{"id":15361,"date":"2014-01-28T04:21:11","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T09:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=15361"},"modified":"2019-11-26T06:45:53","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T11:45:53","slug":"yecch-looks-feels-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2014\/01\/28\/yecch-looks-feels-real\/","title":{"rendered":"YECCH!!! Looks, Feels Real!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"COMICS-HEAD\"<\/a>\"severed-finger\"<\/a>The Finger Factory?<\/em> Was it a cottage industry or was there a brick and mortar building where workers punched a time clock to crank out life-like severed fingers?<\/p>\n

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I have so many questions: How many people worked there? Was it an assembly line? Did the Finger Factory<\/em> have a human resource department? Did they manufacture any thing other than life-like, severed, Caucasian fingers? Did the kids who ordered this have enough keys to warrant the purchase?<\/p>\n

…and how could a guarantee of satisfaction actually be determined?<\/p>\n

This twisted and probably completely successful ad appeared in The Invincible Iron Man<\/strong> <\/em>No. 104 published by Marvel Comics in 1977.<\/p>\n

\"ironman-104\"<\/a>This is back when The Golden Avenger<\/em> was a second string character fighting Victor Buono <\/a>knock-offs; romancing masked freaks and teaming up with SHIELD<\/strong> Agents in unlikely, less-than-steatlthy, golden uniforms. Iron Man was always one of my favorite characters, but the creative teams weren’t doing the character or the readers any favors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Finger Factory? Was it a cottage industry or was there a brick and mortar building where workers punched a time clock to crank out life-like severed fingers?<\/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":[191,359,725,312,726,1679,308,3008,71],"class_list":["post-15361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-i-miss-about-comics","tag-191","tag-ad","tag-coffin","tag-comic","tag-comic-book","tag-iron-man","tag-marvel","tag-severed-finger","tag-super-hero"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-3ZL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2651,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/06\/06\/what-i-miss-about-comicswhats-a-demographic\/","url_meta":{"origin":15361,"position":0},"title":"What I Miss About Comics…What’s a Demographic?","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"June 6, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm not sure why this ad was in an issue of All New Fightin' Marines, but it was. 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