{"id":36764,"date":"2021-11-04T02:51:18","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T06:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=36764"},"modified":"2021-11-04T07:48:42","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T11:48:42","slug":"a-familiar-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2021\/11\/04\/a-familiar-face\/","title":{"rendered":"A Familiar Face"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"As is usually the case, I was looking for something else when I came across an old stash of comics books. I immediately forgot about whatever I was originally looking for as I gleefully thumbed through my four-colored, battered beauties. I was leafing through a well worn copy of Conan the Barbarian<\/em> No. 9 published by Marvel Comics in 1971 when I spied a familiar face.\"\"
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\nIt was an advertisement not for a body building regimen which were as common in the pages of comics as caped and cowled crimefighters and ass-kicking commandoes but for weighted bracelets that would eventually give the customer iron thews simply by wearing them. Within the body of the ad, this incredible claim was made:\"\"<\/a>
\nPractical AND<\/em> fashionable?! How could one possibly resist?<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Conan<\/a>As I said before, the bracelet ad featuring the Austrian bodybuilder with the unpronounceable name appeared in an issue of Conan the Barbarian<\/em> published by Marvel Comics.<\/p>\n

Isn’t it funny that this muscleman would eventually play Mickey Hargitay<\/em> opposite Loni Anderson<\/em> in The Jayne Mansfield Story<\/a>?<\/em><\/p>\n

I kid.<\/em><\/p>\n

Arnold Schwarzenegger<\/em> would go on to play pulp author Robert E. Howard’s<\/em><\/a> most famous character in the movie of Conan the Barbarian<\/em> released about a decade after this comic hit the stands.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>