{"id":40739,"date":"2023-06-08T08:07:11","date_gmt":"2023-06-08T12:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=40739"},"modified":"2023-06-08T08:07:11","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T12:07:11","slug":"look-whats-happening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2023\/06\/08\/look-whats-happening\/","title":{"rendered":"LOOK WHAT&#8217;S HAPPENING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"40740\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2023\/06\/08\/look-whats-happening\/look-whats-happening-detail\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/LOOK-WHATS-HAPPENING-DETAIL.jpg?fit=640%2C372&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,372\" 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-WHAT&amp;#8217;S-HAPPENING-DETAIL\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/LOOK-WHATS-HAPPENING-DETAIL.jpg?fit=640%2C372&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40740\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/LOOK-WHATS-HAPPENING-DETAIL.jpg?resize=640%2C372&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/LOOK-WHATS-HAPPENING-DETAIL.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/LOOK-WHATS-HAPPENING-DETAIL.jpg?resize=300%2C174&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><br \/>\nLOOK WHAT&#8217;S HAPPENING to this iron-thewed titan on the beaches of California that&#8217;s NOT HAPPENING TO YOU as you leaf through a comic-book at your dead-end job as a gas jockey. Don&#8217;t FORGET the windshield, genius!<\/p>\n<p><em>Ah, if only&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52958653264_ed7d666ca5_c.jpg?resize=533%2C800&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"LOOK WHAT's HAPPENING\" width=\"533\" height=\"800\" \/>Back when comics were printed on newsprint and sold for pocket change, advertisements for the means of bettering oneself proliferated. There was a path to adulthood through correspondence courses or body building or business opportunities. Yeah, many of the offers were shady, but there was that underlying nagging push that you were going to have to grow up some time. It was almost like the comic publishers knew that this was all temporary and at some time it was only right that their readers would one day <em>&#8220;put away childish things.&#8221; <\/em>It was ok as far as they were concerned. There always seemed to be fresh readers with pocket change to waste thanks to the <em>baby boom.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD No. 11\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/52957903927\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52957903927_1cc94b3ae5_n.jpg?resize=213%2C320&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD No. 11\" width=\"213\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>The ad featuring the musclebound Adonis appeared in a battered copy of <em><strong>Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD<\/strong><\/em> No. 11 published by Marvel Comics in 1969. Back then, the runaway popularity of a certain British super-spy created a cottage industry of espionage adventures featuring suave secret agents working for mysterious government organizations battling nefarious organizations and everyone had anagrams and code names. In the Marvel universe Nick Fury who fought the Axis Powers during WWII alongside the <em>Howlin&#8217; Commandoes<\/em> continued to serve his nation and save the world as the head and number one agent of SHIELD.<\/p>\n<p>At this time, the notion of collecting comics was pretty much unknown. There may have been hippie head shops that carried comics, but shops dedicated to just selling comics did not really exist. They were still considered a disposable entertainment like last week&#8217;s newspaper, and the publishers knew that their readers were going to have to grow up some day. They agreed with the parents.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Go outside and blow the stink off of ya, kid!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOOK WHAT&#8217;S HAPPENING to this iron-thewed titan on the beaches of California that&#8217;s NOT HAPPENING TO YOU as you leaf through a comic-book at your dead-end job as a gas jockey. Don&#8217;t FORGET the windshield, genius! Ah, if only&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[335],"tags":[1909,9,2516,430,3023],"class_list":["post-40739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-i-miss-about-comics","tag-1909","tag-comics","tag-muscle-men","tag-nick-fury","tag-shield"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-aB5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":40603,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2023\/05\/17\/chasing-the-cool-kids\/","url_meta":{"origin":40739,"position":0},"title":"Chasing the Cool Kids","author":"Joe","date":"May 17, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Back in the 1970s Marvel Comics was trying to chase an audience beyond the typical comic reader which was comprised chiefly of seven to twelve year old boys. Somebody thought a rock album based on their most popular character would be far out and would go a long way towards\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blast from the Past&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blast from the Past","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/blast-from-the-past\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Spider-Man-has-an-album.jpg?fit=640%2C431&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Spider-Man-has-an-album.jpg?fit=640%2C431&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Spider-Man-has-an-album.jpg?fit=640%2C431&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":37147,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2022\/01\/26\/out-of-context-comics\/","url_meta":{"origin":40739,"position":1},"title":"Out of Context Comics","author":"Joe","date":"January 26, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"A panel from The Phantom from March 22, 1980. I'm not sure what's going on here. I never really got into daily newspaper comic strips preferring comic books instead. I would get a chuckle from the humor strips, but wasn't interested enough to pursue the action stories. It always seemed\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Curious Clutter&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Curious Clutter","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/curious-clutter\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Phantom!","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51843343441_4d336cda03_c.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51843343441_4d336cda03_c.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51843343441_4d336cda03_c.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":41217,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2023\/08\/17\/with-the-comico-boys\/","url_meta":{"origin":40739,"position":2},"title":"With The Comico Boys","author":"Joe","date":"August 17, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Among the well worn stack of comics that I refer to as Barbershop Comics was an old issue of the X-Men that hit the stands late in 1981. There is nothing special about that particular issue, but the advertisement above for comic conventions caught my eye. I attended the Philadelphia\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blast from the Past&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blast from the Past","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/blast-from-the-past\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/X-MEN-153.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":38592,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2022\/09\/01\/aaaaay-wear-the-fonz\/","url_meta":{"origin":40739,"position":3},"title":"AAAAAY! Wear the Fonz!","author":"Joe","date":"September 1, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"This Fonz T Shirt ad appeared in Justice League of America No. 138 published by DC comics in 1977. This is an issue that I may have gotten as a stripped comic for a penny. 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