This poster for the cincy comicon pays homage to old comic. Advertisements in comic books have promised unbelievable products for decades. The first time i ever saw comics for sale was in 1979, when the. Xray specs followed the adventures of a boy called ray and his squareshaped spectacles, which were lent to him by i. Whether you want to stick a magnet on the back of your car, a school locker or other metal accessory, youll find a great match in our collection of thousands of designs. Its songs tackle identity, feminism, and consumer society with fire and joy. Take x ray specs to parties, gettogethers, and hospitals. The kindle changes books again with kindle xray the. Xray for authors is a free kindle direct publishing kdp tool that enables you, the author, to add your own descriptions or commentary that will show up when the reader engages the xray feature. I want to screen print some tote bags with old mail order ads from my childhood. On the back page of my superman comic book were all kinds of cool stuff for sale. Advertising for xray specs and seamonkeys has long appeared inside the pages of comic books. With xray for authors, you can add new xray entries, edit existing ones, or enable xray for a new book. And two, i should note that i havent watched a lot of the most acclaimed shows of the year, which is why theyre not on this list.
Look at any bright point of light such as city streetlights, holiday lights, or candles and see the words xray magically appears. I remember 95% of all these ads and always wondered why doctors didnt use the xray specs to see if you had a broken bone. Requiem, script by jim owsley as christopher priest, pencils by jason armstrong, inks by drew geraci. Or so they would have you believe but there is something more, something underneath the thin skin of this world, something which cant be normally seen by human eyes. Yepthe games up now this looked possible so i painted a coin like this and wasted hours trying hypnotize the neighbors dog selling the militaryindustrial complex. Remember when you were a kid and you saw all those comic book ads for xray specs promising they would let you see under a womans clothes. Mar 11, 2019 since human hands have a lot of structure, it occurs to me that in the near future, when we get to wear those forthcoming ar glasses, we will be able to do a much better version of those x ray specs i used to see in ads on the back pages of comic books when i was a kid. What would a comic be without cool ads for xray specs.
Nobody cared about seeing the yolk of an egg or the lead in a pencil like the ad. Human anatomyvirtual dissections page of this site. It features a young boy who acquired a set of xray spectacles with whom he could see through everything premise. Turn your fridge into a signpost for your interests with comic book magnets. Cover illustration by bill hamper billy childish speacial thanks to. How far will martins obsession with the xray specs take him. Written by jerry siegel and illustrated by joe shuster, this title includes the first appearances of lois lane, jimmy olsen, and supermans alter ego clark kent, as well as the first use of his xray vision. Comic book ads x ray specs and the beyond be a real man, learn karate. Xray specs was a british comic strip illustrated by mike lacey that appeared in the first issue of the british comic monster fun on 14 june 1975. May 31, 2018 also fairly upsetting through a modern lens was the attempt to appeal to young creeps with things like hypnotizing kits and x ray glasses. However, some fabrics are fairly transparent in the infrared range.
See more ideas about vintage advertisements, ads and vintage ads. 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. Feb 03, 2014 advertising for xray specs and seamonkeys has long appeared inside the pages of comic books. Look at any bright point of light such as city streetlights, holiday lights, or candles and see the words x ray magically appears. But still, wed put money in an envelope and four to. Some versions of the advertisement featured an illustration of a young man using the x ray specs to examine the bones in his hand while a voluptuous woman stood in the background, as though awaiting her turn to be x rayed. X ray specs are a great novelty item and icebreaker for doctors, dentists, radiologists, stockbrokers, detectives and security personnel. Martin puts them on and discovers a whole new world lurking just beneath the surface. 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. Xray specs were long advertised with the slogan see the bones in your hand, see through clothes. Fantastic ads like these ruled the back of my beloved comic books with every issue.
