I always wanted the things I saw in the classified ads in comic books, but could never save any of my allowances on weekends long enough to get a money order to get anything. But all of the cool things I would see in those ads still stick with me today, so we’ll be revisiting some of those things as time goes on. First up…X-Ray glasses!
So what red-blooded pre-teen boy wouldn’t want something like this? It doesn’t take a genius to figure out what we would have in mind when ordering these. That little line there about being able to see-through clothes probably sold more pairs of these than anything else. But according to the fabulous book, Mail-Order Mysteries, these were just an optical illusion created by feather-like things between two pieces of cardboard with little holes in them. What a bummer. I wish I had never read that, as I had spent my whole life wondering “What if?”.
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