The Amazing Sea-Monkeys!
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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Disappointment: They Aren't Like the Ads
Jimmy reveals the first disappointment: Sea Monkeys are brine shrimp and don't match the fanciful artwork.
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Jimmy reveals the first disappointment: Sea Monkeys are brine shrimp and don't match the fanciful artwork.
Starting in 1960, comic books began advertising mail order pets known as sea monkeys, the brainchild of inventor Harold von Braunhut. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli investigate the whimsical creatures, their creator, and a series of disappointing revelations connected to them.
