10 Funniest Comic Advertisements

Adverts are everywhere. Between Facebook, the sides of buses - perhaps even your favourite reputable websites - every available corner of our life is covered in attempts at marketing the newest products. Since their invention, comics have been no stranger to ads, which vary from the mundane, to the almost alarmingly bizarre.

While a good portion of these oddities can be pinned down to the fact that a lot of these ads were marketed at children, it doesn't entirely justify the odd choices made, like trying to use Batman or Doomsday to sell snacks. Also, the ads are weird even by children's standards, as you’d imagine very few are asking for soil from Dracula’s castle, or a large alien eye, for Christmas. (These are, unsurprisingly, not even the worst offenders.)

The majority of comics aren't aimed at children anymore either, so there's only one reason that appears to be behind people making strange ads - and it's because they can.

Proving that real life is stranger than fiction, these ten ads prove that there are existing products weirder – and funnier – than any idea you could purposefully make bizarre.

Advertising an invisible helmet that would essentially let you mail an empty box to any person who buys it is maybe the single smartest marketing move since money was invented.

Tragically, this is not the case with this invisible helmet, which exists only to entertain parents by seeing what their kids will do if they pretend they can’t see them.

The funniest part is, the advert technically doesn’t lie. It says that if you wear the helmet, ‘nobody can see your face’, which is true – just, nobody can see your face because there’s a weird sci-fi helmet on it. Really, the helmet is a pretty good present – just to everyone around you, who gets to watch you think you’re invisible for a while.