Simon wrote:
I remember wanting to get the Spider-Man glove...but my Dad said it would get 'lost in the mail' since it was coming all the way from America, so I never got one.
https://www.ranker.com/list/vintage-com ... ker-comicsLet's see...
My brother ordered the toy soldier set, with its "footlocker" box. They did put the box's tiny dimensions right there in the ad, and in reasonable-size type, too. But the designers knew that kids wouldn't notice. The toy soldiers, airplanes, etc. that he got were tiny, flat plastic things that looked like some kind of board game counters. And they were not to scale--a truck or plane was the same size as a soldier. They would melt if you left them in a car on a hot day.
When I was very small we tried getting Sea Monkeys. They never hatched, so we never got to see what they looked like.
Some of those ads on that site were from before my time, and are kind of shocking to see now. The caricature on the "Chinese Sticks" item is so offensive it's surprising they were still getting away with such things as late as the 1950s-1960s.
What's really kind of horrifying, though is the ad for live, mail-order squirrel monkeys. No telling how many of those poor creatures ended up in appalling conditions at the hands of cruel or hopelessly unprepared owners.
