Lio by Mark Tatulli for May 13, 2015

I think the hypnosis disk probably won’t even work on Beetle Bailey and Chip Flagston.

But he made her laugh!

I guess a gumball is fair compensation for a hypnosis-disaster, ehh, LIo? That’s 99 cents you’ll never get back.

And don’t even bother sending for those X-Ray Specs!

Here’s the ad with easier to read text:

https://theimmaculateconsumption.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/hypno_coin.jpg

next, a secret decoder ring, or watch

He needs to take hypnosis lessons from The Master

Having once bought a hypno-coin when I was young, I can relate to Lio here.

For me, it didn’t work as advertised.

Wait… What?

You get an “A” for effort there, Lio.

Maybe it would help if she had visible eyes to see the coin first.

You forgot that Eva has overlong bangs! They are sometimes impossible to work.

I had a Hypno-Coin when I was a kid! It didn’t work any better than Liō’s did!

Did the coin shrink from shame?

Lio should have read the fine print, if you look at the ad in real small print it says the coin “helps” to hypnotize your friends

Haha, I had forgotten those ads for the two man sub. Thanks for posting the link to what it really was, though it sounds like the people that actually bought one still had fun with them. As for $7 back then, that would be about 5 hours at minimum wage in the 60s, so call it $40 today. Obviously you aren’t getting a real sub for $40, but $40 is an awful lot for a cardboard box, even one with working rocket launchers. ;)

A childhood buddy whose parents substituted money for affection sent away for the Rocket Ship version of the submarine. It was years later that he confessed to having wasted his money on a cardboard box!