Sea Monkeys Ad

First they were just miniature shrimp with an incredibly short lifespan. Sea monkey tv ad. One of the ubiquitous and most intriguing ads that could be found in the pages of a comic book were those for sea monkeys an underwater family of weird little mammalian fish that you could keep all to your own.

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It wasn t that no one was buying them it was that no one wanted to sell them so harold got the idea to place an ad for instant life inside comic books to market directly to kids.

Sea monkeys ad. Guaranteed to live 2 years. Sea monkeys are a novelty aquarium pet a type of brine shrimp that undergoes cryptobiosis developed in the united states in 1957 by harold von braunhut the shrimp are intended to be added to water and almost always come bundled in a 3 pouch kit with other required pouches and instructions sometimes a small tank and or supplementary pouches may also be included with the product. Sea monkeys could be ordered by mail directly from the sea monkey headquarters. Originally sea monkeys didn t sell at all.

Sea monkeys are the timeless gift. The amazing live sea monkeys. The world s only instant pets are back and better than ever. Though they weren t marketed that way von braunhut did call the brine shrimp sea monkeys and exotic saskatchewan brine shrimp in his ads.

According to hogan he called them sea monkeys. Sea monkeys it s not surprising to learn that the man who patented x ray specs harold von braunhut was the same entrepreneur who passed off brine shrimp as trainable pets. Can t get too much of these great briny friends. There are a few upsetting truths about sea monkeys.

A 1978 comic book ad for sea monkeys with art by the comic book artist joe orlando who would serve as vice president of dc comics and associate publisher of mad magazine.