Vintage Comic Book Advertisments

I recent bought replica/exact reissue reprints of the BATMAN comic book, #s 181 & 251, Silver and Bronze Age respectively! Exact replicas - the whole entire comic, not just the story. All the filler pages...and the paid advertisments., from 1966 and 1973 respectively. Not a " collectible ", a current-day issue...for a mere 3300% or siincrease in the list price, in the case of the earlier one!
Comic books may be more RESPECTABLE now, but they were more of a MASS MEDIUM then...remaining " big time " (Marvel, DC, etc.) standard-format run few outside/paid advertisments now, the am" ad pages " mostly filled by literal house ads and " tie-in " ads involving the oubkishers' characters. In the past there were more ads.
I'll look through these two, at least. I'm sorry, I can't scan. Maybe this would belong more in my main comics site? But, perhaps " seeing it/being seen through other's eyes " would be nifty, to paraphrase Rabbie Burns...........

 

Try and look for the book Mail Order Mysteries - it reviews a lot of those crazy comic book ads from a 'what was advertised' to 'what you actually got' perspective.

 

I have that book. Its fun and amusing read:

 

...Thank you. However, given my earlier comment to-day about " being a little out of step/too late for a lot of Our Time/' Boomer ' cultural whatsits ", regarding vintage funnybook Mad Ave. fodder, I focus less on the Sea Monkeys/Johnson Smith catalog (I did send away for the latter at least once back in the day!!!!!!!!!) that Mr. Silver Age and such focus on...as, for one. the more not-what-you-expected stuff that also appeared in comic mags. However, that does sound like a fun book!

 

I was reading some 60s issues on Marvel Unlimited and there were ads to order live monkeys.

 

I wonder how many kids placed an order and didn't tell their mom until the package arrived?

 

I would wager quite a few.

I can post some ad scans and images I own and have found

 

Do you mean Sea Monkeys?

 

Nope, he meant what he said

 

Man's account of ordering a live monkey from comic book ad

 

I want a nuclear sub!

 

"Live delivery guaranteed." Okay then!

 

Better than a dead delivery guarantee!

 

I just recently discovered you can still order boxes of baby chicks through the mail.

 

I've seen the skinny guy getting sand kicked in his face on many a comic book:

 

My buddy got this and it was cardboard. We were so disappointed. We wanted to take it to the local pond and shoot fishermen!

 

yup, my friend ordered it as well...LOL

 

Those soldiers were cheap two dimensional flat plastic, hard to get them to stand vertical. I was so disappointed.

 

me too!

 

My friend and I ordered the Charles Atlas plan when we were about 12 or 13. Don’t remember much about it.

 

The classifieds in Famous Monsters of Filmland used to be a little crazy!

 

Dinosaur Dracula (and X-Entertainment before it) have a few articles with old comic book ads in them. I love these.

There's one where you could get a pet raccoon (?!).