Funny/Creepy old comic book ad

Coop says: "Please note 'No-Neck Mickey,' also, copyright-free horrorshow 'Monkey Doodle.'" Link

[#1 posted by tilly , April 20, 2008 10:59 AM]

I like how "Vari-colored" used to be a big selling point.

[#2 posted by shutz , April 20, 2008 11:01 AM]

The most disturbing line in all this is "Latex takes hard play!"

[#3 posted by GammaBlog , April 20, 2008 11:30 AM]

I'm trying to imagine what the talking tape was. My guess, it was embedded with bumps like a phonograph record, and the balloon acted as a resonator.

[#4 posted by lamarlowe , April 20, 2008 12:12 PM]

Never heard of Monkey Doodle.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBYAJBwyNWs

??

[#5 posted by Jake0748 , April 20, 2008 12:20 PM]

This Monkey Doodle looks nothing like a monkey. Maybe some kind of bear or something?

[#6 posted by BrooksT , April 20, 2008 12:31 PM]

I love the scare quotes on feet. I, too, have "feet" which keep me from tipping over.

[#7 posted by Antinous , April 20, 2008 12:36 PM]

Oddly, my feet seem quite intent on toppling me.

[#8 posted by scottfree , April 20, 2008 12:38 PM]

I stumbled across these creepy disney comics the other day:

http://www.fortunecity.de/lindenpark/foto/597/03.html#

the last half dozen or so revolve around Mickey trying to off himself after Minney dumps him for his brother. I wouldn't know how to go about verifying their authenticity...

[#9 posted by davidjoho , April 20, 2008 12:54 PM]

Ah, the memories come flooding back as I recall Bugs Bunny(tm)'s classic line, "What's cooking, Doc?," followed by Tweety[tm]'s immortal, "I t'ink I saw a puddy-feline!"

[#10 posted by laureltree , April 20, 2008 1:37 PM]

I most definitely misread that as "Now it's easy to have me as a killing toy!"
It's a lot more innocuous when read correctly.
It's still rather creepy though.

[#11 posted by Halloween Jack , April 20, 2008 2:37 PM]

Monkey Doodle's the Pete Best of cartoon stars.

[#12 posted by Evil Jim , April 20, 2008 2:58 PM]

"And you'll love 2-foot jolly MONKEY DOODLE Too!"

[#13 posted by Antinous , April 20, 2008 3:03 PM]

Maybe 'doodle' is a euphemism for excrement.

[#14 posted by Pipenta , April 20, 2008 3:22 PM]

Without the "talking tape", these used to be a pretty standard cheapo dimestore toy, back in the day. We got them at birthday parties, as well as the little decorated candy cups at each place setting and hats and noise makers (this was way before the concept of choking hazards/not safe for children under three thing) and favor bags to take home. Not to mention cake and ice cream and prizes for winning at musical chairs or pin the tail on the donkey. These things were all required, as were balloons like the above.

If you were really lucky, you had your party at the bowling alley. And the rich kids had smelly rental ponies brought in for rides.

[#15 posted by Pipenta , April 20, 2008 3:23 PM]

And they weren't creepy. Not like that Yoda cake was creepy, anyway. That would have scared the crap out of us, back in the day.

[#16 posted by Man On Pink Corner , April 20, 2008 3:39 PM]

#15: If you were really lucky, you had your party at the bowling alley. And the rich kids had smelly rental ponies brought in for rides.

Rich kids or not, I can't believe the bowling-alley people were down with that.

[#17 posted by KidDork , April 20, 2008 3:48 PM]

Latex takes hard play

Snicker.

[#18 posted by FAC33 , April 20, 2008 4:04 PM]

#6 -
Monkey Doodle looks psychotic. Maybe it's the fact he has no arms. But it's particularly that look in his eyes. Sooooo.....what's on his talking tape to instruct the kiddies?

At least Mickey looks sort of like Mickey--Bugs looks nothing like Bugs at all. Any idea when the Disney copyright gestapo first started swinging into action?

[#19 posted by Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey , April 20, 2008 4:09 PM]

I think the "talking tape" is this thing. Basically, it's a linear phonograph record.

I became aware of these in the Nineties, as ribbons dangling from mylar balloons, but I had no idea they want back to (before?) 1958.

They're really quite a clever invention. I wonder what it would take to manufacture one out of an arbitrary sound file...

[#20 posted by ROSSINDETROIT , April 20, 2008 4:15 PM]

Monkey Doodle is the great-great-grand-doodle of Donkey Kong. See the resemblance?

[#21 posted by Takuan , April 20, 2008 4:38 PM]

Dear Bill Higgins

What a great website! I want it all!

[#22 posted by Takuan , April 20, 2008 4:41 PM]

times sure do change; Monkey Doodle to :
http://www.play.com/Gadgets/Gadgets/4-/3342382/South-Park-Mr-Slave-Figure/Product.html#

[#23 posted by Bitgod , April 20, 2008 5:57 PM]

Haha, that reminds me to much of Brak and Space Ghost singing MINKEY BOODLE.

[#24 posted by Antinous , April 20, 2008 6:06 PM]

times sure do change

Then there's always Hard Gay, The Toy. Poking a Pirate’s booty with your sword just got a whole lot gayer!

[#25 posted by Pipenta , April 20, 2008 6:46 PM]

#16.

You had to be really rich.

[#26 posted by eustace , April 20, 2008 9:04 PM]

Monkey Doodle is trying to tell me something. If I stare into his eyes, I can hear his voice...
...never mind, that's just the children's chorus from the least wanted song.

[#27 posted by Stefan Jones , April 20, 2008 9:16 PM]

#14: I vaguely remember balloons like this too, w/o the talking tape.

The "feet" were flat cardboard cut-outs with a hole that the knotted mouth of the balloon was pulled through.

I seem to remember a clown balloon.

[#28 posted by Takuan , April 20, 2008 9:23 PM]

mmmm klownzzz

http://www.best-horror-movies.com/images/it-pennywise-howling.jpg

[#29 posted by Takuan , April 20, 2008 9:25 PM]

good ole Mump and Smoot

http://www.mumpandsmoot.com/images/flux_eating.jpg

[#30 posted by Doug Nelson , April 21, 2008 12:47 AM]

I wonder if these are officially licensed likenesses?

[#31 posted by johncoate , April 21, 2008 9:26 AM]

#19 is right. The 'talking tape' is indeed a strip that you pull your thumbnail across to get a phonograph-like sound. It attaches to a card that serves as a sound board. You of course have to get the speed right so the voice sounds human.

I last saw one in the late 50s when my brother got a get well card. It was a photo of James Garner as Brett Maverick and when you pulled the tape it said "please get well!"