Recognition for Super Marketing, launched April 3, 1996
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Flung of the Day 5/28/97 |
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Luckman Interactive Five-Star award |
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GIST! Web Pick "Whatever happened to "X-ray specs"? Little green Army men? The Amazing Live Sea Monkeys? Has the market completely dried up for the Hypno-Coin ("Amaze them with hypnotic stunts, feats of strength and memory, etc.")? Today, comic books have ads for movies and videogames like everybody else. But in the old days, they were the place to go for that coveted Polaris Nuclear Sub made out of, um, cardboard. (SorryÑwe mean "200-pound test material.") Happily, however, this is the place to go for such Americana as the classic Charles Atlas ad, "The insult that made a man out of Mac!" (A once-skinny guy beats up the bully. Great idea! Except the bully comes back with six buddies and a gun!). Thrill to the exploits of the Lee family, who use their Lee denim jackets to put out a forest fire! ("Tom, you take that side! Danny and I will start over here!" Gee, thanks, DadÑguess we won't need those foam-spreading planes after all!) Harken back to the days when for just $1, you, too, could learn the ancient martial art of "Ketsugo." (Ket-what- go?) And what about that ad for O. J. Simpson "Juicemobile" shoes (by Spot-BuiltÉor was that Bruno Magli)? Tip: After reaching the home page, go to http://www.steveconley.com/pages/ad2.htm and keep clicking "Forward" to see things full-screen rather than in squint-inducing frames. And remember, kids: like X-ray specs, this site is "loads of laughs and fun at parties!" ÑFrank LoveceÉwho's loads of laughs and fun at parties." Squint inducing frames??? |
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Webcrawler Select "An homage to those crazy ads in the backs of comic books. In an attempt to get teenage suckers to part with their hard-earned chore money, these ads hustled x-ray specs, disguises, and, of course, those lovable Sea Monkeys. Steve Conley presents the best and most memorable at his personal Web site." |
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Cool Toy Site of the Week |
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Categorically Cool Site of the Day April 16, 1996 |
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Yahoo! Cool listing Super Marketing  - ads from comic books in the 60's and 70's.
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Magellan 4-Star Site This is the highest rating an Internet site can achieve in Magellan, McKinley's comprehensive Internet directory of nearly 2 million sites and 40,000 reviews. "Did you, like so many kids before you, order the Amazing Sea Monkeys from the back of a comic book, wait anxiously for six weeks, and crumple in disappointment when your test tube of scummy water showed up? Web designer Steve Conley has amassed the classic Sea Monkey ads and many others in an impressive online collection. These outrageous ads, hawking novelties like Stretch Armstrong, X-ray Specs (See Through Clothes!), and 3-week cartooning classes, suspiciously resemble the comics between which they were placed. Excellent frames design makes the stroll down nostalgia lane carefree, except for the resentment you may feel for blowing that $2.50 on those danged Sea Monkeys." |
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Net Top Ten Internet Underground Magazine "If you think online hucksters make some incredulous claims, check out this site cataloging more than 30 ads culled from comic books of the '60s and '70s. As any adolescent reader of Spider-Man or Richie Rich can attest, these marketing masterpieces had legions of kids believing that X-ray specs would let you actually see the bones in your hand, Charles Atlas could transform you from a 98-lb. weakling into "the hero of the beach" or that selling Grit was the road to financial independence!." |
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3 stars The .net Magazine "What is it? Sea Monkeys? Count Dante? Fonz T-Shirts? Here be genius." |
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An Apple A Day August 25, 1996 "An Apple A Day" is a daily showcase of Apple and Macintosh technologies and web-pages. "No, the title does not refer to the marketing efforts of Apple. Rather, it is all about the classic advertisements that appeared next to your superheros." |
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Cherry Coke's The Wall Week of August 30, 1996 "Every Friday night, we post several, new, really cool sites for people to explore on the Web." |
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Daily Double Award for Excellence August 16, 1996 |
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POINT Top 5% of All Web Sites If you spent even a small portion of your youth checking out the ads in the back of your favorite comic books, you're likely to have fond memories of hard-to-resist temptations like sea monkeys or hypno coins. And in case you've forgotten the promise of Stretch Armstrong ("Squish him. Scrunch him. Stretch him out and tie him in a knot."), site creator Steve Conley has collected some of the "best, most memorable, most audacious, and most bizarre of those ads." Here, you can stroll down memory lane while perusing the complete text for dozens of golden oldies like Charles Atlas ("The insult that made a man out of Mac"), the Exciting Ant Farm, and Winchester's Super Speed roller skates. Lots of links to other quirky Web pages like the Chia Pet Zoo. |
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The "Webnut Seal of Approval" "SuperMarketing...funky ads from comic books...super links for page designers..total Webnuts!" |
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Blue Planet's Cool Site of the Day August 13, 1996 |
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Robin's Weekly Bytes of Gold "Super Marketing: Ads From the Comic Books Old comic books; I actually used to buy comic books, sometimes just for the ads :-o Steve has put together a very slick site dedicated to them. Sort of like mini-wish books!" |
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The Internet Topp 10 "Super Marketing: Ads from the comic books Jag lyckades inte spara till glasögonen som kunde se genom kläder." I have no idea what this says, but I think the logo is great! |
Super Marketing was an official BIKINI site on April 19-21.
TWIG - The Windows Internet Guide - New & Noteworthy on the Net for the week of April 8
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Spider's Pick of the Day April 4, 1996
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The Other Cool Site of the Day April 27, 1996 |
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