818 becuase people want to take money from children lol
You don't even need x-ray glasses these days. We have yoga pants.
Love those camel toes!
Nate Brenneman HATE the Moose Knuckle.... 😳
THE FUUUTUUUURRREEEEE!!
God bless the creator of yoga pants.
and digital cameras that can take IR pictures that actually DO see through clothing.
Showed my dad this video.
His response: "man my parents were right to not let me blow my money on that shit.
I can sleep peacefully tonight knowing I didn't miss much."
You failed to mention that there was no Amazon Prime back in the day and we normally had to wait 4-6 weeks to be disappointed.
I remember back in the sixties when I ordered a time machine for just ten dollars. The downside is it only works once. WHY did I choose to travel to 2020??!!
Hahahah
Because they told us how wonderful everything would be in 2020, me thinks they Lied just like the comic book ads.
Was it the same time machine from Napoleon Dynamite?
@@jasonb1159 That was a fictional copy of the one I used but a pretty close simile.
Are you any smarter or wealthier than before? At least you haven't aged...
back in the late 50's my Dad bought the Space Rocket to Mars it was a flimsy piece of crap and he would it and used it as a cut out and used thin plywood and made it to fit three boys ..he added a battery with control lights , running lights and the whole bit..he had a friend painted it just like a real rocket..all three seats had switches and controls so we all could play at the same time... it was the place to be in our neighborhood.....My Dad was always building things for us kids push cars, forts, basketball hoops just about anything ..when He had grandkids he built all sorts of items for them to from baby beds to rocking horses to doll beds to wooden trucks and cars..I miss my Dad he died way to early at 70 yrs old... now I am 70 yrs old..I wish I had that Rockship to Mars.....
These comments are a treasure of shared memories, and yours is no exception!
Wow! What a great Dad and Grandpa!!!
rickatencio74 Yeah. Now days they glorify bad grandpa
This was just the perfect dose of wholesome I needed to go with my morning coffee. Thank you.
dave kirby So wonderful that you had an amazing father. Treasure those memories, even though it can be heartbreaking at times and you might often wish that you could go back in time and be a child again, playing outside, coming home before dark with no cares or worries.
Let us not forget the Charles Atlas promise of turning a 98 lb weakling into a muscled he-man.
"Dynamic tension" as a way to stop the bullies from kicking sand in your face at the beach and taking your girl from you. :p :)
IN 7 DAYS !!
Actually you got a chart with examples of isometrics. At the time, it was pretty novel.
I got the Charles Atlas weight set for $10.95 in 1960. A bar, two dumbbells. 125 lbs of plates. I went back to middle school pretty buff.
I got the Charles Atlas booklet, which was a very bad photocopy of a photocopy.
When I was about 5 yrs old I ordered that "submarine" They sent back my money and said the company no longer existed. I was crushed.
Like the card board sub
They went under
The Money Maker was so good that the FED have been using it for decades ; )
As a five-year-old, I dreamed about the cardboard submarine. But in the 1970s, the Dellmonte company had an advertisement for a giant kite for $4.95. I took a chance and sent away for it and about four weeks later received a package in the mail. I opened the package and it was just that, a giant kite! It was made of PVC tubing and once constructed stood over 6 feet tall! The kite was made of a thick tarp plastic with a giant picture of the jolly green giant on it. I went out in the field and flew it with the string and handle included and it even had a parachute of little sprout included that you would put on the string and it would blow all the way up to the kite and then with one jerk it would disengage and come back to the ground. As a kid, I think this was one of my best investments.
Wow! A success story!
With a dollar or two (and a box top from Cheerioes), my best "investment" was a spinner baseball game....with a tiny HR chance...a large K area...fly-outs, ground-outs, ....
I loved every nine innings of it! Leading to Strat-o-matic Baseball....and, today, Out-of-the-Park Baseball! (OOTP)
That sounds amazing! Wish I'd seen that one. Totally would've stoked little me.
My family had one of those kites, it was the best kite.
I love this story
I had the money maker....it worked .Grandad loaned us a Pound note an never asked for it back .He was a lovely man .
I sent in $2 to get 7 "mystical talismans" when I was around 13. I never got the talismans, but what I did get was constant letters from a cult for about 15 years thanking me for my generous donation. They lit candles for me, they prayed for me and they also somehow got my phone number and called a few times. It was a running joke for a while in my family that I joined a cult. All I wanted were some props for my D&D game.
Jack Chick would like to know your location
Was the cult leader by-chance named Peter Popoff?
lol
@@gamingchinchilla7323 No, I don't remember the cults name anymore but it wasn't him lol
@@jonas189 Haha. Woosh. Jack Chick is a now dead Christian preacher who sold small comic booklets teaching people about Jesus. Haha.
@@juliaboon9741 Chick Publications. I remember those things.
These ads were almost a fun to read as the comics themselves. I remember these. 😁👍🏻
Me too, we're getting old ain't we?
