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THEY CAME FROM THE ABYSS!

Out of the black, cold deep where no light has EVER been, pale and patient things have been waiting. Waiting for water. Waiting for you. Pour in the Abyss Crystals, switch off your lamp, and listen. Something in the tank is already turning to look.

Complete Abyssal Garden — 35¢

Nethermoor Specimen Co., Dept. 13, Box 66, Coos Bay, Ore.

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Addr.
☐ I am not afraid. Send them.

CAN YOU DRAW THIS PELICAN?

If you can copy him, you may have the makings of a real cartoonist. Our patient instructors correct every lesson by hand and mail it back with a kind word. A good drawing is a gift to whoever looks at it. Send yours for a FREE talent appraisal.

Lindqvist School of Cartoon Art, Studio 4, Box 118, Duluth, Minn.

Name
Age ☐ Appraise me!

THROW YOUR VOICE!

Into a closet! Under the bed! Into the cookie jar! Fool the dog, fool your cousins, fool Uncle Walt at Thanksgiving! Big 24-page booklet PLUS the secret Voice Whistle.

Only 25¢

Tell-Tone Press, Dept. V, Grafton, W. Va.

Name
☐ Say it from over THERE

AGENT X-9 LAPEL CAMERA

Hides behind your top button. Takes REAL pictures on REAL film. Comes with one roll of film and a secret code card. Nobody need ever know. Nobody.

$1.49

Ashcombe Optical Novelty, Box 7, Utica, N.Y.

Code name
☐ Burn after reading

KIDS! FRIENDS! YOU, YES YOU! OWN THE WONDER OF THE AGE!!

RAISE YOUR VERY OWNREAL THUNDERSTORM!!!

★ THE GENUINE POCKET THUNDERSTORM ★ IT RAINS! IT RUMBLES! IT OBEYS!! ★

RAINS ONCOMMAND!

ACLOUD DOME — gleaming moulded plastic, SHATTER-RESISTANT!
BYOUR CLOUD — raised from Storm Seeds by YOU, fluffy and FRISKY!
CLIGHTNING GENERATOR — one crank and KA-BLAM!!
DSTORM SEED DRAWER — full packet INCLUDED!
ERUMBLE CHAMBER — deep, cozy bedtime thunder!
FVOICE EAR — learns YOUR voice in just 3 WEEKS!

OBEYSYOUR VOICE!

Kids! IMAGINE IT!! A REAL WEATHER SYSTEM that you RAISE YOURSELF, right on your own dresser!!! Just sprinkle the Storm Seeds into the CLOUD DOME, add ordinary tap water, and in a matter of DAYS a fluffy, frisky, rumbly little cloud begins to GROW!! Give the Lightning Generator a crank and — KA-BOOM!! — watch it FLASH!!! Tell it "Rain!" and it RAINS! Is it SAFE? You BET it is!! Is it LOUD? Only as loud as YOU want! Will it be your BEST FRIEND? Friend, it ALREADY IS!!! Every Pocket Thunderstorm is RAISED WITH CARE in Racine, Wisconsin by our own STORM MEN and mailed to you in its own sturdy carton!!!

BEWARE OF IMITATIONS!! Certain OTHER outfits are peddling a so-called "deluxe" windy thing that blows your comic books clear to CANADA! Is THAT what Mother wants in the living room?? NO SIR!!! A THUNDERSTORM is GENTLE! A THUNDERSTORM is LOYAL! A THUNDERSTORM waters your MOTHER'S AFRICAN VIOLETS!! Accept NO substitutes!!!

"My storm rained on my sister's birthday! She said it was the best present she ever got that wasn't even hers!"— R.J.T., Fort Wayne, Ind.

"I named mine DUKE. He rumbles every time Dad's car comes up the drive!!"— L.M.O., Tacoma, Wash.

"After three weeks it came over when I whistled. GOLLY!"— D.A.P., Bangor, Me.

"Our whole Brownie troop sat under it in the den and we were NOT bored one bit!"— S.K.V., Paducah, Ky.

PLUS!! FREE! FREE! FREE!

Handsome STORM OWNER'S CERTIFICATE with YOUR name, suitable for FRAMING!
Official MEMBERSHIP CARD in the Vireo-Pratt Storm Club!
FREE 32-page booklet "HOW TO RAISE A CHAMPION CLOUD" — feeding, bedtime, and voice training secrets!
IRON-CLAD MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE!! If your storm FAILS TO THUNDER, we send back EVERY PENNY!!!

ALL THIS for only 10¢
plus 5¢ postage & handling!!

Please allow 4 to 6 weeks for delivery.

✂ CUT ALONG DOTTED LINE — ALL THE WAY AROUND! ✂

MAIL THIS COUPON TODAY!!

VIREO-PRATT WONDER PRODUCTS · Dept. 7Q · Box 902 · Racine, Wisconsin

YES!! RUSH my GENUINE POCKET THUNDERSTORM with FREE Certificate, Card & Booklet! I enclose 10¢ plus 5¢ postage & handling.

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AGE Allow 4 to 6 weeks.

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HERE

THE DELUXE POCKET HURRICANE

Frankly, some boys and girls are content with a little thunder. That's quite all right. For the rest of you — the discerning few — there is the Deluxe. It spins in its own chrome-look Eye Chamber. It is named after you, naturally. We don't need to shout.

49¢

Galewright Superior Products, Box 1, Kenosha, Wis.

Name
☐ I have outgrown thunder

WIN A BICYCLE!

Sell just 40 packets of Merriweather Garden Seeds to your friends and neighbors and CHOOSE from over 200 WONDERFUL PRIZES — bicycles, telescopes, cowgirl outfits, catcher's mitts! Send no money! We TRUST you!

Merriweather Seed Co., Dept. P, Lancaster, Pa.

Name
☐ Send my 40 packets

7-FT. FRIENDLY GHOST!

He FLOATS! He BOBS! He follows you down the hall on his own string! Glows softly in the dark and folds flat for school. Makes a splendid nightlight and a better friend.

50¢

Wendle Novelty House, Box 31, Hoboken, N.J.

Name
☐ Boo (friendly)