TODAY’S FEATURED ITEM: In his Pop! column, George Khoury at Comic Book Resources brings us a couple true tales of kids who ordered monkeys out of the backs of comic books. Yes, that’s right kids, for less than 20 smackers, and as recently as in the early seventies, you could buy an actual live monkey from the back of a comic book, shipped in a box to your door half-crazed and covered in its own shit. Amazingly, this went on for years. I wonder how many of these were shipped to the wrong addresses. Click the image below to read the story.

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