Comments on: False advertising in comics http://www.freakcomics.com/2005/09/14/false-advertising-in-comics/ Sat, 14 Jan 2012 00:15:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Donteatacowman http://www.freakcomics.com/2005/09/14/false-advertising-in-comics/comment-page-1/#comment-123474 Donteatacowman Tue, 01 Nov 2011 02:30:18 +0000 http://freakcomics.com/?p=123#comment-123474 Ah, yeah. I got the Sea Monkeys based on ads from my dad's retro comic books. (As far as I know, they still sell them today). I was very disappointed with the shrimp and not the anthropomorphic fishpeople. o_O Though it was probably just as well. They all passed on. Ah, yeah. I got the Sea Monkeys based on ads from my dad’s retro comic books. (As far as I know, they still sell them today). I was very disappointed with the shrimp and not the anthropomorphic fishpeople. o_O Though it was probably just as well. They all passed on.

]]> By: Paul http://www.freakcomics.com/2005/09/14/false-advertising-in-comics/comment-page-1/#comment-119441 Paul Sun, 07 Aug 2011 15:37:01 +0000 http://freakcomics.com/?p=123#comment-119441 This gave me closure on over forty years of wondering, the submarine in particular was something i badly wanted. I don't think we ever saw a US dollar except on (black & white) TV, so there was no chance of sending off for one. Really grateful for letting us all know the truth of the situation. This gave me closure on over forty years of wondering, the submarine in particular was something i badly wanted. I don’t think we ever saw a US dollar except on (black & white) TV, so there was no chance of sending off for one.

Really grateful for letting us all know the truth of the situation.

]]> By: Coyote Ford http://www.freakcomics.com/2005/09/14/false-advertising-in-comics/comment-page-1/#comment-116281 Coyote Ford Tue, 10 May 2011 01:34:08 +0000 http://freakcomics.com/?p=123#comment-116281 Hey guys !!! None of you sent away for the Atomic Smoke Bomb ??? They were great - and what smoke they made !!! Hey guys !!! None of you sent away for the Atomic Smoke Bomb ???
They were great – and what smoke they made !!!

]]> By: trading eld http://www.freakcomics.com/2005/09/14/false-advertising-in-comics/comment-page-1/#comment-116059 trading eld Wed, 04 May 2011 02:27:13 +0000 http://freakcomics.com/?p=123#comment-116059 Appreciating the hard work you put into your site and in depth information you provide. It's great to come across a blog every once in a while that isn't the same out of date rehashed information. Wonderful read! I've bookmarked your site and I'm adding your RSS feeds to my Google account. Appreciating the hard work you put into your site and in depth information you provide. It’s great to come across a blog every once in a while that isn’t the same out of date rehashed information. Wonderful read! I’ve bookmarked your site and I’m adding your RSS feeds to my Google account.

]]> By: garagehero http://www.freakcomics.com/2005/09/14/false-advertising-in-comics/comment-page-1/#comment-110388 garagehero Sat, 22 Jan 2011 20:42:35 +0000 http://freakcomics.com/?p=123#comment-110388 The Johnson Smith Company morphed into the folks that turn out the "Things You Never Existed" , " Clever Gear", " The Lighter Side" and "HalloweenOnly.Com" catalogs. Honor House and Helen of Toy disappeared. The cardboard tank was cool. The Johnson Smith Company morphed into the folks that turn out the “Things You Never Existed” , ” Clever Gear”, ” The Lighter Side” and “HalloweenOnly.Com” catalogs. Honor House and Helen of Toy disappeared. The cardboard tank was cool.