Generations of comic book readers remember the tantalizing promises of vintage novelty advertisements that offered authentic lasergun plans, xray specs, and even 7foottall monsters with glowinthedark eyes. Unfortunately, light powers are less than handy in keeping his girlfriend happy. Old comic book ads xray specs sea monkeys kit charles. X ray specs was a british comic strip illustrated by mike lacey that appeared in the first issue of the british comic monster fun on 14 june 1975. This week, we explore the fascinating world of comic book advertising.
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. These old comic book ads give new meaning to weird. I always wanted to have a pair of glasses to use for the tv and you could wear them and see everyone naked. Nevertheless, their first single, oh bondage up yours. I remember 95% of all these ads and always wondered why doctors didnt use the x ray specs to see if you had a broken bone. Nov 17, 2018 on the back page of my superman comic book were all kinds of cool stuff for sale. When martin blackstones son is given a pair of xray specs from a comic book, they dont seem to work. I had the greedy green hand bank and can remember going through all those ads coveting all the rubber bats, flying ghosts and other cheap dissappointing junk that was hyped up.
May 27, 2019 can you remember these ads on the back of comics. Comic book ads from the 60s book advertising, vintage comic. Its a normal thought, i just wondered if they took an xray machine and attached glasses to it, and made it run more. Some versions of the advertisement featured an illustration of a young man using the xray specs to examine the bones in his hand while a voluptuous woman stood in the background, as though awaiting her turn to be x rayed. 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. Generations of comic book readers remember the tantalizing promises of vintage novelty advertisements that offered authentic lasergun plans, xray specs, and even 7foottall monsters with glow. In 1991 xray spex reformed for a surprise sellout gig at the brixton academy where poly appeared in a blue foam dress with an army helmet to her. Pop art vintage, vintage comic books, vintage comics, vintage ads, vintage posters, creepy vintage, retro ads, retro advertising, old advertisements. You could send away for x ray specs, joy buzzers, the hypnocoin, assorted novelties and gags like a fake arm cast. Right there on the inside cover of my favorite comic book. The ads were so exotic to me, particularly the xray specs because we couldnt order anything as we were in australia. Lucien gatess life is changed forever when he is struck by a mysterious beam of energy that turns him into a glowing gladiator and being a human ray of light comes in handy when his city is suddenly under attack from giant, buildingsized monsters. Sorry fleabag, the good place, the mandalorian and a lot of other programs ive heard raves about.
Besides the 7footlong polaris nuclear sub, there were the xray vision specs and the hypnocoin and the electric. Besides the 7footlong polaris nuclear sub, there were the x ray vision specs and the hypnocoin and the electric. A world where seamonkeys could be trained, x ray specs saw through clothes, charles atlas taught bodybuilding secrets and oneday karate courses could be yours for just a dollar. Old comic book ads x ray specs sea monkeys kit charles atlas workout if something seems to good to be true. At dc, comic book covers get crossmarketing role the new. Airport screeners could get xrated xray views the new. At dc, comic book covers get crossmarketing role the. A world where seamonkeys could be trained, xray specs saw through clothes, charles atlas.
Is there any type of xray glasses we could use to see people. Now, dc comics is turning its covers into a marketing tool. The ad that stoked every young comic book readers imagination was the one for xray specs. Is there any type of xray glasses we could use to see. Generations of comic book readers remember the tantalizing promises of vintage novelty advertisements that offered authentic lasergun plans, x ray specs, and even 7foottall monsters with glowinthedark eyes. It features a young boy who acquired a set of x ray spectacles with whom he could see through everything. The ray will make his first live action appearance as apart of the arrowverse during the crisis on earth x crossover. I am looking at a copy of an ad that ran in the back of comic books in the 1950s and early 1960s. Sea monkeys and xray specs 5 mail order scams from. Jul 28, 2017 old comic book ads x ray specs sea monkeys kit charles atlas workout if something seems to good to be true. You could send away for xray specs, joy buzzers, the hypnocoin, assorted novelties and gags like a fake arm cast.
