{"id":14393,"date":"2013-09-17T06:07:36","date_gmt":"2013-09-17T11:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=14393"},"modified":"2019-11-26T06:35:36","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T11:35:36","slug":"8-00-adonis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2013\/09\/17\/8-00-adonis\/","title":{"rendered":"$8.00 Adonis"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"COMICS-HEAD\"<\/a>\"8-dollar-adonis\"<\/a>Who knew that perfection was available for less than ten American dollars?<\/p>\n

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This man is what they would describe as cruelly handsome in the pulps. He has a\u00a0 sinister look about his eyes. He’s an irresistible slab of steel-muscled manliness. Men fear him and women lose all control in his presence He’s dashing, debonair and devastating, and it’s all thanks to the miracle of incredibly lifelike modacrylic fiber!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\"Mans_wig\"<\/a>Let the suckers pay $50 for a hairpiece that looks like a drowned cat. $8.00 is all this man’s man needs and he’ll have plenty of dough left over to wine and dine the dames.<\/p>\n

This ad appeared in Captain America<\/strong><\/em> No. 164 published by Marvel Comics<\/strong> in 1973. It featured the Captain’s trusty second banana The Falcon<\/em> who will figure in the future Captain America movies.<\/p>\n

\"CA-No-164\"<\/a>Falcon was Robin to Captain America’s Batman but so much cooler than the Boy Wonder although it looks as if Cap’s high-flying pal has fallen prey to the fatally honest Queen of the Werewolves!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Who knew that perfection was available for less than ten American dollars?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[253,359,1556,646,17,312,726,9,2801,525,308,23,480,336,640,1555],"class_list":["post-14393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-253","tag-ad","tag-bald","tag-captain-america","tag-cartoon","tag-comic","tag-comic-book","tag-comics","tag-falcon","tag-hairpiece","tag-marvel","tag-monster","tag-usa","tag-vintage","tag-werewolf","tag-wig"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-3K9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6705,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2012\/02\/20\/comic-movie\/","url_meta":{"origin":14393,"position":0},"title":"When The Comic Was Better Than The Movie","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"February 20, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"I was leafing through some old comics looking for something that would fit this category when I came across this ad: Gene Colan's recent death had brought about a number of articles and posts in appreciation of the great one's art. 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