The Johnson Smith Novelty catalog offered 600 jam-packed pages of vintage weirdness

The following ran in my newsletter, The Magnet.

Anyone who's ever read a comic book from the 20th century has seen a Johnson Smith advertisement touting joy buzzers, rubber masks, fake vomit, luminous ashtrays, motor kits, rubber chickens, hypo-coins, miniature cameras, magic tricks, and other novelty items. — Read the rest