There are no monkeys in the sea and xray vision will cost you more than. In comic books in the latter half of the 20th century, there often appeared an advertisement for x ray specs which displayed the face of a smiling boy wearing glasses with spirals on the lenses looking at his hand through which he could see the bones. I quickly surmised i could make my own xray specs minus the frames with. Old comic book ads xray specs sea monkeys kit charles atlas workout if something seems to good to be true. 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. 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.
How could i do this list without including, of course, the classic and everpresent ads for various novelties such as xray glasses. These old fashioned xray spec lenses consisted of two pieces of cardboard with a feather between them to blur your vision, causing two slightly offset images which appear similar to an xray photograph. Its well known, and there is a whole industry that thrives on it. The lenses consist of two layers of cardboard with a small hole about a quarterinch 6 millimeters in diameter punched through both layers. Oct 11, 2008 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. They were just above microscopic size and certainly didnt look anything like a human or a mermaid. In todays comic books you dont see the advertisements you used to no ads with outrageous promises to be taller or more muscular. Look at any bright point of light such as city streetlights, holiday lights, or candles and see the words xray magically appears. X ray specs 5 mail order scams from magazine and comic ads. But still, wed put money in an envelope and four to. Perhaps the pictures above will bring you back in time. No word on xray glasses, but comic book ad submarine didnt suck. Glasses, in comic book ads is a crossword puzzle clue that we have spotted 2 times.
The ad that stoked every young comic book readers imagination was the one for xray specs. X ray glasses funny cartoons from cartoonstock directory the worlds largest online collection of cartoons and comics. 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. Its been a while since ive done a classified page, so here you go. Eyewear with bird feathers stuffed between the cardboard layers of the lenses. X ray specs are a great novelty item and icebreaker for doctors, dentists, radiologists, stockbrokers, detectives and security personnel. Adams company, was a tube with a single hole that had a small feather across it. The latest installment in the mail order massacres series is optical delusion. And a sevenfoot submarine you and a friend could pilot. I supposed the optical illusion disclaimer shouldve been a tipoff, but hey, who paid attention to fine print when the prospect. He adds that this effectively means weve probably come full circle on the centurylong dream of xray specs. X ray glasses by michael daisy youve probably seen the comic books with ads for x ray glasses or x ray specs that promise to give the wearer amazing powers to see through solid objects like walls, and clothing. Jul 01, 2019 the ad that stoked every young comic book readers imagination was the one for xray specs.
Xray specs no longer a cheap rip off seen in comic books. Remember those ads for xray specs in the back pages of your favorite comic book or magazine that claimed to allow you to ever so nonchalantly look through, not only your hand, but more importantly womens clothing. The xray card above is nothing less than a much earlier, nonstereo version of the famous xray specs, spex, and gogs famous from boomerera comic book ads. Xray specs are a great novelty item and icebreaker for doctors, dentists, radiologists, stockbrokers, detectives and security personnel. Posts about xray glasses written by comicbookadsblog. No advertisements to own a nuclear sub or army tank can be found nowadays. Old comic book ads xray specs sea monkeys kit charles. I supposed the optical illusion disclaimer shouldve been a tipoff, but hey, who paid. It poses the basic question of what would you do if the xray specs you got from the comic book advertisement actually worked and then some.
Sorry fleabag, the good place, the mandalorian and a lot of other programs ive heard raves about. This book presents on facing pages the original ad from the comic book and what would have come in the mail for your dollars purchasing power. Xray specs are an american novelty item, purported to allow the user to see through or into solid objects. No word on xray glasses, but comic book ad submarine. They are plastic framed eyeglasses with special lenses made of cardboard. Dec 23, 2011 but what about the quintessential comic book novelty the x ray specs. 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.
Retro comic book ads retro ads, vintage advertisements. Having to be so cynical see more ideas about vintage comic books, vintage comics and comic books. 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. Xray specs optical illusion glasses gag 1960s advertising 1968 vintage print ad. At least, thats what vintage comicbook ads would have you believe. 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. X ray glasses are a novelty product designed to create the illusion that the user can see through solid objects. 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. Aside from the creep factor look through womens clothes. This myth was reinforced with comic book heroes like superman who could use x ray vision to see through solid objects. X ray glasses comic book ad 2 x 3 fridge locker magnet. I was, at that moment looking at the ads on the back cover of the comic book. Take x ray specs to parties, gettogethers, and hospitals.
Retro ads vintage advertisements vintage humor retro vintage old comic books old comics old ads guerrilla the good old daysmen monster size ghost. Unfollow x ray vision glasses to stop getting updates on your ebay feed. The company moved from chicago to racine, wisconsin in 1926, to detroit in the 1930s, and from the detroit area to. Throw your voice venus fly trap werewolf mask whitman whoopee cushion whoops x ray glasses x ray specs x ray. Everyone wanted xray specs, but this was when i started to doubt the veracity of these ads. Look at any bright point of light such as city streetlights, holiday lights, or candles and see the words x ray magically appears. Founded in the early 1880s, grit is, somewhat surprisingly, still going today, catering to middle america with very little change in content over the last century and claiming itself to be americas greatest family newspaper. The ads were so exotic to me, particularly the xray specs because we couldnt order anything as we were in australia. 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.