I forgot I read these!
@Gernot Schrader really
70s great time to be a kid !
I ordered the farting powder, and stuck it in my dads coffee. He ended up just shitting his pants all day at work.
Expected...how many whoopings?
All this was long before the internet. I was a little boy in the early 70's and I remember being totally fascinated by these ads. I would have bought all of these products if I had enough money...
Me too. They captured my imagination. Luckily I didn't have much money so I never sent for most of this stuff. But I wanted to. Its great to finally see what some of it looked like. Glad some of it still exists and some people took pictures.
Same here. I did get to order a few things. Sea monkeys, a couple army games and a floating ghost. All were big letdowns. Mom and dad told me every time it would be junk. They were right! LMAO. It is cool to get to see some of the items I wanted but couldn't get.
@@shadowwolf7622 I ordered the floating ghost too! It was a white plastic garbage bag with a white balloon (the balloon had a face stamped on it) with a clear plastic disk to attach them and somehow had a string to hang it from a tree. I think it was 2 or 3 dollars. Mom said she let me buy it on purpose to learn not to buy stuff from the back of a comic book. I knew it wasn't going to be good when, after waiting forever for the mail to arrive, my "ghost" came in a small brown manilla envelope that was slightly fat but light as a feather. It worked; I never ordered from them again!
Yeah you had to save your $ and mail it in then wait. Lol
@@waygoblue4729 It sure was a big let down when it finally arrived. I sure was expecting something different! It is a good memory now. It wasn't as bad as the 100 piece army set I ordered. It came with the worst figures and vehicles I'd ever seen. And made from real brittle plastic. They were advertised as coming in their own foot locker. I was picturing a large box. In reality, it was a very small cardboard box! Not much of a foot locker.
I remember being mesmerized by an ad for plans to build a hovercraft out of vacuum cleaner parts (not included). I am old.
Do you ever build it ? Sounds awesome
@@chuckbutler8114 No, I think a relative told me it probably wouldn't work. Google "Boys Life hovercraft" to see for yourself
I wanted to make that so bad, I used to fantasize about driving it to school.
@@SmokeForPants wow I looked it up and it looked really cool.
I was the same way. Always wanted to try the flying gadgets,at the back of comic books
I'm still waiting on a box of plastic army men that I sent my hard earned 50 cents for. I know they'll be here any day.
I ordered those too! Forty years later I'm still waiting for them.
Let me know when you get yours and maybe we can play.
Was that from "Helen of Toy Company" ?
@@misterwhitman4368 I can't really recall, it was almost fifty years ago.
I got those.... and was soooo disapointed. Total cr_p. I wish I WERE still waiting for them.
I bought that “Polaris Submarine” early 1960s. Or rather, my parents did. But I sent in the form with $7 enclosed. It took 6 weeks to get it, and I watched the mail every day after the first 4 weeks. It came, and I was surprised the package was so small. Just folded cardboard. But I put it together myself, including the battery holder, which used aluminum foil to carry the current to the little lightbulb (basically a flashlight bulb) which lit the “lighted control panel.” It even had a torpedo. I was about 7, so I fit inside it easily. No way it would have held two kids. I was determined to have fun with it, so I played “Sea Hunt” until the thing fell apart, which took weeks. Maybe months. Of all the comic book ads I’ve seen and/or responded to, that was the best.
We did it on the cheap, we got two bricks and attached to our backs with belts, and pretend they were scuba tanks, while we swam in the grass. Our playhouse was the Seaview from Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.
Yea back in the days when kids either got to or had to use a lot of imagination.. I myself ordered the sea monkeys.the spy glasses, a hand buzzer, and a water powered rocket that wasn't too bad..But boy did I want one of those Monkeys. I always imagined they were real ,but after the sea monkeys scam my parents said that the monkey was just a scam too. I sure spent days imagining about having one though.. And Later figured it's too good to be true. And33 just now read stories that they were real..OMG..I'm pissed now.. $18.95 was way more money than I had then and too much for my parents to spend. There were 3 of us kids and I can remember having a 20 dollar limit on My whole Xmas list, from the toy section in the Sears and Wards catalog maybe JC penny ,can't remember. So much fun then.I guess I was lucky to have a good family..some are not that fortunate..
but I bet they weren't photon torppeeedoosss
I was fortunate enough to have a classmate living across the street who, as an only child, was given liberty to order such things, so I didn't have to experience disappointment myself, instead sharing his dismay.
These where valuable lessons to be learned as a child. That lesson being that Advertisers LIE to you.
Caveat emptor
Latin for "Let the buyer beware".
And when they don't, it's somehow worse.
Except for the monkey
@@DisckMedia beat me to it
And still do today.
I bet some of the packaging was far more impressive than the contents. Packaging from this era is gorgous.