]]> By: john http://www.freakcomics.com/2005/09/14/false-advertising-in-comics/comment-page-1/#comment-101415 john Fri, 11 Jun 2010 16:18:44 +0000 http://freakcomics.com/?p=123#comment-101415 regarding the polaris sub for years it has baffled me as i have seen one exactly like the one depicted in the picture from the ad. my neighbor had one his mother never said where she got it as it was used when she got it, the tail end was missing. it was red about six feet long i would guess at about 3 1/2 feed in diameter. it accomadated two kids and made of what looked to me at the time of fiber glass or an acrylic (plastic to my mind at the time) coated cardboard. it wasnt too heavy but wasnt light either it was constructed in sections which fitted together like pipe. it had a bench style seat made i guess of plastic i remember it wasnt metal, and it wasnt wood. it served i guess as a crossbracing for the center section. it had a control panel inside with leavers and buttons and lights which worked with 4 or so d-cell batteries, a red pariscope which was unimpressive it was like many of the ones sold in stores during that era. it fired plastic torpedos using a spring mechanism. the missel section was there but the missels were not nore the mechanism for firing them. it was far from flimsy. this was late sixties around 69, after a few years the neighborhood kids cannabalized it for other things only the nose cone survived which his dog used for a shelter. it sat out in the elements for over ten years. i remember visiting his house in mid-eighties and it was still sitting out there in the yard. the red color had faded terribly revealing a white blotchy color underneath similar to a half sucked peppermint candy. the core was definitly somekind of heavy cardboard. i tried to lift it but it seemed to have embeded itself into the soil by suction-vacuum. has anyone else seen this particular version of the polaris submarine? or was it a one of a kind made by the father of a dissapointed kid? this sub has perplexed me for 40 years. i wasnt dissapointed with the one i recieved in the mail but my friends mother out did me and it didnt even come marked c.o.d.! no one else that i have met who owned the polaris has ever had nor seem anything like the one i am describing. so my question is where did it come from? was it sold in stores? cudos to the heroic dad if that was case. that thing was incredible and i think every kid who wanted what they saw in the ad back in 69-74 would have loved to have recieved A's submarine. regarding the polaris sub for years it has baffled me as i have seen one exactly like the one depicted in the picture from the ad. my neighbor had one his mother never said where she got it as it was used when she got it, the tail end was missing. it was red about six feet long i would guess at about 3 1/2 feed in diameter. it accomadated two kids and made of what looked to me at the time of fiber glass or an acrylic (plastic to my mind at the time) coated cardboard. it wasnt too heavy but wasnt light either it was constructed in sections which fitted together like pipe. it had a bench style seat made i guess of plastic i remember it wasnt metal, and it wasnt wood. it served i guess as a crossbracing for the center section. it had a control panel inside with leavers and buttons and lights which worked with 4 or so d-cell batteries, a red pariscope which was unimpressive it was like many of the ones sold in stores during that era. it fired plastic torpedos using a spring mechanism. the missel section was there but the missels were not nore the mechanism for firing them. it was far from flimsy. this was late sixties around 69, after a few years the neighborhood kids cannabalized it for other things only the nose cone survived which his dog used for a shelter. it sat out in the elements for over ten years. i remember visiting his house in mid-eighties and it was still sitting out there in the yard. the red color had faded terribly revealing a white blotchy color underneath similar to a half sucked peppermint candy. the core was definitly somekind of heavy cardboard. i tried to lift it but it seemed to have embeded itself into the soil by suction-vacuum. has anyone else seen this particular version of the polaris submarine? or was it a one of a kind made by the father of a dissapointed kid? this sub has perplexed me for 40 years. i wasnt dissapointed with the one i recieved in the mail but my friends mother out did me and it didnt even come marked c.o.d.! no one else that i have met who owned the polaris has ever had nor seem anything like the one i am describing. so my question is where did it come from? was it sold in stores? cudos to the heroic dad if that was case. that thing was incredible and i think every kid who wanted what they saw in the ad back in 69-74 would have loved to have recieved A’s submarine.