This real life version of xray glasses can see through. But what about the quintessential comic book novelty the xray specs. No matter what youre looking for or where you are in the world, our global marketplace of sellers can help you find unique and affordable options. 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 xray vision. These glasses see through clothes and even some kinds of walls. But if you look in older comic books youll see a treasure trove of sneaky ads, crazy claims, preposterous promises and looney lies. Comic book ads glasses specs spex sunglasses x ray svg gray grey openclipart related searches glasses clip art sun glasses clip art eye glasses clip art glasses clip art cat eye glasses clip art free 3d glasses vector free eye glasses vector free glasses vector free vector eye glasses glasses clip art free glasses clip art images champagne. See more ideas about chicago, my kind of town and chicago photos. In this ad they have fewer items, but devote more space to each one. Sea monkeys and xray specs 5 mail order scams from. 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.
Well, the ad does have the word illusion written in bold, so we were only fooling ourselves if we believed the xray glasses would actually work. 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. Jan 20, 2019 lee started working in the comic book industry in 1941 when. Jul 28, 2017 old comic book ads x ray specs sea monkeys kit charles atlas workout if something seems to good to be true. I remember needing ventriloquist dummies, hovercrafts and hypno coins to be complete and i remember the parents always nixing the very idea of buying any of it.
Here weve got another installment from our friends at fun factory see a 1980 ad from them here. One recurring and ubiquitous ad was for the magazine grit. Novelty historian kirk demarais tests xray specs and. How xray glasses is made material, manufacture, history. In comic books in the latter half of the 20th century, there often appeared an advertisement for xray specs which displayed the face of a smiling boy wearing glasses with spirals on the lenses looking at his hand through which he could see the bones. There were gag gifts you could buy and one that fascinated me. Comic book ads from the 60s book advertising, vintage comic. Comic book eye glasses case, comic books, comic art, geeknerd gift, glass case, hard eyewear case, eyeglass cases maybelinescreations 4. As a kid from the 70s i remember all too well all of the ads in comic books that advertised everything from sea monkeys to xray glasses. For a brief period in 1971, a new jersey based company sold novelty xray glasses through the mail via advertisements in the marvel line of comic books. 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. See more ideas about vintage comics, vintage comic books and vintage ads. These old fashioned xray spec lenses consisted of two pieces of cardboard with a feather between them to blur your vision, causing two. People who viewed their televisions while wearing these glasses reported seeing images that were hellish or like hell.
This time around the action is focused on some x ray glasses ordered from the back of a comic book. The first time i ever saw comics for sale was in 1979. Take xray specs to parties, gettogethers, and hospitals. 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. Youve probably seen the comic books with ads for xray glasses or xray specs that promise to give the wearer amazing powers to see through solid objects like walls, and clothing. Check out the original xray spex amazing xray vision. Glasses, in comic book ads is a crossword puzzle clue. 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. However, some fabrics are fairly transparent in the infrared range. These classic ads in the back of comic books tricked kids from the 50s through the 80s. An early precursor to x ray glasses was the wonder tube, introduced during the 1940s.
Yellow xray vision glasses x ray specs goggles hypnotize wayfarer adult see more like this. Comic book ads glasses specs spex sunglasses xray svg gray grey openclipart related searches glasses clip art sun glasses clip art eye glasses clip art glasses clip art cat eye glasses clip art free 3d glasses vector free eye glasses vector free glasses vector free vector eye glasses glasses clip art free glasses clip art images champagne. Nobody cared about seeing the yolk of an egg or the lead in a pencil like the ad trumpeted. 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. A super nostalgic look at advertising as it used to be in the books and periodicals we used to read. So in other words they give you blurry vision which could have been obtained for free by squinting. If you happened to be one of those who sent off for a pair with hard earned money saved from an. Xray glasses cartoons and comics funny pictures from. 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.
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. 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. In reality the glasses merely create an optical illusion. Yes i know they were pants now but at the time i imagined these things really worked. Probably my most coveted ad in comic books was the one for xray specs. The manufacturing process involved in their production includes plastic stamping, papermaking, printing and gluing. Find great deals on ebay for x ray glasses and x ray protection glasses. Im actually kind of surprised to see xray spex in 1978 for some reason i thought that was more of a 50s60s thing but apparently i was mistaken on that. Vintage comic book ads that were too good to be true. Optical delusion is a slow build novella that comes off a bit like a trashy uncle at times. Just as well, i probably would have blown a bunch of money on this crap. 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.
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The strange history of comic book advertisements syfy wire. 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. Boingboings got a link to ben smiths scans of old comic book ads and to clayton and his 1967. Lets all be honest for a minute and stop pretending that any one of us actually wanted to use x ray specs for any purpose other than seeing people naked. 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. Retro advertising retro ads vintage advertisements vintage ads old comic books vintage comic. What did the xray glasses advertised in the back of. Buy these glasses and you will be surprised at what you can see. A pair of glasses enabled you to see through clothing.
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