{"id":8368,"date":"2012-06-12T05:00:24","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T10:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=8368"},"modified":"2019-11-25T22:02:55","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T03:02:55","slug":"trust-me-doctor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2012\/06\/12\/trust-me-doctor\/","title":{"rendered":"Trust Me, I’m a Doctor!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>This guy who looks like a cross between 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, child murderer Albert Fish and the frozen remains of a long-lost Antarctic explorer claims he can help you lose nine pounds<\/strong> in two days and keep it off.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a> What could possibly be the appeal of putting this guy’s puss on the ad? Is he supposed to look like a seasoned and trustworthy medical professional? Why not have an image of inexplicably svelte jet-setters described in the ad’s copy?<\/p>\n

…and what could this famous formula involve? Pick out your least favorite limb and prune it with a hacksaw? I think I’ll hang on to my eleven bucks and nine pounds of fat!<\/p>\n

This ad appeared in The Invincible Iron Man<\/strong> No. 106 published by Marvel Comics in 1978.<\/p>\n

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This guy who looks like a cross between 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, child murderer Albert Fish and the frozen remains of a long-lost Antarctic explorer claims he can help you lose nine pounds in two days … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","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":[1338,1676,1677,1679,1277,1678,1675],"class_list":["post-8368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-i-miss-about-comics","tag-1338","tag-diet","tag-doctor","tag-iron-man","tag-marvel-comics","tag-sinister","tag-weight-loss"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-2aY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":37760,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2022\/06\/09\/what-i-miss-about-comics-wally-wood\/","url_meta":{"origin":8368,"position":0},"title":"What I Miss About Comics – Wally Wood","author":"Joe","date":"June 9, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"This is an independently published comic by master illustrator Wally Wood. 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