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\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>$2.50<\/strong> for a life-like head of either blond or brunette hair?!<\/em> There’s no way<\/em> Sy Sperling<\/strong> could beat this!!!<\/p>\n

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This is yet another ad from the treasure trove that is Two-Gun Kid<\/strong> No. 91 published by Marvel Comics in 1967.<\/p>\n

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$2.50 for a life-like head of either blond or brunette hair?! There’s no way Sy Sperling could beat this!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"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":[297,359,1556,312,1270,1559,1557,308,844,336,1558,1555],"class_list":["post-7720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-i-miss-about-comics","tag-297","tag-ad","tag-bald","tag-comic","tag-comic-books","tag-cowboy-two-gun-kid","tag-hair-club","tag-marvel","tag-tacky","tag-vintage","tag-western","tag-wig"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-20w","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18894,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2015\/05\/28\/too-good-to-be-true\/","url_meta":{"origin":7720,"position":0},"title":"Too Good to be True","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"May 28, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Even the grade school boys at which this ad was squarely aimed knew this was too good to be true. 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