]]> By: john http://www.freakcomics.com/2005/09/14/false-advertising-in-comics/comment-page-1/#comment-101412 john Fri, 11 Jun 2010 15:06:58 +0000 http://freakcomics.com/?p=123#comment-101412 i had a few of those old comic ad toys that i ordered as a kid. as a matter of fact i bought the stuff with money i made from selling seeds and greeting cards that i ordered from the backs of comic books. irony? lol. but i cant express any dissapointment. this medium stimulated the imagination, and the companies that sold through them sold childhood dreams. i think the memories that they gave were fare more valuable than the products they actually delivered. hey! its childhood a time in your life when dreams are everything. an old brick becomes a borge ship from another universe or an old clinker from a coal furnace becomes an unstoppable asteroid from space 5 bucks cant buy that kindda stuff today... :) i had a few of those old comic ad toys that i ordered as a kid. as a matter of fact i bought the stuff with money i made from selling seeds and greeting cards that i ordered from the backs of comic books. irony? lol. but i cant express any dissapointment. this medium stimulated the imagination, and the companies that sold through them sold childhood dreams. i think the memories that they gave were fare more valuable than the products they actually delivered. hey! its childhood a time in your life when dreams are everything. an old brick becomes a borge ship from another universe or an old clinker from a coal furnace becomes an unstoppable asteroid from space 5 bucks cant buy that kindda stuff today… :)

]]> By: maxmike http://www.freakcomics.com/2005/09/14/false-advertising-in-comics/comment-page-1/#comment-99969 maxmike Wed, 05 May 2010 21:11:09 +0000 http://freakcomics.com/?p=123#comment-99969 All I know is I bought the Helen of Toy sets and loved them--TASK FORCE turned out to be such a great toy that I eventually bought a set decades later when I was an adult. I sometimes credit Tank Trap and Task Force for making me into a professional game designer. All I know is I bought the Helen of Toy sets and loved them–TASK FORCE turned out to be such a great toy that I eventually bought a set decades later when I was an adult. I sometimes credit Tank Trap and Task Force for making me into a professional game designer.

]]> By: John http://www.freakcomics.com/2005/09/14/false-advertising-in-comics/comment-page-1/#comment-99942 John Tue, 04 May 2010 12:25:47 +0000 http://freakcomics.com/?p=123#comment-99942 Awesome article, thanks! This has always interested me. Awesome article, thanks! This has always interested me.

]]> By: Rick http://www.freakcomics.com/2005/09/14/false-advertising-in-comics/comment-page-1/#comment-99298 Rick Sat, 03 Apr 2010 01:51:37 +0000 http://freakcomics.com/?p=123#comment-99298 I remember many of these things from way back when I was a kid in the 60's. For me there is a certain charm to the ads and I have a different tact from those who think these things were some sort of grand evil. In fact I rather resent a government which tries to protect everybody from everything. Yes the ads were hokey and overblown -- the sort of thing kids learn from as many of the testimonials here demonstrate. Myself, I remember wondering about those X-Ray glasses. Could I really be like Superman and see through things? For that one all I had to do was ask my Mom and I got a little wiser. Many of these items (or clones of them) could be seen in drugstores and such on the novelty racks with things like onion gum, squirt lighters, insult cards, joy buzzers, trick black soap et.c etc.). A kid could see they were cheaply made. A kid learns you simply don't get great and marvelous earth-shaking wonders for $1.98. Still, even when some degree of savvy has been obtained (a good thing), there still remains a charm to these ads. There was for me and I am sorry to see these guys go by the wayside. Many of the testimonials here indicate to me that they added to great childhood memories despite some disappointments. I miss this stuff. I remember many of these things from way back when I was a kid in the 60′s. For me there is a certain charm to the ads and I have a different tact from those who think these things were some sort of grand evil. In fact I rather resent a government which tries to protect everybody from everything. Yes the ads were hokey and overblown — the sort of thing kids learn from as many of the testimonials here demonstrate. Myself, I remember wondering about those X-Ray glasses. Could I really be like Superman and see through things? For that one all I had to do was ask my Mom and I got a little wiser. Many of these items (or clones of them) could be seen in drugstores and such on the novelty racks with things like onion gum, squirt lighters, insult cards, joy buzzers, trick black soap et.c etc.). A kid could see they were cheaply made. A kid learns you simply don’t get great and marvelous earth-shaking wonders for $1.98. Still, even when some degree of savvy has been obtained (a good thing), there still remains a charm to these ads. There was for me and I am sorry to see these guys go by the wayside. Many of the testimonials here indicate to me that they added to great childhood memories despite some disappointments. I miss this stuff.

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