“best gag gift ever”

Marilyn Monroe, 1953

The magazine Popular Science ran an ad in its August 1953 edition for life-size Marilyn Monroe pin-up posters. The ad was sandwiched between offers for “Bargain Carbine-style .22 Rifles,” “Build Your Own Jet Engine,” “Make Gems from Rocks,” and a “Famous Super Sniffer for Uranium Prospecting,” and called the Marilyn posters “The Best Gag Gift Ever.”   For only two dollars, a man with a “den, bar, or playroom” could own this image of the bikini clad Marilyn. via PEZ DISPENSER