On a lark, blackstone tries on his sons x ray specs, ordered from the back of a comic book, and finds, much to thats not to say shea skimps on the gore, though. Instead, our future xray specs will be able to use a builtin depth camera to analyze the shape of your hand, recognize what sort of object it is, retrieve the corresponding skeletal structure from a database, and thereby use a combination of machine learning and realtime 3d graphics to superimpose an image of your skeleton directly onto your. Founded in the early 1880s, grit is, somewhat surprisingly. The strange history of comic book advertisements syfy wire. Listen to under the influence from cbc radio episodes free, on demand. This is why as kids, every so often wed come across an ad in a comic book, for something we knew was too good to be true. This poster for the cincy comicon pays homage to old comic book ads. X ray specs 5 mail order scams from magazine and comic ads. Everyone wanted x ray specs, but this was when i started to doubt the veracity of these ads. Just as well, i probably would have blown a bunch of money on this crap. Days later, ironclad emerged from the desert floor and believed the rest of his friends.
X ray specs were long advertised with the slogan see the bones in your hand, see through clothes. Mar 02, 2020 remember when you were a kid and you saw all those comic book ads for xray specs promising they would let you see under a womans clothes. See more ideas about chicago, my kind of town and chicago photos. Lets all be honest for a minute and stop pretending that any one of us actually wanted to use xray specs for any purpose other than seeing people naked. As others wrote, with xrays there is little hope and they would be bad for health even if they did work for seeing through clothes. How a feral squirrelmonkey attacked its new owner, why a submarine disintegrated on the front lawn, how xray specs caused nothing but confusion and other crazy comic book advertising stories. Xray spexs debut album is a brash, vivid masterpiece of the germinal punk era. This edition to commemorate the forthcoming and final book of uncollected and unpublished work. Sep 29, 2011 generations of comic book readers remember the tantalizing promises of vintage novelty advertisements that offered authentic lasergun plans, x ray specs, and even 7foottall monsters with glow. S7e07 archive comic book ads from under the influence. Aside from the creep factor look through womens clothes. Apr 19, 2017 what would a comic be without cool ads for xray specs. Another good example of that societal shift is the abundance of ads for cringeworthy xray specs, telescopes or periscopes that the promotion would very oftentimes imply are specifically designed for taking perverted peeps at unsuspecting women. Sorry fleabag, the good place, the mandalorian and a lot of other programs.
Its well known, and there is a whole industry that thrives on it. We offer magnets in a variety of styles, shapes and sizes to suit your desired location perfectly. Jan 15, 2017 xray spexs debut album is a brash, vivid masterpiece of the germinal punk era. These classic ads in the back of comic books tricked kids from the 50s through the 80s. Old comic book ads xray specs sea monkeys kit charles atlas workout if something seems to good to be true. The comics may not have been socially acceptable, but they had cool ads in them. The ads were so exotic to me, particularly the x ray specs because we couldnt order anything as we were in australia. Vintage comic book ads that were too good to be true. They were just above microscopic size and certainly didnt look anything like a human or a mermaid.
Theres plenty of fun harryhausenlike visuals on display as martin blackstone gets an eyeful of everyone he sees. 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. Im using the book mail order mysteries for inspiration, but wonder what ads do you all remember most fondly. I supposed the optical illusion disclaimer shouldve been a tipoff, but hey, who paid. During their first incarnation 197679, xray spex were deliberate underachievers and only managed to release five singles and one album. You can see by the eyes of the blind, those invisible to normals, and the masquerade. There are no monkeys in the sea and xray vision will cost you more than. May 24, 2005 i am looking at a copy of an ad that ran in the back of comic books in the 1950s and early 1960s. 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. One recurring and ubiquitous ad was for the magazine grit. At least, thats what vintage comicbook ads would have you believe. 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. Nobody cared about seeing the yolk of an egg or the lead in a pencil like the ad trumpeted.
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