{"id":36437,"date":"2021-08-17T13:27:52","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T17:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=36437"},"modified":"2021-08-17T13:29:03","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T17:29:03","slug":"you-look-like-a-gangster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2021\/08\/17\/you-look-like-a-gangster\/","title":{"rendered":"You Look Like a GANGSTER!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/09\/12\/goofy-ideas\/comics-head-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4243\"><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\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"36438\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2021\/08\/17\/you-look-like-a-gangster\/look-like-a-gangster\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Look-like-a-gangster.jpg?fit=640%2C255&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,255\" 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;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Look-like-a-gangster\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Look-like-a-gangster.jpg?fit=640%2C255&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-36438\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Look-like-a-gangster.jpg?resize=640%2C255&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Look-like-a-gangster.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Look-like-a-gangster.jpg?resize=300%2C120&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><em>Here ya go, kid! Do me a favor &#8212; run this across the street for me.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This is another one of those advertisements that ran in comics for years appealing to the entrepreneurial zeal that kids used to have a generation or so ago. This is back when if a kid wanted or needed money there were paper routes, grocery delivery or lawns to mow. They all earned chump change compared to the king&#8217;s ransom <em>Carl B. Rudd, Jr.<\/em> appears to be dragging in as an <em>Exceptional Blair Dealer<\/em> in <em>The Buckeye State<\/em>.<a title=\"Cleaning Up at 11\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/51385490905\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51385490905_ceeeb5a478_b.jpg?resize=577%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Cleaning Up at 11\" width=\"577\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51367974189_a6b7fbc526_w.jpg?resize=231%2C340&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Fantastic Four #105\" width=\"231\" height=\"340\" \/>Of course, this was well before a series of mass panic attacks promulgated by daytime talk show hosts made parents obsessively fear that their children were in constant danger of winding up on the side of a milk carton. When was the last time you saw a kid delivering papers or selling candy bars for school or the little league? Sorry, Kid, <em>stranger danger<\/em> trumps your ambition. Stay in your room<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>This ad appeared in Fantastic Four No. 105 published by Marvel Comics in 1970, and judging from Carl&#8217;s swingin&#8217; Fedora, the ad probably ran in comics for a good ten years before that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here ya go, kid! Do me a favor &#8212; run this across the street for me.<\/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":[593,359,5143,675,308],"class_list":["post-36437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-i-miss-about-comics","tag-593","tag-ad","tag-blair-products","tag-fantastic-four","tag-marvel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-9tH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":40574,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2023\/05\/11\/still-10%c2%a2\/","url_meta":{"origin":36437,"position":0},"title":"Still 10\u00a2","author":"Joe","date":"May 11, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan published by Dell in 1960 when comics were still 10\u00a2. 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