Well as Paul Harvey once said "When a man (or boy) with the money meets a man with experience, the man with experience gets the money and the man with the money gets the experience!"
I was born in 1966 and in the early to mid ‘70s my sister and I would go shopping with our Mom every Saturday. She would always buy us ice cream and a stack of comic books. My two favorites were Sad Sack and Richie Rich. My older sister always loved Archie, Jughead and Betty&Veronica. Great times. Wonderful memories.
I'm 57(in 2020) and I...am 'that kid' who gushed over these ads. My friend got the 7' Frankenstein vinyl poster and I BEGGED..PLEADED..started promising extra chores to my Mom for the money for that 2-person submarine for $6.95! She looked at the sub, then the price? and said "Never!" :-(
I remember Funday Funnies. It aired on Sunday afternoons. Harvey packaged up all their Casper, Herman/Katnip, Audrey, Huey and Buzzy cartoons (and some older "Noveltoons") into a 30 minute show for kids with cartoon "hosts" Matty Mattel and Sister Belle. In between cartoons was an onslaught of ads for Mattel toys. In '62 it became "Cartoonies" hosted by ventriloquist Paul Winchell. It was the Harvey "Noveltoons" minus the major characters and no Mattel ads.
At least in the early sixties there was two comic commercials I haven't seen in this video one was for a hand cranked BB machine gun that was mounted to your handlebars and the other was a recipe for exploding paint that would pop once dry and somebody touched it
The Casper "Television Set" was most likely made by Lido products and came in *many* different versions back in the 60s. It was a modeled plastic box designed to look like a table-top TV which simply used rolls of paper comic book strips mounted on individual spools -- roughly similar in size to a roll of 120 format film. Strips could also be purchased separately and contained about 20-25 comic panes each. The two halves of the TV were separated and the roll was snapped into tabs on the sides with the beginning of the paper strip threaded onto an empty take-up spool. The two halves of the toy were then snapped back together and you'd wind the strip "frame by frame", viewing each individual pane through the TV "screen" -- which was just an open hole shaped like a TV tube. It could be wound foward or backward. There was no illumination or projection involved of any sort. I used to love mine when I was 7-8 years old and pretended I had my own micro movie theatre. :)
I actually sold, or attempted to sell, Grit!!!! I can’t believe you showed that one!!! They sent me like 20 copies (it was more like a newspaper than a magazine) and I had to send them so much money to get the next issues, but I was responsible for any unsold issues. I think I sold 2, but chunked the rest after about 8 or 9 failures. They sent several threatening letters to me, an 11 year old at the time.
Sold the seeds. Had my eye on one of the “prizes”: A Movie Projector! Pic showed kids gathered as they watched movies you’d show in your own home theater. Turned out to be plastic gizmo with battery and little flashlight bulb - had to position no further than say a foot from the white wall to get a discernible image. But - did give me impetus to get “real” 8mm projector. Remember Castle Films?
(On the sea monkeys) Yeah, but in specialty stores or something (maybe on the internet?) Anyway, I raised some sea monkeys back in the 90s, and they were fun. I bought many older comics from comic book stores, and I wondered what these items looked like. Good thing these comics were at least 30 years old when I bought them, so they’re no longer valid.
That was funny. I guess you will do the Archie and Marvel books? It seems I remember in the mid 70’s gold key had a huge catalog in some of their issues?
I wonder why the Comic book authorties didn't go after these shysters? Lol. I have comic books from the 50s-80s and checked out the ads. I thought "Why would people purchase this s---t?" I often thought of the record riot. I heard all of the songs when So. California used to have oldies stations. I can hear the songs on RUclips now. I remember Charlton had an ad about Yoga. My brother wanted to send away for it because he thought he would get a "Yogi" (as in Yogi Bear.) Hey , we were kids and didn't know anything about Yoga. It's a good thing dad refused to let my brother send off for stupid s---t. Another ad that makes me laugh is the self defense ads. Yubarhai? An ad with a guy holding up his hand and there is a guy on his knees with a stick. We thought the guy standing up didn't wash his hands and the other guy smelled it and collapsed. Those Kung fu ads of the 70s were dangerous. It would make you " a master of men" for a few dollars. You would have recieve a book and record explaining Kung fu techniques. I knew a couple of guys who sent off for the ads. They were beaten up , because they thought after studying about Kung fu. , they could beat up people. It didn't happen.
actually ordered a lot of these when I was young, they would send you the stuff, you just kept it. I was 10 years old so there was nothing the could do. they sent threatening collection letters, i just threw them away
HA HEE. . BEEN WATCHING LOTS OF BIONIC WOMAN LATELY. IVE FALLEN IN LOVE WITH JAIME SUMMER AGAIN. SHED BE THE PERFECT WIFE. PLUS BIONICS TO DEFEAT THE FEMBOTS....
