Mail-Order Mysteries: Delightful Treasures from Vintage Comic Book Ads Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Mail-Order Mysteries: Delightful Treasures from Vintage Comic Book Ads Book

Rediscover your sense of wonder! Generations of comic book readers remember the tantalizing promises of vintage novelty advertisements that offered authentic laser-gun plans, x-ray specs, and even 7-foot-tall monsters (with glow-in-the-dark eyes!). But what would you really get if you entrusted your hard-earned $1.69 to the post office? Mail-Order Mysteries answers this question, revealing the amazing truths (and agonizing exaggerations) about the actual products marketed to kids in the '60s, '70s, and '80s. Pop-culture historian Kirk Demarais shares his astonishing collection, including: 100 Toy Soldiers in a Footlocker Count Dante's World's Deadliest Fighting Secrets GRIT Hercules Wrist Band Hypno-Coin Life-Size Monsters Mystic Smoke Sea Monkeys Soil From Dracula's Castle U-Control Ghost Ventrilo Voice Thrower ...and many, many more! With more than 150 extraordinary, peculiar, and downright fraudulent collectibles, Mail-Order Mysteries is a must-have book comic book fans everywhere. Trust us.Read More

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    Advertising and illustrations on endpapers.

  • 160887026X
  • 9781608870264
  • Kirk Demarais
  • 20 November 2011
  • Insight Editions, Div of Palace Publishing Group, LP
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 156
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