Your new real miniature monkey. Give him to me.

Yes, the best part is they're new!

I can't wait to eat that monkey!

I've wanted one of those little monkeys since I was a kid... my mom told me I could buy one when I was an adult, but when I became an adult I could no longer find the ads.

My tragic life.

I bet those miniature animals drive the mailmen crazy!

What a rip off. I got so tired of finding those tiny skeletons in my mailbox. You can make them into little pocket clips, though.

If you read the offer, you get the monkey if you hand out twenty adverts for the company's photo coloring service.

Let's say that the offer requires that the coupons that the young sucker hands out actually get used. They bring in "49 cents and a few pennies for our COD service."

So the company is going to get maybe ten dollars.

This is enough money to justify them to send out a live animal?

Either they had all sorts of loopholes to justify not sending out a monkey ("sorry kid, we're all out . . . here's a baby possum instead"), or they had a supply of amazingly cheap monkeys.

Well, the "smoking dog trick" I got in the mail as a youngster certainly stretched the limits of what was advertised.

I have X-ray Specs, I can see through this whole scam.

U control ghost? Check.
Hercules wristband? Check.
Vampire Fangs? Check.

Look out Ladies!

I once found an ad for Ralph Records (put out the Residents) in a 1970's 'Ghost Rider" comic. I said "Do you like weird music?"
Can you imagine?

Apparently the miniature monkeys were real and live...

http://www.cracked.com/article_16310_p2.html

ANTHONY@11: So that's where skull-head came from (the one Resident that wore a skull instead of an eyeball after one of the masks was stolen.) http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/63/The_Residents.jpg

When I was 5 or 6, my older brother (age 16) ordered a baby Great Horned Owl from the back of a comic book. My parents found out when there was a call from the airport to "come and pick up your owl!" He lived with us for several months, eating raw hamburger off a moving stick, then live mice. Eric the owl did not adapt well to domesticity and eventually was released into the wild.

One of my favorite ads was that of Count Dante, "The Deadliest Man Alive!"

http://www.supernaturalcrime.com/Art/1975DetectiveComics450Dante.jpg

The best part, is that Johnson Co. is still around (the 2 big full pages full of crap to buy).

http://www.johnsonsmith.com/

I remember looking through all that crap when I was younger thinking how cool a lot of it would be.

Unfortunately, I haven't come across Dean Studios (the mini animals ads)

That monkey helped me stop the fellows from kicking sand in my face! Together, we manned the hovercraft bought from the back of Amazing Stories, learned deadly self-defense arts, and went on to fight crime utilizing hypno-coins and x-ray specs!

^m^

Yup, I post old comic ads every week.
http://jonahhex.blogspot.com/search/label/Pitchman-A-Go-Go

I recall ordering brine shrimp but only got sea monkeys.

Here's a few pages from a 1947 Johnson Smith catalog:

http://marbleriver.blogspot.com/2008/03/hello-sweetheart.html

I live in Des Moines, I should look up some info on "Dean Studios." Perhaps they still have little monkeys.

Oh to be a fly on the wall during a 'Black Dragon Fighting Society' meeting.

Also, Jan that's a great story!

Poor dog and monkey--sitting in a crate packed in sawdust until they were won.

Here's a much better collection of these ads, from Astounding Space Thrills creator, Steve Conley...

http://www.steveconley.com/comicads.htm

Tiny monkeys love to bathe in coffee. Little known fact.