See-Thru X-Ray Specs
Honor House Products strikes again with the hugest swindle in comics history, the sure-fired X-Ray Specs. They advertised this for years in comic books, but only rarely did they admit that the whole thing was a ruse. This ad states that the glasses create an optical illusion, hilarious or otherwise, however still fake. At least for a novelty item Honor House had the guts to come out and say it was a racket. Harold von Braunhut first created this in the 1960s along with the infamous Sea-Monkeys, even though he was also an active member of the KKK, so he had developed a track record of whitewashing the truth. The racist inventor was tricky enough to come up with his owned patented version of the old X-Ray peepers which had exploded into pop culture in the early 20th Century as Harold's version had an extra layer of plastic on the lenses. X-Ray Specs allowed people to see a silhouette around whatever they were looking at, giving the wearer the impression that they were seeing through something instead of just the light surrounding the figure. If you thought that these would allow you to sit in the park and lecherously use the glasses to see through the clothing of all the passersby, then you desperately need a crash course in social etiquette. Honor House itself changed into the wholly different company, Advance Biofactures Corporation, so their cardboard submarines match their revolutionary X-Ray peepers for being a fantastic fraud.

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