Super Marketing: Ads From Comic Books features a collection of those extremely misleading ads for Sea Monkeys and other craptacular products that used to grace the pages of our favorite graphic novels. I found this ad for "America's Favorite Pet: Baby Raccoons" particularly hilarious (in a disturbing sort of way), imagining the fun children and their parents must've had with these lovably rabid and destructive little critters running amok in their homes.

And those of you who struck out with the hand-puppet method of picking up girls, may wish to consider this extremely sauve and sophisticated approach next.

I had my own bad encounters with comic-book products: I ordered both the $6.98 nuclear submarine and this ten-cent lunar module kit. In the case of the former, I received a large cardboard box with a picture of a submarine printed on the sides, and I received nothing at all from the latter. The experience turned out to be a valuable object lesson that if something looks too good to be true, it probably is.

Link spotted at Exclamation Mark and PCL Linkdump