Sea monkeys are the bomb! I loved mine SO much. They also sold race tracks, games and little pendants to wear so you could carry your sea monkeys around! I learned a lot from having them and really enjoyed them. One of my favorite Xmas gifts ever!
What were their names?
Back in the 60's a buddy and I chipped in for the submarine because we lived close to Lake Michigan, what a disappointment!
On another note, some dumb boy brought the x ray specs to school and the girls started screaming and he got into trouble, that was a cool day for the rest of us!🤣
one of my friends got the sub. It was set up in his backyard and we played in it for an hour or so. I sent off for the x ray glasses. My teacher took them before I could get in trouble. It was a good time to grow up.
@@tomsnyder1410 yeah everyone got ripped off back then.
Given how the pet monkey ad turned out, I'm kind of glad kids didn't get an actual submarine with NUCLEAR MISSILES
The second amendment shall not be infringed!!!!!
I bet you are the life of parties.....Not.
You do know that I'm joking I hope?
@@timhollis3390 :P If you really want to have fun come to the corona virus vids.
I just couldn’t understand why my parents wouldn’t let me order the spider monkey?
“OOOHHHH I WANT A MONKEY”
Just get a damn dog, it’s more affectionate and won’t land you in jail for ripping off your pals face
My dad used to tell me about this stuff. I guess they left kids in the dark on purpose to make them curious with the mindset of something like "Wow, I wonder how that works!"
He told me that him and his brother would spend hours reading about them all and deciding which one to get. Actually sounds like a really fun time for a kid, regardless of how disappointed they were in the end. Especially the "flashing eyes" my god...
$7 back in the day. *submarine*
$7 now *a 6" sub without bacon*
Yeah and the original $7 submarine from the comic books was 7 foot long yet Subway has been caught selling foot-long subs at 11 inches. Go figure.
yup
@@rastas_4221 yup, when you could get a loaf of bread, can of pop, a couple cans of soup and a magazine for that 2 bucks. Government taxes you less in those days aswell.
baboom
You HAD less! And I remember $3.35 / hr minimum wage.
Remember the gig where you get prizes for selling greeting cards? This was actually legit. I got a good sized chemistry set out of it.
We would go in the dark bar in town, where there were spitunias on the floor, men playing cards, and sell Grit Newspapers. My selling point was the comics toward the back.
I got a Cox .049 engine Army Jeep. It was awesome.
Funny you mention it, my long time friend and I were talking about that.
@@bonedoctor1 I really wanted to get that hovercraft in the worst way!
Anyone remember selling seed packages for prizes...!
I did that a few times...
Once I got a nice a Bow and Arrow set...!
I grew up in the 60's, and I remember everything in this video. But back the we just rode our bikes looking for coke bottles, pop bottles for you northerners, and cashed them at 7-11. If we found alot, we could go to TG&Y.
I didn't get the monkey but I did order a chameleon from one of those ads. Arrived in a small box with wood shavings and meal worms in the box as food. Anybody else remember the chameleons? Man, what a better time. Our imaginations were a wonderful thing back then as kids. We felt we could do anything. sigh...
So, what happened to the chameleon?
That paper into money thing is exactly what the Federal Reserve does .
They do an even better job on making it disppear
ALEX L. , I call dibs on selling fiberboard Federal Reserve Banks for 4 easy payments of $9.99 plus $250,000,000 shipping and handling!
Yeah , if they can do it , why not us ?
And for people who do not know, the federal reserve is a private bank. It is not the government. As we write, Trump is purposely running the fed reserve/ central bank into the ground on purpose. He plans to put our money back on the gold standard and give control of the dollar back to the people.
Right but they also twist that knob and hand you worthless paper with interest. So when their help is no longer required and they are given back every dollar that ever existed, as they all belong to them, they then as for their 10 percent interest or what have you. Putting us in the never-ending need to have more borrowed paper printed since you can never return everything ever made PLUS any percent more than everything without asking for more everything to be made. Thankfully for us, they agree to take in return for that phantom interest land, gold, positions of power, silver, actual wealth you know...i could forgive a kid pulling that trick on me. For the fed doing it tho, I want no fewer than several hundred heads to roll...or put on spikes in DC. That would work too
I used to be obsessed with that submarine ad in an old issue of Sgt. Rock, back when I was five. Thanks for putting one of life's mysteries to rest for me!
Me too.
I was the same way, saw it in Sgt. Rock and could just imagine navigating up and down the creek behind my house in that sub.
I got rooked into saving my allowance for ages, sending off for it, waiting forever, and getting that box full of 200 # test fiberboard. And it was waaaay crapier than the one in the video. Needless to say, I HATED Honor House from that day forward!!!
I remember watching Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and thinking this submarine would let me explore the pond from under water. I was PSYCHED!!! And that wait for them to send it felt like forever!!!!!
My parents got my brother and me one of them for Christmas. The periscope was cool, and I remember the torpedo 🚀 launcher.
