If so, the comics ads of 1971 have you covered!
Kirk Demarais’ ever-informativeĀ Mail-Order Mysteries says if you joined up with the Monster Fan Club the rewards were not as cool as the ad suggests. A poster of a moon monster, actually the infernal horror fromĀ Curse of the Demon (1957). A membership card in the Horror Fan Club. And photos of the three monster masks, all of them cheap masks (but not, it seems, cheap enough to ship to you).
Even at $1 a pop, I imagine the people behind this made out well.
Man I love those kooky 70ās ads in comics, however I have no memory of this one whatsoever.
Iāve always wondered how successful they were at actually selling this kind of tat
Good question. Some of the ads obviously did well enough to run for years (x-ray specs!) but others, like the diamond ring promotion I covered in an earlier post?