20 Bonkers Classic Comics Adverts You Won't Believe

By Tom Baker /

11. The Shocker

On first glance it might look like this is just an advert for one of those joke shop perennials - the buzzer you give some poor unsuspecting victim an electric shock with. In fact The Shocker is an ancient and deadly form of martial arts thought up by a guy in an office in Pennsylvania. For the low low price of some dollars you too could learn this €œDEADLY SELF DEFENSE POWER€ which promised the ability to cripple an attacker just by, well, shaking their hand in a certain way. It's kind of like the Touch Of Death from The Simpsons. As in, it's b*llocks.