I remember these ads from the 60's, at that age dollars were a bit of a mystery (I am English) but can remember thinking that American kids must be having a great time with all this stuff.
I always pored through those ads with a wishful mind.
In the early 60's I was one of 6 in a working class family.And to this young Yank? Dollars were a bit of mystery for me too.
Hell, I thought I was doing good if I had a quarter. ☺☻
I would have loved those cardboard vehicles as a kid. I used to pretend a Maytag box was a tank.
$70 bucks for a cardboard sub? Nope. In today's prices that's $69.12.
I saved my allowance for what seemed forever and ordered the Atomic Sub.
My father spent most of an hour laughing at me when I discovered that it was made of cardboard. It lasted something like two weeks before the morning dew dissolved it into mush.
The 'Torpedo" never worked, and the 'Missile' launched exactly once, but the periscope was great, especially after I reinforced it with duct tape. It lasted most of a year.
You got your money's worth
I remember that ad and wanted it so bad. My plan was to flood my parents basement and drive the sub around in the flooded basement.
Some people have all the luck!
James Dollard Cool! I’m so jealous. We got the joy buzzer that worked about 10 times until someone over wound it.
@@blaster-zy7xx Thank you - that made my day! The only thing better would be if the monkey was driving it around the flooded basement.
I wanted those x-ray glasses so so badly as a young boy.. and a teenager ...and in my twenties and thirties
😂😂
Take two thin pieces of cardboard or cardstock and (using a paper punch) punch a hole going through both of them. Find a pigeon feather or other bird feather and use the dark portion at the tip. Cut that part free of the feather, and then split the quill in half. Being careful not to disarrange the barbs of the feather, lay it flat on a piece of Scotch tape (the edges of the tape being wider than the feather) and then stick the feather across the hole of one piece of cardboard. then lay the opposite piece across to align with, and sandwich the feather between the two holes. Close one eye and look through the hole at things to get that X-Ray effect. if you can size a large enough piece of cardstock, you can make one with two holes for both eyes, using the other half of the feather tip on the other side. we made a bunch of these and sold them at school.
There actually is a camera which can see through clothes. They got banned from the public. You might still get one on the black market. They are probably very expensive.
Odd, isn't it? I didn't get to see naked women until I got rid of the glasses. Thank you, contact lenses...
@@juanramirez6251 Yeah. The TSA uses them.
The "Colorful Magic Rocks" were actually pretty cool. You can still get those at stores today.
Yep. I had those when I was a kid.
Just saw them at target today, almost bought them. May have to go back
I actually got those, but not out of a comic book. I remember buying it from one of the souvenir shops we visited on a trip to the Blue Ridge Mountains when I was a kid. It was neat though.
“Horned up like rabbits”.....brilliant!
I bought the giant monster. I was bullied a lot and was gonna use him for protection. I received a giant envelope with a poster of Frankensteins' monster. And the beatings continued.
You should have ordered one of those vicious monkeys instead.
Did the ad say "obeys your command"? Mine did.
Awwwh😢
Yeah bullies suck no matter what age you are.
I had one of those too. I put it up on the front porch door for Halloween that year.
At a young age, these ads tought me about liars.
The submarine was actually made of cardboard, which still would have been cool to own, and apparently is a collectors item.
I signed up to sell seeds, in 1974. I received them, sold them to my neighbors when i was 10 years old for a dime. I kept the money in a sock. There was no way i was giving it to them, that was hard-earned candy money.
tawt*
@@lkabong5529 Taught*
Damn I did not see the monkey one being real coming ha wtffff
Cromartie they’re still toys today, I grew up with sea monkey “pets”, pretty sure it’s the exact same stuff from the 40s like same trademark and parts and everything.
@@bungobogus8132 I'm pretty sure they meant the actual live monkeys in the box at No.1
They are actually real, and kind of cute and fun.
Really wasn't expecting a twist ending to this video. It is a real, be careful what you wish for story.
When you said lady legs all I could think of was a Christmas story.
"Fra-JEEL-ay!" :p :)
I'm almost 60 and can admit with a smile I'm guilty of purchasing a few of these items you have highlighted. My best friend and I were GREATLY disappointed in the X-ray glasses.
In the late 60's I bought a box of Disneykins for $1.00 out of a comic book. In the early 2000's I sold them on eBay for $150.00. Pretty Cool!
I remember getting Disneykins as a kid in the mid to late 60's, and I think they were a premium from cereal or tea or something- had about a dozen. Wish I had them now!
Joanne, the Winner of the comic book scams!
Thanks for this. I've been reminiscing and reading old comics lately. Anyway, I've often wondered what exactly kids received when ordering. 😨
These ads taught a lot of kids, at an early age, to never believe advertising. They sure taught me to never believe anyone.
after they sent me my x ray glasses, i learned my lesson.
I don't believe you.
They taught you to never believe anyone? From comic book ads?
Wow. That's rough.
