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Post by Hoosier X on Jun 19, 2014 23:00:21 GMT -5
We got our Sea Monkeys at Ayr-Way. We had them for a while. If you forgot about them and the tank dried out, you just put water in it and they would come back to life!
(Does anybody else remember Ayr-Way? It was a department store, somewhere between Pic N Save and JC Penney. The Ayr-Way I remember in Anderson, Indiana, became a Target.)
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Post by Nowhere Man on Jun 20, 2014 0:19:08 GMT -5
You've got to love the bitter irony of those older ads; comics espousing the virtues of truth, justice and apple pie interspersed with advertising that amounted to the institutionalized thievery of the contents of little kids piggy banks. Better yet are the ones that never sent you anything (a common tale it seems). Oh, I'm sure the publishers had no idea what was up...
Anyway, the first add I remember sending off for was a G.I. Joe promotion where you'd get a figure of "yourself" which was basically a soldier in a full helmet that could have been anyone. I believe it came with an ID card with your name and some other info.
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Post by bashbash99 on Jun 20, 2014 10:17:31 GMT -5
Tough to remember the order, but I sent in a marvel subscription form in the early 80s for Marvel Two-In-One, which turned into the Thing solo title during my subscription.
I also briefly sold greetings cards - sold enough to earn a few prizes altho I can't remember which prize I got. It was one of the ads with CAPTAIN O in them.
And ordered some comics from (probably Mile High) in the mid 80s as well.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jun 20, 2014 12:26:14 GMT -5
I remember BEGGING my parents to let me sign up for one of those 'sell stuff in your neighboorhood and win prizes' things... they eventually gave in, and the place was out of business.. the letter/form came back undeliverable. My young dreams of capitalism were crushed. Was this it?  That was the company, yes... different ad though. Now that I'm thinking about it, it may well have been a mid 80s add I responded to in the late 80s, which was likely the problem |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2014 17:25:34 GMT -5
Although I never got one, I begged my parents for this Life-Size Remote Control Ghost. "But it's only a dollar!", I pleaded. I still never got one.  I lucked out though because I would have been horribly disappointed in receiving a trash bag, a string and a balloon with Casper's face smirking back at the sucker I would have been.  |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2014 18:40:50 GMT -5
Oh my...that is just awful...and I remember that ad  |
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Post by Cei-U! on Jun 20, 2014 20:24:53 GMT -5
I wasn't thinking about subscription ads. In that case, my first response to an ad wasn't for Mile High, it was to subscribe to Avengers, X-Men, Fantastic Four, Iron Man, Tomb of Dracula, Howard the Duck and Doctor Strange around '77 or thereabouts.
Cei-U!
I guess sometimes you DO FORGET YOUR FIRST!
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jun 20, 2014 20:37:23 GMT -5
I'm glad to see,so far,no one admitting to cutting out those Marvel Value Stamps from the early 70s. I curse those original owners whose books I bought second hand without checking if they were missing
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2014 20:51:14 GMT -5
I wasn't thinking about subscription ads. In that case, my first response to an ad wasn't for Mile High, it was to subscribe to Avengers, X-Men, Fantastic Four, Iron Man, Tomb of Dracula, Howard the Duck and Doctor Strange around '77 or thereabouts. Were subscription copies folded in half back in '77? I'm not sure when the 'mailed flat' era began...although I'm sure many of those copies arrived dinged to hell too. Jez I summon the bulletproof packaging. |
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Post by Icctrombone on Jun 20, 2014 21:56:03 GMT -5
I wasn't thinking about subscription ads. In that case, my first response to an ad wasn't for Mile High, it was to subscribe to Avengers, X-Men, Fantastic Four, Iron Man, Tomb of Dracula, Howard the Duck and Doctor Strange around '77 or thereabouts. Were subscription copies folded in half back in '77? I'm not sure when the 'mailed flat' era began...although I'm sure many of those copies arrived dinged to hell too. Jez I summon the bulletproof packaging. Ha, my first was a sub to JLA , Worlds finest and Batman. My grade school teacher paid for it to be sent to my home and we would both read them. Mrs. Leonard was a blessing to me back then. |
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Post by hondobrode on Jun 20, 2014 22:00:42 GMT -5
My sub copies in the early eighties were still folded.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jun 20, 2014 22:12:10 GMT -5
"Mailed flat" was meaningless. If it was mailed flat at the source that had no effect on what the various mail folk did with them.
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Post by Cei-U! on Jun 20, 2014 22:25:17 GMT -5
Mine were all mailed flat but they rarely arrived that way unless I had them sent to my parents' place. Their mailman, a hippie-type known in the neighborhood as Super-Carrier, appreciated that what he was delivering meant something to the addressee, see? The girl who sorted the mail for my dorm at UW (insert obligatory "Go, Dawgs!"), on the other hand, thought I was getting pornography because of the plain brown wrapper and complained to the RD, who knew what they were because he used to borrow my Howard the Ducks as they came in. I ultimately subscribed to around 24 Marvel titles but not for long. When I got out of college, I set up a pull list at O'Leary's Books and Comics (alas, long since relocated to Australia) and the subscriptions were history.
Cei-U!
I summon the good old days!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2014 23:38:24 GMT -5
I remember the ads for the prizes when you sold stuff. But I'd always do the math in my head and realize how hopeless a decent prize was. My only customer would have been my grandma, and I'd have better luck just asking her to buy me the bike.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2014 23:55:51 GMT -5
I have not seen any of you mentioning the dime you sent in to get the Charles Atlas Dynamic Tension course...
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