Super-Fun-Pak Comix by Ruben Bolling for February 17, 2025

“Sea monkeys?” They are my Atlantean subjects! Imperious Rex! (Ive been reading some classic Sub Mariner issues lately)

I remember the original ad in comic books.

We shall swim out to that brooding reef in the sea and dive down through black abysses to Cyclopean and many-columned Y’hanthlei, and in that lair of the Deep Ones we shall dwell amidst wonder and glory forever.

If I’m supposed to be their ruler, how come they have a castle to live in and I don’t? Is a life-sized castle for me included in this offer?

This is obveeous fraud. Thems ain’t even look like steenky monkeys.

Why are these giant sea monkeys throwing their poop at me?!

I never bought them, thanks to a friend who was a tropical fish enthusiast. “They’re just brine shrimp. The pet store sells about a 100 of them for a dollar as fish food.”

I don’t read the vertical ones. Did the guy use the ruler to measure the distance from his front porch to the mail box so he can time his hand grenade just right for when the mail man shows up with more bills?

The sea monkey ads were an interesting example of blatant fraud going unpunished. I say “were”, but I don’t know that someone isn’t still selling them.

Never bought them, although it was years before I read what they actually were. I wonder if our cats would have liked brine shrimp.

They come directly from Devil’s Reef offshore from Innsmouth.

I did the Sea Monkey® thing in 2015, one female survived to adulthood.