Those ads taught me not to believe everything I read. Guess I was lucky.
And now they advertise to the same people, it's called QVC! Lol!
I literally cried when I received my "X-Ray" glasses. I remember breaking them and finding that feather 🤦🏻♂️😂
Was it an actual feather?
@@vivimannequin Yes, it was a feather in the lens. So bogus
I saw an offer in the back of an old comic for selling a company's seeds. I sold the required amount, and ordered what was supposed to be a child's mock air gun. I received a well made fully functioning BB Gun much to my parents disappointment and horror. I was a neighborhood terror for a while but have since reformed.
10-20? LOL
I sold greeting cards. They were impossible to sell, at least in my area.
@@clintonwatkins1070 Let me guess, Cheerful House?
@@JeffDeWitt No. Olympic Sales. They used a superhero named Captain O to pitch it.
When I was a kid, I saw a Remote Control Ghost in the back of a comic book. It showed a ghost flying through the air and a kid with a big electronic console with dual joysticks operating it. It cost $1.25 and I was wondering how they could sell this modern marvel of flight engineering at such a low price. My faith in their marketing was bashed like a tomato falling off of the empire state building when It arrived in an envelope. I was like this has to be mistake and this must only be the instructions and a large crate would soon follow with the word F-R-A-G-I-L-E stenciled on the lid like some kind of major award or something. When I opened the supposed instruction envelope, there was a while balloon with a smiling ghost face on it and a white plastic trash bag. the balloon was shaped like an eight with two bulbous ends and skinny in the middle. The directions said blow up balloon. Cut bag on dotted line and place balloon through slot. There was another box labeled remote control and it contained a small spool of 50 ft of fishing line.....but where are the joysticks I gasped. The instructions said to throw the ghost over a tree branch and use the remote control (pull string) to scare your unsuspecting friends. I anxiously waited 6 weeks for this utter disappointment to arrive, oh the humanity of it all.
That's a great story, but my favorite part is the phrase " ... was bashed like a tomato falling off the empire state building." XD
Tony99992000 I bought the same thing when I was about 11. I was crushed. 😰
My brother bought one of those ghosts....lol
I fell for that one myself. It was that experience that jump-started me on the road to adult cynicism.
My older brother (he was 7, I was 5) ordered this "controllable ghost" as well. It should be mentioned that the "shroud" of the ghost was very thin and flimsy. Like such substandard plastic a strong breeze would blow a hole & rip it (which happened to us). My brother's .25 weekly allowance required recompense; our father encouraged us to write to the company & refund my brother his $1.25. They did, about 6 months later.
My uncle once tried to buy a car through one of these ads. The car came in the mail and he opened the package. Inside the box was a chocolate car and instructions. "The faster you lick it the faster it goes."
Wow, I always wondered about some of those items in the comic books and how cool it would be to own them. As a kid I would save my money and buy a comic book every now and than and read it over and over again to the point of being able to recite each page and act out the character. As I grew older my childhood memories drifted into obscurity and I eventually forgot about the good old day's---------Until today, thank you for sparking a memory of days that were filled with adventure and fun, playing freeze tad, hide and go seek, building a tree house, tying a rope off in a tree over a creek and pretending your Tarzan, running through corn fields or just going down to the creek and catching crawdads for mom to cook up for dinner later that day. Life was truly grand during those years so again THANK YOU SO MUCH! oh by the way I still have every comic book I ever bought just need to dig them up today.
I received an alligator through the mail as a kid. It arrived DOA.
"...adolecent boys horned up like rabbits..." You hit that nail on the head!! LOL!
When you said lifelike Lady's Legs I thought of the dad in a Christmas Story buying the leg lamp.
He didn't buy it. He won it. A major award!
Me too. I was waiting for a "Major Award" joke.
It was italian .. it said "ragile" on the box
@@grbenway fraagiilaaa
That was a major... damnit, what they said
As a kid I totally imagined that submarine was legit. So glad my parents wouldn't order it.😂
Yup. I was a HUGE submarine fan. I joined the navy to be on subs - but my eyes kept me out of the silent service - even though the recruiter 'promised' that was where I was headed. Back then they could promise you anything, but once you signed on the dotted line, you belonged to Uncle Sam. Period. Oh, I never could convince my folks to send for the cardboard sub. Drat.
Does anyone remember collecting enough Bazooka comic wrappers to send in for prizes? After an entire summer collecting these, I finally had enough to buy a pocket knife. It was pretty cool. But I see the same ones at Dollar Tree now.
As I recall I collected 350 comics which I sent in along with 75 cents and I got a cheap compass inside a rubber tire. You can buy a 'vintage' one today on ebay for about 8 bucks.
Yeah for 50 cents and 300 bazooka comics I ordered that transparent big green water pistol which could fire water at like 30 feet. Remember was shooting at my two sisters and other neighbors girls. I guess I got my money's worth 😁
yep, i got the "2-way Space Phones" - 2 flat, tin handles with cardboard resonators in tin cages with a piece of string between'em that popped the first time i tried to stretch it taut enough to use. also got a shitty plastic camera that i still have: it works but there's a lotta light leakage...
