In this ad they have fewer items, but devote more space to each one. The strange history of comic book advertisements syfy wire. As a cheerup gift for having chicken pox, noel has purchased himself and brian x ray glasses from the back of a comic book. Take x ray specs to parties, gettogethers, and hospitals.
However, some fabrics are fairly transparent in the infrared range. Anyone who has picked up a comic book, mailordered x ray glasses, or ever been nine years old can recall the ads. They were just above microscopic size and certainly didnt look anything like a human or a mermaid. Optical delusion is about a pair of x ray glasses that martin blackstones son orders out of one of his comic books. The ad that stoked every young comic book readers imagination was the one for xray specs. As others wrote, with x rays there is little hope and they would be bad for health even if they did work for seeing through clothes. Martin blackstone tries on the x ray glasses and they seem to really work. I had seamonkeys and was dying to be the proud owner of the seamonkey racetrack. I have been doing some research on ads for toys that ran in comic books back in the mid20th century. The lenses consist of two layers of cardboard with a small hole about a quarterinch 6 millimeters in diameter punched through both layers.
On the back of the comics are ads for such silly things as sea monkeys and x ray glasses. Xray glasses comic book ad 2 x 3 fridge locker magnet. X ray specs are a great novelty item and icebreaker for doctors, dentists, radiologists, stockbrokers, detectives and security personnel. Novelty historian kirk demarais tests xray specs and. That vinylandcardboard submarinedoll housespace ship only worked if you put it over a card table. People who viewed their televisions while wearing these glasses reported seeing images that were hellish or like hell.
Unfollow x ray vision glasses to stop getting updates on your ebay feed. Glasses, creampie, x ray, cunnilingus, oral, straight select rating give naruto gaiden 10. Also youll presumably be able to diagnose certain illnesses at a glance. The johnson and smith catalog was a better source of fun toys in comic books even. Once on, i really believed my eyes were penetrating womens clothing. The brand advertised heavily in comic books and on tv and led many unsuspecting unathletic kids to believe that all they needed to not be chosen last. Aside from the creep factor look through womens clothes. How a feral squirrelmonkey attacked its new owner, why a submarine disintegrated on the front lawn, how x ray specs caused nothing but confusion and other crazy comic book advertising stories. Vintage comic book ads that were too good to be true. Well, the ad does have the word illusion written in bold, so we were only fooling ourselves if we believed the x ray glasses would actually work. The item youve selected was not added to your cart.
If you were a regular reader of comic books in the 60s and 70s, you probably couldnt help but notice the recurring ad that offered you your very own kidsized polaris nuclear submarine all for the low price of about seven bucks. The company moved from chicago to racine, wisconsin in 1926, to detroit in the 1930s, and from the detroit area to bradenton, florida in 1986. While they dont do what the ad promised, they open his eyes to a bizarre world that has to be seen to be believed. How could i do this list without including, of course, the classic and everpresent ads for various novelties such as x ray glasses and sneezing powder. Generations of comic book readers remember the tantalizing promises of vintage novelty advertisements that offered authentic lasergun plans, x ray specs, and even 7.
For a brief period in 1971, a new jersey based company sold novelty x ray glasses through the mail via advertisements in the marvel line of comic books. This real life version of xray glasses can see through. X ray glasses were definitely not what they claimed to be, disappointing many by proving to be nothing more than a couple of pieces of cardboard inside a plastic frame creating a sort of loosely defined optical illusion that made people look somewhat like x. The brand advertised heavily in comic books and on tv and led many unsuspecting unathletic kids to believe that all they needed to not be chosen last in gym class was a pair of expensive sneakers.
I remember buying collectibles out of comic books when i was a kid, so it hit close to home for me. I am going to be featuring some like x ray glasses and the invisible helmet over the next few weeks. X ray specs consist of an outsized pair of glasses with plastic frames and white cardboard lenses printed with concentric red circles, and emblazoned with the legend x ray vision. So how much do you think these real xray glasses cost. Xray specs consist of an outsized pair of glasses with plastic frames and white cardboard lenses printed with concentric red circles, and emblazoned with the legend x ray vision. Silly putty may have picked up your favorite comics but it gave you a skin rash. Posts about xray glasses written by comicbookadsblog. Unlike the xray glasses from the comic books, these. Unfollow x ray glasses to stop getting updates on your ebay feed. You can see by the eyes of the blind, those invisible to normals, and the masquerade. These ads offered kids the opportunity to see through everything from fingers, an eggshell, and possibly even clothing all for the cost of a dollar. You may not recognize the firms name, but ill bet you know. A polaris submarinemore than seven feet longwhich i dreamt of traveling in along the forthclyde canal, avoiding the ghostly weeds, the garbage, discarded shopping trolleys, and the imaginary gangsterspale, bloated and tethered to. I was the kid sucker that sent away for the x ray glasses from the comic books back cover.
Look at any bright point of light such as city streetlights, holiday lights, or candles and see the words x ray magically appears. Evena medicals new eyeson glasses system enables medical professionals to essentially peer underneath a patients skin in order to more easily locate veins for iv treatments. Eyewear with bird feathers stuffed between the cardboard layers of the lenses. Glasses porn manga, hentai manga, hentai comics, porn comics. Alter ego magazine fan group public group facebook. Also fairly upsetting through a modern lens was the attempt to appeal to young creeps with things like hypnotizing kits and x ray glasses. Demarais, who is 39, became fascinated with mailorder comic novelities as a kid in smalltown siloam springs, arkansas, where hes lived most of his life. The only effect of those x ray glasses was to give you a headache. See more ideas about comic books, vintage advertisements and classic comics. Ready to customize your pair of comic book eyeware, schedule an appointment by clicking the button below and we can get started customizing your glasses today. Martin puts on the glasses, optical delusion is the second book of the mail order massacres trilogy. Xray glasses, comic book, advertisement, fake xray. Old comic book ads x ray specs sea monkeys kit charles atlas workout if something seems to good to be true.