{"id":2650,"date":"2011-05-09T04:44:56","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T09:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=2650"},"modified":"2019-11-25T16:51:12","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T21:51:12","slug":"what-i-miss-about-comicsthe-98lb-weakling-epidemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/05\/09\/what-i-miss-about-comicsthe-98lb-weakling-epidemic\/","title":{"rendered":"What I Miss About Comics…The 98lb Weakling Epidemic"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I don’t think First Lady Pat Nixon fretted about this particular plague at the time.<\/p>\n

This is also from Charlton’s All New Fightin’ Marines<\/strong><\/a> No. 116 which has been a positive treasure trove for these terrific ads!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t think First Lady Pat Nixon fretted about this particular plague at the time. This is also from Charlton’s All New Fightin’ Marines No. 116 which has been a positive treasure trove for these terrific ads!<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[31,120,335],"tags":[359,360,329,312,333,334,358,61,357],"class_list":["post-2650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blast-from-the-past","category-curious-clutter","category-what-i-miss-about-comics","tag-ad","tag-bodybuilder","tag-charlton","tag-comic","tag-connecticut","tag-derby","tag-gain","tag-muscles","tag-weight"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-GK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2583,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/04\/22\/what-i-miss-about-comics\/","url_meta":{"origin":2650,"position":0},"title":"What I Miss About Comics…","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"April 22, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"...the ads.","rel":"","context":"In "Blast from the Past"","block_context":{"text":"Blast from the Past","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/blast-from-the-past\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Wipe Out 2 or More Attackers AT ONCE\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5266\/5635984867_ee722b2d9b_z.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5266\/5635984867_ee722b2d9b_z.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5266\/5635984867_ee722b2d9b_z.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":37973,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2022\/06\/22\/what-i-miss-about-comics-perfectly-legitimate-ads\/","url_meta":{"origin":2650,"position":1},"title":"What I Miss About Comics – Perfectly Legitimate Ads","author":"Joe","date":"June 22, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"This along with a number of other classified style advertisements for perfectly legitimate products and services appeared in Marvel Spotlight No. 25 published by Marvel Comics in 1975. 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