Popsicle Pete had better stuff...
Yeah. I remember the Bazooka gum wrappers.
I collected enough for the belt & buckle ....... Im still waiting for it !
I nagged my mom to get a money order so I could get the “100 army men, tanks, ships, and jet planes all stored in a foot locker!” When it arrived months later, it was a tiny cardboard box and all the military things were flat, two dimensional tiny plastic cut outs of soldiers and ships. Only two jet bombers were even 3D. I learned a valuable life lesson lol
I remember that one, I really wanted it but never got it. Thanks for letting me know what it really was.
I got them too! And I was really mad when I got the really small box in the mail, several weeks after mom ordered it for me. What a joke! LMAO
Those ads were always on or inside the back cover, obviously one of the most coveted ad spaces. I figured they would be small, since they wouldn't show actual photos of them, but didn't know they were flat as you say.
I got the American revolution set, in red & blue...yeah, pretty tiny, but I thought it was neat...loved the soldiers on the horses and especially the cannons. I still have that set somewhere...may be missing a piece or two ; )
I always wanted that but was told no. Thanks for taking one for the team!
I was a kid in the 50s and was totally fascinated by the Johnson-Smith catalogue. I sent off many an order and surprisingly seldom disappointed.
As a kid - I had the X-ray specs - but they were given away free with the comic book. The one thing I did buy was the "See back'ro'scope" - which was a plastic tube with a hole in the side and a convex mirror angled at 45 degrees at the end. It was said to allow you to see behind your head (like some piece of spy equipment) - and I have to say that it did actually work pretty well, and I **LOVED** it as a toy.
That's a periscope
@@vivimannequin not really. Periscopes have two mirrors...this only one.
The money changers were cool I'd ask grandad for a $5 and turned it into a $1. He'd let me keep the $5.
I knew kids that had some of these. Me included. We weren’t that stupid. We knew these ads were fake. It was just fun to get dumb stuff in the mail.
Mail addressed to you was a big deal when you were a kid...
Spring...Uhm speak for yourself... I was THAT STUPID... at 8 years old.. sigh...
The comment by derfo20 right below yours seems to contradict your statement. He, apparently, IS that stupid.
@@RationallySkeptical lmao
I agree. At that age you never got anything in the mail with your name on it (maybe a birthday card once a year from Grandma) and that was part of the fun. I knew I wasn't going to get a real submarine in the mail or really be able to see through clothes. I was still super excited.
The back of our comics, where we learned everything was a lie.
yup. advertising is bullshit..lol
i dunno i got a legit hovercraft ....for real
Yeah I sent away for a few of these things. Never once did I ever get anything back.
It was actually a pretty powerful lesson in "let the buyer beware." I feel like in some dark way I did learn lessons about marketing and lies.
@Michael Lam lol ... to be fair people did not elect a billionaire reality game show host because they where getting even a mediocre job done from politicians.
There was nothing better than being 10 in 1974 …summer camp and having a huge box of comics.
My father actually made a pair of X-Ray specs for me out of an old pair of sunglasses, cardboard and a bird feather. LOL
The "bullet hole" window decals were pretty convincing from a distance.
In my youth, I acquired a few real ones in my old Ford. Not the way you might think, though. See, rural Kentucky community. If something old and kind of rusty sat parked too long, it WOULD eventually accumulate a few bullet holes.
We had fun with it, though. We had a couple of signs made up that said 'Midnite Auto Parts', and slapped 'em on the doors. The bullet holes just fit in with the joke.
One Christmas when I was a kid, Santa, (pretty sure it was my Dad) got me a cardboard "Army Tank". It was basically 2 stacked cardboard boxes and a cardboard tube for the cannon. It had green and brown army graphics printed all over it. It was AWESOME! Good times.
When I was a kid in the late 1950's I went for the rocket ship made of sturdy fiber board. It was a life changing experience. . . I became very skeptical of ads and often referred to cardboard as study fiber board, So maybe that alone was worth the money.
I remember garlic gum and the gum that had a mouse trap like device when you were fooled and tried to take a piece 💥 it actually hurt too
“...a freaking full-out live monkey, in the mail!” Holy crap and really unconscionable. If kids thought the monkeys were bad though, I wonder how they would’ve done with one of the pet raccoons advertised right below it.
My dad would have to me to quit monkeying around.
Those poor creatures.
I bought the hundred revolutionary soldiers one. Little plastic and two colors. Ended up using them in a school project and got an A . Worked out well for me.
I bought tons of WW2 army guys tanks guns battle ships...
They usually were flat tho.
I fell for those too! And I posted a comment about it before I read yours. My first lesson in real-life economics and it cost me $1 :)
I had those too. My twin brother and I set them up in the yard and used our BB guns to shoot them all down. Hours of fun.
