Found in Mom's Basement

Vintage ad for correspondence self-defense course

When you're done laughing at the mullets, check out the guy on the far right. It looks as though the artist got down as far as the guy's waist and then forgot how to draw.

Found at Live Journal

Vintage ads ask you to draw "Winky" or "Lucky"

From 1971:

From 1980:

1930s ad says, "Learn to mount birds and animals."

There's big fun in taxidermy?

Source: Modern Mechanix

Vintage ad for hypnosis lessons by mail, 1963

Hey, gents, don't waste your time with dinner dates and puppy-dog pleading. Use hypnosis to get her in the sack.

The ad doesn't actually say that, but everyone knows where the buxom brunette in the lower right-hand corner is headed.

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Source: Modern Mechanix

Ad for dubious correspondence school of art, 1952

Could this ad have been the inspiration for this? And this?

Source: Modern Mechanix

Vintage Ad for Private Eye Correspondence Course

Excitement! Security! Good Pay! Guns!

Source: bcostin's photos