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\"too-cool-for-you-det\"<\/a>Is it the mod haircut, the happening turtleneck or the aloof attitude?<\/p>\n

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\"dynamite\"<\/a>Or could it be that you pack a punch like DYNAMITE!<\/strong> It’s a scientific fact that the ability to cripple a man with your bare hands is the KEY<\/strong> to scoring with the really sexy chicks. No, not the ones at school, but like the really foxy babes that my cousin told me about. You know — the ones that go to college and rock shows and stuff!<\/p>\n

And all it takes is a course of study that you can learn in the privacy of your own home!<\/p>\n

\"KARATE\"<\/a>In the shortest time you\u00a0 can learn the fantastic secrets of self-defense and never be afraid again! YOUR HANDS AND FEET WILL HAVE SUPER FANTASTIC POWER!!!<\/strong><\/em> Everyone admires and respects a karate master!<\/p>\n

My guess is that kids probably didn’t make it all the way through the copy before they were raiding their piggy banks for the 25\u00a2 to send off for the free<\/em> colorful brochure. Of course, if you didn’t pay attention, you probably thought you were going to become the most dangerous man alive for one quarter of a dollar. Sorry, Charlie.<\/em> It was just a come-on to buy a really expensive set of books that your parents would never go for. The combined cash gifts of several Christmases and birthdays would no where near cover the cost.<\/p>\n

This ad and many like it had run in comics for years, but this particular instance ran in World’s Finest<\/strong> no. 222 published by DC Comics in 1974.<\/p>\n

\"worlds-finest-222\"<\/a>This issue featured the sons of Superman and Batman, and I remember seeing this comic for the first time and exclaiming, “Wait! What?”<\/em> I was used to the Adam West Batman series and Filmation’s DC cartoons that were still bouncing around the airwaves in reruns. When did these super-heroes have kids? Who were their wives? What gives? The story is self-contained, but they never really explain how we arrived here. It was sort of like, “It takes place way in the future. Batman and Superman have kids — sort of teen versions of themselves. Trust us.” <\/em>Stuff like this is why I ended up in the Marvel camp.<\/p>\n

\"too-cool-for-you\"<\/a>\"COMICS-HEAD\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Is it the mod haircut, the happening turtleneck or the aloof attitude?<\/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":[59,17,8,726,381,677,480,336,376],"class_list":["post-17316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-i-miss-about-comics","tag-batman","tag-cartoon","tag-cartoons","tag-comic-book","tag-dc","tag-karate","tag-usa","tag-vintage","tag-worlds-finest"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-4vi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12574,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2013\/04\/08\/chicks-dig-locksmiths\/","url_meta":{"origin":17316,"position":0},"title":"Chicks Dig Locksmiths","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"April 8, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Am I the only one getting a Ted Bundy vibe from the fellow featured in this ad? 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