Make Money Fast! Drive Women Wild!

The pulp magazines and comics that ran in one form or another for much of the 20th century peddled sensational tales of high adventure with thinly veiled sexual content. These same magazines carried cheap advertising to match, and once readers had been primed with escapist fantasies of thrilling women and big bucks they made easy pickings for shady entrepreneurs selling strange and exotic products "guaranteed to change your life". These small black and white ads offered everything: guides and accessories to the erotic arts; cures for social inadequates; fantastic skills and bizarre gadgets to wow your friends. All your dreams could come true via a discrete PO box number and a few dollars. Pete Alexander presents the best of these hilarious ads from vintage American and British publications.