Those were cool
I remember them ; I finally gave it to one of my nephews for a birthday present . I could tell they were cheaply made .
Omg those were so shocking to see what the comic items looked like in real life! I remember seeing those ads in the comic books as a kid in the 1970's, and always wondered what they were really like. Wonder what the black soap was like lol.
I had some. The bar was black and no one would have been fooled by it. It was probably made of charcoal and regular soap. The cigarette loads were great fun, though. I knew a guy who smoked constantly, and I got him several times. Once it blew some of his cigarette far up his nose.
I actually bought that "money maker" when I was 8 against the advice of my parents. Yeah, I was disappointed when it arrived. I guess the folks wanted me to see this through hoping I would learn a valuable lesson, which I did. Also, at 8, I have no ideal what counterfeiting was much less the penalties for same.
It occurs to me that these ads were the "click bait" of their era. No clicks, of course -- just that WTF? moment, when you realized you'd made a mistake...
a way to build mailing lists...
My uncle says when he was a boy he sent off about a comic book ad hang it anywhere coat hook , he said it had a pic of a coat hanging from a tree while camping . He thought that would be a great gift for dad . So he said when it finally came he opened the box and in the box was a nail hahaha
one of my favorite stories from mom's childhood was her pet monkey from a comic book story. It's really true
I tried to talk my parents into the "real working race car" and my dad tried to explain to me it was not real and was actually made of cardboard... instead he ordered me the Sea Monkeys. I was really disappointed with them (mine didn't hatch) and so then he gave me you get what you pay for speech.
I bought the Sea Monkeys. I also bought a "genuine" set of real working walkie-talkies. They were pressed tin plates with a long piece of string between them. Yes, I paid a dollar (1968 dollar at that) for two cups and a string.
Brine Shrimp lol
My God, what were they thinking with the Money Maker and the *'Darling Pet Monkey'* !!? WTFF!!? That last one has left me stunned beyond words.
Is it irony that it was the only ad that told the truth and actually delivered its promises!
I remember that ad. It was a very different time. Caveat Emptor.
I know a person that got that monkey....it was mean as f***, to be fair they did steal him from his home.
OMG! I remember those ads. I haven't seen them in over about 50 years. I wanted that stuff so bad!!!
I remember the ads but these were out of my price range. Ha ha.
$6.98 was ALOT of money back in the 50’s
I recall back in the early 50's my folks stopped off at a bar in a little town that had just a bar and a post office. We kids were supposed to stay in the car, but I got out and looked for my buddy who was the son of the bar owner. Well I couldn't find him, but I did see a bit of paper sticking up in a mud puddle, I reached down and pulled it from the mud and it was a damn $20.00 BILL, MAN I WAS RICH. I ran into the bar and told mom and dad! Well this was my first lesson in keeping things confidential! I had dreams of running through the dime store filling my cart with toys! NOT. Mom made me use it for cloths, I had to buy myself a new pair of jeans, a new shirt, a pair of shoes and I still had enough for a few banana's at the store. Dad kept his percentage for use in the local bar as mom and I shopped.
More than it is nowadays anyways
@@jackcouch8322 $6.98 in the 50's is about $70.00 now.....Hell, in the early 70's you could buy a fully loaded corvette for $2500 brand new. A shelby mustang was incredibly expensive at $3400
Imagination was more important back in those days and the power of the dollar bill was a lot stronger.
so true! most fun I've ever had was with a refrigerator box haha
@@LauraLegends lol, I guess most kids play with a refrigerator box. My brother and I just opened it up, laid it on it side and ran through it like a tunnel on all fours for about thirty minutes. I'm still not quit sure why it was so fun but it was!
@@bloodtopaz8816 one summer my sister and I taped a bunch of large cardboard boxes together in the back yard to make a really large fort.
I love how, at 7:30, you can see it says "The most sensational toy in America!" 🤣
When I was a kid I got the x-ray glasses, sea monkeys and the 7ft skeleton. I was a gullible child.
I really wanted the rocketship but they told me it was a piece of shit.
I remember the solar powered clothes dryer! Yeah it was a piece of string.
Lmao..
🤣🤣🤣
My favorite is the Copper Portrait of Abraham Lincoln for $5... and you got a Penny!!!
Awesome! Truth in advertising.
Back then: Dracula's dirt.
Today: Belle Delphine's bath water.
Me: Hmm, is that dirt still for sale?
Ya I think I'd rather buy Dracula's dirt than belle's bath water too.
I remember imagining that the earth from Dracula's castle would have some sort of eerie powers.
Looked more like flour than dirt to me.
Hey now, I drink a bottle of Belle's bath water every day and "It's Got Electrolytes"
The Transylvanian soil does not seem so weird. It is just too bad that the pendant looks like crap.