It wasn't just kids who read comic books back in the day, as people of all walks of life read them and advertisers knew this. You also asked why would some cult advertised in comic books? Well frankly because the religious right was no fan of comic books. I went to right wing religious school & got a pile of crap from a teacher for missing Sunday school once because I chose to attend a comic book convention in town for the weekend that year. I almost got a detention for it. Even to this day, born Xian pastors typically do NOT like comic books.
You think comics were notorious back then? Dr Wertham is probably spinning in his grave with what they get away with today. No, it wasn’t just kids who read comics but they were obviously the intended main audience.
Great video! I loved how much ground you covered here - good stuff!
Well as Paul Harvey once said "When a man (or boy) with the money meets a man with experience, the man with experience gets the money and the man with the money gets the experience!"
I was born in 1966 and in the early to mid ‘70s my sister and I would go shopping with our Mom every Saturday. She would always buy us ice cream and a stack of comic books. My two favorites were Sad Sack and Richie Rich. My older sister always loved Archie, Jughead and Betty&Veronica. Great times. Wonderful memories.
Love all those and still collect and read all those titles.
I was always partial towards the Don Post calendar masks in the "Famous Monsters" comics, They were way out of my budget in those days!
I actually bought those toy soldiers in the 'footlocker'! What a shock. At least they came. The remote-control bats never came.
Thanks for bringing back the good ole days I was born in 1966 so I miss all of these things I liked your vedio so much I subscribed
I'm 57(in 2020) and I...am 'that kid' who gushed over these ads. My friend got the 7' Frankenstein vinyl poster and I BEGGED..PLEADED..started promising extra chores to my Mom for the money for that 2-person submarine for $6.95! She looked at the sub, then the price? and said "Never!" :-(
They usually didn’t live up to their claims. Lol
Great vid!! I remember these ads and ordered a lot from Johnson Smith Co and few things from Famous Monster Mag.
I remember Funday Funnies. It aired on Sunday afternoons. Harvey packaged up all their Casper, Herman/Katnip, Audrey, Huey and Buzzy cartoons (and some older "Noveltoons") into a 30 minute show for kids with cartoon "hosts" Matty Mattel and Sister Belle. In between cartoons was an onslaught of ads for Mattel toys. In '62 it became "Cartoonies" hosted by ventriloquist Paul Winchell. It was the Harvey "Noveltoons" minus the major characters and no Mattel ads.
I bought the one with the 147 Famous Automobiles. I was a deck of cards.
Wow! Seriously? Lol
I ordered a live monkey once and the book of witchcraft and Dante's book of the Black Dragon Society and the Dim Mak.
The Flintstones Really did reflect the every day life of an average working man, somewhat.
Well the only reason I did not lose money is because I had very little to lose as a kid. Still it had to be fun waiting to the post man!
Those bodybuilding ads were started, I believe by 'Charles Atlas'.
At least in the early sixties there was two comic commercials I haven't seen in this video one was for a hand cranked BB machine gun that was mounted to your handlebars and the other was a recipe for exploding paint that would pop once dry and somebody touched it
Never heard of those. Sounds interesting.
The Casper "Television Set" was most likely made by Lido products and came in *many* different versions back in the 60s. It was a modeled plastic box designed to look like a table-top TV which simply used rolls of paper comic book strips mounted on individual spools -- roughly similar in size to a roll of 120 format film. Strips could also be purchased separately and contained about 20-25 comic panes each. The two halves of the TV were separated and the roll was snapped into tabs on the sides with the beginning of the paper strip threaded onto an empty take-up spool. The two halves of the toy were then snapped back together and you'd wind the strip "frame by frame", viewing each individual pane through the TV "screen" -- which was just an open hole shaped like a TV tube. It could be wound foward or backward. There was no illumination or projection involved of any sort. I used to love mine when I was 7-8 years old and pretended I had my own micro movie theatre. :)
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I know exactly what you’re talking about. I remember them in Woolworths (and other stores) when I was a kid.
