Sea Monkeys Ad 1970s

Of course sea monkeys aren t monkeys at all or even actual denizens of the deep for that matter.

Sea monkeys ad 1970s. These showed humanoidanimals that bear no resemblance to the crustaceans. Courtesy the strong national museum of play. Harold decided to market sea monkeys in 1957. That sounded so cool.

Mar 19 2012 for many of us sea monkeys were our first encounter with deceptive advertising. Little creatures that came to life and played in a tank that you could watch. Weird vintage sea monkey ad old western style. So harold got the idea to place an ad for instant life inside comic books.

I was so excited. See more ideas about sea monkeys sea monkeys funny. Trade publication ad for sea monkeys 1972. While i was slightly disappointed that the creatures really didn t look like they did in the ad i did really enjoy.

The amazing live sea monkeys. Before you knew it the sea monkey orders were flying in. Nyos is short for. Three generations of americans who have been enticed by ads in.

Originally the sea monkeys didn t sell at all. We all knew they weren t going to look like the illustration. Sea monkeys were intensely marketed in comic booksthroughout the 1960s and early 1970susing illustrations by the comic book illustrator joe orlando. From shrimp to monkeys.

One year for my birthday my parents bought me a sea monkey kit. These facts might not be readily apparent if your knowledge of these tiny creatures was gleaned by reading any of the sensationalist ads that appeared in comic books throughout the 1960s and 1970s. The monkeys are a hybrid species of brine shrimp known as artemis nyos. It wasn t that no one was buying them it was that no one wanted to sell them.

Many purchasers were disappointed by the dissimilarity and by the short lifespan of the animals. In 1957 harold von braunhut became fascinated with a species of brine shrimp artemia salina that he saw.