{"id":35354,"date":"2020-11-21T11:28:32","date_gmt":"2020-11-21T16:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=35354"},"modified":"2020-11-21T11:28:32","modified_gmt":"2020-11-21T16:28:32","slug":"peace-through-superior-firepower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2020\/11\/21\/peace-through-superior-firepower\/","title":{"rendered":"Peace Through Superior Firepower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4243\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/09\/12\/goofy-ideas\/comics-head-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/COMICS-HEAD.jpg?fit=640%2C144&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,144\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"COMICS-HEAD\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/COMICS-HEAD.jpg?fit=640%2C144&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4243\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/COMICS-HEAD.jpg?resize=640%2C144&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/COMICS-HEAD.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/COMICS-HEAD.jpg?resize=300%2C67&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"35355\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2020\/11\/21\/peace-through-superior-firepower\/peace-power\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Peace_Power.jpg?fit=640%2C369&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,369\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Perfection 1660&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Peace Power&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Peace Power\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Peace_Power.jpg?fit=640%2C369&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35355\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Peace_Power.jpg?resize=640%2C369&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Peace_Power.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Peace_Power.jpg?resize=300%2C173&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So for a $1.98, am I protecting myself and my loved ones with steely fists or a board I can carry anywhere?<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The Incredible Hulk 186\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/49528005646\/in\/datetaken\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49528005646_118c53f1f3_m.jpg?resize=162%2C240&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The Incredible Hulk 186\" width=\"162\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>I saw this tiny advertisement which I have enlarged in issue #186 of <em>The Incredible Hulk<\/em> published by Marvel Comics in 1975. Comics were printed quickly, and &#8212; most importantly &#8212; cheaply on newsprint back then and were festooned with <em>too good to be true<\/em> ads in between pages of costumed do-gooders duking it out with costumed evil-doers. Information about creative teams and the genesis of various characters is easy to find, but I never found articles about the nuts-and-bolts operation of a comic company. Who found and solicited the advertisers? Was there a dedicated salesman or some small advertising agency that bought and placed the ads for body building programs and selling seeds for cash and prizes. If I ever had a chance to talk to Stan Lee or one of the other old timers, I wouldn&#8217;t bother asking the well worn questions about <em>Kirby<\/em> or <em>Ditko<\/em>. I&#8217;d ask about the salesmen who sold these tacky ads. Did they call it in or drive into the offices once a week? Who prepared the art boards? Was it something the printer handled?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So for a $1.98, am I protecting myself and my loved ones with steely fists or a board I can carry anywhere?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[556,4894,312,1097,677,679,308],"class_list":["post-35354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-i-miss-about-comics","tag-556","tag-4894","tag-comic","tag-hulk","tag-karate","tag-martial-arts","tag-marvel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-9ce","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":33769,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2020\/02\/13\/2-to-6-inches-guaranteed\/","url_meta":{"origin":35354,"position":0},"title":"2 to 6 Inches Guaranteed","author":"Joe","date":"February 13, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"I found this unlikely claim in issue #186 of The Incredible Hulk published by Marvel Comics in 1975. I'm wondering what the folks at Tall-Up provided for 35\u00a2 and how they could possibly guarantee results. All ages? No gimmicks? Really? 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The treasury editions were printed on newsprint like the regular comic books, and they were usually sold at drug stores and supermarkets. 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I could have been gleefully ignoring the copyrights of famous fantasy artists and reproducing their works\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;What I Miss About Comics&quot;","block_context":{"text":"What I Miss About Comics","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/what-i-miss-about-comics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Defenders-26.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":37973,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2022\/06\/22\/what-i-miss-about-comics-perfectly-legitimate-ads\/","url_meta":{"origin":35354,"position":3},"title":"What I Miss About Comics &#8211; 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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