I need some help here. I'm a collector of old comics and magazines, specially horror ones, like Eerie and Creepy. A lot of those have the old ads for funny novelty items that you could send away for. They have stuff like...
Soap that turns your hands and face black when you use it. (I mean REALLY black...not like a "black person", okay? I'm not trying to be offensive here.)
Gum that has pepper in it.
Exploding cigars.
Xray glasses for seeing through walls and girls clothing.
Fake vomit.
And all kinds of other neat stuff like that! Pretty cool.
Anyway, I got this issue of a comic called "The Beast From Hollow Mountain" and I noticed in the novelty ads that there was an ad for "Rubber Farts". It didn't show one, but it showed people's reactions to them. There were a couple of kids reacting to a rubber fart. One looked disgusted, the other was laughing. It says "Fool Your Friends! Bug Your Teachers! Clear The Hawllways!"
Now I don't get this. What is a rubber fart? What would it look like and how would it work? Does anyone know?
The ad says to send in 25 cents and 15 7-UP bottle caps, but it's from way back in the early 60's and I checked and the Company, "Pizen Gulch Novelties and Party Supplies" is long gone.