Mitchell Mauser VS Comic Book Ads

[Harlan (Deceased)]

We were discussing on the Mauser Forum how misleading the Michell Mauser ads have been in past issues of the American Rifleman and how they were about as misleading as the comic book ads for various products when were were kids. (I remembered the 7 foot submarine for six bucks and the 'X-ray glasses' showing the perverted guy looking at a woman!)

I remembered that I had some War comics I collected in the 60's and early 70's when I was a kid and I had stored them in an old small suitcase (Other kids my age were probably collecting Playboys about that time, and I walked to the drug store every day near the end of the month to see if the new War comics were out yet)

I located the suitcase in my attic and it has about 100 or more DC War comics in it and the ads were funny and even nostalgic to me. The thread on the Mauser forum was getting way off subject, and I thought a few other members might be of age to get a kick out of some of the scam comic book ads from the 60's so I decided to post some of them here on the General Discussion Forum.



This one was one of the ads I remembered -
I always wished I had ordered the submarine that two kids could play in just to see what it was!







The next two are for Aragorn243 -
He missed his dream and never ordered them to see if they actually sent a footlocker, huge forts and hundreds of figures for a buck fifty.





And one of the all time Classics - Don't kick sand in my face!





Did anyone order these things??? Little humanoid families, and it even says they want to please so much you could train them! (I thought they sounded too creepy!)







And never forget the 'cool' iron-on patches of the period -

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