Gadgets advertised in a 1962 issue of "Famous Monsters of Filmland"

A small and entirely perfect gallery of desiderata from the pages of Famous Monsters of Filmland, 1962: the golden age of misleading tchotchke advertisement.

Some more amusing ads from the pages of ‘Famous Monsters of Filmland’ magazine.

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It didn’t dawn on me until just now that the “world’s most useless machine” was something I had seen long ago in the back of a comic book.
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I had the version of the box where the hand came out and grabbed a coin. They still show up on eBay and worthpoint.