X ray glasses classic ad this is a scan of an old comic book. From sea monkeys to xray specs, comic book ads take me. Frank sinatra bracelet bet this has some value on ebay. Right there on the inside cover of my favorite comic book. The science of xray specs and sea monkeys skeptoid podcast. You could send away for x ray specs, joy buzzers, the hypnocoin, assorted novelties and gags like a fake arm cast. I couldnt really read the book so i was more interested in the ads for things like the package of 101 soldiers or grit magazine and, of course, the xray specs.
Some of the military ones, like the ad for revolutionary soldiers. This edit will also create new pages on comic vine for. The strange world of comic book ads say no to crack. The xray spex in particular were drawn by a professional daredevil named henri lamothe, who is the in the guinness book of world records for making the worlds highest shallow dive, from 28 feet into 12 inches of water. Home comic headquarters video game headquarters comic ads video game ads comic covers tabloid. Did they advertise these in the same comic books that shangchi ran around barefoot. 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. X ray and the rest of the ufoes blamed bruce banner for interfering with the flight program and it brought back the crew before they could absorb even more cosmic rays which would make them more. 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. We went to the comic book place, like the drug store or the trails end bookstore in odessa and spent our hardearned allowance on.
The current paper version is sold under the name xray spex. Free one million dollars we all dreamed that our bag would be real money. In this video we explore the unusual rip off ads found within comics of the 60s 70s and 80s. In todays comic books you dont see the advertisements you used to no ads with outrageous promises to be taller or more muscular. Dc comics xxray figure wave 2 cyborg 10 cm pop in a box us. X rayed funny cartoons from cartoonstock directory the worlds largest online collection of cartoons and comics. The comics may not have been socially acceptable, but they had cool ads in them.
To view and order the issues and variants of this title, see x ray comix in the mile high comics istore. Comic book advertisements are a common feature in american comic books mainly from the. In reality, the spectacles merely create an optical illusion. Vintage comic book ads that were too good to be true. Advertisements in comic books have promised unbelievable products for decades. Ray is the first gay superhero to lead his own series. Beware, you are proposing to add brand new pages to the wiki along with your edits.
The ray is a background student at super hero high in the web series dc super hero girls. Whether youve broken a bone, gone through airport security or simply watched an episode of any given medical drama, youre familiar with the ubiquitous x ray. Since the discovery of x ray technology on this day in 1895 by german physicist wilhelm conrad rontgen, the medical field has become much better equipped to find out which of your teeth are rotten and how many legos your dog has swallowed. Fantastic ads like these ruled the back of my beloved comic books with every issue. Russell tovey reprises his role as the ray for the prequel cw seed series, freedom fighters. Comic book ads x ray specs and the beyond be a real man, learn karate.
Aside from the creep factor look through womens clothes. The strange history of comic book advertisements syfy wire. Old comic book ads xray specs sea monkeys kit charles atlas workout if something seems to good to be true. The ufoes appear in the incredible hulk with vector voiced by s. This was one of the first advertised products i saw in comic books that provoked a real sense of scientific wonder. For instance, in japan, scrolls that were very much like comic books. Comic index comic index publishers publishers beginning with s comic index titles titles beginning with x title. Flying saucer one of the classic ads from an era when flying saucers were a big deal. But if you look in older comic books youll see a treasure trove of sneaky ads, crazy claims. The ad that stoked every young comic book readers imagination was the one for xray specs. 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 weighty blocks of concrete. Novelty historian kirk demarais tests xray specs and. Xray specs are american novelties, purported to allow users to see through or into solid objects. These are the ads i salivated over mostand to be frank a part of me.
This site is a place to post my comics, drawings and other media that i use to educate students about anatomy, radiology and evidence based medicine. No advertisements to own a nuclear sub or army tank can be found nowadays. While ironclad and vapor appear virtually identical to their comic book incarnations, x ray is. Free stamps this is the same deal you saw on matchbooks. The first time i ever saw comics for sale was in 1979, when the. Back in the day, comic books were our refuge, our secret pleasure. Scott bullock, vapor voiced by rachael macfarlane, x ray voiced by keith ferguson, and ironclad voiced by mitch lewis.
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