{"id":5343,"date":"2011-11-21T07:27:09","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T12:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=5343"},"modified":"2019-11-25T21:02:08","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T02:02:08","slug":"happened-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/11\/21\/happened-guy\/","title":{"rendered":"Whatever Happened to that Guy?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Oh, yeah. Never mind.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>This ad for JuiceMobiles Multi-Purpose Shoes<\/strong> featuring the 20th century’s version of Lizzie Borden<\/em> appeared in issue #9 of The Champions<\/strong> published by Marvel in 1976.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>It was a super team filled with second-stringers and D-list super-heroes from Marvel’s pantheon and was set on the West Coast unlike most everything else in the Marvel Universe which was set in New York City.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":12,"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_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_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":false,"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":[1056,359,1062,1058,726,9,1060,774,1059,412,1055,1057,1061,336],"class_list":["post-5343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-i-miss-about-comics","tag-1056","tag-ad","tag-black-widow","tag-champions","tag-comic-book","tag-comics","tag-crimson-dynamo","tag-football","tag-hercules","tag-murder","tag-oj-simpson","tag-shoes","tag-titanium-man","tag-vintage"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-1ob","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":43589,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2024\/07\/24\/what-i-miss-about-comics-shoe-freaks\/","url_meta":{"origin":5343,"position":0},"title":"What I Miss About Comics — Shoe Freaks","author":"Joe","date":"July 24, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Back when this advertisement ran, an extra $5 to $20 in your wallet went a long way! 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