I have seen Star Wars fans collect, sell and buy desert sand from Tunisia where Luke's homestead stood.
I bought the magic rocks, they were cool until my sister stuck a spoon in the glass I was growing them in and stirred them to death.
I had those too. Not quite the majestic mountains as shown but they did grow and were colorful.
I bought the flying saucer. Came as a bunch of tapered tissue paper panels you had to glue together then hold it over a hot flame to make it rise like a hot air balloon. LOL
Oh wow I totally forgot about that. I had that as well!
I bought army men for a dollar when I was a kid .
They were nothing like advertised but we’re still awesome and fun .
I was 6 years Old and it was 1975 or so .
They were flat and one dimensional, the ones from the dime store were way better.
I did too. The ones in the little footlocker that stood on flat stands. You could also get Revolutionary, Civil War and I think Roman soldiers too. Many of them perished beneath my solar powered magnifying glass
I think those were like 1/72 scale size. A whole army in box. I used to have massive wars with those. To bad kids kept swallowing them, and were discontinued. They've since been relegated to hobby shops in the U.k. 👍🤠👌
I remember looking at the ads for this in the back of comic books in awe. The layout they showed seemed to show a battle that filled the entire page.
I bought this as a kid as well. I thought they were going to be the typical green plastic army men, like in Toy Story, but nope. Approach from the front and all you saw was a thin sliver of plastic. Now, that's what I call stealth. 😂🤣
It would have been something to have had the foresight to order this stuff, and kept it in it's original packaging. Toy collectors would do any thing to get their hands on them.
Yep !, I was the very proud owner of many of these items. I found the ads to be informative and accurate. The items received were always high quality, highly functional items, that not only exceeded the claims of the ad, but lasted for years. Clearly, it was the intention of the company, to offer top quality, unusual items, that appealed to kids of all ages. They did this at a price point that kids could afford. This was integrity in marketing at its finest and we should all be grateful for....🤣😂🤣😂 Sorry, couldn't keep a straight face any longer ! - I still have a Johnson Smith catalog from the 70's however.
I actually bought one of the "Whole House Antennas" Plug it into the electric socket and attach it to the ntenna screws on the back of your tv. Uses the houses own electical wiring for a giant antenna.
Yes remember those plug in antennas that could use the bouse wiring as an antenna and pick stations miles away. It did work pretty well for picking up local stations.
Sounds possibly effective, but also dangerous for the TV's electronics
These were dreams of my boyhood .But living in the u k , we just read about them in american comics .This video sent me back about 60 years .
I remember all of them! I wanted one that was suppose to be a space capsule but my father said it was cardboard and junk... now I finally got to see what kids really got.. thank you for this video!! brought back good memories!
My uncle fell for the 7-foot Frankenstein, it turned out to be a balloon with weighted feet.
He's still kinda sore about it.
Hahaha! Love it! Thanks for sharing.
Yes, I had the 7 foot Frankenstein monster. It was a 7-foot Frankenstein poster! The ad made it out like it was 3-dimensional model of Frankenstein, it was a bit of a dissapointment, but still pretty cool!
You could order almost anything in 1970's through the mail, I order chemicals for a chemistry set that today would never be allowed in the mail ! Amazing
I love how the last one wasn't disappointing nonsense but was actually a full-on monkey. Sad, but it was a great story.
Those were the days when people sent cash through the mail.
When I was a kid my dad had a Vespa motor scooter and it needed rings so I stuff some money in an envelope sent it off to Italy sure enough about a year later the parts showed up.
#Degrelle Holt - No. most people would send a traveller's check or personal check. Only an idiot sent cash.
@@buppie2000 Yup, every kid had his own check book or knew how to get a traveler's check back then. LOL.
@@buppie2000 Many kids sent in cash back then moron, I was 7 so where would I have gotten a check you millennial moron! Stick to what you know about your generation, LMFAO
@@buppie2000 Do you even know what a traveler's check is or how it works? You couldn't use them for mail order because you had to countersign them to redeem. If you countersigned before mailing it in, you've basically given them cash. And there's no way to get change back, because traveler's checks come in set amounts. Not to mention the fee you had to pay to get them. Wow, you are clueless about financial transactions for kids.
Maybe you mean cashiers checks or money orders, but those aren't free, either, and a kid who can barely scrape together $1 for a mail order wasn't going to have another 50¢ to pay for one of those.
I was literally laughing out loud at the squirrel monkey story!! :D God that was too funny! For the record, as a kid I did order the Sea Monkeys, the Money Changer, and the Secret Book Safe. I ended up thinking each was pretty neat. The book safe did have a working combination lock and it did look somewhat innocuous on a book shelf, but it was of course made out of cheap plastic and could easily be crushed or pried open. Still, great memories, and the origins of my current jaded cynicism towards advertising!
Funny until you think of the hell the monkeys went through
Actually the little lever you pulled after doing the combination worked without the combination...(lol)