If, like me, you are of a certain age and used to read the occasional American comic in your youth you will have memories of all the amazing mail-order adverts that used to appear inside them. For mere cents it seemed you could buy all sorts of wonders..as long as you could wait 6-8 weeks. This book exposes the shocking truth behind those ads. Photo after photo documents what you really got for your money – who would have known that X-Ray specs didn’t really work, and giant ghosts were just balloons and rubbish sacks?? This is a fun book written with a good sense of humour and fondness for the source material.
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