{"id":15311,"date":"2014-01-07T03:00:49","date_gmt":"2014-01-07T08:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=15311"},"modified":"2019-11-26T06:45:51","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T11:45:51","slug":"w-is-that-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2014\/01\/07\/w-is-that-you\/","title":{"rendered":"W, is that you?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"COMICS-HEAD\"<\/a>\"Geo-Bush\"<\/a>Is it just me or does this guy look like the 43rd President of the United States?<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

That’s what I thought when I saw this ad for a life-changing course of study in locksmithing.<\/p>\n

\"security\"<\/a>These ads were fairly common in comics as were a number of other home study courses. This particular ad appeared in Captain America and the Falcon<\/strong><\/em> No. 164 which was published by Marvel Comics in 1973.<\/p>\n

\"CA-No-164\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Is it just me or does this guy look like the 43rd President of the United States?<\/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":[335],"tags":[2982,646,17,8,12,726,2981,2983,308,944,480,336,1801],"class_list":["post-15311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-i-miss-about-comics","tag-bush","tag-captain-america","tag-cartoon","tag-cartoons","tag-co2-comics","tag-comic-book","tag-george-w-bush","tag-locksmith-1973","tag-marvel","tag-president","tag-usa","tag-vintage","tag-w"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-3YX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":37325,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2022\/03\/08\/hypnotize\/","url_meta":{"origin":15311,"position":0},"title":"Hypnotize!","author":"Joe","date":"March 8, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"I had a good chuckle when I saw this ad in a comic that was published when Richard Nixon was still President. \"With the magic power of hypnosis you can hypnotize at a glance, make people obey your commands without subject's knowledge.\" Ridiculous! 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