I actually sold, or attempted to sell, Grit!!!! I can’t believe you showed that one!!! They sent me like 20 copies (it was more like a newspaper than a magazine) and I had to send them so much money to get the next issues, but I was responsible for any unsold issues. I think I sold 2, but chunked the rest after about 8 or 9 failures. They sent several threatening letters to me, an 11 year old at the time.
Lol. I can imagine. I wanted to sell the cards and seeds when I was a kid.
Sold the seeds. Had my eye on one of the “prizes”: A Movie Projector! Pic showed kids gathered as they watched movies you’d show in your own home theater.
Turned out to be plastic gizmo with battery and little flashlight bulb - had to position no further than say a foot from the white wall to get a discernible image.
But - did give me impetus to get “real” 8mm projector. Remember Castle Films?
I remember "Funday Funnies"
(On the sea monkeys) Yeah, but in specialty stores or something (maybe on the internet?) Anyway, I raised some sea monkeys back in the 90s, and they were fun. I bought many older comics from comic book stores, and I wondered what these items looked like. Good thing these comics were at least 30 years old when I bought them, so they’re no longer valid.
That was funny. I guess you will do the Archie and Marvel books? It seems I remember in the mid 70’s gold key had a huge catalog in some of their issues?
I suppose I could do some others. Yeah I think I recall the toy catalog.
You skipped two of the best ads! One was the iconic Johnson Smith ad!
I’ve been meaning to do another one of these videos. Life got in the way. I never intended to cover every ad in the book, though.
I wonder why the Comic book authorties didn't go after these shysters? Lol. I have comic books from the 50s-80s and checked out the ads. I thought "Why would people purchase this s---t?" I often thought of the record riot. I heard all of the songs when So. California used to have oldies stations. I can hear the songs on RUclips now. I remember Charlton had an ad about Yoga. My brother wanted to send away for it because he thought he would get a "Yogi" (as in Yogi Bear.) Hey , we were kids and didn't know anything about Yoga. It's a good thing dad refused to let my brother send off for stupid s---t. Another ad that makes me laugh is the self defense ads. Yubarhai? An ad with a guy holding up his hand and there is a guy on his knees with a stick. We thought the guy standing up didn't wash his hands and the other guy smelled it and collapsed. Those Kung fu ads of the 70s were dangerous. It would make you " a master of men" for a few dollars. You would have recieve a book and record explaining Kung fu techniques. I knew a couple of guys who sent off for the ads. They were beaten up , because they thought after studying about Kung fu. , they could beat up people. It didn't happen.
I still see things I want to send away for in these old comics! 😆
@@Kryptosmaster Good luck and beware! They just want your money! You'll get a tin whistle instead of something that'll project your voice a mile!😂😂
actually ordered a lot of these when I was young, they would send you the stuff, you just kept it. I was 10 years old so there was nothing the could do. they sent threatening collection letters, i just threw them away
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Be nice if you had a few actual examples to show us.
It would. Lol
How can you not...... stop saying.... "how can you not"?!?!? ;^)
Witchcraft = Satanism?.....no I get it😂 it was an odd one to be in comics.
HA HEE.
. BEEN WATCHING LOTS OF BIONIC WOMAN LATELY. IVE FALLEN IN LOVE WITH JAIME SUMMER AGAIN. SHED BE THE PERFECT WIFE. PLUS BIONICS TO DEFEAT THE FEMBOTS....
It wasn't just kids who read comic books back in the day, as people of all walks of life read them and advertisers knew this.
You also asked why would some cult advertised in comic books? Well frankly because the religious right was no fan of comic books. I went to right wing religious school & got a pile of crap from a teacher for missing Sunday school once because I chose to attend a comic book convention in town for the weekend that year. I almost got a detention for it. Even to this day, born Xian pastors typically do NOT like comic books.
You think comics were notorious back then? Dr Wertham is probably spinning in his grave with what they get away with today. No, it wasn’t just kids who read comics but they were obviously the intended main audience.
Gay
martin doty Since the word “Gay” means happy and fun-filled I would have to agree with you.