{"id":43400,"date":"2024-06-13T15:36:15","date_gmt":"2024-06-13T19:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=43400"},"modified":"2024-06-13T15:37:36","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T19:37:36","slug":"not-just-astonishing-very-astonishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2024\/06\/13\/not-just-astonishing-very-astonishing\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Just Astonishing — VERY Astonishing"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThere’s not much more that I can say beyond this advertisement’s astounding copy. Read it for yourself!<\/p>\n

I am a little confused as to how this gizmo worked, and I think that was intentional. It was probably worth half a buck just to figure out how the thing worked if it indeed worked at all. The word “seem” is used liberally. “Seem” and “seems” are never a good sign when you’re hoping to astound grade school classmates.<\/p>\n

Could it be worth it?<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"Flashing Eyes was part of a full page advertisement of magic tricks guaranteed to fool and mystify your friends. This particular instance of this ad was featured in issue No. 3 of Stalker<\/em> which I must admit that I never heard of and don’t recall ever seeing on the spinning racks back then. It was published by DC Comics back in 1975 and featured the artwork of legendary talents Steve Ditko<\/em> and Wally Wood<\/em>. My guess is that Marvel had a lot of success with their comic adaptation of Conan the Barbarian<\/em> so DC decided to chase those sword and sorcery dollars. Just as there were dozens of knock-offs of Tarzan, there were a heap of barbarians, freebooters, adventurers and swordsmen. The Stalker<\/em> was one of many.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s not much more that I can say beyond this advertisement’s astounding copy. Read it for yourself! I am a little confused as to how this gizmo worked, and I think that was intentional. It was probably worth half a … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43402,"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":[556,312,9,381,5840,5841,5839,5842,1484],"class_list":["post-43400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-what-i-miss-about-comics","tag-556","tag-comic","tag-comics","tag-dc","tag-ditko","tag-magic","tag-stalker","tag-wizard","tag-wood"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Very-Astonishing.jpg?fit=640%2C1093&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-bi0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":37325,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2022\/03\/08\/hypnotize\/","url_meta":{"origin":43400,"position":0},"title":"Hypnotize!","author":"Joe","date":"March 8, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"I had a good chuckle when I saw this ad in a comic that was published when Richard Nixon was still President. \"With the magic power of hypnosis you can hypnotize at a glance, make people obey your commands without subject's knowledge.\" Ridiculous! 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