{"id":13007,"date":"2013-05-13T06:05:10","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T11:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=13007"},"modified":"2019-11-26T06:00:14","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T11:00:14","slug":"big-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2013\/05\/13\/big-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Money!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"COMICS-HEAD\"<\/a>\"11-years-old-det\"<\/a>Miniature Chairman of the Board?<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\"11-years-old\"<\/a>…or was this kid in an episode of The Wire?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

This was another one of those Earn Cash or Prizes<\/em> ads that ran for decades aimed at kids hoping that there was something easier than slinging newspapers from a bicycle in all kinds of weather for chump change. This ahead-of-his-time hipster or tragically dated hayseed if you were heavily vested in the tragic fashions of the late 1960s appeared in Sgt Fury and His Howling Commandos<\/strong><\/em> No. 81 published in 1970.<\/p>\n

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Miniature Chairman of the Board?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[335],"tags":[593,2565,12,312,726,9,774,308,430,429,336,2566],"class_list":["post-13007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-i-miss-about-comics","tag-593","tag-agent-of-shield","tag-co2-comics","tag-comic","tag-comic-book","tag-comics","tag-football","tag-marvel","tag-nick-fury","tag-sgt-fury","tag-vintage","tag-ww-ii"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-3nN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":40739,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2023\/06\/08\/look-whats-happening\/","url_meta":{"origin":13007,"position":0},"title":"LOOK WHAT’S HAPPENING","author":"Joe","date":"June 8, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"LOOK WHAT'S HAPPENING to this iron-thewed titan on the beaches of California that's NOT HAPPENING TO YOU as you leaf through a comic-book at your dead-end job as a gas jockey. 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